Outgoing Dem Rep Carol Shea-Porter Blames Secret Chinese Money for loss
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 06:39AM This story is beginning to blow up online. Outgoing Democrat Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) appears now to blame her re-election campaign loss on the Chinese. Without proof, of course. And yes, she's thinking of running again in 2012.
http://nhjournal.com/2010/12/26/shea-porter-implies-chinese-cost-her-election-helped-guinta/
Shea-Porter implies Chinese cost her election, helped Guinta
By Shawn Millerick
Outgoing Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter implied the Chinese cost her re-election in November and secretly funneled money to help her Republican opponent Frank Guinta during a post-election interview with ABC News.
“They’re in the halls of Congress everywhere,” Shea-Porter said in the interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl. “[A]nd it means, for example, that you sit on a committee and you say something about concern about Chinese influence or something, you don’t even know if in the next election, somehow or another, they manage to send some money to some group that now doesn’t even have to say where they got it.”
There is no evidence that the Chinese funneled money into the First Congressional District race. Such a contribution would be illegal.
The Obama administration accused some groups, especially the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, of accepting illegal foreign money to help Republicans during the midterm elections. The charge was widely panned and did not appear to persuade the electorate.
Shea-Porter is a probable candidate for her old seat in 2012.
Reader Comments (12)
The only reason she was ever in Congress was that Jeb Bradley is so pathetic.
Does anyone remember the Chinese connection to the Clinton Administration?
Actually, it's mainly the fact that her resounding defeat needs no conspiracy theory to explain it away. The Chinese weren't out to get her; the voters were. Anyone with a mammalian forebrain can see this.
Carol Shea-Pelosi is simply pathetic. This is just another example of how she never had the brains to be a proper representative of New Hampshire people. Neither did Bradley but that's another story.
Have a right-of-center new year everyone! Hope and change! (For real this time?)
Exactly what quote did Carol Shea-Porter offer that the Chinese led to her defeat? I watched the WMUR tape of her interview several times, and even the reporter who did the interview said that she didn't make personal reference or connection to her campaign or her loss with Chinese money.
Fact is, she was alluding to the influence other countries have in Congress. There are lobbyists there representing the interests of foreign nationals. That's happened for a couple of centuries, and Democrats and Republicans are both the targets of those lobbyists. Sometimes both Democrats and Republicans, upon leaving Congress as members or staff, become lobbyists for foreign countries.
And we know now that with "Citizen United," money can be spent without declaration as to source -- something you and I and all Republicans and Democrats interested in protecting individual rights (corporations aren't really "persons," are they?) and democracy should be alarmed about.
So, what Carol Shea-Porter was saying is the truth. To take a question from the mouth of one of the conservative's heroes, "What say you?" -- is the foreign nationals influence and money in politics a problem, or not? And to take a quote from a great late Democrat, I'll wait until hell freezes over for your reply.
Some of my best friends are foreign nationals. None of my best friends are blithering idiots or tools of the New Left.
It's the New Left. Oh wait. Are you one of those No Names weasels?