New Hampshire Rep. Jeanine Notter on ALEC TV
ALEC is raising awareness about important policy issues, but you also come to get a boost.
At the 51st ALEC Annual Meeting, New Hampshire State Representative Jeanine Notter, who also serves as an ALEC state chair, sat down for an interview with ALEC TV. She detailed the numerous challenges in her the role as a public servant, as well as the support and motivation she receives from her community, her constituents, and the people at ALEC.
For Rep. Notter, ALEC represents much more than just a forum for policy debate. It’s where she finds a community that helps her weather the tough moments of her political career.
“ALEC gives me such a boost,” she explained. “The ALEC family really keeps me going and makes me want to stay in the state legislature and keep fighting the good fight.”
Notter recalled attending her first ALEC conference in Washington, D.C., where she knew no one. But soon, she became a regular at the organization’s meetings, drawing strength from familiar faces and friendships she built along the way.
“What started out being all strangers are now familiar faces,” she said, noting that the relationships she’s formed within the ALEC community have become essential to her work.
Beyond the camaraderie, ALEC has also given Rep. Notter the opportunity to champion policies close to her heart. One of her recent efforts involved raising awareness of the use of forced labor in the supply chains for electric vehicle components, highlighting the often-overlooked ethical and environmental concerns associated with “green energy.”
“We all talk about green energy, but how green is it?” Notter asked, pointing out the environmental toll of mining in China to manufacture EV batteries and solar panels.
For Notter, ALEC provides the platform to question these practices and propose better solutions.