Isaac Fernandez

Official election context

Isaac Fernandez is recorded as candidate for State House — Rockingham 16 in New Hampshire State Primary on 2026-09-08. Filing provenance: imported.

Reviewed evidence

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Families should remain free to choose private education or home schooling, but taxpayers should not be required to subsidize those private choices. New Hampshire should phase out the Education Freedom Account program and direct those resources toward meeting its obligation to adequately fund public schools that must serve every student. Current participants should be permitted to complete the school year so that children are not removed in the middle of an academic term. When a public district cannot meet a child's documented educational or special needs, the district should fund an appropriate alternative placement through the existing public-education and special-education process.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I support legal access to abortion before viability and reasonable restrictions on elective abortion afterward. Later medical decisions should remain available when necessary to protect the patient's life or serious health and in other grave fetal medical circumstances. Doctors should receive clear good-faith medical-judgment protections so that fear of prosecution does not prevent appropriate care.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I oppose adding a broad-based tax on earned income. Instead of asking working families to pay a new tax on their wages, New Hampshire should consider restoring a modest tax on high levels of interest and dividend income.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I oppose further across-the-board business-tax reductions while New Hampshire is underfunding important responsibilities and shifting costs onto local property taxpayers. I support reasonable filing thresholds, simpler compliance and practical assistance for genuinely small and newly established businesses. Once a business reaches a meaningful size and is profitable, however, it should contribute through the ordinary tax system.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  New Hampshire needs more housing, and some zoning and permitting rules may unnecessarily prevent reasonable development, including appropriately designed accessory dwelling units. At the same time, municipalities must be able to consider roads, schools, water and septic capacity, traffic and the legitimate expectations of existing neighborhoods. I am still evaluating which reforms the state should encourage and which decisions should remain primarily local. I would favor targeted, evidence-based changes rather than a single statewide policy that treats every community as though it has the same conditions.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  New Hampshire should stop treating energy policy as a series of short-term fixes. We should plan now for the electricity system we will need for the next 50–80 years. We should begin developing a pathway for new utility-scale advanced nuclear generation. One with hundreds of megawatts to approximately a gigawatt or more. We need to focus on larger solutions than small demonstration reactors.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I support expanding net-metering opportunities to include projects up to 5 MW, provided compensation is based on the actual value the electricity provides to the grid rather than automatically paying the full retail rate. The price should recognize avoided energy and system costs as well as any measurable grid benefits, while also accounting for costs created by the project. Project-specific equipment should generally be the project owner's responsibility. Broader grid upgrades that benefit many customers may reasonably be shared and recovered over time. The objective should be to remove unnecessary barriers to distributed generation without either over-subsidizing project owners or allowing utilities to profit unfairly from locally generated electricity.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I do not support a system that places most public-school costs on local property taxpayers. It creates substantial differences in both educational opportunity and tax burdens based on the amount of taxable property within each community. The state should provide a substantially larger and more predictable share of education funding. Every district should receive meaningful state support, with additional equalization aid directed to communities with lower property wealth and greater student needs. Local communities should remain free to fund programs beyond the state's constitutional obligation.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I oppose a state-imposed cap on local school budgets. Communities elect school boards, budget committees and other officials to examine spending, make difficult choices and present budgets to voters. If those officials do not reflect a community's priorities, the appropriate remedy is accountability through elections and not an inflexible state formula. A uniform cap would also fail to account adequately for special education, enrollment changes, emergencies, contractual costs and necessary building maintenance. I support transparent budgets and strong local oversight rather than a state mandate.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I support focused gun-safety laws, including background checks for private firearm sales and reasonable safe-storage requirements when a minor or prohibited person could reasonably gain access to a firearm. These laws should include practical exceptions for immediate family transfers, temporary lawful use, hunting, shooting ranges and emergencies. I also support a short waiting period for handgun purchases and would consider one for clearly defined categories of semiautomatic rifles associated with elevated public-safety risks. I do not support imposing the same restrictions on ordinary hunting shotguns without evidence that doing so would materially improve safety. I support preserving lawful permitless carry and would require due process in any law that temporarily removes firearms from an individual.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  New Hampshire should verify that newly registering voters are United States citizens, but possession of a passport or birth certificate should not become an absolute condition of exercising the right to vote. The state should accept multiple reliable forms of evidence, use secure government-record verification where available, and allow an applicant who lacks documents to sign a sworn affidavit under penalty of perjury. When additional verification is required, the voter should receive a clear and timely opportunity to cure the issue, and the ballot should be counted once eligibility is confirmed. If the state requires a voter to obtain a particular document, it should provide or reimburse that document at no cost to a voter who does not already possess it. Knowingly making a false citizenship claim should remain subject to serious penalties.

• Isaac Fernandez - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Criminal records for conduct that becomes legal should be eligible for automatic annulment, particularly for simple possession and personal cultivation that would be lawful under the new system.

Profile summary

Isaac Fernandez is running for New Hampshire House in Rockingham County District 16. The questionnaire profile lists experience on the Londonderry Budget Committee and as a former partner and co-chief compliance officer at Pinnacle Trust Partners, with finance degrees from the University of Maine and University of Connecticut.