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Posted on 03/28/2008 8:58:17 AM PDT by MitchellC
NEWS RELEASE
Heath Shuler Shows Why He Doesn't Belong in Congress
BlueRidgeNow, the website of the Hendersonville Times-News, reported on March 26 on an appearance by Rep. Heath Shuler at a Rotary Club meeting in that city, but missed the deeper story that was present.
According to the story, Heath Shuler blamed Senator John McCain, a Republican who is not serving in the House, as "blocking" Shuler's SAVE Act which would impose tighter controls on illegal immigration from getting a vote in the House. The Times-News had noted in an editorial on 20 March that "48 Democrats had co-sponsored the bill." So, if all those Democrats had signed the Discharge Petition, Shuler's SAVE Act would have reached the floor, and would have gotten a vote.
A Discharge Petition means that 218 Members of the House sign a document requiring a bill to come to the floor, regardless of the actions of any Committee, and regardless of the position of House leadership, especially the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. The article does note that Speaker Pelosi does not want this bill voted on. However, it does not note that Speaker Pelosi, a liberal, San Francisco Democrat, only became Speaker with the votes of Heath Shuler and about 20 other freshman Democrats who advertised themselves as conservative" when they ran for office in 2006.
Those reluctant Democrats who co-sponsored the bill but haven't signed the Discharge Petition have no reason to listen to any requests from Senator John McCain a Republican. They have every incentive to listen to demands from Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.
In short, the facts of this matter lead to the conclusion that it was Heath Shuler, and no one else, who blocked Shuler's bill from the floor. He did so with the first vote he ever cast in Congress, to choose Pelosi as Speaker.
John Armor, constitutional lawyer from Macon County, and a candidate for Congress in the 11th District, said, "All the facts would have allowed readers to conclude that Shuler never expected his SAVE Act to get a vote in Congress. He knew it would fail. He just wanted to pretend, one more time, that he was a 'conservative' with 'mountain values.'" Mr. Armor pointed out that Shuler admitted at the Christmas party for the Macon County Sheriff that because of Speaker Pelosi, "my bill will never get out of committee."
John Armor
Highlands, NC
www.ArmorforCongress.com
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This is a political pitch. It should be removed immediately.
And some FReepers lap up Heath Schuler’s bull like a cat laps up a saucer of milk.
Bad QB, Bad Congriss-critta’
It’s a press release. The source is listed. Freepers aren’t stupid.
I’d like to have another Freeper in Congress.
GO, Billybob!
So were Health’s lies , a press release the local paper ran with to cover for him.
Not so much because they like Heath, but because they knew he'd be Nancy Pelosi's enabler.
This actually doesn’t say anything about Heath’s charge, that McCain or his people were calling Repubs asking them to back off.
It merely says that, had Heath not voted for Pelosi, this wouldn’t have happened, or if more Dems were in favor of tightening the border, this wouldn’t have happened. All true. But it doesn’t answer the charge.
The foot injury did cause brain damage
Heath Schuler: He’s going to do for America what he did for the Washington Redskins.
Heath Shuler was stupid when he was playing football. His IQ hasn’t gone up in the intervening years.
I believe that Rep Shuler scored a 16 on the Wonderlich test (I think you automatically score a 10 if you get your name correct) so let’s just say that ol’ Heath ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Exactly right, it’s a press release. It’s not news or activism but it is a direct political pitch for a spedific candidate produced by that candidate’s campaign personnal.
I think for it to remain on FR it represents a direct endorsement of the candidate by Free Republic.
You think wrong.
Where were you in October through January when every side in the GOP presidential primary race was posting their candidate's press releases?
I was setting where I am currently setting. I don’t object to campaign announcements concerning rallies or speeches, but this is candidate comparison, or attack or distortion of facts, which ever fits.
It seems FR could be, under certain administrations, strong armed into accepting every press release from every candidate in any political race in the nation.
No it shouldn't. This is a conservative site. We support conservatives here and I welcome their pitches!
We disagree. However, let’s hope we don’t support anymore conservatives like GWB.
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