See Liberty Alliance 2025 report: https://www.nhliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Liberty-Rating-2025.pdf
By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD – The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance is out with its annual legislative report card for 2025 and grading each legislator based on roll call votes in both the House and Senate based on their pro- or anti-liberty votes.
The Liberty Rating Scorecard is here https://www.nhliberty.org/liberty-ratings/
There are 18 members of the House earning A+ ratings on the report card and 83 House members who receive failing grades of F and 37 representatives were considered by their voting record to be a “Constitutional threat.”
Among the top scorers are Reps. Tom Mannion, R-Pelham, with 99.2 percent, Julius Soti, R-Windham, with 98 percent; and Calvin Beaulier, R-Littleton, with 98.4 percent.
Speaker of the House Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry got a C+ with 64.9 percent of the vote.
Lowest scorers were not surprisingly, Democrats. They include Reps. Wendy Thomas, D-Merrimack, James Newsom, D-Contoocook and Erica deVries, D-Hampton.
In the Senate, the top scorer was Sen. Keith Murphy, R-Manchester, with 87.2 percent or an A followed by Senators Victoria Sullivan, R-Manchester, Tim McGough R-Effingham, Howard Pearl, R-Loudon and Dan Innis, R-Bradford, coming in with a 72.9 or a B. Senator Bill Gannon, R-Sandown got a B- and Senate President Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry earned B or 74.8 percent on the report card.
The lowest scorers were Senate Democrats Debra Altschiller, D-Stratham, who is the only Senator considered a “Constitutional threat” with 17.4 percent followed by Senators Pat Long, D-Manchester with 22 percent and Cindy Rosenwald, D-Nashua with 22 percent as well.
The list also breaks down the scores by county and voting districts.
“We encourage New Hampshire citizens to learn of the facts about how their elected representatives are voting in Concord and to use this tool to hold them accountable,” the report says.
“This report card serves as a valuable voter guide when these same representatives are running for re-election,” it concludes noting that the grades are based on how they voted on roll call votes. They are also graded for their sponsorship of bills, which is a separate grade.
“Anti-liberty” bills by the report card’s definition, replace self-governance with interventionist regulation; assume rules made by agencies backed by force and superior to voluntary choices backed by personal accountability; and assume a better economy can be managed by a central authority that compels the people and businesses to pay for policies they may not willingly support.
“Pro-liberty” bills “protect individual freedom of choice and personal responsibility; recognize superiority of freedom over coercion; respect the citizen’s rights of self-ownership; promote governance that is transparent, accountable and adheres to the Constitution; and recognizes the value of voluntary economic decisions.”
Increasingly powerful and representing about half of the Republican caucus which has control of the House, this group’s report card can be used to “primary” representatives in re-election bids who are not of the libertarian bent.
Members of the Liberty Alliance are mostly registered as Republicans.
The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance is a separate group from the Free State Project but shares many of the same goals, values and ideals and many of its members are elected leaders.
It recently held its annual dinner meeting at a business owned by State Sen. Murphy, a top scorer for the group in the Senate, and announced Kristin Noble, R-Bedford, as its legislator of the year.
She was praised for her work on bills related to parental rights in schools, and is on the House Education Committee.
It also named its Activist of the Year as Derek Proulx, who calls himself a “native free stater.”