Jason Osborne (politician)

In June 2022, Osborne proposed that firearms training be taught in at every grade level in public schools. He also described efforts to pass gun safety measures at the federal level as "fruity ideas."

In 2022, web forum posts surfaced that Osborne made between 2007 and 2011, in which he uses racist slurs, makes sexist comments about women breastfeeding, and appears to argue for abolishing age of consent laws.

In 2021, CAI re-branded as Mammoth Tech. In 2022, Mammoth Tech. abruptly closed, laying off over 500 employees. The company is currently facing a class action lawsuit for failing to give notice. This includes a Manchester landlord for now paying rent, $1 million judgment to harden a staffing agency, another $181,000 decision to retract on a management company, and reportedly two disability discrimination suits filed by former pregnant employees, one settled and one ongoing.

Despite indicating a belief that public school staff are "keeping secrets from [parents]," and despite insinuating educators' impropriety around issues of gender identity and sexual preference, Osborne admitted that he "[doesn't] want to even pretend to know" that this is actually happening. This unsubstantiated claim is part of a nationwide Republican effort to smear educators as "grooming" students for sexual assault. Osborne's concerns, similar to those of fellow NH Republican Representative Terry Roy, don't seem to extend former-Representative Eric Schleien, who admitted to assault of a 16-year-old in 2018. Osborne and Schleien, fellow Free Staters, both began serving in the NH House of Representatives in the 2014 term, and Schleien resigned prior to the 2018 elections amid unwelcome publicity of his crime. Osborne sat for an interview on Schleien's podcast in 2020.

In 2017, Osborne voted for SB 66 which authorizes murder charges for an individual who causes the death of a fetus. In 2021, he voted for HB 625 which prohibits abortions after 24 weeks. He has also voted to repeal New Hampshire buffer zone law, and against requiring insurance plans which cover maternity benefits to also provide coverage for emergency or elective abortion services. In 2022, Osborne voted with Democrats to table HB 1477, a bill that would have prohibited abortion upon the detection of a fetal heartbeat.

In 2010, Osborne moved to New Hampshire from Ohio as part of the Free State Project.

Jason M. Osborne (born June 15, 1977) is a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He represents Rockingham 4, comprising the towns of Auburn, Chester, and Sandown. In November 2020 the Republican caucus chose him to serve as the New Hampshire House Majority Leader.

Osborne is from Defiance, Ohio where his family founded Credit Adjustments, Inc. (CAI), a debt collections company, in 1964. Osborne joined the family firm in 1995 and worked as the CIO, and later CEO. With Osborne as CEO, CAI applied for and was granted over $4 million in federal loans from the Paycheck Protection Program.