This forum is getting a little stale. Besides, Ms Scamman has more recent letters in the paper.

March 31, 2007

Shea-Porter is dangerous

To the editor:

Freshman Congresswoman Shea-Porter, do you have the best interests of the American people at heart when it comes to health care and national security?

On Jan. 31, you co-sponsored a bill, HR780, that would encourage counterfeit drugs to be sold. You did this by reducing jail times to fines for drug traffickers. This bill does not protect the health of Americans and especially our veterans. What would happen if a fake or wrong drug was dispensed? As a pharmacist I know, it could cause serious harm or even be fatal.

As far as our national defense is concerned, you have no plans to protect us from the terrorists. Do you actually think you can talk policy with an enemy that cuts off heads and wants to kill us because we are infidels?

You have stated "the war has compromised our national security and made every single one of us less safe." How did you reach this conclusion? Americans are enjoying the freedoms now that our brave troops are fighting for in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are able to go about our daily lives and routines without fear. This is not a coincidence, freshman congresswoman; it is because of our troop's presence in the Middle East.

You say you support them and then stand on the house floor and state, "there are no Davy Crocketts (meaning heroes) in Iraq".

As a young congresswoman with no previous elected political experience, you are endangering Americans on both fronts — national security and health care.

Allison Scamman
Stratham
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070331/FOSTERS05/103310166

Personally, I think it's in bad taste to publish a letter that's so obviously personal.

LEE -- A letter sent to U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., has prompted U.S. Capitol Police to investigate and a Lee man to undergo an emergency psychological evaluation.

Peter Macdonald sent Shea-Porter a letter two weeks ago titled "Killing is Obliged." Shea-Porter's staff called the police.

Macdonald was involuntarily admitted to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover and was determined not to be a threat to the congresswoman.

Dover police say no laws were broken and the letter did not contain a specific threat.

To my way of thinking, anyone who wants to bring our soldiers out of a civil war, out of harms way and home to their loved ones is right on target. When do we leave Iraq? When 50,000 soldiers die like in Viet Nam. Our soldiers did their mission and deserve to come home. To stablize Iraq by a country that 80% of the population does not support is not possible.

Mayme
Madbury

They don't know how to handle an accountable representative. Republicans are people who prefer being told what to think and what to do, so when someone talks to them, they think that's the agenda. Sad.