Amanda Bouldin

Amanda Bouldin
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
from the Hillsborough 12th district
Assumed office
January 2015
Personal details
Political party Democratic
Children Sophia[1]
Residence Manchester, New Hampshire

Amanda Bouldin (born December 27, 1984)[2] is an American politician from Manchester, New Hampshire who has served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives since January 2015. Bouldin, a Democrat, represents Hillsborough County's 12th district.[3] She is a member of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance[3] and a Free State Project participant.[4][5]

Early life and education

Bouldin moved to New Hampshire from Carrollton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, in 2009.[2][6]

Career

Politics

Bouldin was briefly a member of a Tea Party group in Texas, but she left that group when she realized they did not share her values. Bouldin's ideals led her to become a Free State Project participant and move to New Hampshire.[4] She later became a member of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance.[3]

As a freshman representative, she introduced two bills addressing increasing heroin use in New Hampshire. HB 270 provided legal protection against arrest and prosecution for individuals calling for medical assistance for someone with an opiate-related medical problem.[7] HB 271 relaxed restrictions on prescribing naloxone, granting authorized health care professionals the power to write a prescription for anyone at risk of an opiate overdose or for a person who knows someone at risk of an opiate overdose.[8] The bills were passed by the legislature, signed by the governor, and became key planks of the state's response.[9]

In December 2015, Bouldin commented on Facebook that a proposed change in New Hampshire's public nudity law that would have allowed men to expose their nipples in public while prohibiting women from exposing their breasts while not breastfeeding was sexist. The comment drew crude comments about Bouldin's breasts from two Republican representatives, Josh Moore and Al Baldasaro.[10][11][12][13]

Nonpolitical

In November 2015, she reportedly had a job in sales.[14]

In 2011 Bouldin founded the private charity Shire Sharing to honor her late father who had organized and run a similar charity in Texas.[15] In 2015, the group raised over $17,000 and brought Thanksgiving meals to over 600 families in New Hampshire, their best year ever.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Shire Sharing: Putting the Giving in Thanksgiving - Manchester Ink Link".
  2. 1 2 "Free State Project still going strong 10 years later". New Hampshire Union Leader. October 11, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2016. Amanda Bouldin, 29, founder of non-profit Shire Sharing, moved from Dallas to the Granite State in 2009 after becoming disenchanted with the Tea Party group she had joined.
  3. 1 2 3 http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=377283
  4. 1 2 "What's next for the Free State movement?". New Hampshire Union Leader. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Participant Statistics - Free State Project".
  6. ↑ "Facebook Stories - How I Honor My Dad Every Thanksgiving". facebookstories.com. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  7. ↑ "HB 270 - FINAL VERSION". New Hampshire General Court.
  8. ↑ "HB 271 - FINAL VERSION". New Hampshire General Court.
  9. ↑ "Anyone. Anytime. Opioid Campaign - DrugfreeNH.org". DrugfreeNH.org. New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  10. ↑ Diaz, Daniella (December 31, 2015). "New Hampshire lawmakers spar over public breastfeeding". CNN. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  11. ↑ Tobias Salinger, Male N.H. state lawmakers make crude Facebook comments after female legislator expresses opposition to public nudity bill, Daily News (New York) (December 30, 2015).
  12. ↑ Laura Newberry, Male New Hampshire lawmakers make disturbing comments in response to female legislator's defense of public breastfeeding, MassLive.com (December 31, 2015).
  13. ↑ Lawmakers spar over New Hampshire bill forbidding women to show nipples, Associated Press (January 6, 2016).
  14. ↑ Morris, Allie (November 1, 2015). "CapBeat: Who gets credit for state's strategy to fight opioid crisis? It's not who you think". Concord Monitor. Retrieved January 1, 2016. But once she started doing research, using downtime at her job in sales to find news articles and read studies...
  15. ↑ "Update: NH Liberty Activists To Feed 1500 People This Thanksgiving". Truth in Media. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Shire Sharing 2015 Success – Over 600 Families Served, Over $17,000 Raised!". Free Keene. Retrieved January 2, 2016.

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