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Being a representative for the people.
Being a representative for the people.
I'm not a politician, and I don’t see myself as a leader, but I can’t sit back and watch where this country is headed without taking action. Everyone, no matter their background, race, or pronouns, deserves the ability to afford a decent life, not just today, but for generations to come. I want to be there, I want everyone in this state whether they're in my district or not to hold me accountable for what I do, I want you to be able to reach out and leave a message for me and know that I will take the time and respond, not sending some canned template. I believe as a representative its my job to be in this state and be accessible, I want to hold town halls, I want to come out to see everyone and have you be able to ask questions or just give me criticism if i'm not doing what the people want.
I’ve worked my share of jobs some in the trades, some in offices, plenty of times struggling when I look at my bills and what's in the bank. I’ve seen government from the inside as a public sector worker and from the outside just like everyone else trying to make it. I’ve served overseas with the National Guard. Through it all, one thing has been clear, too many of our so-called leaders in Washington are out of touch. They're afraid to rock the boat or take a stand instead they're "choosing their fights", I disagree, I think they're cowards afraid of losing their cushy jobs. Meanwhile I left my safe cushy federal job so I could take this fight because I don't want to see another do nothing politician go to Washington to do the bare minimum.
I am not a native of New Hampshire, I can't claim to be a life long resident, this was the place for summer vacations, whether it was campgrounds, Canobie Lake or Storyland as a kid or in my teens and twenties to spend time with friends, trips up to Freedom, Ossipee, or camping by the White mountains. For years I'd always planned to move up here, eventually I had the means and the opportunity and I got to make New Hampshire my home, not the one I was born into, but the one I chose.
I don’t want to be another politician who disappears into D.C. and forgets why they're allowed to be there. I’m running because accountability matters, and representation should mean actually listening to the people. I’ll be here. I’ll show up. And I’ll fight for what New Hampshire wants.
-Mike Wood
About Mike
About Mike
I grew up in a pretty conservative Irish Catholic family down in Massachusetts, divorced parents, living with my mother at my grandparents in Medford for years and then moving around as an apartment kid spending weekends with my sister and my dad. I did a very little college after high school but mostly I worked, I tried a lot of jobs, worked at a print shop, did some plumbing, did some carpentry (local 218), boring mind numbing data entry at Mass General Hospital. Eventually I joined the National Guard because I needed a change and needed to go back to school, that got me a trip to Afghanistan in 2010 training the Afghan Army there. I can't claim some amazing war stories like some people can, I drove a truck, I helped train the Afghan National Army, and then 10 years later I watched as everything we did in that country went down the drain. Eventually I got myself a decent job doing office management for a company and finally made enough money to afford to buy a place, thanks in part to having an awesome sister who let me live with her while I saved, and that's how I got up to Derry in 2019. Shortly after that I took the advice of some friends and got myself a job at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and i've been there for the last 5 years, i've seen first hand what a mess the federal system can be, its not a bunch of lazy people sponging off the system, its a messy system with a bunch of people trying their best to work around 1980s greatest technology. Fast forward to 2025, we get told how lazy we are, they we don't even show up to work, that we should take the chance to quit or we'll probably be fired anyway. The biggest thing that pushed me to come here was the way the NH Senators and Congress people responded when so many people flooded their office saying not to pass the continuing resolution, their answer... Silence from the senators and a town hall from Congressman Pappas, but at least he showed up and he voted the right way, I can at least respect him for that. That CR was the day I started looking for a job outside the Federal Government where I wouldn't have the Hatch Act stopping me from speaking my mind and coming to fight for something better.
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