{"id":28,"date":"2018-08-17T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2022-09-14T08:11:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:11:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/?page_id=28","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Sylvia is State Representative for the Town of Belmont in the New Hampshire legislature.\u00a0\u00a0 His focus at the State House is government transparency, including the Right To Know law and civil asset forfeiture reform.\u00a0 His voting record has earned him several awards from both non-partisan and conservative organizations.\u00a0 The New Hampshire House Republican Alliance ranks his voting on Constitutional and Party platform votes, where he consistently scores in the upper 90 percent of votes.\u00a0 In 2018 he received an award from the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance for legislator of the year.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from a 34 year career at FedEx, where he was known for his dedication to customer service and leadership in his work group.\u00a0 While working with FedEx he earn a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Rhode Island.\u00a0 Away from work his drive to run lead him thrice to the summit in the Mt. Washington Road Race.\u00a0 He enjoys gardening and taunting Mother Nature by putting out his tomatoes and corn plants much earlier than She approves. He participates in volunteer activities with several organizations, including Cayuga Dog Rescue, and Lakes Region Porcupines.<\/p>\n<p>He continues his work toward a smaller and more accountable government which uses less coercion and is more reliant on voluntary interactions.\u00a0 You can reach him by email at <a class=\"moz-txt-link-abbreviated\" href=\"mailto:mike@mikesylvia.org\">mike@mikesylvia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NHLA-award-2000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NHLA-award-2000.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NHLA-award-2000-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NHLA-award-2000-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NHLA-award-2000-1024x614.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Sylvia is State Representative for the Town of Belmont in the New Hampshire legislature.\u00a0\u00a0 His focus at the State House is government transparency, including the Right To Know law and civil asset forfeiture reform.\u00a0 His voting record has earned him several awards from both non-partisan and conservative organizations.\u00a0 The New Hampshire House Republican Alliance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/?page_id=28\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesylvia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}