It’s my honor to endorse a Granite State “mama grizzly” who has broken barriers, fought off and locked up criminals, and battled all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the rights of New Hampshire parents – and won!New Hampshire is lucky to have Kelly Ayotte as a candidate for the U.S. Senate this year. Kelly is a daughter of the Granite State, a product of its public schools, and its first female Attorney General. In her impressive five years in the AG’s office, Kelly earned a reputation for being tough on crime, supportive of law enforcement, and tireless in the defense of the rights of the people of New Hampshire. When Planned Parenthood challenged New Hampshire’s parental notification law, Kelly fought them all the way to the Supreme Court and won.
She’s the proud mother of two and the wife of a combat veteran who flew missions over Iraq and currently serves in the Air National Guard. Kelly and her husband started a small landscaping/snow removal business; so, she understands first hand the crushing burden Washington imposes on our small businesses.
This pro-life, pro-family, anti-tax constitutional commonsense conservative is the Democrats’ biggest fear in November. They’re already running false ads against her weeks before even the primary election. And on top of that Kelly is facing attacks from a self-funded millionaire running with an R next to his name who likes Obamacare and cap-and-tax.
Kelly is the strongest commonsense conservative who can win in the fall. I knew I liked her when I met her earlier this year, and I know this Granite Grizzly will represent New Hampshire with distinction in Washington.
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Kelly Ayotte For US Senate
New Hampshire is not an ATM for Washington, DC bureaucrats. Kelly Ayotte will stand up for New Hampshire’s families when Congress attempts to raise their taxes. She will fight to rein-in wasteful spending and to balance the federal budget. In her announcement speech, Kelly Ayotte said, “Enough is enough. Washington needs a good dose of New Hampshire common sense….You can’t spend money you don’t have. Like most New Hampshire families, Joe and I sit around our kitchen table and we have to prioritize and live within our budget. Our government should be no different. Our elected leaders must be willing to make the same hard decisions.”
Kelly Ayotte supports the following reforms to eliminate out of control, wasteful government spending:
• Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. (New Hampshire and 48 other states have some requirement to balance their budgets)
• Stop spending taxpayer money on the bailouts and the stimulus package and return the money to pay down the deficit
• Sunset government programs that have far outlived their utility
• End the reckless earmarking process that has used taxpayer dollars to fund wasteful projects such as the “bridge to nowhere”
Kelly has signed the ‘No Pork Pledge’ and supports the Balanced Budget Amendment. She has also signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, promising to vote against tax increases. Recently, Kelly was honored to sign Americans for Prosperity’s candidate pledge to cut taxes, cut spending, cut the size of government, and uphold the Constitution.
Kelly Ayotte believes we can responsibly tap U.S. reserves of natural gas and oil, ensuring both a careful balance of environmental considerations while increasing domestic energy production, leading to job growth.
She supports using innovative technology to develop and use more efficient, cleaner methods for the production and use of all energy forms, including natural gas, oil, nuclear, coal, hydro, and renewables such as wind and solar. Kelly believes America must continue its role as a technology leader by developing new, cleaner energy technologies that help reduce pollution and create new markets and jobs for the people who produce them.
She believes in protecting private property rights as well as encouraging landowners to participate in common sense conservation efforts through local and federal incentives.
Kelly understands that we need common sense solutions to our energy problems and opposes “cap and trade” legislation that is essentially a tax on Granite State families at a time when they can afford it least.
Kelly knows that small businesses, not the government, create jobs. Kelly’s husband, Joe, is a small business owner and she worked with him to help create the business. When Joe returned from serving in the Iraq war, he started a landscaping and snowplowing business. When Joe started the business, there were many nights he needed help. Kelly shoveled snow through the night, then left to go to her day job at the attorney general’s office.
Kelly appreciates how hard it is to make a small business succeed. She has seen Joe grow his business from just two employees to twenty. Kelly understands that we need our small businesses to create new jobs and help grow our economy.
