SHEA-PORTER FLEES TO AVOID TAKING A STAND ON GAS AND INCOME TAX

“Congresswoman Shea-Porter had multiple opportunities to use her voice to encourage like-minded New Hampshire officeholders to oppose legislation that would devastate middle-class families. Sadly, the Congresswoman refused to take such a stand.”

(Manchester – April 2, 2013)  Yesterday afternoon at a local senior center, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) repeatedly avoided questions on two important issues that, if implemented, would severely impact Granite Staters.  In particular, the Congresswoman refused to respond to multiple attempts of whether she supports local Democrats’ efforts to raise the gas tax by fifteen cents[1] or whether she holds similar positions on a New Hampshire income tax as her District Director and former New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Jackie Cilley had been vocal about in 2012.[2] Both of these pieces of legislation would have devastatingly negative effects on middle-class families.
 
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Derek Dufresne, spokesman for Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire, Inc, made the following statement:

“While mothers are struggling to fill their gas tank each week, New Hampshire Democrats are considering an increase in the gas tax. While Granite State families are trying to stretch their paychecks, New Hampshire Democrats have proposed an income tax.  Such efforts are unconscionable when so many in New Hampshire are fighting to make ends meet. However, what’s even more disappointing is for Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter to ignore repeated attempts to learn of her positions on these important issues.

“Congresswoman Shea-Porter had multiple opportunities to use her voice to encourage like-minded New Hampshire officeholders to oppose legislation that would devastate middle-class families. Sadly, the Congresswoman refused to take such a stand. We encourage Granite Staters to call Congresswoman Shea-Porter at 603-641-9536 and ask her stop ignoring her constituents and voice her opposition to an increase in the gas tax and a New Hampshire income tax.”

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[1] http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/4932017-95/rep-democrat-republican-bill

[2]http://www.livefreeordiealliance.org/ElectionCentral/2012GubernatorialElection/JackieCilley/tabid/2119/Default.aspx

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Guinta For Congress - A Failing Record On Jobs: A Shea-Porter policy that would crush the middle-class

TODAY’S FOCUS: MIDDLE-CLASS JOB CREATION

(Manchester – October 23, 2012) Former Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter likes to claim she is focused on the middle-class. However, her voting record and the policies she supports would further crush middle-class Granite Staters who are already struggling to make ends meat.

Throughout this week, Team Guinta is highlighting the negative affect Carol Shea-Porter would have on middle-class Granite Staters. Today’s highlight is her terrible record on middle-class job creation.

As a result of former Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter’s job-killing policies, the median income for Americans is down $4,300 a family. Policies such as the over $800 billion dollar wasteful stimulus that promised to keep the unemployment rate below 8% failed when the unemployment rate peaked at 10.1% in October of 2009. To this day, it never created the middle-class jobs Carol Shea-Porter said it would. Since then, other than a “comprehensive jobs bill,” which is code for another round of wasteful stimulus, the former Congresswoman has no new solutions of how to put middle-class Granite Staters back to work.

Shea-Porter has voted for and supports a bigger federal government and higher taxes on job creators, which would continue to hurt our struggling economy. As a result, the US Chamber of Commerce gave Carol Shea-Porter a failing “anti-jobs” score, while awarding Frank Guinta a 100% pro-jobs score and their endorsement in the race for Congress in NH-01.

Derek Dufresne, Spokesman for Guinta for Congress released the following statement:

“Former Congresswoman Shea-Porter’s record on middle-class job creation is all talk and no substance. It is one of wasting taxpayer dollars, borrowing more from China, and not creating the middle-class jobs she promised.

“Carol Shea-Porter’s belief in higher taxes and more government regulations further inhibits our nation’s job creators from putting the millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans back to work. These hard-working individuals deserve better than the empty rhetoric of Carol Shea-Porter and her anti-jobs policies that are still crushing the middle-class.”

Guinta For Congress - Higher Gas Prices: A Shea-Porter policy that would crush the middle-class

TODAY’S FOCUS: AN INCREASE IN GAS PRICES

(Manchester – October 22, 2012) Former Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter likes to claim she is focused on the middle-class. However, her voting record and the policies she supports would further crush middle-class Granite Staters who are already struggling to make ends meat.

Throughout this week, Team Guinta will highlight the negative affect Carol Shea-Porter would have on middle-class Granite Staters. Today’s highlight is increased gas prices and higher energy costs.

Gas prices are on the rise with the New Hampshire average just under $4.00 a gallon. However, Granite Staters would be hard-pressed to learn what former Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter would do to lower costs. Despite the fact that Shea-Porter tries to claim she supports an all of the above approach to energy production, her voting doesn’t support this claim.

For just a glimpse of what Carol Shea-Porter believes with regards to energy, one only has to look to her record. She voted in support of a cap and trade scheme, also known as a national energy tax. She has also been a strong opponent of both on-shore and off-shore domestic oil exploration and has been vocally opposed to the energy and job creating Keystone XL Pipeline.

Derek Dufresne, Spokesman for Guinta for Congress released the following statement:

“Carol Shea-Porter’s policies of more Solyndras and less domestic exploration would only make gas prices increase for middle-class Granite Staters.

“New Hampshire’s middle-class is already paying too much at the pump because of the failed energy policies of Carol Shea-Porter’s Congress. Despite the fact hard-working Americans are taking more out of their pocketbooks to put into their gas tanks, the former Congresswoman would rather embrace the extreme policies from the most liberal wing of her party and watch the middle-class lose more of their paychecks each week.”

RNC - Gibbs: Biden was right, middle class buried under Obama

The Obama campaign agrees with Biden – the middle class has been buried under Obama. On This Week…Gibbs: “I don’t think that was a gaffe.” Stephanopoulos: “He said they were buried the last four years.”

Obama Campaign: Biden Was Right, Middle Class "Buried" Under Obama

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Obama Adviser Robert Gibbs Said Biden’s Comment About The Middle Class Being “Buried” The Last Four Years Was Not A Gaffe. ABC’s GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: “Let’s look ahead to the vice presidential debate this week: Joe Biden coming up. He kind of stepped in it a little bit this week with the comment about the middle class being buried the last four years. Take a look.” VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: “How they can justify, how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that’s been buried the last four years! How in Lord’s name can they justify raising their taxes with these tax cuts?” STEPHANOPOULOS: “Two questions: is there more pressure on the Vice President now to be aggressive coming off the President's debate, and are you worried about gaffes like that?” OBAMA ADVISER ROBERT GIBBS: “Well, look, I don’t think that was a gaffe, George, because I think what the Vice President was talking about is what he’s talked about every day which is a series of eight years of – ” STEPHANOPOULOS: “He said they were buried the last four years.” (ABC’s “This Week,” 10/7/12)