Candidate Bio: Dan Dwyer, Republican for State Senate

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Dan Dwyer, Republican

Running for state Senate

Date of birth:   Jan. 29, 1963

Your background /education: Manchester Memorial High School, graduated 1981; Saint Anselm College, 1986

Experience/Occupation:  Business background in sales and marketing for 14 years; real estate developer since 1995; limousine service owner since 2006

Prior elected office: New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1984-86; Merrimack Town Council elected 2010, currently serving a three-year term.

Personal: Married 25 years with three children. Resident of Merrimack since 1995

Priorities:

• To ensure that no sales or income tax is levied on New Hampshire citizens
• To remove the Merrimack tolls
• To repeal the cap and trade Greenhouse Gas Initiative
• To allow small businesses to shop for healthcare across state lines
• To support right to work law
• To support "Constitutional Carry" law
• To lower the business profits tax

Why are you running?
I am running to ensure that "Live Free or Die" is a way of life and not an empty phrase.