Tuesday April 20, 2010
20 Democrats Targeted for Defeat over Obamacare
By John Jalsevac
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Monday the Family Research Council Action PAC announced plans to target the districts of 20 Democratic incumbents who voted for President Obama’s abortion-funding health care bill.
On the FRC Action website, the organization explains that the 20 targeted Democrats are “those so called ‘pro-life’ Democrats who seemed destined to heroism when they joined forces with Bart Stupak on a House bill that would have precluded any use federal dollars for abortion, but who caved under White House and Democrat leadership.”
Rep. Bart Stupak had led a contingent of pro-life Democrats who said they would not vote for the federal health care bill, unless it included ironclad language against abortion funding. In the end, however, Stupak and his cohort made an 11th hour decision to vote for the bill in exchange for an Executive Order (EO) from President Obama, which purported to put up a wall against abortion funding. That EO, however, has been almost universally condemned by pro-life advocates as woefully inadequate.
“There are good reasons why organizations like ours decided to go the extra mile and create a political action committee as another arrow in its quiver,” said Connie Mackey, President of FRC Action PAC. “The thousands of families that we represent are more energized than ever to replace these so-called ‘pro-life’ Democrats who voted for a health care bill that for the first time in three decades uses taxpayer funds for abortion on demand.”
“As pro-life and pro-family voters, we must work together to change the Congress, state governments and ultimately the White House in 2012. We cannot afford to put hard earned dollars into campaigns of people who ‘grow in office’ or cannot see their way under the pressure of party politics. It’s time to replace this Congress, repeal the government takeover of health care and restore our Constitutional freedoms.”
Mackey concluded: “FRC Action PAC has spent many months researching those races we see as vulnerable and that will have pro-life, pro-family candidates to fill the void.”
Following are the names and Districts of the targets for “20 in ’10”:
Representative Chris Carney (Pa. 10th)
Representative John Boccieri (Ohio 16th)
Representative Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa. 3rd)
Representative Steve Driehaus (Ohio 1st)
Representative Gabriel Giffords (Ariz. 2nd)
Representative Baron Hill (Ind. 9th)
Representative Paul Kanjorski (Pa. 11th)
Representative Mary Jo Kilroy (Ohio 15th)
Representative Ron Klein (Fla. 22nd)
Representative Betsy Markey (Colo. 4th)
Representative Walt Minnick (Idaho 1st)
Representative Alan Mollohan (W.Va. 1st)
Representative Glen Nye (Va. 2nd)
Representative Tom Perriello (Va. 5th)
Representative Earl Pomeroy (N.D. AL)
Representative Carol Shea Porter (N.H. 1st)
Representative Ciro Rodriguez (Texas 23rd)
Representative John Spratt (S.C. 5th)
Representative Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz. 1st)
Representative Alice Titus (Nev. 3rd)