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Carol Shea-Porter also misled voters on Obamacare

Now that President Obama has apologized for misleading the American people for telling them that they could keep their health insurance if they liked it, one has to wonder when Carol Shea-Porter is going to be making the same apology.

 After all, in a 2010 interview with the Washington Examiner defending her vote for Obamacare, Shea-Porter made the same promise as the President: "If you like your coverage, you can keep it.”

Of course, Shea-Porter’s promise is simply not true – millions of Americans have lost their health insurance because of Obamacare and more will continue to feel the law’s devastating effects as it is fully implemented.

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 Maybe Shea-Porter should have read the bill before she voted for it.

The fact it, Carol Shea-Porter blatantly misled New Hampshire voters when she said ‘if you like your coverage, you can keep it.’ But instead of apologizing to voters for misleading them and subjecting them to a disastrous law, she continues to double-down on her support for Obamacare. 

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Shea-Porter already lost he seat in Congress once because of Obamacare and its looking very much like history is going to repeat itself in 2014. 

Ian Prior is the Northeast Regional Press Secretary with the National Republican Congressional Committee, New England native, and die hard Pats fan

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