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Showing up in Concord, Newbury, and New London.
Too much of Concord runs on fear, and fear doesn't fix a road, fund a classroom, or lower an electric bill. I govern from what we love about this state instead.
Born and raised in New Hampshire. A Democrat, but first, your neighbor.
Here's something you don't hear much in politics anymore: government isn't "them." It's us. It's the plow driver clearing Chalk Pond Rd before dawn, the teachers at Kearsarge, the volunteers who staff our fire departments and run our town meetings. Government is simply the name for the things we've decided to do together, because no family, and no town, can do them alone.
That belief changes how you govern. Treat government as a threat, and you spend your term telling people what to fear. Understand that government is us, and you spend it building what our towns actually need, measuring every vote by one standard: does it leave this place better than we found it?
Affordable homes, well-funded schools, and a clean Lake Sunapee. Every vote aims at making them real.
Government exists to solve the problems neighbors can't solve alone. Judge it like any tool: does it work, and does it cost what it should?
Concord serves our towns, not the other way around. When a bill tried to take data center siting authority away from local communities, we stopped it, together.
Doctors should doctor. Teachers should teach. Librarians should curate. Parents should parent.
This seat isn't mine. I hold it in trust. Stewardship means funding schools without shifting the bill, protecting our lakes, and thinking past the next election.
No bill should make any New Hampshire resident second-class.
Govern this way for the next decade, and here's what Newbury and New London look like:
We build together, not fear apart.
That's the vision, and every vote I cast serves it.
My positions, and the votes that back them up. Click any card for the full picture.
The cost of living is the daily problem. Every vote I cast gets the affordability test.
Child care that does not cost more than a mortgage. Housing people can actually buy or rent. Health care, groceries, and electric bills that do not eat the whole paycheck. I co-lead a New Hampshire business through these same cost pressures. I bring a practical lens, and a voting record to match. Governing out of joy means this: people who work hard should be able to get ahead in this state, and I will vote that way every session.
Expanding affordable child care so parents can work and businesses can hire, and applying the consumer-cost test to every bill that touches your monthly budget.
"No income tax" should not mean "shift the bill to your property tax." I vote to stop the downshift.
New Hampshire has no income tax and no sales tax, and I do not support creating either. I do support increasing the Business Profits Tax on large corporations and restoring the Interest & Dividends tax, but only on those earning more than $250,000 a year in interest and dividends income. But "no broad-based tax" has quietly become an excuse for the state to push its own bills down onto your local property tax. When Concord underfunds public schools and shortchanges towns, that cost does not disappear. It lands on the property tax bill you open every year. That is not a tax cut. It is a tax shift, and it falls hardest on homeowners on fixed incomes, on renters, and on the small businesses that anchor our towns. I apply one test to the state budget: does it actually lower the cost of living here, or does it just move the cost around?
You may hear the claim that House Democrats "voted for an income tax." It is false. The legislature did not take up a single income tax bill this term. Anyone can confirm that on the General Court's website. I do not support an income tax or a sales tax. What I do support is having large corporations pay more through the Business Profits Tax, and restoring the Interest & Dividends tax only for those earning more than $250,000 a year in interest and dividends income, so the state's bills stop landing on your property taxes.
Holding the state to its constitutional duty to fund education so the cost stops landing on local property taxpayers, backing targeted relief for owner-occupied homes, and ending a decade of downshifting, all without an income or sales tax.
Public money belongs in public schools, and every child is entitled to an adequate education.
Our property-tax-based funding model creates wide gaps between wealthy towns and working-class communities. The NH Supreme Court agrees: The state must raise per-pupil adequacy funding. Education Freedom Accounts should stay available to families who need them, not become a universal subsidy that has already cost taxpayers more than $50 million this year.
Holding the state to the Supreme Court's adequacy ruling, and keeping public education dollars in public schools.
Clean energy, lower bills. If a bill will not cut what you pay for electricity, I vote no.
I apply one test to every energy bill: Will it lower what New Hampshire families pay? I support rooftop and balcony solar, municipal clean-energy partnerships, and the businesses building renewables here, and I oppose grid-side changes that raise your rates to serve someone else's balance sheet.
Requiring a rate-impact analysis before commercial net metering expands, and enabling towns to build and share renewable power together.
Lake protection is an obligation, not a political position, and my committee writes the rules.
I serve on the House Resources, Recreation & Development Committee, with direct jurisdiction over lake protection, water quality, and state parks. Lakes do not stop at town lines, and neither should the tools we use to protect them.
