New Hampshire Democrats ask for federal investigation into Frank Guinta’s finances

  With Frank Guinta remaining ahead of incumbant Democrat Carol Shea-Porter by fifteen points in the race for the first district US House seat, Democrats are desperately looking for a way to bring Frank Guinta down. Realizing that they are losing on the issues and realizing that if this campaign remains focused on the issue they will most certainly lose, they have resorted to a last ditch dirty trick to try to pull voters away from Frank Guinta.

  Last July Frank Guinta amended his financial disclosure report to include a bank account worth up to $500,000 that he had failed to report. I will be the first to admit that I do not understand how a person could have forgotten about a bank account somewhere in the neighborhood of $500,000 and that this is certainly a black eye on Frank Guinta and his campaign. But was this a simple oversight, or was there something more nefarious going on behind the scenes?

  New Hampshire Democrats are claiming that Frank Guinta should have reported this account before the campaign began and they are right, but the fact remains that Frank Guinta willingly reported and disclosed this account last July when he realized his error. That has not stopped New Hampshire Democrats from claiming–without evidence–that Frank Guinta has received some form of illegal campaign contribution and that contribution was the reason for Frank Guinta’s newly found wealth.

“His refusal to produce such documentation is a breach of public trust and invites the inference that a significant illegal campaign contribution in the $250,000 to $500,000 range occurred,”

  Frank Guinta has denied any wrongdoing:

For approximately 20 years prior to my service as mayor, my wife and I both worked in the private sector. I’m proud of the fact that we were both successful,” Guinta said during a debate. “I’m standing on principle. I don’t think it’s necessary to actually open up my bank statements to every single person, and if you don’t like that answer, that is your prerogative

  And with just five days to go before the election New Hampshire Democrats have pulled out all of the stops; today they have asked a federal prosecuter to investigate Frank Guinta to determine whether or not he has received an illegal campaign contribution. Frank Guinta made this disclosure back in July of this year, by my calculations that is three months ago, yet Democrats have waited until the election is less than a week away before lodging a complaint against Frank Guinta. This has all the trappings of an election pl0y and New Hampshire Republicans see it this way as well. Here is what Frank Guinta’s spokesman had to say about this latest revelation:

Trailing in poll after poll, Congresswoman Shea-Porter is desperately hiding behind partisan Democrats to distract from her record of supporting the failed stimulus, Obamacare takeover, and voting with Nancy Pelosi 98 percent of the time

  The Democrats have known about this money for months now, surely if they felt that this disclosure was hiding an illegal campaign donation they would have filed a lawsuit against Frank Guinta before he had the chance to spend the money, would they not? Yet they have decided to wait until this late date to file a complaint. This tells me that they have no proof and probably do not believe that Frank Guinta did anything wrong and they are simply grasping at straws here. 

  Here is what a Democrat spokesman had to say about this:

If Mr. Guinta has done nothing wrong as he claims, an expeditious investigation will benefit him and relieve the public’s concerns at the same time

  I agree 100% with that statement, if Frank Guinta has done nothing wrong he will welcome the chance to clear his name. But the fact is, Democrats purposely waited until such a time where his name could not be cleared in time for the election. They did this on purpose and they did this not in an attempt to seek justice, but in an attempt to sway Guinta’s supporters to either vote for Carol Shea-Porter or stay home and not vote at all;  they did not do this because they felt he had committed a crime or they would not have waited this long.

  This reeks of political gamesmanship. I will be the first to call for Frank Guinta’s resignation if he is elected and is found guilty of campaign fraud, but this is clearly an attempt by the state Democrats to find someone guilty in the eyes of the public of a crime of which there is no proof that he committed.

  New Hampshire Democrats are getting desperate, they see the writing on the wall and they are getting very nervous indeed!