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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2024
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Russell Prescott’s Record of Selling Out Granite Staters
Prescott wrote the bill to slash Granite Staters’ retirement benefits & raise the retirement age
Manchester, N.H. - With just five weeks until Election Day, NH-01 Congressional candidate Russell Prescott is misleading Granite State voters about his record. While his website says he will protect seniors’ retirement security, the facts of his record tell a different story. He wrote the legislation that slashed retirement benefits and raised the retirement age for New Hampshire police officers and fire fighters, and said he’d be “willing to do the same thing in Washington, D.C.”
“Russell Prescott championed the law that pulled the rug out from under hardworking New Hampshire public servants. We take Russell Prescott at his word: if sent to Congress, he will not hesitate to slash retirement benefits and rubber-stamp extremists’ plan to gut Social Security. Meanwhile, Chris Pappas has been tirelessly fighting to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, lower costs for seniors, and ensure everyone can retire with dignity. Granite Staters have a clear choice in November, and they’ll choose the candidate that is standing up for them, not the one that sold them out at every turn,” said Kristen Morris, Chris Pappas for Congress Campaign Manager.
Read the facts about Prescott’s flip-flopping:
Russell Prescott championed and has bragged on the campaign trail about his role in passing SB 3 in the New Hampshire State Senate, a law that raised the retirement age, moved the goalposts on who can receive benefits, and eliminated several benefits altogether.
This overhaul robbed New Hampshire teachers, fire fighters, law enforcement officers, and other dedicated public servants of their hard-earned retirement security, forced many into early retirement, and has created lasting staffing problems for New Hampshire law enforcement agencies.
The bill was widely opposed by state workers in New Hampshire, including the National Education Association NH, the NH AFL-CIO, and the Professional Fire Fighters of NH.
Prescott said of this legislation in 2022, when asked whether he would protect Social Security for years to come, “... during my time in the Senate I took tough votes upon New Hampshire’s retirement system… I’m willing to do that again in Washington, D.C.”
Russell Prescott said it himself: if sent to Congress, he would endanger Granite Staters’ hard-earned retirement security.
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