| Arnie Arnesen | |
| State House: | New Hampshire |
| Term Start: | 1984 |
| Term End: | 1992 |
| Predecessor: | Stephen Harnish |
| Successor: | William Driscoll David Dow |
| Birth Name: | Deborah Arnie Arnesen |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1953 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Children: | 2 |
Deborah "Arnie" Arnesen (born October 1, 1953), is an American radio show host and former politician, serving for eight years as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Arnesen was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Norwegian father and an Italian mother.[1]
Arnesen is a former fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics, and a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Orford, New Hampshire, serving from 1984 to 1992.[2] She was the Democratic nominee in the 1992 New Hampshire gubernatorial election, when she he became the first woman in New Hampshire history to be nominated by a major political party in a race for governor. She also ran for U.S. Congress in 1996.[3] Arnesen was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board in 1993 and again in 1997.
Arnesen has supported a broad-based tax plan in New Hampshire, rejecting The Pledge and supporting the establishment of a state-level income tax.[4]
Arnesen is the host of The Attitude on WNHN 94.7FM in New Hampshire.[5] She has also made several appearances on C-SPAN.[6]
Arnesen has two daughters, Melissa Arnesen-Trunzo (born 1982) and Kirsten Arnesen-Trunzo (born 1984) from her marriage to Thomas Trunzo. They divorced in 2000. She met Martin J. Capodice in 2000 and married him in 2002. He died in 2013.[7] [8]
Currently she runs a B&B (booked through AirBNB) across the street from the Christa McCauliffe school. One of the rooms has a plaque in it where a former Democratic president slept.