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Linda spoke to a crowd of over 350 people yesterday at the candidate forum held in Onaway Michigan. After the forum, Linda attended a 5 county Reagan Day dinner and spoke to the crowd of 160 people celebrating Reagan’s 99th birthday, making the total of 1st district residents reached in one day over 500! Great Success!
My staff says I should not have been so harsh on Mrs. Palin in my previous post. I do apologize if I offended anybody. But, I don’t plan to remove it. I’m tired of smoke and mirrors.
If Mr. Stupak is “only supporting current law”, as he has repeatedly stated in NATIONAL newspapers, then why did we need his amendment? Government-funded abortion could have been attacked in courts based on EXISTING LAW. Why the big deal? Why?
Dear Mrs. Palin:
I am a lifelong resident of Michigan’s first district. I am a twenty-year conservative activist. I am also Bart Stupak’s Republican opponent. As such, I feel it is my duty to inform you of some misunderstanding you are entertaining about Mr. Stupak’s values.
Your recent laudatory comments about Mr. Stupak’s pro-life record are inaccurate. His “pro-life” stance has won him accolades–I even saw him on the blog of the pope, himself. However, we who live within his district know differently. Within the district, Mr. Stupak does not speak according to his pro-life, prima dona script. I personally heard Mr. Stupak say (in Cheboygan) that he would vote for the health care bill EVEN if it did not contain his magic amendment. I
have a recording.
In Escanaba, Mr. Stupak was questioned about why taxpayer-funded abortion is wrong. At that opportunity, he could have said that some people feel abortion is murder. “It is wrong to make people pay for other people’s murders.” He did not. He answered, “Most of the members think it is.” Huh?
The questioner also asked about abortion in the case of an expected deformity of the baby. Mr. Stupak said he would support taxpayer funded abortion in that case. Again, huh?
He’s said all along he was supporting current law, the Hyde amendment, which permits abortion only in cases of rape, incest or anticipated death of the mother. His approval for abortion in OTHER cases demonstrates that he is not only disingenuous about his support, he also does not tell the truth about why he pretends to express it. (I have a recording of this conversation, also.) His record on embryonic stem cell research also makes interesting reading.
During the past election season, Mr. Stupak’s opponent ( I was also on the primary ballot) received a rating of 100% from Right to Life. Mr. Stupak’s score was 24 points lower. Yet, he got the endorsement. This is neither honest nor proper.
Mrs. Palin, Bart Stupak’s pro-life stance is disingenuous. When you make such untruthful comments from the podium you are now paid to occupy, it damages the cause you claim to expound. “Going Rogue” would seem to imply departure from only one party line.
Could it be you’ve taken up another?
Sincerely,
Linda Goldthorpe
Republican candidate for Michigan District 1
Great Article With Town-Hall Video footage of Stupak:
This is an excellent evaluation of the “State of the State” by Henry Payne from nationalreview.com.
Taken from nationalreview.com:
Michigan’s Blueprint for America
Behold the cratering of an economy, courtesy of one governor’s Obamaesque policies
February 5, 2010
by Henry Payne
http://article.nationalreview.com/424065/michigans-blueprint-for-america/henry-payne
Most Americans are just getting warmed up to the idea of a self-centered chief executive who has divined America’s future as a green economy and is brashly installing the industrial-policy tools to get us there. But we here in Michigan have been living it since Gov. Jennifer Granholm took office in 2003. On Wednesday night, the flashy second-term governor celebrated the “change” she’s brought to Michigan in her final State of the State address. Read it and weep.
My husband is the finest man I’ve ever encountered. In twenty years of marriage he has never intentionally hurt my feelings one time, and I’m a handful. He is balanced, calm, deliberate and responsible. Today he got a shiny, new Concealed Carry Permit so he may “legally” carry a firearm on his person. He is very pleased. I am not.
The second amendment to the US Constitution contains one of the clearest statements you’ll ever read, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” George’s right to bear arms has been infringed, and I’m not happy about it. He was onboard ship off the coast of Beirut when the Marine barracks was bombed. He was trained very well in the use of firearms, by the US Marine Corps. He is also a corrections officer. He carries a sidearm at work, and also carries a permit to identify his permission to do so. Corrections officers are trained and retrained.
George has educated our two teenage sons in the safe and responsible use of firearms, and they’re both crack shots. We live on a lake and in the summer I spend much time at the beach. We shoot pellets from our deck, at targets between the house and the lake. We have so many targets on the lawn, I’ve seen signs on my deck that say, “DON’T SHOOT MOM!”
Believe me, this man KNOWS what he’s doing. Yet, to obtain permission to exercise what our founding fathers recognized to be a right, he had to bear the elementary instruction, expense and inconvenience of taking a course in the use of handguns. This is infringement. The fact that the government expects to KNOW who is carrying a firearm is infringement. The fact that the government enters into it at all…IS infringement.
My friend’s infant developed a skin tag on his lower back, near his bottom. The medical examinations exposed the growth to some busybody who decided the baby had been abused! Untold horror ensued at their house.
