Greg Knytych is taking on incumbent Democrat in NH-4 Senate race
Greg Knytych (Laconia City Ward 1 Councilor) announced yesterday that he is running for NH District 4's Senate seat that is currently held by incumbent Democrat Kathy Sgambati on his blog site, The Blogging Councilor.
He later spread that decision more widely on yesterday's Meet The New Press radio show. The interview can be heard here in the last half hour of the second hour podcast (or just listen to the clip dedicated to his interview just below it).
His press release is as follows:
He later spread that decision more widely on yesterday's Meet The New Press radio show. The interview can be heard here in the last half hour of the second hour podcast (or just listen to the clip dedicated to his interview just below it).
His press release is as follows:
Greg Knytych, the freshman Laconia City Councilor from Ward 1 has just announced his intention to run for the New Hampshire Senate in District 4. There are too many expenses being passed down to the property taxpayers through the counties and that has to stop. Knytych feels that Spending must be controlled in Concord while protecting the traditional New Hampshire values and way of life. Knytych thinks the idea is simple, we can't have over 17% budget increases and looming deficits and Legislators thinking that we just need to raise taxes or create new taxes to pay for this.The Laconia Daily Sun recently (6/9, page 5) did a brief interview with Greg concerning his announcement:
We have a Spending-Tax-Cap in Laconia and this serves to put a light on a dark problem. This problem cannot and will not be fixed until we have people who will fight to protect the taxpayers and citizens of this fine state from the excessive spending and lack of fiscal restraint we have seen. There are two ways to deal with budget shortfalls, first is to cut expenses and second is to increase revenue. With a the budget crisis we currently find ourselves in Knytych says he hasn't seen any real cuts in the excessive spending but there are plans to increase taxes. Not to mention the plan to borrow our way out of trouble by using bonds to pay for the General Fund obligations. If we can't pay the bills now how can we afford the financing costs associated? What will the extra financing costs do to future budgets?
We need strong conservative leadership to get our fiscal house in order. Then we can focus on the real problems we have in this state, creating an environment that promotes free-trade, economic growth and affordable health care.
Greg Knytych will be planning some campaign events to help get the word out. As these events are scheduled they will be posted on his website "The Blogging Councilor" (www.laconia-nh.us). Knytych says that thus far the reaction to this news has been very positive. Knytych can be reached via e-mail at greg@knytych.net.
Greg Knytych files papers to run for state Senate
CONCORD — On Wednesday of last week, Laconia City Councilor Greg Knytych (Ward 1) filed candidacy papers for the Republican nomination for NH’s District 4 state Senate seat at the Secretary of State’s office.
Following the official signing, Knytych declared, “There are many issues to address at the state but the first and foremost items on my list are taxes and spending.”
Referring to the recent agreed-to Democrat-led plan to fund mandated state directives through borrowing, Knytych, expressed his clear disagreement and asked, “how much sense does it make that the Legislature is planning on ‘borrowing’ this state out of the budget defi cit?”
“The more I thought about it and how I can affect a positive change to stop the practice of the state passing costs down through the counties to the property tax payers I realized that I would not only be protecting the residents of Laconia but some of our surrounding neighbors that don’’t have the Spending-Tax-Cap to protect them,” added Knytych. As proof of his intentions, he has already signed both of N.H.’s anti-tax pledges.
The freshman councilor notes that his newly forming team is in the process of getting all, “the legal matters taken care of that naturally come with a serious campaign” such as creating a fundraising PAC.
A seasoned Internet blogger known in the online community as “The Blogging Councilor” (www.laconianh. us/), Knytych already has a new website up and running in support of the campaign located at www. Knytych4NHValues.com, where he promises “together, we’ll move N.H. right back to traditional N.H. Values!”
The traditionally Republican seat is currently held by Democrat Kathy Sgambati of Tilton. The district includes Alton, Barnstead, Belmont, Gilford, Gilmanton, Laconia, New Durham, Strafford and Tilton.
The campaign promises a vigorous e-campaign in the days and months ahead as well.
