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Karen Calabro
Karen Calabro (Democratic Party) was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing Hillsborough 45. She assumed office on December 7, 2022. She left office on December 4, 2024.
Calabro (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives to represent Hillsborough 45. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Calabro earned a master's of physician assistant studies at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in 2015. Her career experience includes practicing primary care and addiction medicine, working as a mobile crisis medical lead, and as a quality assurance medical lead to Harbor Homes. Before that, Calabro was a certified chef, general manager, food and beverage director, and marketing consultant.[1][2]
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Committee assignments
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2023-2024
Calabro was assigned to the following committees:
Elections
2024
See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45
Jack Flanagan defeated incumbent Karen Calabro in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jack Flanagan (R) | 53.7 | 5,953 |
 | Karen Calabro (D) | 46.2 | 5,118 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 11 | ||
| Total votes: 11,082 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45
Incumbent Karen Calabro advanced from the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45 on September 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Karen Calabro | 99.9 | 1,633 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 1 | ||
| Total votes: 1,634 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45
Jack Flanagan advanced from the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45 on September 10, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jack Flanagan | 99.2 | 1,829 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 15 | ||
| Total votes: 1,844 | |||
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Endorsements
Calabro received the following endorsements.
2022
See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45
Karen Calabro defeated Colton Skorupan in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Karen Calabro (D) | 50.0 | 4,474 |
 | Colton Skorupan (R) | 50.0 | 4,467 | |
| Total votes: 8,941 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45
Karen Calabro advanced from the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Karen Calabro | 100.0 | 1,120 |
| Total votes: 1,120 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45
Colton Skorupan defeated Jack Flanagan in the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Colton Skorupan | 50.7 | 935 |
| Jack Flanagan | 49.3 | 909 | |
| Total votes: 1,844 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Karen Calabro completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Calabro's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Economic Stability: In order for people to find stability in their lives, they need to have economic stability. Very little can be done when one is questioning how they will make ends meet, on a limited income, with rising inflation, and without any net to catch them if they fail. Small supports within local communites exist now, privately funded, non-profits, main-street groups, all of whom know how to keep the wolves outside the door, and simply need the oxygen to make it so
- Experience/Educational expansion- part of financial stability lies in having the right experience for the job. Not everyone stays in the career of their original choosing out of high school, and not every high school kid is ready to commit to a career at attend college. We need, as a government, to support those efforts to collaborate with our local communities, their vocational masters, successful entrepeneurs and such, to expand their knowledge and meet the challenges of capitalism on today's terms and technology.
- Freedom/Constitutional rights and Personal freedoms: there are few things more important than our State Constitution, and the rights it provides us. Right now, I feel things have swung too far to the right, and many are feeling threatened by policies proposed by my opposition with regards to women's and LGBTQIA+ rights, not to mention the disabled who are already vulnerable, and becoming more so out of neglect.
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Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
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2024
In 2024, the New Hampshire State Legislature was in session from January 3 to June 13.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on economic issues.
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- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to business issues.
- Legislators are scored based on if they voted with the Republican Party.
- Legislators are scored by the organization "on pro-liberty and anti-liberty roll call votes."
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- Legislators are scored on their stances on policies related to reproductive health issues
2023
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In 2023, the New Hampshire State Legislature was in session from January 4 to June 29.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45 |
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Footnotes
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| Preceded by - |
New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 45 2022-2024 |
Succeeded by Jack Flanagan (R) |
