Shaheen vows to continue 'putting New Hampshire first'

CONWAY — Proud to be the only woman in U.S. history to be elected both governor and U.S. senator, Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen stopped by the offices of The Conway Daily Sun Friday for an editorial board meeting in which she outlined why she believes she should be re-elected to a second term and why voters should choose her over former Massachusetts Republican U.S. Sen. and now New Hampshire challenger Scott Brown.

The interview touched on her campaign slogan of “Putting New Hampshire First"; covered her achievements both as governor and in the U.S. Senate; her response to comments by Brown that she has consistently voted with President Obama “98 or 99 percent of the time"; her efforts to promote jobs, health care and energy efficiency; equivalent health care at private institutions for veterans in rural areas; the legislation she filed but which went down in defeat to allow students to refinance their college loans at a lower rate; her support of the Second Amendment but her feeling that “there is a need to keep guns out of the hands of people who are criminals or mentally ill"; supporting a grant for funding of the  I-93 improvement project; and the need to continue to build an international coalition to go after the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalist terrorists under ISIS.