NYT: Michael Schiavo emerges as new 'political weapon' for Democrats
Good for you Michael Schiavo, you stick it to them, like the scum tried to stick it to you, at such a devistating time in your life.
RAW STORYPublished: Tuesday August 15, 2006
Michael Schiavo has emerged as a new "political weapon" for Democrats, according to an article slated for Wednesday's edition of the New York Times.
Excerpts from the Times article:
The curtains are still drawn tight at Michael Schiavo's home on a cul-de-sac here, and in some ways he remains as private and unknowable as when his late wife, Terri, was the focus of a fervent national debate last year about life and death.
Yet Schiavo, who won a scorching legal battle to remove his brain-damaged wife's feeding tube, also remains furious at lawmakers in Tallahassee and Washington who intervened in the case. Hence the creation last winter of TerriPAC, a federal political action committee aimed against politicians who tried to stop Ms. Schiavo's death, and the debut of Mr. Schiavo, a newly remarried, self-described normal guy, as a political weapon in this year's midterm elections.
He is an unpolished speaker, sometimes abandoning sentences midstream or grasping for the right words. He did not vote or follow the news until recently, he says, and had never heard of a PAC until strangers suggested he start one late last year.
Still, Schiavo flew to Connecticut last month to help Ned Lamont defeat Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman in the Democratic primary. Schiavo reminded voters that Lieberman had supported an emergency bill asking a federal court to consider reinserting Schiavo's feeding tube days before she died in March 2005. Ms. Schiavo's parents, who adamantly opposed her death and rejected Mr. Schiavo's claim that she would have wished it, had pleaded with Congress and President Bush to intervene.
Schiavo also hand-delivered a caustic letter to Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., who outspokenly opposed Ms. Schiavo's death, and endorsed her Democratic opponent, Angie Paccione. He even attended a bloggers' convention in Las Vegas in June to raise his profile in the online pundit world, hosting a "privacy roundtable" at the Riviera Hotel.
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FULL TIMES ARTICLE CAN BE READ AT THIS LINK
RAW STORYPublished: Tuesday August 15, 2006Michael Schiavo has emerged as a new "political weapon" for Democrats, according to an article slated for Wednesday's edition of the New York Times.
Excerpts from the Times article:
The curtains are still drawn tight at Michael Schiavo's home on a cul-de-sac here, and in some ways he remains as private and unknowable as when his late wife, Terri, was the focus of a fervent national debate last year about life and death.
Yet Schiavo, who won a scorching legal battle to remove his brain-damaged wife's feeding tube, also remains furious at lawmakers in Tallahassee and Washington who intervened in the case. Hence the creation last winter of TerriPAC, a federal political action committee aimed against politicians who tried to stop Ms. Schiavo's death, and the debut of Mr. Schiavo, a newly remarried, self-described normal guy, as a political weapon in this year's midterm elections.
He is an unpolished speaker, sometimes abandoning sentences midstream or grasping for the right words. He did not vote or follow the news until recently, he says, and had never heard of a PAC until strangers suggested he start one late last year.
Still, Schiavo flew to Connecticut last month to help Ned Lamont defeat Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman in the Democratic primary. Schiavo reminded voters that Lieberman had supported an emergency bill asking a federal court to consider reinserting Schiavo's feeding tube days before she died in March 2005. Ms. Schiavo's parents, who adamantly opposed her death and rejected Mr. Schiavo's claim that she would have wished it, had pleaded with Congress and President Bush to intervene.
Schiavo also hand-delivered a caustic letter to Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., who outspokenly opposed Ms. Schiavo's death, and endorsed her Democratic opponent, Angie Paccione. He even attended a bloggers' convention in Las Vegas in June to raise his profile in the online pundit world, hosting a "privacy roundtable" at the Riviera Hotel.
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FULL TIMES ARTICLE CAN BE READ AT THIS LINK
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