Woman who calls opponents ‘teabaggers,’ was tossed from town hall calls for civility

Just two weeks ago Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) boasted of the comradery she shares with women from the other party while in the ladies room. But this Monday Shea-Porter told a group of college students in Durham, “it is so ugly down [in Washington] right now. It’s not helpful for any of us.”
Foster’s Daily Democrat [...]

Ashooh-led PACs donated to Lynch, Dems

Despite promising to “bring conservative, common sense to Washington, and restore fiscal restraint and the economic principles that will create private sector jobs,” Republican Congressional candidate Rich Ashooh has chaired two state political action committees that donated handsomely in 2008 to Democrats who back new and higher taxes.
AE Systems NH PAC donated $1,000 to Democrat [...]

Guinta raised $61K for Q4

First district congressional candidate Frank Guinta spent more than he raised during the fourth and final fundraising quarter in 2009, NowHampshire.com learned on Monday morning.
Guinta’s report, filed with the Federal Elections Commission, shows he took in around $61,000 during the final three months of last year but spending around $68,000.
Republicans have expressed concern over Guinta’s [...]

Al Baldasaro’s apology

Rep. Al Baldasaro has issued an apology for his controversial comments:
“After reviewing my remarks before the Judiciary Committee I now realize that I got carried away with my statements and should have taken more time to chose my words carefully. I regret my poor judgment and sincerely apologize to anybody who was offended by my [...]

Number Two: Dem Congresswoman confirms Shea-Porter’s bathroom story

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter now says she was just using “humor” when she accused men of holding up health care reform. But Florida Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is backing up Carol Shea-Porter’s story that she and Republican female members of Congress claim they could pass health care reform “by the weekend” if they just sent [...]

Shea-Porter: Send the men home and Congress could pass health care reform

In some of her most incendiary comments to date, Democratic Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) claimed on Saturday that female Republican members of Congress have confided in her, in the ladies room, no less, that if they could just send the male members of Congress home they could pass health care reform by the weekend.
The comments, [...]

Shea-Porter goes rogue on health reform

ne thing is clear: Unless Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama back down on the excise tax in the health reform bills being merged in a secret conference committee, Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) will not vote for the final bill, the New York Times reports.
And that’s not the only feature of the final [...]

Shea-Porter sounding less bullish on health bill

There was a time when Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) condemned opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care reform push as “tea baggers.” But these days it’s sounding more and more like Carol Shea-Porter herself opposes what Obama is trying to do.
On Thursday, Shea-Porter’s office criticized the so-called “Cornhusker Kickback” deal that would give the [...]

Shea-Porter will vote ‘no’ on health bill without public option, blog reports

Influential liberal blog Fire Dog Lake is reporting that Democratic Congresswoman Carol Shea- Porter (NH-01) has “vowed to vote against any bill that does not have a public option.�
If Shea-Porter’s vow stands it will symbolize a major break with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with whom Shea-Porter has voted over 95-percent of the time. Pelosi even invited [...]

As Dem divisions grow, some wonder if Shea-Porter is rethinking Senate race

Some Granite State political insiders are privately whispering: Is Democrat Carol Shea-Porter reconsidering her decision not to seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Judd Gregg?
The First District Congresswoman took herself out of contention for the Senate seat last March with a fairly clear statement. But growing evidence that fellow Democratic Rep. [...]

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