A single mom with two young boys voluntarily sought parenting advice from a local agency after an early morning incident with her 10 year-old. Her prosecution was scandalous. She lives out of state now and spends a lot of time at home with the boys since she lost her career.
I have a friend in prison for saving a child’s life.
If these stories horrify you, too, check out this website: ParentsForChildren.net
My congressman sent me a poster! Lots of politicians have done this, Chairman Mao, for instance. But if you’ve ever studied the Chinese “cultural revolution” you know that they paid for their posters, as I’m paying for mine. The Chinese paid with their lives, their intellectual and artistic “supreme-a-tons”, and their freedom.
What I find most disturbing, though, is the content of my gift. Mr. Stupak wants to be congratulated for all the jobs he has “created” in the legislature. This is hard to swallow, because government creates nothing. They redistribute jobs as they redistribute wealth…without our consent. His “Economic Recovery Report” is propaganda. It is false. And I paid for it. (Says so, on the front.)
According to the text on my poster, Mr. Stupak has been responsible for 1,950 jobs in the first district. My family has been in the restaurant business for years, and employs far fewer people. However, selling hamburgers actually fulfills a need. In the free market, if nobody wants to buy shoes, the shoemaker begins making belts, or saddles, or whatever people need. The hamburger business doesn’t need government assistance because people actually want hamburgers. When government “creates” jobs, or even “retains” jobs, they are messing with the natural inclinations of buyers and sellers. They are prolonging obsolete systems and processes. They are encouraging stagnancy in the minds and prospects of employees. They are limiting consumer options. They are the problem.
Many of the jobs Mr. Stupak claims to have created were funded through government grants. Grants are stealing. That used to be my money! Taking somebody’s money is stealing, right? My mom said so. She didn’t think it was better if I gave the stolen property to another person. It’s still stealing.
Mr. Stupak, I don’t want you to take my money to tell me how wonderful you are. I don’t want to pay for industry and jobs that are no longer viable. I want to be free.
Bart Stupak doesn’t get it. We don’t want national healthcare. We don’t want the government, which has bankrupted Social Security, the Post Office, Medicare, etc, to control another 17 percent of our economy. We don’t want government meddling in our lives in such an intimate fashion. His recent party-line piece in the Wall Street Journal clearly describes his disconnect–as well as his disingenuous expression of concern for his constituents.
Read his commentary here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703699204575016894261465742.html
First of all, it seems funny that Mr. Stupak is admonishing the legislature to talk to their constituents. He was most reluctant to talk about healthcare for most of last year. Pete Hoekstra, representative from a neighboring district, actually came to town to fill the void. Letters to Mr. Stupak’s office yield perfunctory form responses; phone calls do the same. I’m thinking about the pot and the kettle.
People don’t seem to understand something, as they wait in line at the Federal trough. They can’t seem to remember that there is no free lunch. Money comes from the government only as an exchange: money for power. Every time a company, or a group, or a state legislature takes a bite, more power goes further away.
I just finished reading about HB 4787, passed by the Michigan house a few weeks ago. It describes a ghastly exchange. Michigan needs money. Mr. Obama has an open wallet, and is willing to distribute our money to the Michigan school system. This largesse however, has its drawbacks. Michigan’s Race to the Top legislation binds school districts from evaluating their own situation and making changes necessary for top performance. Our legislators have even
submitted the future of our schools without a definition of what top performance even means! That’s yet to be announced by the feds.
Race to the Top requires many, many reports to the government, development of plans, hours, hours, effort. Frustration with the many requirements of bureaucracy is already one big reason for superintendent burnout. And, if these administrators/teachers/school boards can’t do the job now, how will it help to require them to fulfill even more bureaucratic obligations? The goal, according to the Michigan Association of School Boards, is to create “stronger schools.” I’m not into strong institutions. Don’t we want stronger kids? It doesn’t sound like it when part of the legislation loosens adherence to the curriculum requirements of No Child Left Behind.
Children are all different. One of my homeschooled sons has taught himself everything he knows. The other son required two years of daily drills to learn the ABC’s. They’re both surprisingly bright. They’re different. Don’t teachers and members of the local community recognize differences better than a pencil-pusher in Washington?
Another problem with HB 4787 is its establishment of a database that would forever track each student of every teacher. What for? I can’t think of any use for such information that is not punitive for the child…or the teacher. This dastardly legislation even provides for confiscation of school assets in nonperforming districts!
The 10th amendment to the US Constitution prohibits federal meddling in state issues. The 10th amendment is dead. We’re all so eager for federal dollars to change our circumstances, we’ll abandon our autonomy voluntarily. Forshame. Students are more important than dollars. Everybody is.
PS- US News and World Report named the best high schools in America. 17 of them were in Michigan’s first district. I wonder where they got their criteria, since the federal government hasn’t told us what to think yet.
This is an amazing interview by Thomas Woods, author of Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market
In the interview Woods explains why he believes liberty-conservatives are anti-state, anti-bailout, and anti-war– a must read:
