Frank Guinta: I’m not a conservative

Prior to embarking on his congressional campaign, embattle Republican hopeful Frank Guinta insisted to the New Hampshire Union Leader that he’s not a conservative and had begun “tak[ing] steps to avoid partisanship,” NowHampshire.com has learned. Instead, Guinta said his wife calls him a “new Republican,” presumably one who is much more liberal than the mainstream [...]

Mahoney overtakes Guinta in latest congressional poll

Republican congressional candidate Sean Mahoney has overtaken former-Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta in an Americans for Prosperity poll of First District Republican primary voters. If the election were to be held today, Mahoney would earn around 31% of the vote to Guinta’s 26%. Rich Ashooh would get 10%. Still some 26% of voters remains undecided. The [...]

Guinta attack on Mahoney backfires as liberal record exposed

Republican congressional candidate Frank Guinta issued a curious attack on his opponent Sean Mahoney today in the First Congressional District primary in which he challenges Mahoney’s Republican credentials. But Guinta’s own voting record might lead voters to wonder about his own commitment to party principles. It is commonly understood that Frank Guinta has only considered [...]

Mahoney asks voters to compare candidates in newest ad

Republican Sean Mahoney positions the race for Congress in NH-01 as a contest between Mahoney, a conservative outsider, and Guinta, a tax-and-spend insider:

Guinta admits lying about origin of campaign funds

The congressional campaign of Republican Frank Guinta (NH-01) is now admitting that an earlier version of the story it told about the origin of personal money Guinta is using to finance his campaign was false. In July, the Guinta campaign told Nashua Telegraph reporter Kevin Landrigan that the candidate was selling off his relatively small [...]

Finance scandal rocks Guinta campaign

Republican congressional hopeful Frank Guinta’s (NH-01) campaign was rocked on Friday by suggestions he has been less that forthcoming about a previously undisclosed bank account worth up to $500,000, which he claims to have remembered owning only recently. Guinta is using some of that recently rediscovered cash to finance his campaign. The charges come from [...]

Union Leader dings anonymous Twitterers, Facebookers

Fake Rich Ashooh, Phoney Mahoney and Dollar Bill Binnie beware. The state’s largest and most politically influential newspaper is not a fan of fake Twitter feeds and bogus Facebook profiles. In an editorial on Wednesday, the New Hampshire Union Leader opined: But some staffers and volunteers on the shady side of New Hampshire’s political world [...]

Guinta admits to signing on to Sierra Club cap-and-trade scheme

The campaign of embattled Republican congressional candidate Frank Guinta acknowledged on Wednesday that as Mayor of Manchester Guinta signed on to the Sierra Club’s “Cool Cities Initiative” three years ago, which included participation in the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement and endorsement an of federal cap-and-trade legislation. Guinta denied having signed the Conference [...]

‘Grandstander’ Guinta jonesed on stimulus money, now opposes it

Republican congressional candidate Frank Guinta has made his fierce opposition to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or the stimulus act, and government spending generally, the cornerstone of his campaign message. But a new revelation in the New Hampshire Union Leader shows Guinta may actually be “grandstanding” on this issue. Guinta has called the stimulus [...]

Mahoney launches jobs tour in Exeter Wednesday

Republican Sean Mahoney (NH-01) has talked a lot about jobs in his campaign for Congress. But now he’s launching a jobs tour called, “Roadmap to Recovery: Small Business, Big Jobs.” Foster’s has the story: EXETER — Republican congressional candidate Sean Mahoney will travel to downtown Exeter today as part of a campaign initiative focusing on [...]

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