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Template:TOCnestleft Carol Shea-Porter is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 1st district of New Hampshire.
Shea-Porter first served in the U.S. House from 2007-2011. She lost to Frank Guinta in the 2010 general election, but she was victorious in the November 2012 rematch.[1]
Background
As the first woman to ever be elected to a federal office from New Hampshire, Carol Shea-Porter knows what it takes to break down barriers. In 2006, she defied the odds to defeat a longtime, rubber-stamp incumbent and has been fighting for New Hampshire families in the US Congress ever since.
Growing up in a home with six brothers and sisters, Congresswoman Shea-Porter worked her way through college and earned an MPA from the University of New Hampshire. After college, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked as a social worker and teacher. She founded and directed a program to provide services to senior citizens, taught Political Science at a local community college and American Politics and History to recently retired federal employees.
Congresswoman Shea-Porter went to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit to serve as a volunteer for a month. There she witnessed first hand the failure of the government to react to those who needed help the most. It was after her time in New Orleans that she decided to run for Congress. While on the campaign, Representative Porter made a promise to listen to voters and represent the middle-class families of New Hampshire in Washington, D.C. Her hard work paid off as she built a massive grassroots organization and accomplished one of the biggest upsets of the 2006 Election Cycle.[2]
Congress
Once elected to Congress, she was appointed to serve on the House Committee on Education and Labor where she worked to improve the economic position of New Hampshire’s families by leading the charge to increase the minimum wage, lower the cost of college and protect the rights of workers. Her efforts were rewarded when three new laws were enacted. But the job isn’t done. Representative Shea Porter is pushing to extend unemployment benefits, allow taxpayers to deduct state or local property taxes from their federal income taxes and provide a refundable tax credit of up to $500 for home heating oil expenses.[3]
Abortion
Planned Parenthood
Shea-Porter received $8000 in lobbying funds from Planned Parenthood in 2008.
EMILY's List
Shea-Porter has been supported by EMILY's List during her campaigning.
Supported by Council for a Livable World
The Council for a Livable World, founded in 1962 by long-time socialist activist and alleged Soviet agent, Leo Szilard, is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to "reduce the danger of nuclear weapons and increase national security", primarily through supporting progressive, congressional candidates who support their policies. The Council supported Carol Shea-Porter in her successful 2008 House of Representatives run as candidate for New Hampshire.[4] She has also been previously supported by the Council.[5]
The Council supported Shea-Porter in her 2010 Congressional election campaign.[6]
Take Back America Conferences
Carol Shea-Porter was on the list of 237 speakers at the 2007 Take Back America conference, which was organized by the Institute for Policy Studies, and Democratic Socialists of America dominated Campaign for America's Future.[7]
21st Century Democrats support
21st Century Democrats is a Political Action Committee that has stood for Progressive causes for over 20 years. Founded in 1986 by Institute for Policy Studies affiliate, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, Democratic Socialists of America affiliates, former Texas Agriculture Secretary Jim Hightower, and former Illinois Congressman Lane Evans. Its three main goals are to help elect progressive candidates, train young people about grassroots organizing, and lastly, to continue to support our elected officials after Election Day "through our comprehensive progressive network".
Carol Moseley Braun, a former US Senator from Illinois, and long time Communist Party USA affiliate, serves on the organization's Advisory Board. Long time Board chair was Democratic Socialists of America member Jim Scheibel, a former Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The mission of 21st Century Democrats is to build a "farm team" of progressive populists who will be the future leaders of the Democratic Party.
- In each election cycle, we endorse a diverse array of candidates who exemplify our values and show unusual promise to advance our progressive goals. We invest in some of the most competitive races as well as in some of the most challenging – those in which the candidates are outstanding but the traditional Democratic supporters are most reticent. We back candidates in primaries as well as general election races, and we focus the bulk of our resources on electing challengers and protecting vulnerable incumbents.[8]
Shea-Porter was one of 12 key progressives endorsed by 21st Century Democrats in the 2012 election cycle.[9]
External links
References
- ↑ Foster's Daily Democrat "Rochester Democrat Carol Shea-Porter elected to Congress once again," November 7, 2012
- ↑ 21st Century Democrats bio, accessed Jan. 15, 2012
- ↑ 21st Century Democrats bio, accessed Jan. 15, 2012
- ↑ CLW website: Meet Our Candidates
- ↑ CLW website: Who We've Helped Elect
- ↑ CLW website. Meet the Candidates, accessed Dec. 31, 2010
- ↑ Our Future website: Take Back America 2003 Speakers (accessed on June 17, 2010)
- ↑ 21st Century Democrats website, About us]
- ↑ 21st Century Democrats 2012 bio