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John Bowman (New Hampshire)
John Bowman (Republican Party) ran for election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives to represent Merrimack 7. He lost in the Republican primary on September 13, 2022.
Bowman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
John Bowman was born in San Jose, California. He earned a bachelor's degree from Western Oregon University in 1994. Bowman also attended Sacramento State College. His career experience includes working as a mental healthcare professional, including as a direct care supervisor, rehabilitation specialist, nurse’s aid, and program representative. Previously, he worked in education, construction, sales, and retail.[1]
Bowman has been affiliated with 603 Alliance, NH Committee of Safety, One Small State, Judicial Watch, and Kairos International Prison Ministries.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 7 (2 seats)
Incumbent Karen Ebel and incumbent Dan Wolf defeated Gregory Sargent and Claire Ann Ketteler in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 7 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Karen Ebel (D) | 30.5 | 2,292 |
| ✔ |  | Dan Wolf (R) | 26.3 | 1,975 |
 | Gregory Sargent (D) | 25.3 | 1,901 | |
 | Claire Ann Ketteler (R)  | 17.9 | 1,344 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 8 | ||
| Total votes: 7,520 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 7 (2 seats)
Incumbent Karen Ebel and Gregory Sargent advanced from the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 7 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Karen Ebel | 54.6 | 796 |
| ✔ | | Gregory Sargent | 43.7 | 637 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.6 | 24 | ||
| Total votes: 1,457 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 7 (2 seats)
Incumbent Dan Wolf and Claire Ann Ketteler defeated John Bowman in the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 7 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dan Wolf | 40.0 | 595 |
| ✔ | | Claire Ann Ketteler | 29.5 | 438 |
 | John Bowman | 28.9 | 430 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.6 | 24 | ||
| Total votes: 1,487 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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John Bowman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bowman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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It is time for citizen volunteers to step up and revive our government. We chose to run because our state government is not responsive to the citizens. The Feds plan to mandate shared bathrooms and boys competing in girls’ sports in our local schools under a threat of losing school lunch funding, and our government does not object! HB1431, the Parental Rights bill, failed by 5 Republican votes. Opposing school secrecy can only be controversial in a world turned upside down. That is why we run. A biased media calling itself “mainstream” will tell us that Conservatives are radicals; That any crazy policies and their devastating consequences are not. • Loving your country is mainstream. Hating your country and teaching that to our youth is radical. • Respecting differences is mainstream. Censorship of unwelcome views is radical. • Wanting your kids to achieve is mainstream. Forcing crazy social experiments on them is radical. • Judging people by the content of their character is mainstream. Demanding they accept their worth based on skin color is as radical as it gets.
• Mainstream America is honest and fair: one standard applies to all. Only radical partisans use double-standards and deception to manipulate the truth. One of many examples: If one side questions the integrity of- (1) Strong schools with fully transparent curriculum. (2) Constitutional liberties respected. (3) Limited taxes and spending.
- Thomas Jefferson wrote that our representative Republic cannot survive without a moral society to guide it. God was ejected from the public square. Morality became relative, optional, flexible. Anything goes. The glue was lost that allowed for people’s competing self-interest to be restrained by a common value for one another’s worth and rights. Self-restraint on those who seek power has largely vanished. Ideology matters more than civility. Parents are the natural teachers of moral behavior and the Family is the foundation of a moral society. We replace them with unknown and unaccountable ideologues at our peril. When I was in teacher college at Western Oregon University, I was taught that social engineering was unethical and no part of a
- Most people have homes and families, and we all deserve to carry on in our family groups as we see fit, not as we are told by whoever is currently setting policy. Some wish to forbid free enterprise in a free market, and they have the right to speak their minds. I disagree with Socialism in any form. But we are fast losing the ability to have a free exchange of ideas in the dark oppression of woke-ism and the tyranny of “correct” ideas dictated by the least tolerant among us. People need freedom to choose their own path. Parents need freedom to raise their own children. That is the natural progression of civilization we aim for, Freedom, not one kind of political system or another. In order to enable freedom, we merely need to respect each
The Legislature needs to be more attuned to the real-life impact that their reckless spending has on the lives of taxpayers. We the People live within our means, unlike government. But how can life be meaningful if we can’t afford to live? In practice this means limiting taxes and spending and rejecting crazy inflationary policies. As very modest schooling tells us, lower taxes actually creates more prosperity and higher government revenues. Sane tax and spend policies are critical to a decent life for most of us.
School curriculum should be completely transparent, and school boards should have a one-term limit to ensure that they better reflect community values and curriculum content that is locally approved and not mandated by the federal government.
Of the flawed balance of humanity, I admire loyalty, courage, ability, purpose, and honor.
Abraham Lincoln comes to mind, and the founders of our Constitution.
Martin Luther King Jr showed us the way to social justice, but his principles have been abandoned by wokeness.
Here is my personal motto, which stands in my living room as it hung 20 years at my last couple of jobs:
"Everything I say today, and Everything I do today,
Will support a positive and successful environment for Everyone."
Beyond that, as citizen-volunteers we accept a duty to serve our State and District earnestly and honestly.
to provide good honest government that reflects the values of our communities and our State.
My first job as an adult was at Hudson Oil Company gas station in Fair Oaks, California, 1971.
I am quite fond of The Godfather, The Winds of War, and David Chandler's Campaigns of Napoleon.
House Education Committee,
Election Law Committee,
With Canons.
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See also
2022 Elections
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