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Source you say.............. Gotcha one right cher.

The Peroutkas transferred parental responsibilities for Dawn Hubbard to the State of Maryland on her 17th birthday, May 1, 1992, and Holly met the same fate on the day after Thanksgiving 1992, when she was 15. The sisters, now in their late 20s and living outside of Maryland, say they never wanted to be estranged from their mother and have tried without success to reconcile with her several times since being removed from the Peroutka household more than a decade ago.

When my choices are between a GOP vs Dem I'll go with the GOP. Now you may take a 3rd party or the dems but that's not my leanings. Yes they both will spend money, one via the tax and spend method and the other via the borrow and spend method.

The Peroutkas transferred parental responsibilities for Dawn Hubbard to the State of Maryland on her 17th birthday, May 1, 1992, and Holly met the same fate on the day after Thanksgiving 1992, when she was 15. The sisters, now in their late 20s and living outside of Maryland, say they never wanted to be estranged from their mother and have tried without success to reconcile with her several times since being removed from the Peroutka household more than a decade ago.

Well now, that is very interesting.

So all the people in this thread trumpeting their superior priniciples are voting for a man who kicked his minor step daughters out of his house, got a restraining order against one of them, and spent the girl's SS checks from her dead father.

Yep, those superior principled folks can really be proud of themselves.

The following spring, as she was being treated by Johns Hopkins Medical psychiatrist Dr. Paul McHugh, Dawn Hubbard began to doubt the veracity of her memories of sexual abuse. By the fall of 1993, she was convinced they weren't real, but the result of a phenomenon known as false-memory syndrome. When Dawn attempted to deliver a letter to that effect to her parents, Diane Peroutka had her arrested for trespassing; Diane Peroutka had tried to do the same to to a visiting Holly Hubbard in June 1993, but the police wouldn't charge Holly. Shortly thereafter, Dawn appeared on the Phil Donohue Show with representatives from the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, and recanted her sexual abuse allegations to a national television audience. Still, the Peroutkas have rebuffed Dawn and Holly Hubbard's subsequent attempts at reconciliation.

I don't think you can conclude from this case that the Pertouka does't stand for family values. You weren' there were you and you don't know the specifics of precisely what happened or the relationship with the daughtes, do you? First, Dawn was not a little girl when she falsely accused her step-dad of abuse (and later recanted!). I know I wouldn't want an older teenager around who hated me and made such false accusations against me! - at the coaching of a social worker no less. I don't blame them for making he a ward of the state. And we see that neither parent was ever charged with anything.

So, what is it that Peroutka did wrong? Not reconciling with his daughters? I think that unless you have some inside knowledge of the case, you don't have the right to make any conclusions about the Peroutka's family values. It borders on libel, and you better be careful what you say in this forum as you are subject to libel laws.