Shea-Porter Can Run, But She Can’t Hide
Shea-Porter Can Run, But She Can’t Hide
In case you missed it, on Sunday morning Carol Shea-Porter joined WMUR’s Josh McElveen on “Close Up” where she tried to run away from Nancy Pelosi – but Shea-Porter can’t hide from her record of total support for Pelosi before Granite State voters sent her packing in 2010.
On Sunday, McElveen asked Shea-Porter if she was elected would she vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. After becoming “annoyed” Shea-Porter answers with “I don’t know”… five times.
That’s quite a different tune from the days of voting with Nancy Pelosi 100% of the time. In 2007, when Shea-Porter was asked why she voted with Pelosi 100% of the time – she said, “I have voted I think 100 percent of the time with (Democratic leaders) because frankly I think they’re 100 percent right."
SHEA-PORTER ON PELOSI:
THEN: “I admire her and the work she has done for working men and women.” (“Pelosi coming to NH next week,” The Union Leader, 8/1/2007)
NOW: “I don’t know.”
As you cover Carol Shea-Porter trying to run away from her record of support for Nancy Pelosi and the job destroying tax-and-spend agenda that has made New Hampshire’s economy worse, consider the following quote:
NRCC Comment: “Carol Shea-Porter can get as defensive as she wants and hedge her support for Nancy Pelosi until she’s blue in the face – but she cannot hide from her record of voting in lock step with Pelosi’s job-destroying agenda 98 percent of the time when she was in Congress. Granite State voters sent Shea-Porter packing in 2010 for being Nancy Pelosi’s rubber stamp and she cannot change her record of supporting Pelosi’s failed agenda at every turn.” – NRCC Spokesman Nat Sillin
IN HER FIRST FOUR MONTHS IN CONGRESS SHEA-PORTER VOTED WITH PELOSI 100% OF THE TIME. (Concord Monitor, 4/15/2007)
IN HER FOUR YEARS IN CONGRESS SHEA-PORTER VOTED WITH PELSOI 98% OF THE TIME. (Washington Post accessed 5/29/2012)
Unofficial transcript from Carol-Shea Porter’s interview with WMUR’s Josh McElveen on May 27, 2012:
MCELVEEN: If Democrats take back the House, are you going to vote for Nancy Pelosi?
SHEA-PORTER: Why do you ask that?
MCELVEEN: Why not, she’s a polarizing figure.
SHEA-PORTER: I have to say that I find it — it is sort of the beat up on — and I’m not saying that you are, I’m just saying that asking that question…
MCELVEEN: I think it is a fair question. She’s a very divisive figure.
SHEA-PORTER: But see she never really was a divisive figure, she was there for many years, they made her a divisive figure in 2010 and I know you know, you saw all the things even after she lost the speakership, they still had in the window — fire Pelosi, became the rallying call there. But she’s actually not really a divisive figure. She served her state and served in Congress for many, many years and served well and got a lot of legislation passed, so it has become the political touchstone.
MCELVEEN: Why does it annoy you that I ask the question?
SHEA-PORTER: It doesn’t annoy me I just asked you why.
MCELVEEN: I still didn’t get an answer.
SHEA-PORTER: The answer is that I don’t know who is going be there. I don’t know what the issues are going to be, I don’t know if anybody is going to stand up and present something different, I don’t know. And so for me to say, just like people ask me, are you going to support this bill, I don’t know, I haven’t seen a bill yet, so I will wait and see.