Our State Representatives
Redistricting in 2022 has changed our district for electing members of the House of Representatives. This new "map" will be in effect for elections in the fall of 2022 going forward for 10 years.
The Town of Strafford is now in a district with Barrington. Together, the two towns elect 3 State Representatives. We also are part of a larger "flotarial" district, comprised of Strafford, Barrington, New Durham and Middleton, that elects one State Representative.
Previously, Strafford was in House District #3, consisting of the towns of Strafford and New Durham. Our current representatives are both Republicans:
Rep. Kurt Wuelper is a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
E-mail: kurt.wuelper@leg.state.nh.us
Wuelper supports using public taxpayer funds to support religious and charter schools and has sponsored legislation on this issue. He is the past president of NH Right to Life and was endorsed by the NH Right to Life PAC in 2020.
Rep. Michael Harrington is a member of the House Science, Technology & Energy Committee.
E-mail: harringt@metrocast.net
Harrington has primarily sponsored anti-income tax and energy related legislation. He has received A and A+ grades from Americans for Prosperity, a libertarian-conservative political advocacy group funded by David Koch and Charles Koch (see their endorsement of him). Harrington represents a special-interest organization, the New England Ratepayer’s Association (NERA), as an advisor. He does not represent his constituents when he acts as advisor to an organization which has issued a cost-benefit analysis concluding mitigation of PFAWs, toxic and deadly chemicals released by industry, is not warranted; and when NERA’s conclusion, in part, was based on data generated from a person employed by the Mercatus Center, part of an expansive network of right-wing, Koch Brothers-funded think tanks. NERA supported towers and wires slicing their way from Canada to southern NH, a very unpopular and unnecessary project known as Northern Pass, that would have provided energy to Massachusetts, and none to New Hampshire.
