{"id":349,"date":"2020-08-25T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/?p=349"},"modified":"2020-08-25T12:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:36:04","slug":"george-calef-on-lens-first-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/2020\/08\/25\/george-calef-on-lens-first-term\/","title":{"rendered":"George Calef on Len&#8217;s First Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Testimonial from George Calef:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRepresentative Len Turcotte was responsible for introducing and assisting in the passage of an amendment to a Senate bill that enabled me to drill a well on my own property. Without that bill, our family business would have been forced to close.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ George Calef Fine Foods &#8211; Barrington, NH<\/p>\n<p>During my first term, this particular issue arose when the gas station\/convenience store adjacent to \u201cCalef\u2019s Fine Foods\u201d was attempting to get approvals from the town. Calef\u2019s had a \u201cshared well\u201d located on an adjacent property.  The new gas station company was not being exactly neighborly with Calef\u2019s in attempting to find a solution to Calef\u2019s no longer having water to their property. Due to existing regulations, Calef\u2019s did not have the area required to place their own well, a problem that had existed within the state on several other occasions prior. Senator John Reagan, one individual in state government and myself worked on a legislative amendment to grant exceptions in these unique circumstances. I personally introduced the amendment in the Senate. Coincidently, the only vote I missed in the House of Representatives during my entire first two-year term occurred when I was introducing the amendment to help George\u2019s unfortunate well predicament.<\/p>\n<p>As a business-friendly legislator, my family and I will continue to support Barrington businesses, and their owners, both large and small.<\/p>\n<p>Can current Representative Matt Towne say the same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testimonial from George Calef: \u201cRepresentative Len Turcotte was responsible for introducing and assisting in the passage of an amendment to a Senate bill that enabled me to drill a well on my own property. Without that bill, our family business would have been forced to close.\u201d ~ George Calef Fine Foods &#8211; Barrington, NH During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenturcotte.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}