The new convert to Roman Catholic is on the march to unseat Jim King.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Randall Terry hopes northeast Florida voters will not simply focus on the more extreme comments he made as founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue as he campaigns to unseat powerful state Sen. Jim King in the upcoming Republican primary.
Nor does he want them to solely look at his role in the unsuccessful effort last year to reinsert the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who was at the center of a right-to-die case. He also hopes they can forgive his divorce and 1998 bankruptcy, the latter an effort to avoid paying $1.6 million in court-ordered civil penalties to Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women.
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Terry, 47, says he is running because King sided with Democrats to block efforts to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube, appointed Democrats to committee chairs when he was Senate president and because he pushed for money to pay for the education of illegal immigrants living in Florida. Terry says King is too liberal for the district.
"This election is a referendum on what it means to be a Republican. I am a Ronald Reagan Republican," said Terry, who lost a 1998 primary bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York. He moved to Ponte Vedra Beach three years ago.
Anti-Abortion Leader Seeks To Oust Powerful GOP Legislator
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.