It includes candidates for the democratic and republican nominations. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is neil. I am the executive director here at the nationally known New Hampshire institute of politics at saint anns from college. We are happy to be hosting this fantastic event. New hampshire is the place where you have civic activities, the heart of democracy. This is the place to come. Hosting this lesserknown candidate for a period i want to welcome up our secretary of state to provide some opening remarks. Good afternoon. Thank you, neil. And thank you to Saint Anslems College for hosting this event. The students that helped out with the registration. We appreciate the very experienced, well known, highly respected panel of journalists from ap who will be asking questions. Both have done this before and have done a great job. We appreciate all the candidates who have shown up today. This is a tremendous opportunity for you and a great opportunity for the voters of New Hampshire to have you here. This is the 14th lesserknown Candidate Forum thats been held once every years since 1972. If you do the math, years. This event has become an iconic part of New Hampshire first in the nation tradition. The lesserknown Candidate Forum is a great example of the importance of the first donation in the nation New Hampshire president ial primary. New hampshire may be the only state that provides the opportunity for any qualified United States edison who aspires to become president to actually try to make it happen, and you are seeing it happen here today. An example of the other side of that equation is recently there was a very large date in the south that decided to cancel their president ial primary and simply certify the nomination of the incumbent resident of the United States, bypassing this process. In New Hampshire, Ballot Access is very easy. Running for president in this state does not require high name recognition. Political connections. Simply a willingness to walk down any means treat in New Hampshire with the ability to connect with voters. All the candidates here today are a testament to that fact. In the end, the voters of New Hampshire will decide their choice for being the nominee for president of the United States and thats the way it should be. Also for the candidates having the ability to at the beginning of the nominating process it states its critically important to their success. If they can do well in New Hampshire, they can carry that forward to other states where as if this process occurs at the end of the nominating process, its pretty much meaningless. With that, good luck to all of you in the Forum Tonight and i would like to introduce josh mcalpine, who is going to be our moderator. Josh is the personality of the state for it hes done this before and does a fine job. Thank you. Appreciate it ive never done this with 18 candidates, so we are going to move things along quickly. A couple of rules of the road though, no problem, hold your applause and dont be disruptive. The respectful of those next to you. I vitiate what youre doing. It not an easy thing to do. Maybe there is a diamond in the rough here. To get things charted, lets start at the top rope did introduce yourself and mattels youre from and why youre running. Thank you all for being here thank you to the attitude of politics for allowing me to have a platform and share the stage. Im frankie lozada. Honored to share my story and vision of america for the future with you all. Shaped by the streets of new york. For the past 15 years, ive organized event across the country. My experience working with asylums he can companies and families changing my life. Im not a typical politician. I do not accept corporate running. I rely on support for it ive seen the flaws in our system and it time for a change. My vision goes beyond politics. I want to uplift minority communities, booze businesses, homeownership and education. What sets me apart is my commitment to the 99 of americans who deserve better. I believe in eliminating dirty money in politics. It time for term limits in time to focus on fighting poverty in america. Also intends to honor the sacrifices of our veterans and make sure that we dedicate our resources so that no veteran is ever left homeless, sick, alone or deported. I stand for unity leading with love in a time of divisiveness. As Martin Luther king jr. Said, live love is the greatest force in the universe we can bring america back together, create prioritization and opportunities for all. I would like to echo these words. Anytime you have an opportunity to make a difference in the world and you dont, youre wasting your time on earth. Im running to make a difference, to lift latinos or attend remind every american other voice matters. Together we can shake the world and make American American stream again. Thank you and lets create a Brighter Future for all americans. Thank you. Lets hold the applause until everyone is finished. Please, take 90 seconds. That evening. My name is Stephen Patrick lyons from maryland. I was asked by this first tedious institution if you questions. What is the most single important issue to me in this election . I cannot answer that because i had quite a few serious issues. Taking care of our kids and u. S. Citizens first. Tech are american children. Threats to our national security. Closing the borders. Drug and human trafficking. Coming selfsufficient again. Climate change, balancing the budget, Mental Healthcare, cyber warfare are taking back our streets from all the thieves, robbers, murderers and other criminals. Social security for Senior Citizens so they dont have to go back to working after they