Linda will be on WTCM Radio today at 9:30am to discuss her candidacy for the Michigan 1st district seat, and her opponent Bart Stupak’s recent vote for the healthcare bill.

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Toyota recalled the problematic cars because they wanted to avoid  liability for any damage or injuries that may result from the problem with their cars.  They didn’t want to go to court and waste resources defending lawsuits.  The individuals at Toyota probably didn’t want the sleepless nights that result when you do something that hurts other people. There are a thousand reasons for Toyota to recall their cars.  But, one reason is paramount: Toyota wants to sell more cars.

Following the recall of Firestone tires in 2000, Congress passed legislation requiring auto manufacturers to give them information on consumer complaints, property damage, injuries, deaths…even warranty claims.  Our representatives in Washington demand to know all this.  The man-hours, expense, and effort of providing this information must add a nice chunk to the high
prices we already pay for cars.  Now Congress is investigating Toyota.

My congressman said, “We want to find out what Toyota knows about the sudden acceleration problem with several of their vehicles and we want to know what will be done to protect
consumers who are currently driving those vehicles,”  Why?  Why does the government need to know this?  Where in the Constitution does it say that government even has the right to know
this?  And, what use is this information to them, anyway?

Although it is a great coincidence that this governmental  imperative on Toyota comes only a few weeks after the U.S. auto industry was… basically nationalized, I will not speculate.  I am certain
of one thing, though.  I trust Toyota to make better cars than my government.  I trust Toyota more than my government.  But, I may be wrong; I’ve never seen my congressman with a
wrench.

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:

http://www.lucecountygop.org/healthcare/stupak-will-vote-for-obamacare-even-with-public-funded-abortion

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.

Why does he think we’re interested in having government “create jobs?” Government is the reason we have so few.  If the hysterically burdensome regulation of private interests would abate, we’d have more jobs than we could fill.  People are creative. People are innovative. People want to succeed and in a truly free market economy, they would. Innovative people make jobs for others and produce goods and services.  The government
produces nothing.

Also, why is it necessary for people living in “Michigan, New York or Nebraska,” to pay the same insurance premiums?  We don’t pay the same for anything else.  I choose to live in Michigan’s upper peninsula where my local store sells bread for four dollars a loaf.  I can’t get reliable internet and I’m 100 miles from the closest Wal-mart.  I chose this.  Different locations have different characteristics.  People are subject to different diseases and injuries, in differing locations, to a different extent.  That’s how life is.  Health care costs differ according to location and for a thousand other reasons.

Mr. Stupak says we are not expected to understand and support a bill nearly 3,000 pages long.  Is this huge document unique?  Many, many bills are passed with nefarious bits of this and that buried in their pages.  As one much-quoted legislator pointed out, it would require a staff of attorneys to make heads or tails of most proposed legislation.   And the healthcare bill is especially  egregious.  Ms. Pelosi, who votes with Mr. Stupak 96 percent of the time, said it is “reasonable” to jail those who don’t comply with the healthcare bill requirements.  And the IRS is to monitor?  We really don’t want that.

Even Mr. Stupak’s much-touted support of the Hyde Amendment is disingenuous.  In Escanaba last month, a citizen asked why it’s wrong to publically-fund abortion.  What a question!  He, if he’s the pro-life marauder they claim, could have said, “Some people call abortion murder.  It is wrong to make them pay for another’s murders.”  Instead, he said, “the majority of the members oppose it.”    Give me a break!  Mr. Stupak’s insipid support of pro-life interests has often been recorded:  he says, “It’s the law.  It’s the Hyde amendment.  I’m only sticking up for current law.”  But, when questioned about the current law which only approves publically-funded abortion in the cases of rape, incest or impending death of the mother, Mr. Stupak said he would approve abortion in cases where the child is expected to be deformed.    He didn’t say that before; he said he was supporting current law!   Not only is he not pro-life, he is not honest about the reasons he claims to be.  Where is Right to Life in all of this?  They’ve repeatedly endorsed Mr. Stupak.  Last election year he scored 24 percent LOWER than his Republican opponent on the Right to Life candidate questionnaire, yet he got the endorsement.

One thing Mr. Stupak is right about.  He’s right to be concerned about an “electoral tsunami.” Massachusetts elected a Republican to the Senate.  I can’t say I’m particularly fond of some of the new senator’s positions, but he proved one thing.  It can be done.