Democratic candidates address top issues in Exeter
EXETER — The New Hampshire state primary is Sept. 10, more than four months away, but Democratic voters filled the historic Town Hall Sunday to hear the party's three gubernatorial candidates answer questions from a panel of high school students.
Joyce Craig, former Manchester mayor, Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington and Jon Kiper, a small business owner and former Newmarket town councilor, spent nearly two hours answering questions from students and the audience on many of the pressing issues the next governor will face.
The candidates appeared one at a time, with Kiper leading off, followed by Warmington and Craig.
The students, from Phillips Exeter Academy, Oyster River High School, and Raymond High School, tailored some questions to individual candidates but all were asked questions about housing, reproductive health care, climate change, gun violence and Education Freedom Accounts (New Hampshire's school vouchers).
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