"Tolerant" Carol Shea-Porter's paid blogger smears Trig Palin!

Date:               October 14, 2008

Contact:          Fergus Cullen, Chairman, New Hampshire Republican Party
                        603-225-9341 office, 603-520-5450 cell


CONCORD – A paid staffer for U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter’s re-election campaign has accused Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin of using her special needs infant a “prop.”  Six-month old Trig Palin has Down Syndrome.

“Barack Obama would fire a member of his staff for making that sort of offensive comment about Governor Palin’s infant child, and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter ought to consider doing the same,” said Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party.  “Imagine the outrage on the left if a Republican made a similar comment about the Obama children.”

“Susan Bruce, left-wing activist, can say whatever offensive things she wants.  But Susan Bruce is a spokeswoman for Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter.  For Shea-Porter to tolerate that sort of despicable comment from a member of her paid staff says a lot about Shea-Porter’s judgment,” Cullen said.

BACKGROUND:  Bruce’s full quote is found at http://www.politickernh.com/brianlawson/4112/palin-visit-dover-high-school#comment (posted October 12, 2008).

Middle America Values
posted by Susan Bruce

If Sarah Palin has middle America values, I'm glad I live in elitist northern NH. I don't think that making women pay for rape kits the police use to gather evidence on their bodies after a rape is a value we should be proud of. I don't think that putting a scarlet letter on your own teenaged and throwing her to the wolves in front of the whole world is something to be proud of. I don't think that using a special needs baby as a prop on late night TV appearances is a value to crow about. I don't think that preaching hate, and encouraging racism, fear, and violence at campaign rallies is something to be proud of.

If those are the things we value in Middle America, I want no part of it.
10/12/08 12:36 am

  Bruce is a paid Shea-Porter staffer: 

“Hi everyone. I've taken a part time job with Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter's campaign - I'm working on netroots outreach around the nation.”

– Susan Bruce, bluehampshire.com, July 29, 2008. 
http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4720

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