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To: mbraynard
That would be great for FDT, except the IA organization endorsed Romney.

This is all that I could find from the Iowa Right To Life Committtee:

"Lehman said the Iowa Right to Life Committee will not endorse a candidate in the race for the Republican nomination because there are multiple anti-abortion candidates. The organization does, however, oppose former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy because of his support for abortion rights."

28 posted on 11/14/2007 10:40:12 AM PST by Prokopton
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To: Prokopton; mbraynard; Beagle8U

(mbraynard)
“Besides, the state organization in IA endorsed Willard. “

“That would be great for FDT, except the IA organization endorsed Romney.”


Someone is making stuff up:

The Iowa Independent by: Lynda Waddington
Tuesday (11/13) at 11:25 AM

“National Right to Life became the first national grassroots organization to issue a formal endorsement in the Republican presidential contest Tuesday morning when they put their support behind former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson.”

“Iowa Right to Life and the other 49 state affiliate organizations now have a choice to make. They can either support the national organization’s endorsement of Thompson or they can remain neutral. Lehman said the decision from the Iowa group will be forthcoming in the next few weeks, but stopped short on speculating where the members might fall.

“I really think it will come down to a majority vote,” she said. “I have no idea because we live in a caucus state. In a caucus state, everyone is pretty active in politics and so, typically, board members work and volunteer for their choice of pro-life candidates on an individual basis. So, I don’t know where people are on their individual support of candidates.

“I think at this point — as close as we are to the caucuses — [the decision] is not going to be on a personal decision level. It’s going to be on a practical level on being able to take the executive branch in the final election. So, it’s going to be an interesting discussion.”

Haus said he was aware of the discussions that would now take place within the state organization, but rejected use of the word lobby when it came to how those decision makers would be approached.”

http://www.iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=F8C7928414B74F04D305BFDE664837FC?diaryId=1452


47 posted on 11/14/2007 12:01:31 PM PST by ansel12 (Proud father of a 10th Mountain veteran. Proud son of a WWII vet. Proud brother of vets, Airborne)
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