Terre Haute attorney helps mold Republican Convention platform

The Tribune Star ^ | August 31, 2008 | Howard Grenni

[Military family member]

TERRE HAUTE — While delegates have a vote during a national convention, Terre Haute attorney James R. Bopp Jr. has a much more involved role as part of a committee that has molded the official platform for the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis/St. Paul.

The convention starts Monday and runs through Thursday, when Sen. John McCain of Arizona will make his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination at St. Paul’s Excel Energy Center.

Bopp, 60, is a national committeeman and is one of three Wabash Valley residents who as delegates are attending the national convention. The convention will host about 2,380 delegates and 2,227 alternate delegates. Randall P. Gentry of Terre Haute is attending as a delegate, and Richard M. Bramer of Sullivan is attending as an alternate delegate.

[Military family member]

“One of the areas that was of particular interest to me is language about Obama’s opposition to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act [passed by Congress in 2002], which protects infants that are born alive after an abortion, to make sure they receive the same care that any newborn infant would receive, and Obama opposed that,” said Bopp, who also serves as general counsel for the National Right to Life.

“I think that demonstrates how callous he is to human suffering by the weakest among us, and I also think it demonstrates how thoroughly and radically pro-abortion he [Obama] is. Such a law was passed by Congress and it was passed without opposition. It was good enough for [U.S. Sens.] Barbara Boxer [D-Calif.] and Ted Kennedy [D-Mass.], but is not good enough for [Sen.] Barack Obama,” Bopp said.

What a great statement!"

[Tennessee Nana]

Bopp said he thinks the McCain campaign “has been the most accommodating in terms of allowing the platform members, who represent grassroots Republicans, to make sure that the platform reflects our conservative views.”

[Tennessee Nana]

DRILLING

Another part of the GOP platform involves energy, Bopp said. President George Bush already has lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling; however, a Congressional ban remains.

“The platform includes the need to make all efforts to increase the supply of oil by drilling now in the United States that is currently severely limited by the Democrat Congress. The platform takes a very strong stand on the need to increase our domestic energy supply in order to reduce costs,” Bopp said.

“It calls for off-shore drilling and on-shore drilling and particularly points out certain areas, including Alaska, where drilling needs to be done,” Bopp said.

[Tennessee Nana]

What about the illegal aliens ?????

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