Ted McGowan, featured speaker Bobby Schindler and Matt Schellenberg
Terri Schiavos brother thanked The Justice Coalition and founder Ted Hires on Thursday for offering support during his sisters right-to-life struggle that turned into a national political controversy.
Speaking at the Coalitions Together We Can Breakfast at the San Jose Country Club, Bobby Schindler said Hires had helped tell the familys side of its legal struggle to keep Terri alive by publishing numerous stories in The Victims Advocate, the Coalitions paper.
Those stories helped get the truth out there when people couldnt get the facts from the Associated Press, said Schindler.
The Coalition also helped rally political support among area legislators to help pass Terris Law, a bill passed during the October 2004 special legislative session that temporarily kept Schiavo alive until a court order removed her feeding tube, said Schindler.
The breakfast was a fundraiser for The Justice Coalition, but Hires wasnt the only one there trying to raise money.
Florida gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher, currently the states chief financial officer, sat at Hires table. He said fundraising was his early preoccupation as he prepares to try to replace Gov. Jeb Bush, who has reached his two-term limit for the office.
Were moving rapidly to shore up financing and settle on the issues that I plan to emphasize, said Gallagher. I think Ill do well in Duval County, Ive always received fantastic support here.
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I didn't know about the Justice Coalition! Thanks. They will receive a donation in support of the new gubernatorial candidate. It would be great if the next governor of Florida had an interest in investigating the Medicaid/Medicare practice of hospice!
I know you know this but TEJ notice re: autopsy results tomorrow. Of course it will be a whitewash.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/614055_schiavo_autopsy_results_t.htm
SCHIAVO AUTOPSY RESULTS TO BE RELEASED WEDNESDAY