New Hampshire Dad Targeted Over Ivermectin Use Is Running for Office

The New Hampshire father targeted by child protection services for giving his teenage son Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 is hoping to become a lawmaker again.

J.R. Hoell is one of three Republicans running for two open seats in the state’s newly created District 27 in Merrimack County. Hoell served for 8 years in the New Hampshire House of Representatives under his old district until deciding not to run again in 2018.

The reason for his wanted return to the legislature is simple, he told The Epoch Times, “to keep government accountable to the people.”

Long labeled a conservative firebrand, the 52-year-old is competing with fellow hard-right Republicans Carol McGuire and Ernie Bencivenga for a Republican nomination to one of the two open seats. Ironically, all three of them are mechanical engineers.

J.R. Hoell is running for New Hampshire state representative. (Courtesy of J.R. Hoell)

Maguire is currently a state rep and has served in the House since 2008.

If Hoell wins a seat on Sept. 13, the staunchly conservative father of four will face Democrats Dennis Davis and Mary Frambach in the general election.

Frambach, also a former state representative, is ironically a former member of the New Hampshire Children and Family Law committee, which oversees The New Hampshire Division of Children Youth and Family (NHDCYF), the very agency that targeted Hoell.

The agency drew bipartisan criticism when Hoell went public with his account of how a state social worker showed up at his house with the police and an ambulance to transport his teenage son to the hospital several weeks after the 13-year-old—along with his 17-year-old sister and parents—had finished a round of human-grade Ivermectin to treat a bout of COVID-19 the family came down with.

The social worker was armed with an emergency court order to take custody

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