Shea-Porter gives Rangel a pass on chairmanship strip, has financial ties
October 7, 2009 by Patrick
Filed under News & Politics
Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) voted the party line today to overlook an Ethics Committee investigation and allow Rep. Charlie Rangel to continue to serve as Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee despite having railed against Republican ethics when she first ran for Congress just four years ago.
“Let’s talk about ethics,” Shea-Porter told then-incumbent Republican Congressman Jeb Bradley during a debate in 2006. “Let’s talk about Tom Delay. I asked you three times at different town meetings to please return that money to Tom Delay. It was $15,000 and you didn’t need it. This was before the indictment but he had been chastised three times by the Ethics Committee.”
Shea-Porter regularly disrupted Bradley’s town hall meetings while he was a member of Congress.
“You voted in that Ethics Committee ruling to allow him to stay on if need be until he was actually convicted and I thought that was the wrong vote,” Shea-Porter continued.
According to financial records, Shea-Porter has since accepted a combinded $14,000 from Charlie Rangel’s Congressional PAC and his leadership committee, the National Leadership PAC.
Shea-Porter’s office did not respond to NowHampshire.com’s inquiry as to whether or not she would return the money to Rangel.
Rangel is currently under investigation by the Ethics Committee.
Appended below is a video of Carol Shea-Porter’s criticism of Republicans Bradley and Delay:
“The harvest comes by tilling, not by praying” -Gibrain. It is of critical importance that Shea-Porter be voted out of office. We need to restore a two party system, we can not “spend” our way out of debt, and if you want to vote for Nancy Pelosi, then vote for Shea-Porter, her lap dog.
Typical Progressive Liberal. We can only hope they don’t turn this Country into a bannana republic before next November. Their attempts to turn this Country into Communism (Lite) is really happening (“Fundamentally changing America”). I never thought the potsmoking and LSD trippers from the 60′s and 70′s, who I went to school with, would be running our country today. We need to wake America!
Joseph -
Funny.
Patrick
You spelled Rangel’s name wrong in the story headline, moron.
my husband, Ray C Cooper and I are so concerned about the HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION,
Please do not pass OBAMACARE or anything similar.
Shea-Porter is a typical liberal hypocrit. We are coming! She will be leaving.
G.A. Kelly-American