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IF YOU WON?T DO IT, I WILL: In a move that?s as in-your-face as you can get, Manchester, NH May?

By Glenn Reynolds

IF YOU WON’T DO IT, I WILL:

In a move that?s as in-your-face as you can get, Manchester, NH Mayor and Republican candidate for Congress Frank Guinta will host a health care town hall in Exeter on August 31st. In the press release announcing the town hall, the Guinta campaign doesn?t even pretend that the move is anything other than a slap at incumbent Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01).

?It is unthinkable, that an elected leader who herself is famous for her attendance and outspoken opposition at her predecessors? town halls, would simply refuse to allow the same opportunity to her constituents, ?said Guinta.

Shea-Porter, who was a vocal anti-war activist before winning her seat in 2006, essentially hounded then-Republican Congressman Jeb Bradley at his town halls in the years leading up to their race.

Shea-Porter was once forcibly removed from a George W. Bush speech in Portsmouth for protesting while wearing a shirt that read, ?Turn your back on Bush.? She also once protested in front of the State House in Concord alongside demonstrators dressed as Nazis.

Heh. But I thought Nazi references were utterly out of bounds in American politics . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).