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Republican Senate Candidates "Stump On A Stump" In Concord

Sam Evans-Brown
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  The Republican Candidates vying for the chance to run against Jeanne Shaheen for Senate in November were stumping in Concord over the weekend. Scott Brown, Jim Rubens and Bob Smith faced questions about agricultural and timber policies at an event hosted by the New Hampshire Farm Bureau and the Timberland Owners Association at Carter Hill Orchard.

Brown used the opportunity to say that he wants to cut the red tape required to get temporary worker visas.

"We should have a mechanism that streamlines that process. Is it more inspectors? Is it more judges? Is it more computers? Is it more money? What is it?" Brown told the crowd, "And when I was there I was working on those very important issues."

Smith laid out his opposition to the Food Safety Modernization Act, which created stricter sanitation rules for farmers and was passed in 2011.

Rubens reiterated his pledge to limit himself to two terms in office, support campaign finance reform, and cutting all energy subsidies as a way of combating climate change.

The event, in which candidates are invited to "stump on the stump" invites the candidates to give speeches from on top of a tree stump, and is a tradition in New Hampshire politics. The three will appear together again on Thursday for a debate in North Conway. 

 

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about “the natural world and how we use it.” His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.
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