retire and worry about being there bills and womens rights to be able to make their choice for their bodies. Both sides of the government are broken. Nothing gets done. The last three administrations ran the deficit up so high that our future done generations will never be able to pay it off and i have no revolutions. Coming in the Fourth Quarter against millionaires, billionaires and large greedy corporations that are heavily influencing and shaping the way they want the united dates to be run. I stand here in front of you this afternoon with no ious and several coins in my pocket. I cant be bought or bribed. Im untouchable always have been and always will be. My shield belongs to you. Your shield of protection. Ive got to ask you to wrap it up. All you democrats and all your republicans and all you independence, im as moderate as they come. Please go to my website and read and donate. Lyons 2024. Starting tomorrow. You can follow me on my twitter and and graham. Thank you, sir. Patrick lyons, the last of my kind. A dying breed. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that red my name is raymond from new york. Support ukraine and defeat hamas. Thank you for inviting me and think you to cspan for all the programming that you do. Especially the book festivals. Ive learned so much from all those authors that you future. Im running from president to protect the workers of the working class. Help protect the middle class by increasing unions and union membership. To do that i would increase the powers of the National LaborRelations Board to find corporations like amazon, walmart, tesla. Most of all, the family, i would like to thank President Biden for being the first sitting president to walk the picket line in case drake. This is helped the Labor Movement tremendously in a positive way. Not like president reagan who back in the day fired all the traffic controllers. Since then, thats given the corporations the goahead to crucify labor unions and as a result, unionization in the united dates is down 10 . We need 30 to 40 to help corporations honest and give these workers good wages. 10 seconds left you would like to thank them for the lowest Unemployment Rate in 60 years. These vote for your own economic interests and benefit by voting democrat. I would also like to if you dont vote for me, right in biden to help the workers. Thank you, sir. President biden and the county proud. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. Thank you for having me here. I was born and raised here in New Hampshire. Born and raised right here in New Hampshire. Grew up down the road in merrimack. I attended public ice and Community College with your New Hampshire. Had some of the greatest mentors a guy could ever ask her. I am a Small Business owner and vector and was recently referred for two jobs at nasa. I have several green Energy Patterns pending examination in the u. S. Each year which i submitted to patch for humanity. I saw problems and connect people. Its what i do. My mingle running for president of the United States is to put the power back into the peoples hands. For far too long, our government was born on a three Branch System in which weve seen these powers go unchecked, abused, thrown out of balance and negatively affect your people. I believe now more than ever, america is looking for a peoples champion. One who is not a lifetime politician, corporate liaison or dictator. This is going to take tackling issues and making changes that many people and allocations are unwilling to touch. These are very real issues facing our country today that need to be dealt with. I believe in putting people first. I believe we need someone willing to put people ahead of their own interest. Ive in fact that my own money, time and energy into running for off this. In fact, im donating my camp in prose needs to the state of New Hampshire in the form of Energy Projects and afterschool programs for children. Everyone at this table and not at this table, i ask you to do the same. Im asking the american peoples to stop voting for their favorite color and vote for who you trust her childrens teacher with. Out of time. I apologize. I wish we had more flexibility, folks but weve got to keep going. Thank you very much. Next. America needs an upgrade. Our country is entangled into many foreign wars that our congress is completely dysfunctional. Our borders are being overrun, and our leadership is geriatric. It time to pass the torch to a new generation of americans like the people at this table who are standing up and putting their hat in the ring. We need people who understand new technologies and understand the 21st entry while remaining committed to the values that are eternal here in america. Liberty, justice for all, the pursuit of happiness. I am a unique candidate submitting myself public service. Ive been working in the world of business and philanthropy and with colleges and universities for the last 25 years of my life. I worked at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Ive been a turnaround leader. Ive invested more than 20 entrepreneurs who have created over 1000 jobs and 1 billion of market capitalization. We need someone who actually knows how to fix things and Bring Solutions to this country. This is what ive done over the course of my life. Ive architected a platform with three pillars that i want to explain to you. You 12 22 to do it. I will do it in 20 seconds. First conscious capitalism. There is a way invented here in new england to reorganize our economy around the corporations instead of c corporations. We can invest in our people first and upscale them for jobs of the 21st century and we can modernize government. Got