Carol Shea-RUNAWAY!

Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter continues to endear herself to her constituents by running away from questions she has not been taught how to answer.  Today’s example comes from Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire…

(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.

Christmas Carol was singing her song and dancing her dance, less than thrilled at the idea of having to speak out against her own party even though the Porter-ala-Shea has never been afraid to “call out” big oil for the middle-class-raping-price-gouging-capitalist-profit hounds she was told they were.   Now that the very people with whom she must rub ideological elbows with in the Granite State are trying to gouge more profits per tankful in taxes than those evil oil companies we are supposed to despise, what is a puppet of the peoples republic of pilfering progressives to do?

The correct answer is to just ignore the question and pretend there’s no one asking.  ”Is this place haunted?  I think I just felt a cold breeze.”  Wait…my phone is ringing.  (I didn’t hear it ring…maybe it was just me?)

“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.”

When asked a question answer….your phone.  (Must be part of that new civility we were told so much about.)

Yes there is video.

And then I couldn’t resist adding this.

You are reading  Carol Shea-RUNAWAY!   by  Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com (Home)

Shea-Porter Promotes Air Traffic Controller Sequester Scare But Ignores FAA Waste on One-Percenters

Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, the Democrat parties "narrative mule" for congressional district one in New Hampshire, has a link on her official "I'm Your Congresswoman!"  Facebook page.   Shea-Porter's status update simply says "Control towers at airports such as Manchester's could be left unstaffed by budget cuts."

Unstaffed!  Holy Air traffic controller-less tower Batman!

The link provided with this 'news' leads to a story at NECN about how the airport tower in Manchester, New Hampshire is on the list of candidates in New England that could lose it's midnight shift as a result of some $600 million dollars in cuts to the FAA budget as a result of Barack Obama's sequester.  That would be the sequester that the White house and Democrats arm-twisted the House into passing (with Democrat support), and has since decided to blame them for in its entirety.

Carol, the dutiful Democrat sheep that she is, has happily toed the assigned narrative without regard to the veracity of its claims, but someone might want to tell her a few things about how much DOT, and more specifically the FAA, requests annually in its budget, and how much of that massive sum gets wasted on what the FAA itself calls "low priority spending."

First, so you are up to speed, the FAA needs to cut $600 million from its budget.  My congresswoman wants me to know that if I don't do something (I didn't by the way) that this could have consequences that reach right into my own back yard.  (Manchester is just up the road a piece.)

Really?  Consequences?

According to the FAA their spending requests grew from 15.9 billion in 2011 to 18.7 billion in 2012.    That's an increase of 2.8 billion in one year and more than four and one-half times the amount the sequester would reclaim from the FAA 2012 budget.  (Did you know the planes flew just fine, even way back when Carol was in congress last time, on significantly less than 18.7 Billion minus 600 million?  It's true.)

DOT has also received something called an "up-front boost," authorized by President Barack 'Sequester' Obama, for an additional 50 billion dollars.  FAA and DOT are not hurting for cash.

And did you also know, Carol, that the FAA wastes hundred of millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, on low priority spending and perks for rarely used private airports.  Hangers, parking-lots, and  just plain old cash to keep scores of tine rarely-used airports, many with no FAA controllers at all, for people who have their own private jets?  Hundred of millions of taxpayer dollars spent by the FAA, for low-priority amenities for private-plane jet-setting, one-per-centers; while you were in congress, Carol, defending us from waste, fraud, and abuse.  Or not.

In the fiscal year ending Sept 2009, right under your cute little congressional nose...

•The amount of money spent on low-priority projects hit a record $507 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. That's nearly five times the amount in 1998, when the FAA established a new ranking system for airport projects.

•More than $2 billion in low-priority funds has gone to airports used mostly by private jets and piston-engine planes, including $700 million for terminals. Pellston Regional Airport inMichiganused $7.5 million in federal funds to build a terminal with stone fireplaces and cathedral ceilings. The airport averages three departures a day.

•Congress helped increase low-priority spending by allowing 2,800 airports used by private planes to spend federal funds on parking lots and hangars, and by guaranteeing those airports money every year.

I'm just spit-balling now, but I bet that with almost 19 billion kicking around the FAA offices and a 50 billion dollar DOT backstop to boot that they could probably (easily) find over a billion in cuts without ever having to furlough one single air-traffic controller.  So here' what I'm thinking.  If this is really important to you, congresswoman, instead of just repeating whatever scare-tactics that House minority leadership, the White House, or OFA sends your way, how about demonstrating a little leadership?  Why don't you ask why the Federal Aviation Administration believes it has to cut even one air-traffic controller, when it is sitting on a mountain of cash, billions of which it has historically been willing to waste on things of little or no importance to the safe conduct or management of air traffic in America?

Are you capable of such a thing, or are we asking too much of our 'Representative?'

Until you get that answer, and this is just a suggestion,  it might be more politically expedient for you to stop parroting unsubstantiated claims from your party leaderships about the severity or impact of the sequester.   You look like a fool, and you are embarrassing the state of New Hampshire.  And I, for one, am not about to stop pointing it out.

Sorry.  Forgot to mention this.  The final 2012 FAA budget ended up at around 16 billion--I just found it.  (for Reference, 2009's budget was under 10 billion so it has grown 60% since then).  Oh, and President Obama's FAA budget for FY2013 already cuts over 700 million from a grant program  called Grants in Aid for Airports (AIP).  AIP's budget will be reduced to...ready?.... 2.4 billion.  It's purpose...?

