Kat McGhee

Official election context

Kat McGhee is recorded as candidate for State House — Hillsborough 35 in New Hampshire State Primary on 2026-09-08. Filing provenance: imported.

Reviewed evidence

• Representative Kat McGhee (D) — New Hampshire House — gc.nh.gov (date not supplied)

  Kat McGhee is a retired Project Management Professional with an M.Ed in Psychology from Cambridge College.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I have constituents who are against encouraging housing because they want to protect 'local, rural character'. In my view, local planning and zoning boards and master plans are the place to make those decisions. The issue NH is facing is one a 20-30K unit deficit in housing. That lack of supply creates difficulties for employers, employees, young families and seniors. Nobody can find affordable housing because there is so little housing stock. So yes, I'm for addressing that very real problem that holds back NH's economy. I am not for overbuilding and ruining places with housing that makes no sense. Both can be accomplished if we elect people who are trying to solve both.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  This program had a public push back of over 6-1 in public hearings, to the point where the folks who were insistent on doing it stopped the hearings and simply pushed the law through in the budget trailer without even tax impact cost estimates. That's not how we're supposed to do things. This program was sold to people as 'choice' but it is a scam to defund public schools and create for-profit recipients who have none of the requirements for education standards we require of our public schools. It will only weaken schools, discourage good teachers from working in NH, and increase property taxes because there is still not plan, to add proper school funding from the state. Only to take funding away.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  The system is unfair and advantages property rich communities, while penalizing poor property towns. The state has been successfully sued on multiple occasions for ignoring its constitutional responsibility to educate its citizens. The most recent decisions stated, that obligation is not on the property tax payer, it is on the state'.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Roe v Wade was the compromise that put women and doctors in the correct roles, allowing legal abortions up to viability of the fetus, unless the life of the mother was threatened. The recent push to move American society backwards is completely unworkable and does nothing to improve any aspect of this long-settled privacy battle. It does not reflect New Hampshire's Live Free or Die sentiment.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  If we look at the evidence of a lack of competition in the NH energy market, and the impacts on our rate increases for electricity, yes, it makes perfect sense to renew our RPS and implement it as envisioned so we reap the benefits of a robust energy market. We have been moving in the wrong direction for the last 5 years. Undercutting our own plans is self-defeating and we're last in the region in energy planning and adoption of clean energy technologies to lower fossil fuel costs.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  We're doing less than the bare minimum because we're continually undermining existing working programs, and then pulling off emergency fixes. It is absolutely the role of government to help make the transition less painful for ratepayers and farmers and everyone else who relies on us to do what is right.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I don't think stricter gun laws is the right frame. I believe laws that increase public safety are not an infringement upon lawful gun ownership. It is not the job of lawmakers to impose their own ideology. It is the role of lawmakers to inform themselves with the best available evidence and then pass laws that work for the majority of people.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I support expanded Medicaid eligibility, using the traditional Medicaid system of managed care instead of private insurance.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I support increased funding for heroin treatment programs.

• Kat McGhee - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Anything that makes voting easier, we should adopt for our constituents.

Profile summary

Kat McGhee is a Democratic New Hampshire state representative for Hillsborough District 35. The New Hampshire House profile describes her as a retired Project Management Professional with an M.Ed in Psychology from Cambridge College, with prior work in technology training and program management. She serves on the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee and is a member of the Hollis Zoning Board of Adjustments.