Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen this weekend disparaged the “nasty” attack embodied by The Daily Caller’s recent expose on 21 property liens issued by New England towns against her real-estate investing business, which is managed by her husband. (RELATED: Liens Filed Against Shaheen and Her Husband For Failure To Pay Creditors)
The New Hampshire-based station WBIN ran a segment on the report, identifying TheDC as a “conservative web blog covering politics” and claiming, “that [article] has the senator taking this very personally”
“I have run six times in New Hampshire. I have never had people attack my husband, my family, my character,” Shaheen told the television station in the interview. “I am disappointed by the kind of negative attacks that have come into New Hampshire.”
WBIN cited Shaheen as saying that attacks against her are “being dug up by big business supporting Scott Brown and third-party interest groups like the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, and the Ending Spending Action Fund.” The senator was careful in her remarks not to falsely state that any of those “interest groups” participated in any way in TheDC’s report.
“They don’t have anything at stake here in New Hampshire. They don’t care how nasty they get and whether what they have to say is accurate or not,” Shaheen said. “They just come in and make these false attacks and you had better believe they’re not supporting Scott Brown because he’s going to be helping New Hampshire.”
Considering that Shaheen, who did not provide comment for TheDC’s report, suggested that some “attacks” against her are not “accurate” or “false,” TheDC would like to ask the senator which portion of our report she found to be inaccurate or false. Here are the 21 liens TheDC reviewed, courtesy of county property records in New Hampshire and Maine:
1. $3,409.01 lien issued against Shaheen Enterprises by the town of Dover, N.H. in 1985 (which was redeemed in 1986).
2. $50.94 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and William R. Lynn by the town of Dover, N.H. in 1995 (redeemed in 1996).
3. $1,930.56 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and William R. Lynn by the town of Dover, N.H. in 1996 (redeemed in 1996).
4. $2,485.05 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and David B. Sullivan by the town of Rollinsford, N.H. in 2007 (redeemed in 2007).
5. $0.85 lien issued against Bill Shaheen, Daniel Shaheen, and Warren Dunphy by the municipality of Wells, Maine in 1979 (lien released in 1979).
6. $607.03 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and brother-in-law John McKinnon by the municipality of York, Maine in 1979 (lien released in 1980).
7. $23.37 lien issued against Bill Shaheen, Daniel Shaheen, and Warren Dunphy by the municipality of Wells, Maine in 1980 (lien released in 1980).
8. $360.51 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and John McKinnon by the municipality of York, Maine in 1980 (lien released in 1980).
9. $741.75 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and John McKinnon by the municipality of York, Maine in 1982 (lien released in 1983).
10. $662.50 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and John McKinnon by the municipality of York, Maine in 1983 (lien released in 1984).
11. $903.19 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and John McKinnon by the municipality of York, Maine in 1984 (lien released in 1985).
12. $924.87 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and John McKinnon by the municipality of York, Maine in 1985 (lien released in 1986).
13. $903.9 lien issued against Bill and (future senator) Cynthia Shaheen by the municipality of York, Maine in 1987 (lien released in 1988).
14. $1,006.07 lien issued against Bill and Josephine Shaheen by the municipality of York, Maine in 1987 (lien released in 1988).
15. $835.35 lien issued against Bill Shaheen by the municipality of York, Maine in 1987 (lien released in 1988).
16. $153.11 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and John and Mary McKinnon by the York, Maine Sewer District in 1992 (lien released in 1992).
17. $173.75 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and John and Mary McKinnon by the York, Maine Sewer District in 1994 (lien released in 1994).
18. $119.91 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and John and Mary McKinnon by the York, Maine Sewer District in 2000 (lien released in 2000).
19. $128.74 lien issued against Bill Shaheen and Mary McKinnon by the York, Maine Sewer District in 2000 (lien released in 2000).
20. $1,274.07 lien issued against Bill Shaheen by the municipality of York, Maine in 2008 (lien released in 2008).
21. Lien of indeterminate amount issued against Bill Shaheen and “JP Nadeau,” according to Rockingham County, N.H. records. The lien had not been redeemed as of 2009.