Posts Tagged ‘town halls’

Politico has quite an article this morning hitting on what many in the NH press have been reporting for several weeks now, Washington has changed CSP.  In the hard hitting article, Politico picks up on the waffle hat incident, the now infamous 2005 Bush town hall, and her unwillingness to meet with her constituents in [...]

We’ve all saw what transpired this past August Recess to when CSP held Town Hall Meetings and the recent 2005 Bush Town Hall and waffle hat gate episode.  Both of those stories did considerable damage to CSP and showed how politically inept her staff and political operation is and how she is afraid of her [...]

Another day, another negative story about Carol Shea-Porter and the 2005 Bush town hall meeting.  That also means another press release from Ryan Williams and the NHGOP:

SHEA-PORTER REFUSES
TO APOLOGIZE TO
PORTSMOUTH P.D.
Embattled Congresswoman Won’t Apologize For Calling A Portsmouth Police Officer A “Thug”
CONCORD – Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter is refusing to publicly apologize to the Portsmouth Police [...]

The on going saga of whether CSP was or wasn’t removed from a 2005 Bush town hall meeting, took an interesting turn.  Now Hampshire is reporting that two Portsmouth police officers did indeed remove CSP from the now infamous 2005 town hall.
Two officers of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Police Department removed Carol Shea-Porter and Susan [...]

For the past week or so, the debate has raged on regarding what happened during  a 2005 town hall meeting with President Bush.  It had been common knowledge that CSP was removed from a town hall meeting with President Bush.  That was CSP’s recollection as well, until this past week.  Here’s the short history of [...]

Today 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) [...]

Pindell has posted his Political Standing for the week and both CSP and Hodes are on the down side this week:
DOWN
Paul Hodes: Hodes had a rough week with local press coverage (particularly the Nashua Telegraph), but these were self-inflicted wounds. Just imagine how the debate would be framed differently if he had simply called his [...]

Today’s Nashua Telegraph has a hard hitting editorial calling out Rep. Paul Hodes for his decision to hold limited access “forums” as opposed to traditional town hall meetings.  Here is what the Telegraph has to say about his decision and how they do not meet that standard of a town hall:
They do not rise to [...]

Here is what the NHGOP has to say about Hodes’ decision to host a forum versus a town hall meeting:

HODES LETS DOWN NEW

HAMPSHIRE, WON’T

HOLD TOWN HALL
MEETINGS
Embattled Congressman Won’t Hold Traditional, Face-To-Face Meeting With Voters
CONCORD – The Union Leader (9/2) reports that Paul Hodes announced today that he will not hold traditional New Hampshire-style [...]