In today's RCJ - Schwiesow v. Adelstein on Abortion
Check out today's Rapid City Journal:
Schwiesow said protecting the unborn is important to all people in District 32. She denied distorting Adelstein’s position on abortion and said he was the one trying to avoid the truth.Read it all here! And if you're having trouble figurng out where Stan stands on the issue because of the clutter of the campaign, check out his interest group ratings based on his past voting record with Project Vote Smart:
Adelstein should be judged by the company he keeps rather than his public statements and campaign brochures, Schwiesow said. By traveling to Washington, D.C., earlier this spring to receive an award from Planned Parenthood, Adelstein showed his true philosophy on the issue, she said.
“The same Planned Parenthood that presented Mr. Adelstein with an award recently also opposes any restrictions on abortion for any reason, at any stage of development,” Schwiesow said. “Planned Parenthood has sued to prevent the (federal) legislation that outlawed partial-birth abortion from being implemented. This is the most extreme position one could take.
“These organizations do not bestow honors on pro-lifers.”
Schwiesow also said it was disingenuous of Adelstein to claim he didn’t believe in unrestricted access to abortion but demand so many exemptions that any abortion ban would become useless.
Adelstein said his Planned Parenthood award did not mean he supported the group on every point of the abortion debate.
“In fact, I actively disagree with Planned Parenthood on some issues,” he said.
2005 Senator Adelstein supported the interests of the NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota 100 percent in 2005.
2003 Based on past voting records and a survey sent out to all state legislative candidates in 2003, South Dakota Right to Life considers the position of Senator Adelstein to be Pro-Choice.
(Sorry. Did that distort things?)
Comments
They were not exchanging recipes for meatloaf.
Remember Daschle? He didn't on this and many other issues, and he was "daschled."
If Adelstein is truly pro-abortion, and evidently NARAL thinks he is, he should be proud of this and admit it. Voters have a right to know who they are voting for in the coming election.
It was obvious from the start that current lobbying efforts were substantially under powered but making a management change at that stage in the campaign would have been viewed as a sign of weakness for them.
Stan became proxied and Planned Parenthood gave him free reign to run it how he thought best.
It was mentioned earlier that it was wrong for PP to do that given that it was something hidden from the donor base. It was a bad move but to leave it in the hands of the State Director was a worse one.
The point her is that Stan is neither Pro-Choice or Pro-Life, he is simply pro-Stan.
Abortion is just an issue like any other, taxes, school funding, they means nothing to him. He is a polititians polititian.
Infact, I seem to remember him saying that he did. And why did he spend so much time with the people from PP during the session this year.
He could always give the award back. Or PP cound ask for it back.
Take in point, the B.S. going on with immigration right now. Republicans are scared out of their heads by Bush's low approval ratings, so Bush decides to be a party man and order up border patrol national guard style.
I'm just sick of candidates that lack the creativity to distinguish themselves on any other issue besides the "wedge" issues.
It's part of the entire political landscape these days - too many people are worried about being politicians, and less about being stateman. About doing what's best to move our state forward.
Where have they gone? Where are the people worried more about public service than they are about keeping the other side out of power?
I hope the next generation learns from the mistakes of this generation. I hope they learn that our state, our counrtry and our world does not benefit by focusing on what makes us different or where we disagree. Fact is, issues like abortion are ALWAYS going to split people. Government is best advised to stay out of that which is permanantly divisive.
It's not good for our state. It's not good for our country. It's not good for the world.
Soups on, ya wolves.