Lily Tang Williams won the Republican primary nomination for New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District, Tuesday. The win comes after she attended the Town Hall Meeting Series put on by New England College last week.
Tang Williams held a series of community meetings across the state called “Ask Me Anythings” or “AMAs”.
Tang Williams said her top goal is to work toward congressional term limits.
“I passionately believe that term limits, that’s your tool as citizens to get rid of career politicians. When I get elected to congress, I will sponsor and co-sponsor a bill to term limits U.S. House, to three terms maximum, 6 years. And two terms for U.S. Senate, 12 years.”
Tang Williams spoke about her support for legal immigration, and her wish that local law enforcement would cooperate with federal law enforcement.
“I’m a legal immigrant. I came here the right way, took my brother waiting in line 13 years. Come to this country the right way.”
Tang Williams said local law enforement should be co-operating with ICE.
“I think America is the greatest country for lots of legal immigrants…the city and states are not cooperating with federal law enforcement; it makes it very difficult for them to go there to do their job”
Tang Williams said she supports ICE agents wearing body cameras.
“I truly understand most people are good, but even 10% are bad people bringing harm to Americans on our soil. That is lots of numbers.”
The event closed with reminders to students and residents to vote regardless of political alignments.
“I want you to judge me by my own merit, not by my party,” Tang Williams said.
Voting for Henniker residents and NEC students is located at the Henniker Community School, 51 Western Ave.
Student IDs no longer qualify as a form of identification required to register as a voter in New Hampshire. Instead, students can bring a federal issued ID. Such as a government photo ID, a state issued driver’s license, or a US passport. Out-of-state students that live on campus have the right to vote and can register the polls. IDs issued in other states are acceptable forms of ID required to register.
For any questions regarding voting reach out to Dr. Nathan R. Shrader at NShrader@nec.edu.
