{"id":909,"date":"2022-08-30T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T16:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayling.tech\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:40:27","slug":"new-hampshire-democratic-primary-2022-candidates-and-how-to-learn-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2022\/new-hampshire-democratic-primary-2022-candidates-and-how-to-learn-about-them\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Democratic Primary 2022 Candidates (And how to learn about them)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are three candidates for the Democratic Primary on September 13th, 2022. They are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maggie Hassan (incumbent)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paul J Krautmann; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John Riggieri<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot find a website for John Riggieri, but Maggie Hassan&#8217;s website is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiehassan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/maggiehassan.com\/<\/a> and Paul J Krautmann&#8217;s is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pauljkrautmannforussenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pauljkrautmannforussenate.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 13, 2022, New Hampshire citizens get to vote for one of the New Hampshire Democratic Primary 2022 candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The candidates&#8217; priorities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The candidates have quite different priorities based on the top items on their websites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th><\/th><th>Maggie Hassan<\/th><th>Paul J Krautmann<\/th><th>John Riggieri<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>First Priority<\/td><td>Tax cuts, medical care for veterans<\/td><td>Anti-war<\/td><td>TBC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Second Priority<\/td><td>Infrastructure modernization<\/td><td>Medicare for all<\/td><td>TBC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Third Priority<\/td><td>Small businesses<\/td><td>Dignity for people<\/td><td>TBC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fourth Priority<\/td><td>Prescription drug costs<\/td><td>Women&#8217;s rights<\/td><td>TBC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fifth Priority<\/td><td>Women&#8217;s health (abortion)<\/td><td>LGBTQ+ rights<\/td><td>TBC<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have expressed disappointment in the past that Maggie Hassan voted against an increase in the minimum wage being tacked onto another bill. The minimum wage is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1065466\/real-nominal-value-minimum-wage-us\/#:~:text=When%20adjusted%20for%20inflation%2C%20the%202022%20federal%20minimum,2022%20dollars%20this%20increases%20to%2012.04%20U.S.%20dollars.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40% lower than it was in 1970 when it was set<\/a> and would be $12 if it hadn&#8217;t changed since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But ultimately, we need a Democrat in the Senate from New Hampshire: In my opinion, the GOP&#8217;s candidates are unelectable because they are against the results of elections being honored (which is the minimum we require in a democracy), all the candidates in the Republican primary are in favor of the attempted coup and murders of January 6th 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a>), and the protection of billionaires&#8217; lower tax rates and tax increases on the middle and working classes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/camilomaldonado\/2019\/10\/10\/trump-tax-cuts-helped-billionaires-pay-less-taxes-than-the-working-class-in-2018\/?sh=216a03fc3128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"shortbooksLink\">I write short stories and o\u00feer fiction &#8211; check \u00feem out at <a href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\" title=\"\">shortbooks.online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many creative people on \u00fee internet, I have a Patreon account. If you would like to support my creative writing (on <a href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/shortbooks.online<\/a>) or my blogging efforts, please take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/gavinayling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my Patreon page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=58356065\" data-patreon-widget-type=\"become-patron-button\">Become a Patron!<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.patreon.com\/becomePatronButton.bundle.js\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three candidates for the Democratic Primary on September 13th, 2022. They are: I cannot find a website for John Riggieri, but Maggie Hassan&#8217;s website is here: https:\/\/maggiehassan.com\/ and Paul J Krautmann&#8217;s is here: https:\/\/www.pauljkrautmannforussenate.com\/. On September 13, 2022, New Hampshire citizens get to vote for one of the New Hampshire Democratic Primary 2022 candidates. The candidates&#8217; priorities The candidates have quite different priorities based on the top items on their websites: Maggie Hassan Paul J Krautmann John Riggieri&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2022\/new-hampshire-democratic-primary-2022-candidates-and-how-to-learn-about-them\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212,115,239,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-science","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}