Flyer in my mailbox should be embarrassment to all Republicans

To The Daily Sun,

The political season is on, and our mailboxes swell with campaign fliers. One I received from the New Hampshire Republican State Committee a few days ago ought to be an embarrassment to Republicans.

The flyer claims that Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, who's again in a tight race with Republican Frank Guinta, just loves flying first-class at taxpayer expense. As evidence, the flyer shows a "boarding pass" in the name of Carol Shea-Porter for first-class seat 2B, leaving from Gate 19 at 8:42 p.m. on Wings Airline.

Really? There's no airport on this boarding pass. Google can find no "Wings Airline." The closest hit is Wings Air, a low-budget, economy-class-only service hopping among the islands of Indonesia.

In case this fraud scores no points with voters, the other side of the flyer carries the debunked claim that Obamacare has forced 22,000 New Hampshire residents to lose their health insurance. Politifacts last year called that claim false.

The truth is that the Anthem insurance company canceled these policies in 2013 on the grounds that they were non-compliant with the Affordable Care Act. But Shea-Porter worked with Anthem to let people enroll in new plans and keep their current doctors and hospitals — and to extend the enrollment deadline.

No room on the GOP flyer for those details, or to mention that the same number of New Hampshire residents who had no health insurance at all — 22,000 — now have it, thanks to Obamacare.

Voters deserve better than this bottom-of-the-barrel stuff.

Robert Gillette

Wolfeboro