Jeanne Shaheen Doesn’t Deliver Progressive Promise
Progressive activists in New Hampshire worked long and hard last year to get Jeanne Shaheen elected to the U.S. Senate. How has Senator Shaheen repaid that effort?
Not very well, according to our legislative scorecard. Senator Shaheen has supported about as many right wing legislative items as she has progressive bills. Yes, Shaheen has voted for workplace fairness and public lands legislation, but she has also voted in favor of massive military waste, and opposed progressive efforts to close the shameful torture prisons of Guantanamo Bay. Many progressive pieces of legislation have simply been ignored by Senator Shaheen’s office.
In reaction, there are the beginnings of a rumbling resentment among New Hampshire progressive activists. If Senator Shaheen doesn’t move to shift her legislative priorities to include more progressive efforts, her re-election campaign a few years from now could be forced to contend with a grassroots movement carrying the banner of New Hampshire progressives against Shaheen.
