In this Race For The 1 st conversation, we talk with Mindi Messmer , a Democrat running in the closely watched race for New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District. Scroll down for NHPR News takeaways from this interview Messmer, a first-term legislator from Rye, runs an environmental consulting firm. As a legislator, she serves on the Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs Committee, and on the Commission to Study Environmentally-Triggered Chronic Illness and the Commission on the Seacoast