Paul Schibbelhute
Republican
Retired engineer · Nashua
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State Representative, Hillsborough 5
- Vote for
- 3
- Term
- 2 years
- Candidates
- 4
- Election
- Nov 3, 2026
What this office does: A state representative votes on New Hampshire laws and the state budget in the 400-member House of Representatives.
Susan A. Elberger
DemocraticIncumbent
Nashua
The gist
- Opposes the Education Freedom Account school choice program.
- Opposes lowering New Hampshire business taxes.
- Supports raising the net metering cap to 5 megawatts.
- Opposes school funding relying mostly on local property taxes.
- Supports legalizing marijuana home-growing and private use.
- Opposes a state cap on school district budget increases.
- Supports stricter gun control laws.
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Opposes the Education Freedom Account school choice program.
Citizens Count: Susan A. Elberger profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“While the state pays just over $4,000 per pupil to municipalities for school, EFAs provide over $5,000 to parents for them to spend on private”
Opposes lowering New Hampshire business taxes.
Citizens Count: Susan A. Elberger profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“We have given $1billion dollars in tax breaks to large corporations over the last 10 years, but not to small, local businesses or homeowners.”
Supports raising the net metering cap to 5 megawatts.
Citizens Count: Susan A. Elberger profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“This would save on costs and on negative environmental impacts.”
Opposes school funding relying mostly on local property taxes.
Citizens Count: Susan A. Elberger profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“The current system of funding schools is untenable and illegal.”
Supports legalizing marijuana home-growing and private use.
Citizens Count: Susan A. Elberger profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“There is no way that we can keep NH 'pure' from marijuana use. Our residents are buying regularly from neighboring states.”
Opposes a state cap on school district budget increases.
Citizens Count: Susan A. Elberger profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“Taxpayers pay the cost of municipal budgets, including education.”
Supports stricter gun control laws.
Citizens Count: Susan A. Elberger profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“Gun safety laws should include "red flag" laws, not allowing people with a history of violent offenses to own guns, and a waiting period to”
Heather Raymond
DemocraticIncumbent
Nashua
The gist
- Opposes the Education Freedom Account school choice program.
- Opposes banning abortion during the first trimester.
- Opposes lowering New Hampshire business taxes.
- Supports raising the net metering cap to 5 megawatts.
- Supports restoring funding for the Office of the Child Advocate.
- Supports reinstating the interest and dividends tax.
- Opposes school funding relying mostly on local property taxes.
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Opposes the Education Freedom Account school choice program.
Citizens Count: Heather Raymond profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“The EFA voucher program has vastly exceeded its budget every year since inception without any meaningful oversight.”
Opposes banning abortion during the first trimester.
Citizens Count: Heather Raymond profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“I believe that family planning decisions should be between a pregnant person and their doctor and that politicians have no business making medical decisions for”
Opposes lowering New Hampshire business taxes.
Citizens Count: Heather Raymond profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“New Hampshire has lowered business taxes 6 times in the past 10 years.”
Supports raising the net metering cap to 5 megawatts.
Citizens Count: Heather Raymond profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“Many businesses and residents have been asking for this change for years. It makes sense to create pathways toward energy independence.”
Supports restoring funding for the Office of the Child Advocate.
Citizens Count: Heather Raymond profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“NH created the Office of the Child Advocate after a number of high profile child murders.”
Supports reinstating the interest and dividends tax.
Citizens Count: Heather Raymond profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“I think that the Income and Dividends tax should be reinstated with higher exemption levels to ensure that the tax works as designed and doesn't”
Opposes school funding relying mostly on local property taxes.
Citizens Count: Heather Raymond profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“There have been multiple state supreme court rulings that the state has failed to meet its constitutional obligations toward funding public schools.”
Dale Swanson
DemocraticIncumbent
Systems engineer · Nashua
The gist
- Voted against bills allowing sex-based separation in some settings.In office
- Voted against capping school district budget increases.In office
In office = from the candidate's own official statements or legislation as an officeholder, not their campaign.
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Voted against bills allowing sex-based separation in some settings.
Citizens Count: Dale Swanson profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“Voted against several bills that would revise New Hampshire's anti-discrimination law to allow segregation based on biological sex in some settings, including HB 1217 ”
Voted against capping school district budget increases.
Citizens Count: Dale Swanson profileCandidate questionnaire · Citizens Count · citizenscount.org
“Voted against capping how much local school districts can increase their budget year to year”
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