To help small businesses create jobs, Kelly believes Congress should:
• Lower taxes on small business, making it easier to create jobs
• Reduce over- burdensome regulations that make it difficult for small businesses to succeed
• Pass meaningful health care reforms that lower the cost for small businesses in providing health insurance for their employees, including tort reform, allowing the purchase of insurance across state lines to increase competition, and allowing small business owners to pool together to obtain better insurance rates
Kelly Ayotte believes we need to clean up Washington and her steps to ensure a more responsible, transparent government are below:
• Post all legislation online for at least 72 hours, allowing legislators and the public, the opportunity to read each bill before they are voted on
• End the corrupt earmark process
• Freeze congressional office budgets (this year, Congress voted itself a 5.7% increase in their office budgets)
• Senate campaigns should file their returns electronically and post them online immediately so the public knows who is donating to campaigns
Kelly believes that Congress should pass term limits legislation and has publicly pledged to only serve two terms in the Senate, if elected. There are too many career politicians in Washington who worry about reelection and the next campaign, and are not focused on the people’s business.
Recently, Kelly was honored to sign Americans for Prosperity’s candidate pledge to cut taxes, cut spending, cut the size of government, and uphold the Constitution.
As Attorney General, Kelly fought to keep our children safe and our public officials honest.
She led efforts to pass tough new laws to crack down on sexual and internet predators. Kelly vigorously pursued the prosecution of white collar crimes and public corruption cases, regardless of a person’s political party.
The Union Leader named Kelly Citizen of the Year in 2008 for her successful prosecutions of the first capital murder cases in New Hampshire in over 60 years. While Kelly served as Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Homicide Unit, she led the prosecution of numerous murder cases, including the successful prosecution of two defendants for the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors.
Kelly believes in the importance of enforcing our national borders and in ensuring only legal immigration. Kelly’s strong record clearly illustrates that she will enforce our drug laws, incarcerate predators, and work with our state and federal law enforcement officials as a well-respected and trusted partner.
“Kelly is committed to rescinding taxpayer funding of abortion in health care. She has expressed her strong determination to be a vocal advocate for women and unborn children in abortion debates on the floor of the U.S. Senate.” - Susan B. Anthony List
Kelly Ayotte believes in traditional marriage and is Pro-life.
As New Hampshire’s Attorney General, Kelly aggressively fought an attempt by Planned Parenthood to challenge the New Hampshire Parental Notification Prior to Abortion Act. She personally appealed the case to the Supreme Court and in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and the Court remanded the earlier ruling, saying that “States have the right to require parental involvement when a minor considers terminating her pregnancy.”
Kelly’s unmatched record on life has earned her the recent endorsements of the Susan B. Anthony List and the New Hampshire Citizens for Life , the state chapter of the National Right to Life organization.
As New Hampshire’s former Attorney General, Kelly understands the urgent need to stop the dangerous flow of illegal immigrants into our country. Arizona’s move to address this issue at the state level reflects a failure of leadership in Washington to solve this problem once and for all. With a wave of violent crimes in the state, Kelly believes Arizonans were fully justified in passing their law.
In the Senate, Kelly’s top immigration priority will be to secure our borders – no excuses. Simultaneously, she will work to ensure that existing immigration laws are enforced and is against amnesty. Kelly knows that Americans can solve any problem if they put their mind to it – and she will bring that results-oriented approach to this critical issue.
Kelly is a strong and passionate supporter of our citizens’ individual right to keep and bear arms.
Kelly supports nationwide recognition of concealed carry licenses in accordance with the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution. She believes the ability to carry a firearm is an individual protected civil right under the Second Amendment and that the right to self defense is a basic human right.
Kelly Ayotte has a strong record of protecting New Hampshire citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms. As Attorney General, in District of Columbia v. Heller, Kelly Ayotte joined a brief filed in the United States Supreme Court defending Americans constitutional right to bear arms. In that case, Kelly Ayotte urged the United States Supreme Court to uphold a court decision striking down a handgun ban in Washington, DC. Kelly advocated for the position that “by banning all handguns, while rendering rifles and shotguns inoperable, the District of Columbia unconstitutionally prohibits citizens from owning operational firearms.” The Supreme Court held that the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns violated the Second Amendment.
In July of 2009, Kelly again joined a brief filed in the United States Supreme Court defending Americans rights to keep and bear arms. In National Rifle Association v. Chicago, Kelly supported a challenge by a Chicago citizen who lived in a high crime neighborhood and who had been the subject of threats from violent drug dealers, but who was prohibited by city ordinance from obtaining a handgun to protect himself. Kelly argued that the city ordinance violated his individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment. In the brief, Kelly advocated that:
That spin is why Palin needs her head checked.