Rep. Carol Shea-Porter(D-NH) Hides Her Tough Decisions From The Voters

The article below is an opinion piece that appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader. The article was uncredited. I was going to blog about this very subject until I saw this article which sums up what I was going to write rather nicely.

Just a little back story first. When Carol Shea-Porter ran for congress she promised an open and ethical congress. She then proceeded to keep her first vote in congress (a vote for majority leader) private, stating something to the effect of that was a family vote, family votes are private. This can only lead us to believe she voted for Murtha, a very ethically challenged congressman. So we can assume, we will never know, that she broke two campaign promises on her first vote.

So here is the article:

ONCE AGAIN, U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter has dodged an important question about the leadership of her own party.

Last fall she refused to state publicly whether she backed Steny Hoyer or John Murtha for majority leader in the U.S. House. Murtha had campaigned for Shea-Porter, and she had called him “a profile in courage.” But he also had questionable ethics, to say the least. It was important for her constituents to know whether she backed the ethical candidate or the one who campaigned for her. She declined to answer.

Now she refuses to say whether she still backs Democratic Party Vice Chairman Ray Buckley for state party chairman. Rep. Paul Hodes withdrew his support for Buckley after viewing a video posted on the Internet last week that shows Buckley saying and doing embarrassing and sexually suggestive things and shows that he had joined an Internet group called “Gays in New Hampshire” that included underage boys. The video contained no evidence that Buckley showed any sexual interest in any member of the group.

All this newspaper could get out of Shea-Porter was a comment from her chief of staff saying that her previous support for Buckley came “before all the stuff happened.”

What does she think now that “all the stuff happened”? Her constituents are left to wonder.