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Republican State Senator and Gubernatorial Candidate Joe Kenney
By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, October 7, 2008.
He’s a veteran of 14 years in the New Hampshire legislature as well as the Iraq war. Senator Joseph Kenney was born and bred in New Hampshire to a small business family. He was a member of the State House for four terms and in 2002 was elected to the State Senate. As a lieutenant colonel in the Marine reserves, Kenney was called to serve in Iraq during his term last year. Now Joseph Kenney wants to be New Hampshire's next Governor. We’ll talk with him about the campaign, as well as where he stands on issues from the economy to energy to health care.
Guest
- Joe Kenney, Republican candidate for governor and state senator from Wakefield
Republican state senator and candidate for governor Joe Kenney talks with NHPR's Laura Knoy during The Exchange. (Keith Shields, NHPR) |
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I am a member of the New Hampshire House of Representative serving Grafton County District 6. I have been serving on the Job Training Fund Grant Review Committee since its recreation. I will paraphrase this as best I can. I heard Senator Kenney comment that a businessman had told him that his firm was discouraged from applying for a Job Training Grant because the requirements were too demanding. I have no idea why anyone would come to that conclusion. I would say the process is not complicated nor is it very demanding. In addition there are many helpful and capable people at the Workforce Opportunity Council prepared to assist applicants in the process. I would encourage any firm in neeed of assistance with a training program to look in to the Job Training Fund administered by the Workforce Opportunity Council in Concord.
I live in Gardner, MA. I have life long friends in NH, whom I love dearly, however, we have come to "blows" meaning hot air about the parasitic nature of NH's tax base, which they generously call symbiotic, such as no sales tax, income tax, low cigeretee & liquor tax and NO BOTTLE/CONTAINER BILl. Most states that have these container laws run a surplus of "nickles/dimes" and that surplus goes to the general revemnue fund at the end of the fiscal year, noticing how NH roads are strewn with containers when I go to visit my "parasitic" friends, what say you to this lack of enviromental effort that could pay real dollars? SIncerly Charles Hodgkinson