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Dear Friend,

New Hampshire voters want lower taxes, less government intrusion, safe communities, and better schools for our children and yesterday’s Mayoral election results in Manchester proved it.

Despite heavy rains and cold weather, voters went to their polling places and cast votes for the candidate who represents the values our state has long held. In doing so, Manchester re-elected a leader that will continue to expand those efforts for individuals, families and businesses.

Two years ago, Mayor Guinta promised that lowering taxes, fighting crime and focusing on school improvement would be the primary objectives of his administration. During his first term in office, he kept those promises by; implementing the first tax cut in a decade, putting more police officers on the streets, getting tough with establishments that foster underage drinking and violent environments, and re-directing education funds to the classroom. Frank Guinta worked hard. He kept his promises and he strived for a better community–and Manchester thanked him with two more years to keep up the good work.

Voters handily rejected baseless rhetoric and nasty attacks by the Democrats and instead chose results. The $150,000 in negative campaigning spent by John Lynch’s Democratic Party was not enough to alter the outcome, but it was enough to show that they will spend any amount of money and stoop to any level to win an election. Unfortunately for them, they greatly underestimated the will and intelligence of the voter.

Hundreds of volunteers spent the past several weeks dropping literature, making phone calls, holding signs and championing for New Hampshire values in its largest city. Yesterday, it was the citizens that won.

The effort in Manchester is just a snapshot of the work and energy generated around the state for these municipal elections. Yesterday reinforced the fact that the Republican Party is alive and well and working hard in New Hampshire.

I’d like to extend a special thank you to all those who helped in Manchester and across the state by volunteering, donating and the most importantly of all–voting.

Sincerely,
Fergus Cullen
Chairman, NH Republican Party

Foster’s Daily Democrat
November 4, 2007

Internet tax moratorium just one of many ways in which Granite Staters are well represented in Washington.

Sen. John Sununu’s success in extending the ban on an Internet access tax is just another example of wise, bipartisan representation and why he deserves to be re-elected to the Senate in 2008.

Without Sununu’s efforts an existing ban would have expired on Nov. 1, opening the door for taxes on a service that has become essential to businesses — large or small — as well as individuals at all economic levels.

Thanks to Sununu’s effort a bill which extends the moratorium for seven years was sent to the president and signed into law on Wednesday.

By working to renew the ban, Sununu has helped maintain the affordability of Internet access. Keeping the ban in place also opens the door to added investment by a previously reluctant business community, something that stands to benefit anyone who rides the superhighway of information technology.

In addition, Sununu’s efforts also protect e-mails and instant messaging, somethings which have become integrated into the everyday lives of Americans at home, in school and at the office.

But Sununu’s efforts on behalf of his constituents and the nation don’t stop there.

The junior New Hampshire senator has been intimately involved in the advancement of alternative fuels technology. During the recent immigration bill debate he has been on the winning side in fighting for tougher border security.

During the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, Sununu fought successfully to add several provisions to protect civil liberties.

His support of the Wilderness Act permanently protected 35,000 acres of land in White Mountain National Forest.

He has gone to bat for seniors and was honored by the American Foundation for the Blind with a 2006 Helen Keller Achievement Award for his “dedication to helping the visually impaired through the Medicare Low-Vision Rehabilitation Services Demonstration Project.”

Sununu’s resume as a senator also includes many less high-profile — but nonetheless important — efforts.

He has worked to protect New Hampshire jobs from foreign competition in the case of Goss International in its battle against foreign government trade subsidies.

He has lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on behalf of Seacoast Moms for the Prevention of EEE.

Sen. Sununu has taken up the cause of commercial fishermen hurt by new government regulations.

He has successfully worked with Health and Human Services on behalf of New Hampshire hospitals to improve patient care and record keeping.

And he has helped Korean and Vietnam War veterans receive long overdue medals to honor their valor.

During Sununu’s time in Washington, representing New Hampshire values and interests, he has developed a reputation as a hard worker who understands how to make the system work on behalf of the average citizen.

He is respected on both sides of the aisle, as was clearly exhibited by the overwhelming support his Internet tax moratorium bill received in the Senate, on voice vote, and in the House by 402-0 to concur.

Unfortunately, there are some who have sought to trash Sen. Sununu’s record of accomplishment. With voting more than a year away, they have already torn at the senator’s record like a rabid dog — senselessly and needlessly.

They have thrown reasoned debate out the window, much as a child might throw a temper tantrum.

It is because of these vicious, partisan attacks on Sununu’s record and his character that the record needs to be set straight now rather than later.

New Hampshire voters need to know today they have a senator they can put their trust in tomorrow and for another six years when it comes time to vote in 2008.

Having put that decision behind them, Granite Staters will be able to invest their political time in choosing who will lead the nation and next sit in the Oval Office.

CLICK HERE to sign the petition to keep the internet tax free!