to wrap it up. Its got to be something we can do together. Your name, sir . Jason palmer. Next. Good afternoon. My name is donald picard. Im from cambridge, massachusetts. Im so happy to be here today. I want to begin by thanking the organizers of this forum. When i began this rather quixotic journey a few months ago, i did not have the goal that i would be participating in a president ial debate and here i am. I also want to thank the other panelist and im honored that we are sharing the ballot together. Its very exciting. I want to be clear, too, that i dont feel like im running against president joe biden. Not just because his name is not on the ballot. I feel that voters are just clamoring to build a make a choice. And its not healthy for our democracy and for the Democratic Party in particular in this case, for there to be a presumptive nominee. I want to have my name on the ballot so people can make a choice. I fully expect that they will choose biden. That is okay. I just want them to vote because i think if you vote in the primary and if the primary is active and healthy and exciting, they are much more like a two, when its time for the general. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next candidate. Hello. Hello. The average american is lucky if they have 400 in the bank account for a rainy day. Since the pandemic, 700 liters have increased their wealth by 2. 2 trillion. The politicians and leaders are doing itter on us. We need to start spreading love, and we need to do this in a major way. Paper, yeah. Its our time. I paperboy love prince. Artist, activist and author whose builtin movement of over 80,000 strong based on love and Creative Solutions for the future. We need more policies based strictly on love. We need policies that give positive reinforcement, the same way that you can get a ticket for doing something bad or doing something negative, you should be able to get a love ticket for doing something positive in your community and helping out your fellow people. When im president , i will give away 1 Million Dollars each to 1 Million People in the country every year that are doing something positive for the community as a way to inspire and motivate positive change. We need full drastic solutions to spread love instead of funding more and genocide in places like gaza and congo to keep our economy alive. Right now, most politicians lean on division and fear to control you. Im here to drive you with love, inspiration and logic. Paper yeah. Its our time. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. Next candidate, please. My name is richard and im candidate for president of the United States. As a veteran, it would be my honor to serve as the next commanderinchief. It would be impossible for me to introduce myself and two minutes but you can go to my website and read all about me there. You will learn that im an independent democrat, complete outsider to politics. So i am really team america. I love all americans regardless of how you vote. Youll learn about me since 14 told after my father was murdered. Im a dad, coming from a big family of veterans life in the vfw. Took me all of the world including europe, the middle east and north africa for their work my way through college as a bartender so shut up to all the Service People out there. After college i worked as a Stock Offering served on the board for the university of baltimore and want to work on economic think tank. Not too shabby for a street kid from the trailer park. For the last 20 years, ive been the owner of a Large Company making bronze statuarys for public art. I specialize in military monuments and there are over 700 monuments throughout the country with my name on them. Youll also discover that im single. Yeah, i know. Weve never had a single president before, but weve never had a president ial wedding before either and 10 seconds. If you dont vote for me its going to be the start of the zombie apocalypse. Thank you for your service. Appreciate that. Thats right. Its right. Ill have to come to earth and save the world. Im happy to share my secrets about defeating the zombies but for now just remember sir, youre out of time. I will present the zombie apocalypse. Im team america. Thank you very much. I dont know if this qualifies as a lesserknown candidate in New Hampshire. But you are up to messer. My fellow americans and others, as your president , i promised to engage in hostilities only with powers that i deem to be a real and immediate threat to our peaceloving nation, and thats why ive ordered interdimensional strategic space horse command to commence bombing of narnia in five minutes. If we do not fight them in their dimension there, we will have no choice we will not stop until we nthavl reached middle earth and the platform is dead. In this uncertain time, we must unite as a country. Let us all pray for our fear some flying unmanned robot tony bro. Right upon our subhuman enemies. There are lots and lots of non complete hobbits. We do have to wrap it up. Thank you, mr. Supreme cargo. Hello. My name is john vale hello. My name is john baille. I am from up in the white mountains. The thing about me is i am not fit to be president of the United States. There are other things that disqualify me. So there is a good reason to vote for me. Let me make a couple of observations. There are many people who are hysterical about donald trump. I am hysterical about money in politics and getting it out. The largest piece of our Common Ground and this culture is concerned about money and politics. Noticed the people who went in on january 6th, that was one of their primary issues. Money control of government. I do understand there is a huge d