Walter Spilsbury

Official election context

Walter Spilsbury is recorded as candidate for State House — Sullivan 3 in New Hampshire State Primary on 2026-09-08. Filing provenance: imported.

Reviewed evidence

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Yes, the 'Education Freedom Account' program has successfully created options that were previously not available to many families and students. Given the freedom to do so, and some financial assistance from the state, families make education-related choices for many idiosyncratic reasons, and we should allow them the freedom to make choices that fit the needs of their student age children best. Allowing 'the per-pupil share of state school funding' to follow the student and, in turn, alleviate the burden on the local district to fund the balance of that student's education costs makes sense on balance.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  No, it is bad tax policy to tax any one source too heavily. Real property taxes have a sound place in the mix of revenue sources but asking them to fund the bulk of municipal government services, county government services, and public-school funding is bad policy. It is especially destructive in towns that are relatively property poor, such as the ones I represent, and thereby suffer under insanely high tax rates on assessed valuation. First, we need to diversify the sources of education funding. Second, if we're going to continue to lean heavily on real property taxes, then a greater portion of that source needs to be assessed, collected, and re-distributed by the state, requiring major changes to the Statewide Education Property Tax ('SWEPT').

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Generally, I have been opposed to many of the bills recently proposed to curtail local planning and zoning authority, quite a few of which have passed over my nay vote. I do not believe that the primary 'barriers to housing development' have derived from municipal zoning ordinances and actions, nor would I agree that any such barriers have been applied or experienced uniformly across the state. As a representative of three small communities in a mostly rural county, I find that many of the proposals have been driven by an urban perspective with a one-size-fits-all mindset. That approach is not constructive in small communities with unique characteristics, where locally elected officials best understand the local circumstances and needs. Yes, there may be more that the state could do to 'encourage' fewer barriers, but way too many of these proposals constitute overreach by the state.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I believe that the abortion issue is fundamentally a debate about the tension between two distinct and genuine sets of rights, those of a fetus to life and those of a woman to self-determination, both of which are valid. I believe the current law, allowing abortion up to 24 weeks, and banning it thereafter (subject to limited exceptions), finds an appropriate balance between these two legitimate sets of rights. Therefore, I would not support further tinkering with our current balanced law on this subject.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Income is already taxed at the federal level. By taxing something more, you get less of it, including the personal motivation and effort required to generate income and economic activity in this state. No income taxation is the 'NH Advantage'. Better options exist.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Our business tax rates, both BPT and BET, have been lowered repeatedly in recent years and seem to be in a good place at the present, so I see no need to change them again anytime soon. We need the income these taxes generate, and our rates are now competitive with other states.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  There have been many developments in available nuclear technology in recent decades, so it is time to give nuclear power a new generational life. Enabling this sector to wake up and become active is also the only viable way to stimulate further innovation and development both in terms of efficiency and safety.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I am generally opposed to further limitations on Second Amendment rights, but every proposal must be evaluated on its own scope and merits.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  The active word being 'cooperate', of course.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Yes, I have supported this approach, but there are other options to consider as well. The bottom line is that there must be a means of ensuring eligibility to vote before the vote is counted.

• Walter Spilsbury - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Childcare should remain private enterprise.

Profile summary

Walter Spilsbury is a Republican New Hampshire House representative for Sullivan District 3. The New Hampshire General Court member page says he is serving his third term and lists service on the Education Funding Committee (vice chair) and Finance Committee. His listed background includes legal, financial-consulting, local planning-board, finance-committee, and school-withdrawal-study-committee experience.