The budget proposes to focus Federal grants to support smaller commercial and general aviation airports that do not have
access to additional revenue or other outside sources of capital.

At the same time, the budget would allow larger airports to increase non-Federal passenger facility charges. The new program structure will give the larger airports greater flexibility to generate revenue. This proposal is consistent with the recommendation of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to eliminate grants to large and medium hub airports.

Also known as a recurring bailout and or... "low priority spending."   We can cut 700 million out of that without a whisper, then keep the other 2.4 billion,  but a 600 million dollar sequester cut will demand the layoff or furlough of air-traffic controllers?

Nice money management skills you Democrats have.  Very nice, indeed.

You are reading  "Shea-Porter Promotes Air Traffic Controller Sequester Scare But Ignores FAA Waste on One-Percenters"   by  Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com (Home)

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Ask Democrat Carol Shea-Porter About Vaccines For New Hampshire Kids

Back on February 26th, in the midst of the blame Republicans for Obama’s Sequester narrative, New Hampshire District One Congressperson Carol Shea-Porter tweeted this.

The sequester would automticlly cut 30 million dollars from the section 317 program run by the CDC that sends money to states to support vaccination programs.

Carol thought you might want to know, probably after someone told her to tell you, that cutting 30 million from the Section 317 program would be, like, bad.

So if cutting 30 million would be bad, would cutting almost 60 million be almost twice as bad?

Carol’s a follower.  A rubber stamp for the left.  So maybe she didn’t know that Barack Obama’s 2013 budget was already scheduled to cut $58 million dollars from the same section 317 program.   But based on my back of the envelope calculations Obama’s budget cut to that program would have resulted in 1,314 NH Kids not getting vaccines like measles, mumps & rubella–that is, if Carol’s tweeted figure was even legitimate in the first place.

For our confused Democrat readers, Obama’s 58 million dollar cut to the program that funds vaccines for kids is more of a cut than $30 million from Obama’s sequester, so while the White House was prompting the media and congressional Democrats to blame Republicans for denying vaccines to kids Obama was already cutting almost twice as much from the program himself.

CNS News

“The FY 2013 budget request for the Section 317 immunization program reflects a program level decrease of $57.986 million,” the administration’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) budget says. The CDC is the agency in charge of the 317 grant program.  

Wait, it gets better.

Here is video of Congressman Andy Harris (Dr. Andrew Harris, M.D.) from Maryland, spanking speaking to Dr. Tom Frieden,  the Director of the CDC, on this very question.

At 1:58.

Congressman Harris: “Let me get it straight. Under the presidents cut, of 58 million dollars to the 317 program, you think you can get around that to avoid cutting vaccines to children.  But under a sequester, that the President blames on Republicans, you don’t know if you can do that?

You are reading  "Ask Democrat Carol Shea-Porter About Vaccines For New Hampshire Kids"   by  Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com (Home)

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NH Democrats Painted Into A Racist Corner?

To Round out the Carol SEIU Porter Post hat trick (it is hockey season) I wanted to address a pressing problem for the left wing, identity-politics, Buckleycrats in the NH CD-1 primary.  One of the primary contestants, Joanne Dowdell, is black.

With Dowdell being ideologically identical to Snowflake Shea-Porter, and given that the super-majority of people casting ballots in the primary contest will be white, will voting against Joann in the Democrat primary be considered racist, or will voting for her be considered racist?

The people constantly subjected to your ridiculously hypocritical narratives would appreciate an answer.

Follow up question: Will racist Democrats avoid this problem by simply not donating enough to sustain Dowdell's campaign,(91% of her current donors are from outside NH) and if so, is donating or not donating to her campaign racist?

Image Credit: Free Republic

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Shea-Porter To Face Democrat Primary

The Concord Monitor is reporting that Portsmouth businesswoman Joanne Dowdell intends to challenge former Congresspersonista Carol SEIU-Porter for a shot at Frank Guinta in 2012.

She characterized her political outlook as similar to that of Shea-Porter, saying it would be up to voters to discern the differences.

"I think you would find that ideologically we're both progressive Democrats," she said. "This is democracy, from my point of view. This is the process in action, and that will be for voters to decide."

CSP 2.0.1?

And she says some very amusing things like...

"Washington politicians have been making life harder for families here in New Hampshire and throughout the country,"

We noticed that and responded in November 2010, but being a Democrat Committeewoman at large, and as a major Obama-Zombie, does CSP 2.0.1 want us to believe she had no idea that her party did that on purpose?

Dowdell said she was not ready to commit to specific policy positions but intends to speak extensively with residents of the district to learn about their concerns.

"I'll know better when I get out and talk to them and listen to what they have to say," she said.

Maybe we'll get the "I am a blank canvass" shtick?  I am what people make me out to be.  Sure but all the roads still lead to top-down, state-controlled, central planning.  

For those unfamiliar, the left-wing-salad bar-policy-buffet is a progressive core-value; until she's told what talking points to use to advance the current set of feelings about the next best path to socialism, by someone above her pay grade, she won't have the slightest idea what to tell you she believes.  But we already know.  She says she is just like Carol.  That makes her a Marxist pawn of the party leadership.

So the next question is, is this a real challenge or is there some other game afoot?  Is Dowdell meant to play extremist so CSP looks dull and moderate by comparison?  Or can we expect some kind of massive, left wing cat-fight? And what will all of Carol's doting fans do? (They do love her so.)

I can't wait to watch and find out.  

CSP 2.01's (Dowdell's campaign donor records

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