Craig Benson
Craig Benson
Craig R. Bensonis an American politician and businessman. He served as Governor of New Hampshire from 2003 to 2005. Benson first came to public attention when he founded Cabletron Systems, now known as Enterasys Networks, which became one of the largest employers in New Hampshire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 October 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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We're being very kind to let all these other states collect our tax money and keep it themselves, but I think the days of kindness are past.
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We're saying we want more government in our lives by disclosing and having more rules and regulations and everything else. I don't get it.
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I was fortunate enough to have personal interaction with Hugh, and he was a mentor to me on many issues,
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We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.
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With the continued transition from older shared-access technologies to next-generation switching, we clearly still have work ahead of us.
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We came out a little flat, but from there on, we just got a boost of energy and he?s the main reason why. There was a sense of urgency. We already dug ourselves into a little bit of a hole.
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When I was running Cabletron, I did electricity deregulation, which lowered high electricity rates and created a competitive environment.
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Either you're for more government regulations, or you're not, and if you're not, why do you want to do more stuff, to jump through more legal hurdles?
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Benson said in an interview after the vote. ''I think this law finally puts all parental notification on the same footing.
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I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.
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I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.
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I do not support gambling in this state.
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The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.
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The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.