For the 2027 session I am working with NH LAKES and colleagues on my committee to give lake communities a tool they have asked for: the ability to form a village district dedicated to protecting and restoring water quality. Village districts are nothing new. Under New Hampshire law, residents of an area have long been able to organize and fund shared needs like water supply and fire protection. This simply adds lake water quality to that list.
It creates no new state tax and forces nothing on anyone. A district exists only if the residents of the affected area petition for it and vote to fund it themselves. That is local control and local choice: communities deciding to invest in the lakes their property values and livelihoods depend on, instead of waiting on Concord. Earlier versions were voted down; I intend to make the case plainly that letting neighbors protect their own water is not a tax hike.
Refiling PFAS transparency, pressing DES and Vail Resorts to a durable fix on the lagoons, and passing the village-district tool so lake communities can protect shared waters like Sunapee together.
Growth on our terms. Data centers and AI must serve our communities, not just the companies building them.
New Hampshire is seeing real pressure from large technology companies to site data centers here. These projects can bring jobs and investment, but they consume enormous electricity and water, and they change what neighborhoods look and feel like. My framework is simple: Developer-funded grid upgrades, environmental safeguards, and local authority preserved. Done right, hyperscale investment should upgrade our energy infrastructure, lower residential property taxes, increase school funding, and strengthen job development and retraining, not raise your electric bill.
Data centers should be good grid citizens: Pay for the infrastructure built to serve you, file honest load forecasts, and buy clean power that actually adds to the grid.
On AI itself: I welcome the jobs and productivity, and I will regulate the outcomes: AI-enabled fraud, deepfakes, and misuse of personal data have no home in New Hampshire.
Legislation that locks in the three-part framework (developers fund the grid upgrades, environmental safeguards bind, and towns keep the final say), plus consumer protections against AI-enabled fraud and misuse of personal data.
More homes, fair rules for tenants, and a path to ownership for people who grew up here.
The housing shortage is hitting working families across our towns. I support expanding supply, protecting tenants from no-cause eviction, and keeping investor corporations from outbidding the families who actually want to live here.
Supply-side expansion paired with limits on corporate purchases of single-family homes.
Every person in this district deserves to live free of discrimination. Full stop.
I am a proud gay man who knows what it means to need a government that treats people with dignity. I will oppose any legislation that targets LGBTQ+ people, restricts women's rights, or creates second-class status for any New Hampshire resident, and I have offered to personally accompany constituents to Concord to testify. Governing out of joy means this: every person in this district deserves to flourish, and I will vote that way every single time.
Showing up, every session and every bill, for the dignity of every person in this district.
Medical decisions belong to patients and their doctors, not the legislature.
Medical decisions made in fear, by politicians afraid of what patients and doctors might decide together, produce bad medicine and bad law. I oppose every restriction on access to reproductive health care. Trust people. That is my position, and it is my record.
A no vote on every erosion attempt, and support for codifying access.
Show up for the people who show up for us, and defend the public health basics.
Police, fire, and EMS deserve a legislature that backs them on benefits and staffing. And public health protections that took generations to build, like childhood immunization and lead testing, should not be bargained away.
Keeping first responder ranks staffed in our towns, and holding the line on immunization and child health protections.
Easier for citizens to vote. Harder for politicians to pick their voters.
Voting should be simple for every eligible citizen, and district maps should be drawn by an independent commission, not by the party in power.
Online registration and fair maps.
Dignity at the end of life for patients, and real support for the people who care for them.
How we die is among the most personal decisions a person ever makes. Terminally ill, mentally competent adults deserve the right to make their own end-of-life choices with their doctors and their families, including access to end-of-life options with strong safeguards. And the spouses, children, and professionals who carry the daily work of caregiving deserve more than gratitude: They deserve respite, training, and economic support.
Supporting end-of-life options legislation with strong safeguards when it returns, and backing measures that ease the load on family caregivers: respite care, training, and economic relief.
Showing up in Concord, Newbury, and New London.
This district elects two State Representatives. I'm proud to run, and work in Concord, as a team with Rep. Karen Ebel of New London.
Use both your votes: Greg Sargent and Karen Ebel.
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Greg grew up in New Hampshire, graduated from UNH and Boston University School of Law, and is an attorney licensed in NH and Massachusetts. Since 2019 he has co-led Lamont, Hanley & Associates with his sister. He is proud to represent Newbury and New London, and to serve every constituent, regardless of party.
2026 endorsements are being added as they are received.
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State Primary: Tuesday, September 8, 2026
General Election: Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Newbury: Town Office Building, 937 Route 103
New London: Whipple Memorial Town Hall, 25 Seamans Road
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