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As reward for stymieing Obama’s health-care monstrosity, Michigan’s Bart Stupak has picked up a primary challenger from the Left. The Free Press Washington reports:
Connie Saltonstall of Charlevoix said today she plans to run against Stupak for the Democratic nomination of Michigan’s First Congressional District, citing Stupak’s efforts to stop health care reform if it doesn’t ban use of government money for abortions. Stupak, a former state trooper from Menominee, has held the seat since 1993.
This year and last, Stupak has made a name for himself as a thorn in the side of some congressional Democrats pushing legislation for health care reform. While largely supportive of those efforts, he successfully attached an amendment last fall to ban use of federal funds to help pay for abortions.
“I believe that he has a right to his personal, religious views, but to deprive his constituents of needed health care reform because of those views is reprehensible,” Saltonstall said in a statement.
I see. Pro-life religious convictions are bad; invoking religion to advocate a government takeover of health care is good. Zikes!
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Interested Conservative| 3.10.10 @ 11:02AM
A non-issue. Rep. Stupak will become a republican before he loses a primary, and he's never going to become a republican.
The most likely scenario (and still very unlikely) is that he loses to a republican in the general.
His district is almost gerrymander proof, so even if the GOP takes the Michigan state races, they'd leave him alone and redraw the maps around the lower peninsula.
If he really sticks to his pro-life stance through this, he probably should join the GOP, but he'd still likely just retire when he pleases as a democrat.
Tim| 3.10.10 @ 11:11AM
She might have said : "The only good Christian is a spiritually dead Christian."
steve| 3.17.10 @ 2:11PM
Fox News newest Stooge