Sullivan County

So for instance, there's a Sunapee-Springfield district, has one seat in it, there's a Claremont-Croydon district, has three seats in it, and then the remaining five towns that I like to call my southern tier is District 4, and that has one seat as well.

So, everybody in this part of Sullivan County has at least three reps, and the Claremont-Croydon people have five reps.

Where does Croydon get five? That's baloney.

So, I live in Croydon, Steve, so be nice to us.

And all of this

is wrapped up together.

We have Hope Damon in the studio, candidate for re-election for Sullivan County District 8, which is nine different towns.

You've been doing this for four years, two terms, looking for your third term.

You get redistricting.

And again, I know that when having a... conversation with Steve Smith the other Steve Smith he and I were having a conversation and he made the comment that when Sullivan County was talked about they tried to keep Claremont as his own district but people weren't buying it because they felt as though things needed to move around and And what he's described to me, and again, I wasn't part of the discussion, his committee, that it was a Democrat that actually put the motion on the floor to move Sullivan County to the districts the way they are.

And I think he seconded it, he said, and it passed.

And everybody afterwards asked him why he was making the adjustment.

And I tried to explain to them it was because I was looking at the stuff that was going to be good for Claremont.

Right.

And that's what my whole goal is when I'm in – conquered is what's good for claremont and croydon what's good for sullivan county what's good for the state in that order is the way i look at it because i think that's the most important thing we should be doing down there is trying to figure out how to fix some of these problems

And I know that I'm not focusing on Claremont issues, but you are the mayor of Claremont.

Thank you for having me.

And just for the record, I'm one of the three candidates running in Sullivan County District 6, which comprises the communities of Croydon and my home community of Claremont, a community where I was born.

And I live most of my life in.

I've lived in New Hampshire all my life,

They were being forced, and I, it frankly, ticked me off a little bit.

I don't, probably former Representative Osgenar, now our county could talk, illuminate it, but it was a terrible situation for the community of Claremont, Unity, and they made very clear they weren't gonna close their school, okay? That's, you know, I did what I could to help.

And another issue on bus service in Sullivan County, exactly 10 years ago, just before the 2016 election, then Commissioner of Transportation Victoria Sheehan came to me and said, the bus service, the company that was running is going to go out of business and they're not going to provide service for the needs.

And there were about 300 Sullivan County residents that were dependent on that service.