Former Congresswoman Porter, how is this any different from moguls like Tim Gill, spending millions all across the country to forward his agenda? Do you take issue with that as well? The Gill Action Fund spend $15 million in a dozen states during the 2006 midterm elections, targeted 70 politicians regarded as unhelpful to gay causes, and defeated 50 of them. His funding is now helping to transform the entire political face of Colorado. Why is it all right for him to come here and try to do the same thing?

I ask the same questions as you, "Does this matter? Does it influence voters? They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work."

Mrs. Shea Porter does not support individual freedoms and rights, rather she advocates a transfer of wealth system at levels well beyond what is required.

Is she complaining that these people are pumping millions into the economy by advertising in NH, Carolina, Florida?
How can she complain about the little people not being heard when she rammed Obamacare down our throats dispite the majority of the country against it. No, we are considered dangerous, terrorist like teabaggers that are in the minority.

oops. My second comment should have been directed to Mr. Maloon. My comments are in the same order as the first three individuals who commented. Thanks

To Nancy Poltack. Respectfully, let me point out that you were able to point out Mr. Gill's name and how much he contributed. Both parties overstepped the bounds of "soft money." But at least we knew who was involved. Soft money could have easily been regulated. Instead, the right wing Court handed up Citizens United. So now there is no transparency and no responsibility.

Mr. Buckley. With all due respect your comment is just plain wrong, but I suspect that no amount of facts will change your mind.

Mr. Buckley. Money that flows into the coffers of local television stations flows our of state just as quickly. The parent company reaps the windfall. The impact on the local economy is minimal.

I agree with Carol Shea-Porter. Citizens United and SuperPACs are a disaster for American life and democracy. Money wins.

Carol Shea Porter was a very different sort of representative than I had ever had before. She was a middle class woman (the first woman EVER to be elected to Congress from NH), and she didn't take the big players' money for her campaigns. Her work in Congress benefitted so many people in NH and across the country, people who we are now all calling the 99%, although Carol understood who the 99% were back in 2006 when she first ran. Often we did not hear about her work, because our media in NH leans very Republican, so all of the tax money that we send to Washington that she got returned to the state for projects that benefitted the rest of us, the Medicare D prescription drug donut hole fix that she insisted be part of the Affordable Care Act, the banning of burn pits that were poisoning our troops in the Middle East, and much more, were not mentioned in our newspapers. I am so glad to see our local media printing her op eds these days, because she is on our side, and I will support her re-election and the defeat of Frank Guinta, that creature of the outside big money that she talks about in this op ed, by doing what so many of us of the 99% do, with small donations and feet on the ground.

Thanks for the good editorial.
Super Pacs, funded by the super wealthy, have much to gain by having a politician in their hip pocket. It's true -- the voices of the 99% get drowned out by the barrage of super-pac funded attack ads and venom. I agree with Carol Shea-Porter's suggestion to PAY ATTENTION AND SPEAK UP. (see? yelling it helps)

Ms. Poltack and all should know: "In 2010 NOM [National Organization for Marriage] was a significant player in New Hampshire and spent over $1 million in the last election." Continuing "NOM sent mailers and launched phone calls in 119 house races, and our endorsed candidates won all of them." www.nomblog/18245/
I share the concerns of John McCain, Russ Feingold, Carol Shea-Porter, Doris Granny D. Haddock, and many others, reference the immediate need for reform of campaign laws. Citizens United (more accurately Corporations United Against Citizens) is a powerful, well-funded non-profit corporation used to advance the rights of corporations ... not citizens. Worse is the Republican National Committee's lawsuit asserting that corporations have the right to fund campaigns DIRECTLY. Henceforth, corporations and the wealthy will change the course of history through mega, unlimited contributions and the obligations of those candidates to their wealthy donors ... all of which is lethal to Democracy, as has been playing out in the Republican primary, but exponentially worse in the General, permanently extinguishing the voice of the bottom 99 percent.
I echo the warning of Shea-Porter: Educate yourself and speak up!

Carol Shea-Porter got elected to Congress from the New Hampshire 1st District in 2006 by explaining how she would work to represent the 99% of us who had been left behind by a wealthy congress and detached Republican representatives (Think Jeb Bradley). She did that in spades working long hours, taking no PAC money, and meeting regularly with constituents. She voted against the bank bailouts, and knows the only way for "the people" to have true representation is to get the money out of politics and have publicly financed elections. Carol deserves to be voted back to Congress!!