Richard Barnes is a current member of the Merrimack School Budget Committee and previously served as a member Merrimack Municipal Budget Committee from 2004 to 2006.  In 2006 he was endorsed by the grass roots group Merrimack Cares in his bid for School Board.  He also served in various roles including as the National President of Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity, a national Italian American Fraternal organization. He also volunteers with the Merrimack Historical Society and on the Town of Merrimack’s Web Technology Exploratory Committee.  He is a registered Republican who classifies himself as a Constitutionalist.

Mark Hounsell served as a Republican in the NH State Senate from 1984 – 1988. Senator Hounsell, who is a 12^thgeneration N.H. native, is a political activist and a campaign consultant.While busy raising four children with his wife Carol, he serves his home town of Conway as a member of the Board of Selectmen. He has a passion for teaching the depths of spiritual Christianity; writing blogs and poetry; and studying philosophy and medieval history (his major in college). Lately, he draws attention to what he believes is the greatest threat to our American heritage of liberty by declaring his underlying motivation of civic duty with the words, “Enjoying the freedom of speech, while I still can.”

Bill Gnade is a writer and photographer living in Hancock with his wife and son. He has worked as a photojournalist for The Keene Sentinel and a reporter for the Monadnock Ledger. His work has appeared in USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Concord Monitor, Associated Press and sundry journals, including Touchstone. He also maintains a blog, Contratimes.blogspot.com

Raised by Democratic parents, Keith Murphy was employed as a campaign manager for the Maryland Democratic Party from 2000 to 2003. Driven to the Republican Party by his developing belief in low taxes and personal freedom, he was attracted to New Hampshire by its high quality of life and "Live Free or Die" culture.

Keith holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Baltimore and a Master's degree in City Planning from the University of Maryland. A past board member of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, Keith is active in Manchester Republican politics and is often found in Concord advocating for smaller, less intrusive government.

His interests range from philosophy and history to extreme skiing. He owns Murphy's Taproom, a restaurant in downtown Manchester.

Ed Naile is a resident and former selectman from Deering , NH . He has been a political activist for almost 20 years. He is currently the Chairman of the Coalition of NHTaxpayers, a non-partisan, non-profit Concord-based umbrella group.

See CNHT's website at www.cnht.org for information on all NH towns.

He has fought and won many taxpayer battles over the years and is well-known in conservative circles for the CNHT 'Taxpayer Pledge' which every candidate for public office in NH is urged to sign. CNHT has helped countless taxpayer groups and individuals across the state navigate local and school issues.

Ed can often be heard on many radio talk shows throughout NH with notables such as Gardner Goldsmith, Al Kulas, and Niel Young. He also is the main host of his own talk radio show completing its third year on WLMW 90.7 FM each Thursday night from 6-8PM and streaming on the web.

See www.townofdeering.com for a bare-knuckled expose of local politics in that town.

He is well-connected with political personalities in both NH and DC.

By trade, Ed has been an arborist for 33 years and involved with lumberjack competitions, working locally as well as with ESPN's summer Stihl Timbersports series.

His unique experiences dictate that his commentary on NH politics and personalities is not only insightful, but always humorous.

Chaz Proulx grew up in Raymond and has observed Granite State politics for most of his 58 years. He works part time as a political and issue advocacy consultant. He admits to being obsessed with strategy and describes his work as “creating a buzz that gets results.”
 
Chaz has worked extensively in grass root organizing. He is one of the original founders and a form

A resident of West Manchester, Tammy has been a grassroots political activist for years. A "small l" libertarian-leaning Republican, she has been active in campaigns from the local alderman and school board through to presidential. Some were winners, some not so much.

The owner of Simmons Country Print & Copy Shop in Derry, you'll often find Tammy in Concord, as she is also

Matt Simon is a part-time activist and part-time college instructor living in Pembroke. He holds a Master's Degree in English from West Virginia University. A self-described "pro-liberty independent," he maintains a membership in the Libertarian Party "in case the system ever permits it to grow and become a viable option."

A long-time advocate for peace, free markets, and educational freedom, Simon is an active member of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance.  In January, he founded the New Hampshire Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy (NHCommonSense.org) and now serves as its executive director.

In 2006, he enjoyed success in his first effort as a volunteer campaign manager and helped elect Rep. Joel Winters (D-Manchester) to his first term in the NH house.

Jim has been around the NH State House for quite a while, sometimes more years than he cares to remember. In 1968 he was President of the NH Young Democrats, and was elected that year as the youngest member of the 400-member NH House of Representatives - - as a Republican, although he remained a Democrat. There's a story to that which he'll probably explain sometime. In 1978 he was elected the youngest member of the NH State Senate.

He's been in the House for a total of 19 years and was in the State Senate for 6 years. He's also been a three-term Portsmouth Assistant Mayor, and was elected to the Portsmouth City Council, School Board, and Charter Commission. He is well-known as the author and sponsor of the 1975 law that has been recognized as the statute that has protected NH's First-In-The-Nation Presidential Primary, by mandating that the Secretary of State must set the NH Primary "...one week or more..." ahead of any other state. Neither of the national parties, and no other state, has been able to figure out a way around that law. In 1979 as State Senator, he was sponsor of the first bill to adopt Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. He was cosponsor of the legislation that finally passed 20 years later to adopt MLK Day. In 2000, he was primary sponsor of the bill abolishing the death penalty, which passed both the House and Senate but was vetoed by the governor. The NH Legislature thus became the first in the nation to pass a death penalty abolition bill since the mid-1970s.

He does some political consulting and consults for business and non-profit groups by conducting workshops on various topics, including diversity training, time and stress management, workplace ethics, crisis management and customer service. He is author of a book, Politics: Communicating A Message, and is soon to publish another book, Business: Treating Your Employees Well & Your Customers Ethically. Openly gay for more than 20 years, he speaks out on issues of equality and discrimination. You can expect his commentary to cover a wide range of interesting topics.