Maggie Goodlander for Congress -- May 11, 2024

Maggie Goodlander: So you stopped here to vote on the way to the hospital?

Betty Tamposi: That you came on Election Day was just incredible. I went into labor, your dad drove me straight here because I said, "I have to vote, I'm a New Hampshire girl -- this is what we do."

Maggie Goodlander: My name is Maggie Tamposi Goodlander. I was born on Election Day, right here in Nashua, New Hampshire. This city has been my family's home for over 100 years. My mom, Betty, served in the New Hampshire State House, and she ran for Congress in this very district. Your opponent when you ran for this seat, said -

Betty Tamposi: "A woman's place is in the home, not in the House." I mean, it was completely absurd.

Maggie Goodlander: She didn't win, but she learned a valuable lesson that she passed down to me: always stand up to bullies. That's what I've done my entire career. For over a decade I served as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve, I was a foreign policy advisor in the United State Senate. I clerked at the United State Supreme Court, and then I came home to fight for the most vulnerable Granite Staters; and, to teach constitutional law at UNH and at Dartmouth. I believe deep in my bones that no politician is above the law. So, I went to serve as council in the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump. After President Biden was elected, I went to the Justice Department to take on corporate monopolies -- the monopolies that are jacking up housing costs for Granite Staters, the health insurers that are covering less and charging you more, the big ag companies that are screwing family farmers, and the big tech companies that are exploiting you for their own gain. But, the fights I've fought weren't just professional: my husband, Jake, and I -- we'd been trying to start a family. But, when I was almost 20 weeks pregnant, we found out that we had lost our little boy, and he died on Easter. He was still in my womb, I was extremely worried that I was going to go into labor and they said, "Oh, you're not going to go into labor, you're not going to go into labor." But, I went into labor, and I delivered our baby myself. This is where the effects of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs became very, very, real for me. It is wrong that women in this state, and across this country, are denied the basic healthcare services that they need and that they deserve, and I want to fight for those freedoms every day, for as long as a I can. The reality is the bullies have too much power in America right now. Right-wing judges, extreme politicians, big corporations, all have too much power. I'm ready to take these bullies on -- that's why I'm running for Congress.