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Tag: Gleason

There's embarrassing and then there are these local Dems

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 07:46:06 AM EST
Tags: Gleason, Whitmer, Slezak, Robert Jones, tax hikes, cruise, Bahamas, Jim Crow, legislature (all tags)

We're talking dumb, dumber and just plain asinine. I don't know how else to describe the moves made yesterday by three Democratic state lawmakers here in Michigan, other than to slap my forehead forcefully and repeatedly.

I'd probably get a kick out of some of this nonsense, if it wasn't so thoroughly dangerous.

OK, so its not all dangerous. One of the House Dem's freshmen members, for instance, isn't going to do any real overt damage but that doesn't make his latest campaign fundraising gimmick any less ridiculous. Apparently the man doesn't own a TV or a radio and he's missed all of the Governor's "Pure Michigan" tourism ads.

Instead of hosting his next fundraiser on the lakeshore or at a great local restaurant or ski resort, Representative Jim Slezak is packing up his donors and asking them to shell out hundreds of dollars to go on a cruise with him. Not in a classic car down Woodward Avenue in Detroit, mind you... on a cruise line. To a private island. In the Bahamas.

All aboard!

I couldn't make this up. Read on...

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Michiganders show up in force to defend life!

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Fri Jan 23, 2009 at 10:04:15 AM EST
Tags: abortion, Cropsey, Gleason, Roe v Wade, Lansing, Michigan (all tags)

Yesterday hundreds of Michiganders joined hundreds of thousands of their fellow Americans in a march on the Capitol in Washington, DC, coming together in one powerful voice to urge the President and lawmakers to protect the unborn.

Unfortunately, President Obama is expected to make true the worst fears of defenders of innocent life. ABC News reports that he is today expected to sign an executive order overturning the Mexico City Policy, in effect permitting American tax dollars to be spent funding abortions around the world.

Abortion WILL become more frequent, today, with untold thousands of innocent lives snuffed out between this date and the reinstatement of the policy upon the election of a pro-life replacement in the White House. Compounding the tragedy is the fact that you and I will be paying for the killings.

Simply put, elections have consequences. We cannot, for a single moment, allow ourselves to be plied by sugar-coated speeches, popular sentiment and the adulation of the mainstream media. How men and women who claim to be pro-life can justify their vote for this man in light of today's action... I just plain don't get it.

As heartbreaking as today's executive order is, though, the testimony, conviction and commitment of the men and women and children who came together yesterday in DC is equally encouraging. And they weren't alone.

Yesterday hundreds gathered at the steps of the Capitol in Lansing, Michigan as well. It was cold, it was windy and it was overcast... the meteorological equivalent of the political climate for life, but there wasn't an ounce of quit or loss of compassion in these families.

Nearly a dozen legislators were in attendance... Representatives Rick Jones, Tom McMillin, Matt Lori... Democratic Senator John Gleason. Senator Alan Cropsey spoke to the crowd, encouraging them to continue championing life and reminding everyone of the importance of the cause. He cautioned that the new administration would likely attempt, soon, to overturn the global gag order and encouraged folks to press their Congressmen hard and frequently to influence the administration in the cause of life.

Today the President made Cropsey a prophet. And now I can only wonder how Senator Gleason rationalizes his support of a man that helped enable the new slaughter of thousands of children across the globe.

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