Posted on 08/06/2006 10:07:13 AM PDT by magslinger
After months of fending off campaign attacks from conservative opponent Tim Walberg and his supporters, U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz, R-Battle Creek, is hearing it from the left just days before Tuesday's primary election.
Late last week, the Ann Arbor-based Michigan Peaceworks and several Ann Arbor area residents demanded that Schwarz, a moderate, distance himself from a campaign brochure that claims a bill he supported to keep a religious group from demonstrating at military funerals was aimed at anti-war protesters.
The dual-sided brochure includes a picture of Schwarz and a man holding a sign with an anti-war message. It states anti-war protesters are harassing families of soldiers who died in the line of duty and that Schwarz believes fallen heroes shouldn't be slandered and must be protected from the abuse of anti-war protesters.
The brochure was paid for by the American Medical Association, which endorsed Schwarz, a practicing physician, and is responsible for the brochure's content, Schwarz's aides said.
But Peaceworks Director Phillis Engelbert said that's not a good enough excuse for distorting the purpose of the law while slandering the peace movement.
The federal law was enacted in May after a series of confrontations at military burials nationwide. The confrontations erupted over the picketing of those funerals by members of Fred Phelps' Kansas-based, anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps' group claims that the deaths of U.S soldiers are the result of America's general tolerance for homosexuality.
While Phelps' group has received significant media attention, no notable peace groups across the country have used military funerals as platforms for protest, Engelbert said.
(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...
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Ha! So dems think that they are going to take over the house? Meanwhile I think we've got a new conservative rep here who's going to knock off a RINO in MI! I'll certainly be voting against lefty Schwarz on Tuesday in the primary.
Walberg is the man for me and yes I will be voting in the primary.
No they just hang around and harass the wounded and families of wounded at Walter Reed
Finance complaints filed against Schwarz Saturday, August 05, 2006 By Susan J. Demas
Federal election officials are getting to know U.S. Rep Joe Schwarz and challenger Tim Walberg well.
The Walberg campaign leveled two campaign finance complaints against the congressman this week in the latest skirmish before Tuesday's congressional primary.
Schwarz claimed a "false endorsement" from the Michigan Republican Party and didn't reveal who funded TV ads, Walberg's camp contended.
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I don't live in the district, but my daughter does and will vote for Wahlberg.
You can say that. I can say that. If Joe said that, he would lose a lot of his (lefty) base.
Can the conservative candidate win the general election? If not, defeating the RINO candidate in the primary is counterproductive.
We don't have a RINO. We have an outright liberal. If he's going to win he'll have to do it without me.
Thanks for posting this.
Schwartz is a real liberal puke, pandering to the "Code Pinko's".
I wish this had come out sooner so he could try to explain why he cares what the flag burners think.
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Oh, this is just too rich!!
I know some libidiots are going to vote in the GOP primary for Scwartz, but I never dreamed they'd concoct this crazy complaint right before Election Day.
Local radio (Jackson) is saying they're expecting a low voter turnout in the primaries, but I think it's because everyone is trying to squeeze in their vacations.
A day doesn't go by that I don't get at least two election flyers in the mail, sometimes more, from both candidates. My mind was made up LAST election to vote for Walberg.
Joe the RINO is OUTTA here.
My bet is they'll print it Wednesday.
My contempt for the CitPat is growing daily.
They printed an "article" on Ward Connerly's visit to Jackson last week but failed to mention that Jennifer Gatz, the FOUNDER of MCRI who was denied admission into UofM because she was white, was there as well. The reporter left early and warned us of heavy-handed editing by the paper ("it's worse than you think").
The CitPat is going to get whipped and sent to the woodshed too after they fall on their face this week.
Nope, no bias there.
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