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To: Miss Marple
Well, the first page on google is : 105th Congress Archive: Lautenberg Domestic Confiscation Law
4 posted on 10/02/2002 3:37:58 PM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: Howlin; Dog
You might want to check this thread for info
5 posted on 10/02/2002 3:39:49 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Lil'freeper
I think that Forrester simply needs to say that (A) he is pro-choice but not pro-abortion (in other words, he supports abortion rights but doesn't believe in Federal funding, a litmus test for judgest, or extreme pro-abortion positions such as allowing children to be taken across state lines for abortion or late third-trimester abortions) -- make Lautenberg the extremist here, (B) he thinks that the answer to cutting gun violence is to enforce the laws on the books and to focus on punishing guns used for crimes, not to enact more laws that will not be enforced, and (C) he need to explain that the reason he wants to use taxpayer dollars to clean up toxic sites is that the Superfund, despite good intentions, simply isn't getting the sites cleaned up, which is of paramount importance, and that trying to extract money from NJ companies for clean-ups in a weak economy will only increase the unemployment rate.

These are the three issues that I saw in an anti-Forrester ad on WABC last night. Note that I'm pro-life but I think that Forrester can get milage out of being a "moderate" pro-choice candidate. He should also point out that even if Roe were overturned, it would simply turn abortion law back to the states, it wouldn't outlaw it. All of these issues were are the heart of the Dem attack and Torricelli's teary speach. Forrester must address them now on television and radio.

In doing so, he then must point out that it is the Democrats that are trying to squash the very real issues he was trying to raise, in particular, being weak on defense and support of the intelligence agencies. Lautenberg probably has a history of votes that will make him vulnerable here. And this will help move him beyond the idea that his candidacy was only "anti-Torricelli".

As for the Supreme Court issue, Forrester should point out that the same liberals who hold extreme pro-abortion issues to pass a Lautenberg litmus test are also the same sort of extreme (use that word) liberal judges who do things like declaring the Pledge of Allegence uncontitutional. In other words, the judicial activism that supports extreme readings of Roe goes far beyond simply abortion rights.

21 posted on 10/02/2002 3:49:51 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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