As a Representative to the General Court from Fremont, Daniel C. Itse will seek to protect the District’s interest in business development, education and the environment. He will endeavor to ensure that any infrastructure development benefits us, as well as surrounding areas. Dan is an avid supporter of economic development, small businesses and entrepreneurial spirit, while also doing our best to protect our environment without compromising human progress.

Dan’s core beliefs by which he will represent Rockingham District 9 are as follows:
1. Self-government (self-control and personal responsibility) is the foundation of our constitutional republic.
2. My first job as a State Representative is to protect you rights from the government.
3. The people are the sovereigns of the State. The government and those in it are the servants of the people, not their masters.
4. Life begins at conception and continues through natural death.
5. The family is the principal building block of society and must therefore be protected from outside intrusion, including by the Government.
6. Self-defense, bearing arms is a fundamental right protected by both the New Hampshire and United States Constitutions.
7. We are the stewards of our environment; to use it, but not abuse it.
8. Education is the responsibility of parents, which can be facilitated by state government.
9. It is the responsibility of government to protect the people, and to not impede the people from achieving their full potential. This is best done by the following tactics: promote commerce, promote the development of infrastructure for transportation of goods, services and people, foster education to provide an exemplary work force, minimize the activity of government, minimize taxes, and most importantly to protect individual property rights.

Dan Itse was born in San Francisco, California in 1958. His family moved to the east coast in 1966; settling in Sherborn, Mass. in 1967. Dan graduated from Dover Sherborn Regional High School in 1976.

After graduating high school, Dan attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He graduated from WPI in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. He later earned a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering while working for Riley Stoker. Dan is also a registered professional engineer in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Dan has worked for Riley Stoker Corp., a manufacturer of electric utility boilers, and Physical Sciences Inc., a consultant to the utility industry. In 1994, he established his own business, Christofferson Engineering, which provides steam generation system design and air pollution control to power generators and industrial companies. Christofferson Engineering’s clients include Arthur D. Little, Bioenergy, Biomass Group, Green Power Group, Koch John Zink, GTS Duratek, PhilPower, and Process Combustion Corp.

During his career, Dan has developed a number of technologies for protecting the environment while expanding power generation and industrial activity. He holds patents on one of the most widely used low emissions burners for coal-fired power plants, a low emissions combustion system for waste-to-energy, a process for disposing of heavy metals and a device for improving the injection of chemicals for reducing air pollution from power plants. Currently, he is working on the air pollution control system for the largest wood fired power plant in North America.

Dan married Lisa Mullins in 1979. They lived in a number of communities around Worcester, Mass. before settling in Fremont, New Hampshire in 1991. They have five children: David (25), Jessica (23), Eric (20), Ariel (16) and Jarrod (14). The two youngest children, Ariel and Jarrod, were born in New Hampshire.

Lisa has been a full time home maker since shortly before David was born. Now much of her time is occupied by caring for their youngest son Jarrod, who was disabled at birth. The Itse’s home schooled their four older children through high school and are still homeschooling their younger children.

Dan has represented Fremont in Concord for eight years; as the Representative of Rockingham County, District 11, New Hampshire District 80 and Rockingham District 9. He has represented Epping for six years as a Representative of District 80 and Rockingham District 9.

During his tenure in the House of Representatives, he served on the Children and Family Law Committee. He had one of the higher overall attendance records both in session, and in committee. He has one of the highest voting records for voting in accordance with the United States Constitution, New Hampshire Constitution, or Republican Platform (whichever was applicable) and personal liberty. Dan always scores well with organizations that are concerned with constitutional liberty such as: N.H. House Republican Alliance, and N.H. Liberty Alliance. During the past year he has served on the Science, Technology and Energy Committee as well.

Dan’s primary activities have been judicial reform, protection of personal liberty and property. In addition, he has worked in committee to ensure that help will get to those who truly need it, but that families are not unnecessarily intervened upon. He also played a role in getting the Fish and Game Department to pave the parking in Fremont lot at the off road vehicle trail and crafting legislation that provides local police with resources to enforce the ATV laws and regulations. This last session he championed the right of the people to control their government in the following: Constitutional Amendments regarding the recognition of marriage, parental rights, prohibiting personal income tax; and re-establishing the people’s right to petition the Legislature for redress of grievances.

Dan’s agenda for the next session include the following issues:
* continuing to put State government back within its Constitutional bounds,
* continuing to fight for personal liberty,
* continuing to fight encroachments of the court into the legislative arena,
* continuing to increase parental choices in education,.