Patrick N. Long
Running for: NH House Hillsborough County District 26
Completed our 2026 State Candidate Survey
Position on Issues
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026
Do you support the “Education Freedom Account” program, which gives students access to the per-pupil share of state school funding to spend on private school or home school expenses?
"I think it has merit for those truly unable to pay for a legitimate private school on their own. But it should be for the low-income or those facing other financial hardships due to e.g. special needs, not subsidizing the rich. We need to reinstitute the income caps, and have much better accountability to make sure the money is being spent on education and not trips to Disneyworld."Against| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire’s anti-discrimination law allow segregation based on biological sex in some settings, such as bathrooms and locker rooms?
"Against"Against| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Against"Against| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Against"Against| Read My Position
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Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"I voted for the constitutional amendment banning an income tax."Against| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"Against"For| Read My Position
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Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"You should be able to build housing on your property. Government should stay out of it unless there's a legitimate health or safety issue."For| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire do more to encourage the development of nuclear power, including small modular reactors (SMR), in the state?
"We need to get away from fossil fuels. Doing that successfully requires adopting newer, cleaner energy technologies. In my ideal world it would all be renewables but realistically nuclear will be an important part of the mix for the foreseeable future. SMRs are safer and cheaper than older nuclear plants (and even older nuclear plants have killed fewer people than pollution from coal)."For| Read My Position
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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?
"For"For| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire restore funding for the Office of the Child Advocate?
"For"For| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"For"Undecided| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire reinstate the interest and dividends tax?
"Maybe, but I think there are other revenue solutions we should try first, like legalizing and taxing marijuana, limiting school vouchers to those with true financial need, taxing casinos more, stopping the corporate tax cuts, moving more of the property tax system from local to statewide, and selling the legislative parking garage. I think those would be enough to cover our needs."Against| Read My Position
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Do you support New Hampshire’s current system of public school funding, with about two-thirds of total funding coming from local property taxes?
"Having it mostly funded locally really screws over lower-income districts like Manchester. We need to increase state adequacy aid, and it should be the same formula statewide, not an arbitrary $10 million cut for Manchester."For| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"For"For| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"Private retail is better but I am open to state-run cannabis stores as a compromise if that's all that can pass the state senate."For| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"Private retail is better but I am open to state-run cannabis stores as a compromise if that's all that can pass the state senate."Against| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire require new voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, when registering to vote?
"I think this question is misleading because the affidavit we have traditionally allowed *is* pretty good proof. The penalties for a noncitizen illegally registering to vote include pretty much automatic deportation, in addition to the state and federal prison sentence they'd get. The risk of election fraud comes from things like cyber attacks on our elections infrastructure, or the federal government intimidating voters, and that's where efforts at election security need to be targeted. A lot of people don't have their birth certificate (or do but it doesn't match their married name, or the middle name they actually go by, etc). This would especially be a problem in combination with the state's new voter purge law, because it was badly written and a lot of people will have to re-register but don't know it yet. They're going to show up on Election Day without their birth certificate and not be able to vote. Under the new law, every year, anyone who hasn't voted in the last 5 years gets kicked off the voter rolls. That includes a lot of newly registered people that common sense wouldn't expect it to include-- anyone who registered after the last election and before the purge, anyone who registered after the Presidential election and missed a city election or the midterm. Yes, the law really is that stupid. They forgot to include an exception for people who have registered within the last five years, because the point was political theatre, not the public welfare."Other| Read My Position
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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?
"Yes, if the receiving district pays for it. No if the sending district pays. I support families' right to pick the school that's the best fit for their children, and children from poorer districts shouldn't be shut out of the opportunities offered in rich districts. But demanding that poorer districts be the one to pay for these transfers just widens the gap between the rich districts and the students left behind."For| Read My Position
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Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"For"Against| Read My Position
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Should state law cap how much local school districts can increase their budget each year?
"Let the people decide. If the voters in a district want a tax cap they can have one, but the state shouldn't force it on them. In Manchester we have a tax cap because the people voted for it."Other| Read My Position
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Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"I support keeping guns away from criminals while protecting the rights of responsible gun owners to keep their guns."
