Background

ISSUES

Education Funding

Environment

Campaign Finance Reform

Healthy Families

Lower Electric Rates

Death Penalty repeal

Inheritance Tax Repeal

Letters to the Editor

News & Opinions

 

BACKGROUND:

Legislative Service:

Elected to the NH Senate in 1998 after serving 6 years in the NH House

Chair, Senate Ways & Means Committee

Vice Chair, Energy & Econ. Dev. Comm.

Member, Senate Finance, Transportation and Environment Committees

Co-Chair, House/Senate Electric Utility Restructuring Oversight Committee

Vice Chair, Tax Equity & Efficiency Committee

Member of numerous study & statutory committees, including chair of review of state wireless communications policy

Chair, Advisory Council on Energy, National Conference of State Legislatures, Member, Energy & Transportation Committee, Assembly on Federal Issues, NCSL.

Member, Energy & Environment and Executive Committees, Council of State Government, Eastern Regional Conference

Served 6 years (’92-’98) in the House representing Lebanon & Enfield; on the House Science, Technology & Energy Committee

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Personal:

  • 44 years old, 23 yr. resident of Lebanon, born Memphis, TN, 1956, son of Ralph & Caroline Below

  • Married to Kathy Petuck, a family specialist with the community mental health agency.  We are foster parents.

  • Developer & Managing Partner of One Court Street, an office building in downtown Lebanon and home of Sweet Tomatoes Trattoria and Lebanon College.

  • B.A., Dartmouth College, Honors in major of Geography & Environmental Studies, Class of ‘78

  • M.S. in Community Economic Development, NH College, 1985

  • Community Volunteer: · Pedestrian & Bicycle Advisory Committee, City of Lebanon · Lebanon Garden Club, Treasurer · Former Board Member with: · Lebanon Opera House Improvement Corp. · Friends of the Northern Rail Trail · Lebanon Planning Board · LISTEN.  · Former hotline and alcohol crisis intervention volunteer with Headrest