Jason Gerhard
Jason Gerhard (Republican Party) was a member of theNew Hampshire House of Representatives, representingMerrimack 25. He assumed office on December 7, 2022. He left office on December 4, 2024.
Gerhard (Republican Party) ran for election to theNew Hampshire House of Representatives to representMerrimack 25. He won in the general election onNovember 8, 2022.
Gerhard completed Ballotpedia'sCandidate Connection survey in 2022.Click here to read the survey answers.
Sponsored legislation
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Committee assignments
2023-2024
Gerhard was assigned to the following committees:
Elections
2024
Jason Gerhard did not file to run for re-election.
2022
See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 25
Jason Gerhard defeatedDeborah Wheeler in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 25 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jason Gerhard (R)  | 55.4 | 2,711 |
| Deborah Wheeler (D) | 44.4 | 2,170 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 11 | ||
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 4,892 | ||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 25
Deborah Wheeler advanced from the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 25 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Deborah Wheeler | 99.6 | 504 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 2 | ||
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 506 | ||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 25
Jason Gerhard defeated incumbentKenna Cross in the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 25 on September 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jason Gerhard | 61.0 | 715 |
| Kenna Cross | 38.0 | 446 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.0 | 12 | ||
| Incumbents arebolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 1,173 | ||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jason Gerhard completedBallotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gerhard's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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The short is answer is because I'm tired of all of the corruption and business as usual in Concord and D.C. We've seen a major push lately to sacrifice our personal decision making to professional, unelected bureaucrats at all levels of government. The way I see it there's only one person who knows what's best for you: YOU!
Yet, how can you find time to make sound decisions when each day brings more out of control spending by government that destroys the value of the very money you use to buy groceries, fill up your car, and worst of all fill your home heating oil tank? It's a bit difficult to figure out what's going on when you have politicians spending money like drunk sailors on shore leave.
- Improving Educational Opportunities: A child’s education is too important to be left to bureaucrats. Parent’s must be able to choose the learning environment best suited to their children’s needs. This may be public, private or a combination of the two.
- Holding Mega-Corporations Accountable to the Law: Through judicial chicanery (i.e. judges selling us out) corporations have been given the status of gods. They are essentially immortal since they were given constitutional rights and recognized as persons in the late 1800s. We are now seeing the consequences of this through the growth of monopolies in all areas of the economy resulting in increasing prices and the loss of local businesses that can't compete with international corporations which use their lobbyists to extract subsidies (corporate welfare) from taxpayers. All in violation of the NH Constitution -- [Art.] 83. [Encouragement of Literature, etc.; Control of Corporations, Monopolies, etc.]
- State-Owned Bank: The state of North Dakota created the Bank of North Dakota in 1919. Tired of the predatory practices of the big banks back East they created their own. By law all tax revenue is deposited into this bank which is then loaned out basically interest-free for public use. Given that up to half of the cost of a bridge, road, or other public project is interest payments this is something we need to establish in NH immediately. We could double our tax dollars simply by cutting out the middlemen mega-banks.
The only way to keep government in it's proper role of protecting our rights and not violating them is to encourage people to voice their concerns and if need be act peacefully to bring government back under the chains of the Constitution as Thomas Jefferson said:
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”
― Thomas Jefferson
For good reason people feel that their voices are not heard in the halls of government. I was shocked when I went to my first committee meeting at the state house and saw that the lobbyists are able to cut the line and speak first. This really proves the saying, money talks.
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Campaign finance summary
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| Year | Office | Status | Contributions | Expenditures |
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| 2022 | New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 25 | Won general | $780 | $0 |
| Grand total | $780 | $0 | ||
| Sources:OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). | ||||
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2024
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2023
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In 2023, theNew Hampshire State Legislature was in session from January 4 to June 29.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
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| Preceded by Natalie Wells (R) | New Hampshire House of Representatives Merrimack 25 2022-2024 | Succeeded by James Thibault (R) |
- 2022 challenger
- 2022 general election (winner)
- 2022 primary (winner)
- Former member, New Hampshire House of Representatives
- Former state legislative member
- Former state representative
- New Hampshire
- New Hampshire House of Representatives candidate, 2022
- Republican Party
- State House candidate, 2022
- State house candidates
