Arnie Arnesen began her political career in 1984 as a delegate to the NH Constitutional Convention. An outspoken Democrat, she served eight years in the NH House of Representatives. In 1992 Arnesen ran for Governor, the first female nominee representing a major party. In 1996 she was the Democratic nominee for Congress and in 1997 she was selected to be a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Arnesen has been doing talk radio for two decades and in 2000, Talkers Magazine recognized her as one of the 100 most powerful talk show hosts in America; in 2003, the NH Association of Broadcasters selected her TV program, �Capitol Ideas� as the top public affairs show in NH. Charlie Arlinghaus is the former head of the state Republican Party, a past New England Policy Director for the Republican National Committee, and currently serves as president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, an independent, non-partisan, public policy research and educational organization committed to furthering the goals of economic growth and individual opportunity. A regular contributor to state-wide news organizations, Arlinghaus is a frequent guest on NHPR�s The Exchange and a regularly featured political panelist on �Capitol Ideas with Arnie Arnesen� on WNDS TV.
