Businesses and Jobs or Dark Streets and Boutiques

Local government needs to encourage business development with tax incentives, relaxed regulation and adequate services. Keeping Tamworth a small boutique town only increases the tax burden for the towns’ people. We can remain a beautiful little town in the north but must face the reality that growth is inevitable.

Streamlining Town Budgets

Taxes are based upon spending: less spending means less taxes. Your property taxes are not a voluntary contribution, and residents’ homes have liens placed upon them every year in Tamworth. Every budget item under consideration by the Selectmen, needs to be tempered by this reality.

Landowners’ Rights

Landowners have wrestled with government for many years over land use regulation. How many regulations, how many boards, how many commissions, how many committees and how many ordinances do there have to be to tell us what we can’t do with our land. Enough said.

Government Transparency

It is of utmost importance that our Selectman listen to the voices of the people. The Selectman represent the people. Equally important is that the people be well informed of what their elected officials are doing. The people have the right to know.

Sticking up for Tamworth

Plenty goes on at the county, state and federal levels that effect Tamworth's resident's lives and pocket books. I will be an advocate for the principles of smaller government and more freedom at other levels of government, particularly with the County Commissioners and at the State House when major issues or bills affecting Tamworth's residents come up.