How to run for political office, with Mrs. Karen Testerman at Camp Constitution 2022

Karen is a former City Counselor in Franklin, NH and served as chair of the Police Committee and member of the Fire Committee. A known coalition builder, she founded and served as Executive Director of Cornerstone Policy Research and various other non-profit organizations, Presidential Campaign Manager, Vice President of School District Governance Association, Vice President of NH Federation of Republican Women, Chair of Merrimack County Republican Committee and certified K-12 teacher. Karen was raised in a modest home in a small California farming community where she developed her core beliefs as a social and fiscal conservative. Her grandparents immigrated from Japan and Poland. Although her grandparents were prevented from becoming naturalized citizens until their sunset years, they raised their children to be proud Americans. Her father was a member of the 442nd Combat Regiment Battalion, the most highly decorated unit in World War II. Born in Colorado, her parents moved to California where Karen attended public funded schools in the Central Valley. To help pay for college school supplies, she worked as a nurse's aide and lab assistant. She met her husband David Testerman at college. While David served in the U.S. Air Force Karen devoted herself to the most important job of providing a nurturing home for their children. The Testerman family came to New Hampshire in 1993. They currently live in Franklin.