Scott Black

Scott Black earned a high school diploma from White Mountains Regional High School.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am Scott Black, a 19 year old New Hampshire resident, born and raised. I have lived in Whitefield New Hampshire my entire life with my parents and sibling. Throughout my life, my parents tried to teach me to be a good person and be the best that I can be. Although my childhood is a blur of scattered memories, I specially remember going to see my dad at work. He is a bartender and my mom was a waitress, so I got used to the restaurant business pretty fast. Especially since my mom would take my sibling and I to see my dad on slo nights. The bar was scary to me, but being with my family made it easier. And the more I grew up, the more I felt at home in the chaos. My dad would introduce me to his customers and friends, my mom would teach me how to be polite and social, and eventually I was able to truly understand and connect with others. It seems like an easy ability to have or learn, but it took me years to be able to walk into a room and talk to anyone there. However, the more I talked, the more I got to hear about the lives and stories of others. The more I could see how their world comes together it its own spectacular way, and the more I knew, the more I wanted to be a force of good in everyone’s lives. This is why I want to be a State Representative. I know it may be small, but this is an opportunity to do something good for my community and be a force of good in my town, district, and state.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

All of the big cities in New Hampshire have wards, sections of their city to allow for a representative for each ward to match population representation requirements. Nashua and Concord and Manchester may have 5-10 city people representatives in the house, but Whitefield gets one. And that one also represents Jefferson and Twin Mountain. Although it is not fair to give less representation to the cities, it is important that us Northern towns get just as much of a voice. So I intend to be a voice that can speak up for all of us since we don’t get the luxury of having multiple representatives.Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of housing in Whitefield, and driving through Jefferson and Twin Mountain I notice a lot of housing too. The thing that I don’t see much of, are businesses. Talking to older folks who have lived in town for a long time, they talk about the days where the Common was a popular place, there were stores and restaurants and people. We’ve had some ways of trying to rebuild Whitefield as a community, but it is a far cry from what it once was. We have the space, we have the buildings, we even have an airport and train stations, but all anyone ever does with Whitefield, is keep driving. It would be nice to have our small towns be more than just a passage to somewhere better. Why can’t we be the somewhere better?Wouldn’t peace be nice? I know its one big joke that everyone wants world peace but we’re still no closer to it than we ever are. However, we can all dream, and I dream that we will all be able to live together in peace and harmony. If I get elected to the House, I want to do whatever I can to make our towns, and our state a better place for everyone, a place where we can be happy.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

As a young first-time-running kid, I’m still learning what it means to be in politics. Honestly, I’d rather it not be considered in politics since all I want is for us to be able to run our state effectively and positively for everyone in it. But nonetheless, policy and politics are still what this is. In Northern New Hampshire, hospitality is a primary source of income. We run off of retired folks who either moved up here or have second homes, families and couples vacationing from Canada or Mass, or the leaf peepers from wherever they may come. No matter what part of the business it is, most everyone here deals with hospitality so any policy that affects that, will be important to me.