NHGOP: Shea-Porter’s Bogus Bush Town Hall Tale
September 25, 2009Today the NHGOP issued the following statement regarding Rep. Shea-Porter’s recent denial that she was not removed from a town hall meeting with President Bush:
SHEA-PORTER’S BOGUS
BUSH TOWN HALL TALE
Shea-Porter Now Claiming She Wasn’t Removed From Bush Town Hall, Despite Promoting Her Ejection In 2005
CONCORD – In an interview with the Portsmouth Herald (9/22/09) this week, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter fraudulently claimed that she was not ejected from a 2005 town hall event hosted by then-President George W. Bush. However, four years ago Ms. Shea-Porter told the same newspaper that she was removed by Secret Service agents for voicing her opposition to President Bush’s policies. Ms. Shea-Porter’s dishonest attempt to conceal her 2005 ejection comes after a retired police officer was removed from one of her recent town hall meetings for voicing his opposition to the Democrats’ disastrous health care agenda.
“Carol Shea-Porter’s intentionally deceitful attempt to rewrite history and conceal her past is both disgraceful and insulting to her consituents,” said NHGOP Communications Director Ryan Williams. “Fortunately, New Hampshire voters are smart enough to see through such dishonesty and realize that in her nearly three years in Washington, Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a liberal political activist into a two-faced politician.”
In a story that ran in the Herald on Tuesday, Shea-Porter claimed that she “wasn’t removed from the event,” and pretended that she only remembers “having a confrontation with a Bush supporter after the event.”
However, a 2005 Associated Press (11/23/05) report confirms that Ms. Shea-Porter was “removed from a Bush appearance at Pease International Tradeport” and “taken out a side door by security personnel.” She also verified her ejection in 2005 interview with the Herald (11/23/05) in which she admitted she was “physically removed by Secret Service agents.”
In fact, then-political activist Carol Shea-Porter was extremely open about her removal in numerous interviews with the media. In an interview with the Denver Post (4/26/05), Shea-Porter claimed that she was kicked out “like a drunk being thrown out of a bar…They tossed us where nobody would have access to us.”Shea-Porter’s saga was also promoted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which stated in a 2005 press release that her “critical viewpoint,” had been “removed” from President Bush’s town hall.
In 2009, Congresswoman Shea-Porter has gone out of her way to avoid unrestricted, face-to-face contact with New Hampshire voters. She has repeatedly used vulgar and offensive epithets to refer to First District residents who disagree with her support for a government takeover of health care. Ms. Shea-Porter has also held controlled and highly restricted forums that limited the ability of her constituents to ask questions about her ruinous fiscal agenda. At one of her events a retired police officer was ejected after he voiced his opposition to Ms. Shea-Porter’s policies.“Given her own history of political activism, Carol Shea-Porter’s recent attempts to malign frustrated taxpayers and limit her interactions with the public are sanctimonious and extremely hypocritical. Her shameful behavior during the recent Congressional Recess is beneath the level of integrity that First District residents expect and deserve from their Congresswoman,” said Williams.
CLICK HERE TO READ WHAT POLITICAL ACTIVIST SHEA-PORTER TOLD THE PORTSMOUTH HERALD IN 2005
CLICK HERE TO READ WHAT CONGRESSWOMAN SHEA-PORTER TOLD THE PORTSMOUTH HERALD IN 2009
fairmind
Sep 25, 2009
This is why republicans needed a website. this is excellent work on redhampshires part. If you want to continue with your investigation call over to WMUR. I understand that there was actual television footage where she was caught on tape. WMUR doesn’t have it anymore, but they seel old tapes to a company that archives them. Someone needs to call over there and see if the video of her is still available. From what i heard she was so ridiculous they took her away in handcuffs. I think she may have even been arrested for it. A right to know request would get you the info from the police department. Keep working on this, it is big.
Vis Unita Fortior
Sep 25, 2009
For anyone who didn’t follow the last two links, they do show CSP, as cited by the paper, making contradictory statements.
(Although in the second link Mr. Semprini’s original “waffle hats” statement is debunked including a picture of her at the event sans waffle hat. It seems to me that if the NHGOP is going to declare CSP’s statement to be commission of fraud as it did in this press release, it ought to also condemn Mr. Semprini’s statement as fraudulent.)
Fergus Cullen
Sep 25, 2009
What is also bizarre here is that Crazy Carol called Wayne Semprini this week to dress him down about his recollection of the waffle event. She just can’t resist being baited about things she ought to simply ignore. Wayne has acknowledged his recollection of the details of the waffle incident could have been off a bit, but that’s understandable: He would not have had reason to know who CSP, then a citizen-activist from outside his community and not a candidate, was among the crowd that day, and I can easily see why he might have assumed, four years later, that CSP was among the waffle hatted. After all, leading the waffle brigade that day was none other than lefty Susan Bruce, who is so like-minded with CSP that Bruce was later on CSP’s campaign payroll. So Wayne can be excused for getting a minor detail wrong, and he’s acknowledged that he did. But it’s clear that CSP was only too happy to talk up getting thrown out of the Bush event, embellishing the tale like Tom Sawyer might, when it suited her as a badge of honor among lefties. Now she’s deliberately trying to rewrite history when she knows it wasn’t so.
Matt Suermann
Sep 25, 2009
Pindell put her on the down side this week in his political standing for this exact episode:
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