Oh Carol, there you go again!
Candidate Shea Porter. That was then:
This is now. From NowHampshire.com:
Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) voted the party line today to overlook an Ethics Committee investigation and allow Rep. Charlie Rangel to continue to serve as Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee despite having railed against Republican ethics when she first ran for Congress just four years ago.
“Let’s talk about ethics,” Shea-Porter told then-incumbent Republican Congressman Jeb Bradley during a debate in 2006. “Let’s talk about Tom Delay. I asked you three times at different town meetings to please return that money to Tom Delay. It was $15,000 and you didn’t need it. This was before the indictment but he had been chastised three times by the Ethics Committee.”
Shea-Porter regularly disrupted Bradley’s town hall meetings while he was a member of Congress.
“You voted in that Ethics Committee ruling to allow him to stay on if need be until he was actually convicted and I thought that was the wrong vote,” Shea-Porter continued.
According to financial records, Shea-Porter has since accepted a combinded $14,000 from Charlie Rangel’s Congressional PAC and his leadership committee, the National Leadership PAC.
Shea-Porter’s office did not respond to NowHampshire.com’s inquiry as to whether or not she would return the money to Rangel.
Rangel is currently under investigation by the Ethics Committee.
Commenting on today’s sorry partisan vote, Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson stated in an emailed press release,
"Once again, the Democrat-controlled House has voted to sweep outright corruption under the rug on behalf of a fellow party member who failed to report more than $1 million in outside income as required by House rules,"
Further adding that
"The least Congress can do is not have Rangel serving as Chairman of a committee that deals with taxes while an ‘ongoing’ ethics probe into his undisclosed income is taking place,"
Could it be that the REAL Carol Shea Porter has been abducted by space aliens? Surely she cannot keep Mr. Rangel’s tainted money, knowing what she knows. Poor Carol. Who knew she would be so drastically changed in such a short time down in DC?
