Run and Ride

Congratulations to the organizers of the Rail Trail Run and Ride event on September 27 and to all the volunteers who contributed their time, talents, and energy to make the day a success. I biked the 50k route with my lifelong friend Charlie Darling and enjoyed every minute. We came in dead last, but I […]

Consequences

By Hilde Heaton

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Every decision – financial, political, and/or social – results in intended and unintended consequences. For the past six years the American people supported the President, expecting that we could “transform” the country in positive ways. This did not happen. Enabled and abetted by Harry Reid, Nancy […]

Difficult Doing Business in NH

I am writing in support of Kathy Rago for State Senate, District 7. As a small business owner in the Lakes Region, I have found it becoming more difficult to do business in New Hampshire, with higher and higher fuel costs and the increasing fees that I am charged by the state for simply doing […]

Exemplars of Public Service

By Nan and Don Kaplan

It has been our pleasure to have become friends with Mario Ratzki and his wife Caroline. While searching New England for a new home after Boston, Andover won out, and they are very pleased with their choice, as are we. They are both exemplars of public service. Mario is finishing a most successful first term […]

Mario Ratzki Reports from Concord: October 2014

State revenues will fall short

By Mario Ratzki, NH representative

We had our last legislative session on September 17 to address the Governor’s vetoes of three bills. A two-thirds vote is necessary to overturn a veto. A Yes vote was to overturn, a No vote to uphold. HB 591, an anti-bullying bill which the Governor thought was written too broadly. Veto sustained by a vote […]

Help Getting Insurance

By Carmen Bates

I wanted to write in support of Mario Ratzki and let others know of the help he gave me in getting health insurance coverage. I was divorced in 2009 and without health insurance, as the three jobs that I worked were all with small part-time employers. Mario heard about my situation, and because I was a […]

Navigating State Bureaucracy

By Ed and Mary Hiller

We wish to express our strong support for Mario Ratzki for State Representative for Merrimack County, District One. Since Mario was elected, he has been instrumental in helping many of our citizens navigate the halls of state bureaucracy.  In one specific example, he was instrumental in convincing the State Department of Transportation to provide 14 […]

Sane and Sensible Path

By Bill Bardsley

With election day coming up, it’s time to be thinking about our votes. We have two good people, Mario Ratzki and David Karrick, as our state representatives  and a third, Andrew Hosmer, as our state senator. All three are standing for re-election. Mario, David, and Andrew are hard-working, responsible legislators doing their best to keep […]

They Listen to All Points of View

By Donald & Mary-Lou Hinman

Danbury, Andover, and Salisbury have been very fortunate to have had Mario Ratzki and David Karrick as our representatives to the New Hampshire House these past two years, and we urge their re-election this November. They both have been present at most, if not all, the public gatherings here in Danbury: Grange Fairs, our lecture […]

Common Sense in Concord

By Ken Mailloux

It has been my distinct honor to know Mario Ratski since he wrote a letter to the editor of the Concord Monitor in 2012 stating he wanted to run for office to put some “common sense” back into the workings of the Legislature in Concord. This, coming at the end of the 2010 legislature, seemed […]

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