Jim Rubens


Jim Rubens is an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party, Rubens served in the New Hampshire Senate for two terms.

Biography

Rubens was born in Brooklyn. He attended Dartmouth College. He worked as a developer and investor.
Identifying himself as a fiscal conservative, Rubens formed a new political party in 1993, called the New Majority, an offshoot of the Independence Party of New York. Rubens ran for the New Hampshire Senate in 1994, challenging Ralph Hough in the Republican Party primary election. Rubens defeated Hough, and won in the general election. In 1995 he was sworn in. Rubens was reelected in 1996. Rather than run for reelection to the New Hampshire Senate in 1998, he ran for Governor of New Hampshire in the 1998 election, but lost. Rubens ran again for the state Senate in 2000, but lost.
Rubens recently served as the chairman of the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling. He stepped down from this position when he became a candidate for the United States Senate, seeking the Republican nomination in the 2014 election. He had the support of the Mayday PAC for the race. Rubens lost the primary election to Scott Brown.
Rubens lost to incumbent Senator Kelly Ayotte in the 2016 election.
Rubens has anti-feminist views. In 2013, Rubens claims that women in the workplace are partially to blame for mass shootings. “The collaborative, flexible, amorphously-hierarchical American economy is shutting out ordinary men who were once the nation’s breadwinners in living-wage labor and manufacturing jobs,” Rubens wrote. “Because status success is more vital to the male psychology, males are falling over the edge in increasing numbers.”
He continues by adding, “The collapsing number of male jobs in the increasingly female-centric economy just adds to the already harsher impact of OverSuccess on males,” in which he refers to his 2008 book where he explores America's obsession with wealth, fame, power and perfection.

Personal

Rubens is from Hanover, New Hampshire. He has a wife and a son.