Sat 30 Jul 2005
Here’s a little reading to go with your coffee before you head out to canvass for Hackett.
- The Enquirer > Schmidt can’t recall Ach favor
Howard Wilkinson follows up on the story broken by The Blade. (We wonder if they’re trying to make up for the whole Fritz Wenzel thing.) - The Enquirer > Go to polls, don’t ‘coast’ on election
We’ve got to agree with that one. Vote for the person you think is the best candidate. Telling people to just stay home is pretty lame. - The Cincinnati Post > 2nd District race heats up at end
- The Cincinnati Post > Iraq war veteran makes run for Rob Portman’s seat interesting [new]
- Georgetown News Democrat > Campaigns ‘heat up’
Wade Linville covers the debate. - The Mississippi Press > In Ohio, a veteran fights a new war
Columnist John Leek on why he’s praying Paul Hackett makes it. - MSNBC > Iraq war vet for Congress
Countdown’s Monica Novotny has a profile up on Paul with video.
July 30th, 2005 at 7:22 am
Note about WLW…
What a difference a week makes in the 2nd District of the State of Ohio.
WLW’s Bill Cunningham is not playing shock jock or bowing to his party line.
I would like to thank him, and tell him, that if this election has done
anything to the fine citizens of the 2nd District it has told us to wake up
and unite. Political affiliation must not and should not matter in times
like these. We sit in a very critical time in America.
With the election between Schmidt and Hackett, a firmer understanding of our
common destination needs to cross party lines and we must now unite in the
middle. Issues of supporting our troops have been cleared up by Hackett’s
run. No matter what the weather it has become clear. We must support our
troops wherever they are in the world. But war must always be questioned,
not only by the common mother and father that is asked to sacrifice the
children but also by the politicians themselves. To be a rubber stamp for
those that are warring tells me that you truly do not care for those that
may not come home.
I also heard Cunningham question embryonic stem cell research today and I
thought of the debate between Jean Schmidt and Paul Hackett on a Christian
College in Brown County. Schmidt removed my fight to make abortion illegal.
As head of the Right-to-Life Cincinnati, she stated that it wouldn’t matter
if Bush were to choose a Pro-Choice judge for the vacant seat on the Supreme
Court. My fight to make abortion illegal ended right there (and believe me
when I tell you that I once picketed the clinics) but I was still in limbo
on if I could vote for a man like Hackett. He stated at the debate to keep
them safe, keep them legal, and make them rare. It wasn’t until I saw the
greed and corruption connected to Jean Schmidt, President of Right-to-Life
Cincinnati, that I had to say that I had become Pro-Choice. The gavel that
pounded it all into place was the words from Judge Roberts, “The law is
settled.”
In every family in America there is not one that has not been touched in
some way by abortion. I know of women in my own family that have had the
procedure done and it something that we never discuss. They carry with
them that word of “what if” for the rest of their lives. It is the question
that will never be answered but we all go on.
I have come to see that for every woman that goes to an abortion center
there are ten people around her to blame, at one time even myself. I have
come to an understanding that the best way to stop an abortion is to love
your sons & daughters, love your husbands & wives, love your brothers &
sisters, love your nephews & nieces, love your neighbor and do not be greedy
and accept the hope of new life… ridding the clinics will not do away with
abortions but unconditional love and constant forgiveness will… Do your
part and make them rare. If the Pope wishes to excommunicate me for
thinking like this, then I will leave the church of my childhood in good
conscious.
Mr. Cunningham mentioned that there were 200,000 embryos sitting in a
freezer somewhere in the world. He wondered how to think on this issue. An
argument in using them for stem cell research has recently been made by
Senator Frist of Tennessee. In the county that I live in, Hamilton County,
Ohio, there is a politician, Todd Portune, who I deeply respect for his deep
convictions to make my community a better place to live. The last time I
saw him walking on his own was when Bush came to Cincinnati for his war
stump speech. I was helping to direct traffic for the antiwar protesters
and Todd walked by me. Today, he sits in a wheelchair, a victim of tumors
on his spine. And I think about him walking again… I think about those
200,000 frozen fetuses sitting in a freezer, what if Jesus was one of these
fetuses, what would Jesus do? Would he want the be thrown away in some
medical bag that says hazardous wastes or would he want to help those that
can’t walk, those like my Councilman Todd Portune? How would Paul Hackett
vote on this issue? How would Jean Schmidt vote? If I were Todd Portune’s
father I know how I would vote?
Yes, a good week in the 2nd District of Ohio. This election has brought us
into a greater understanding of who we are and what we truly believe. Thank
you Paul Hackett for being the one that had to rise up in the 2nd District
and shout for all to hear that were sitting in that unconditioned gym on
Christian grounds in Brown County… “Keep it legal, keep it safe, and make
it rare.”
Vote for Paul Hackett for the 2nd District of Ohio! I feel that he’s for
stem cell research and now so am I.
Sincerely,
Peter Deane
P.S. A note to Cunningham… keep pushing that button… the one that says
Vote for Paul Hackett. We need unity! But after listening to your program today,
I believe that you may know that already.
July 30th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
I am glad Jean Schmidt pays homage to the fallen soldiers. Too little, too late. Paul Hackett will work to keep those soldiers from getting killed. We are talking about human life here, aren’t we?
July 30th, 2005 at 11:31 pm
I think it is great that in the post the first picture you see is of Paul and not Jean. Paul is above the fold of the paper. Most of the the time Jean is you see first above the fold and Paul is second below the fold.