Jay Ennis

Candidate's Website, 2026

"I support educational choice when it expands opportunities for students. Private schools, homeschooling, charter schools, career and technical programs, online learning and other public schools can all have a place. But choice is a means, not the objective. Educating children is the objective.

"That's why I oppose New Hampshire's current Education Freedom Account program. Public education must remain the foundation because it has an obligation that private alternatives do not: making an education available to every child, in every community.

"I also believe public money requires reasonable accountability. I would rather see educational-choice programs expand opportunities for students while strengthening, rather than gradually replacing, the public system responsible for educating everyone."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire’s anti-discrimination law allow segregation based on biological sex in some settings, such as bathrooms and locker rooms?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?

Candidate's Website, 2026

"I oppose a broad-based personal income tax. New Hampshire should address unfair property-tax burdens by making the state meet its existing responsibilities, using current revenues more effectively, and stopping the practice of simply shifting state costs onto towns and local property taxpayers."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?

Candidate's Website, 2026

"We need to preserve usable housing where we can while recognizing that rehabilitation alone won't meet the need. More apartments, townhouses and other multifamily housing will have to be part of the answer.

"State assistance should be targeted toward places where housing shortages are preventing employers and essential services from finding the people they need. The goal shouldn't simply be to build more units. It should be to make it possible for the people who keep North Country communities running to live here."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire do more to encourage the development of nuclear power, including small modular reactors (SMR), in the state?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Do you support legislation to expand the net energy metering system capacity cap from 1 MW to 5 MW for all residential and commercial customers in New Hampshire?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire restore funding for the Office of the Child Advocate?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire reinstate the interest and dividends tax?

Candidate's Website, 2026

"New Hampshire relies unusually heavily on local communities to fund public education. The state's responsibility to provide an adequate education shouldn't depend on how much taxable property happens to surround a child's home.

"I believe the Statewide Education Property Tax should actually function as a statewide tax. If one community raises more through SWEPT than is needed to meet the state's education obligation for its own students, that excess should help educate children elsewhere in New Hampshire. Those aren't somebody else's children. They're New Hampshire's children.

"Communities should remain free to raise additional local money if they want to provide more than the state guarantees. I'm comfortable with some communities choosing to spend more. The state's responsibility is to provide a genuinely adequate foundation for everyone."

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire require new voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, when registering to vote?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire allow at least 10% of students in each school district to enroll in a different public school, regardless of where they live?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should state law cap how much local school districts can increase their budget each year?

Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026

Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?