U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester) has decided to join the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's (DCCC) fundraising program, The Union Leader is reporting.

The program, Frontline, aims to help freshmen Democrats with fundraising and other political activities.

Shea-Porter originally declined to join the program but now says that Republicans have begun a negative campaign against her.

"This week, it became clear that the Republicans will not play by the New Hampshire tradition of low-cost campaigning and she has to have the ability to respond to these attacks and not let these guys mislead voters," Pia Carusone, Shea-Porter's campaign manager, told The Union Leader.