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Listening to the very entertaining and heated debate this morning on WGIR radio between Jeb Bradley and John Stephen I came away with one conclusion, Bradley needs to learn who he is running against. Congressman, it’s John Stephen, not Stephens. Carols Sheas-Porters even knows that.

A UNH poll contains good news for U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) but show trouble for U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester).

According to The Granite State Poll, Shea-Porter is losing to former U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) 46 percent to 40 percent. However, the same poll has Shea-Porter beating Bradley's primary rival, former Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen 42 percent to 36 percent.

NEW CASTLE-Former U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) and former Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen (R-Manchester) had a heated exchange on federal funding for veteran programs at a Republican forum.

Bradley said Stephen supported a federal budget plan that would have cut veterans programs, Stephen countered that the budget blueprint would not have cut programs.

Hours before their second debate, congressional candidates Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) and John Stephen (R-Manchester) announced endorsements for their respective campaigns.

Bradley released a group of 50 people who will comprise his Public Safety Coalition, while Stephen said his campaign has been endorsed by the National Vietnam & Gulf War Veterans Coalition.

U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester) has finally launched her campaign website.

The website features a listing of campaign events, web videos and her stance on various issues.

Former Bay State Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey has endorsed former U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro).

"Who will put the partisan games away, stop searching for headline making legislation and instead come up with real solutions to the problems we face. Jeb Bradley has done it in the past and will do it again," Healey said in a press release. "He is right for New Hampshire and for our country. I may not get to vote for him, but I certainly support him wholeheartedly."

A prominent conservative group has endorsed congressional candidate John Stephen (R-Manchester).

The American Conservative Union's (ACU) political action committee called Stephen "the clear conservative choice" in the 1st Congressional District Republican primary.

The 1st Congressional District Republican primary has shifted to whether candidate John Stephen (R-Manchester) increased property taxes by shifting the cost of operating nursing homes onto property owners when he was the state's former Health and Human Services secretary.

"This cost shifting is a shell game," Bradley said.  "He simply transferred state expense to local property tax payers. John pads his books, sticks property taxpayers with the bill and in so doing pushes our state ever closer to a sales or income tax. That's not leadership, that's gamesmanship."