Kevin H. Smith is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 28, 1977 in Winchester, Winchester, United States. Smith has stated that he believes that the public school system is still based upon a 1950s model and needs to be reformed and that the government should issue educational vouchers that would provide tax revenue to private schools, enabling parents to more affordably send their children to private schools. However he says that speaking as a product of public schools himself and because most children are educated within the public school system, we can’t give up on that system. He has also spoken in favor of grade retention, saying “we shouldn’t move kids up the chain until they reach their grade level.”
In 1997 he authored HB 768, a bill banning partial birth abortion which was defeated in the House. In that year he also voted in favor of Right-to-work legislation. In 1998 he was awarded the Christian Coalition’s “Pro-Family” House Member of the Year.
He served on the official staffs for both former United States Senator, Bob Smith (no relation) and New Hampshire Governor, Craig Benson. Senator Smith and Governor Benson both lost their bids for re-election prompting him to joke that after Benson’s defeat he “started to feel a little bit like the Typhoid Mary of political campaigns.” Smith had also served as the New Hampshire campaign field director for Senator Smith’s unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1999.
In the context of the ongoing school funding issues of New Hampshire, Smith says that he agrees with current Governor John Lynch that there should be a constitutional amendment allowing the state to target aid to the neediest communities but believes that it is a notable failure of leadership that the Governor has not delivered this solution as he promised in his 2004 campaign.
Smith was elected as a state legislator from Londonderry, NH to the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1996–98, where he served on the Judiciary and Family Law Committee.
