Andy Martin blasts Topinka, Brady on abortion
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN RATCHETS UP ABORTION ISSUE, SKEWERS TOPINKA AS A “FRAUD” ON ABORTION, BILL BRADY AS “RIGHT-WING” NUT
MARTIN BEGINS ATTACKS ON WGN-TV, CONTINUES WITH NEWS CONFERENCE ATTACKING FOES ON ABORTION ISSUE
(CHICAGO)(March 14, 2006) Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Martin goes on the attack Tuesday on the abortion issue, and accuses Judy Topinka of being a “pro-choice fraud,” Bill Brady a “right-wing nut”.
Martin will begin his attacks on Topinka and Brady as a guest on WGN-TV at 7:30 A.M., and continue on with an afternoon news conference.
“Judy Topinka is not ‘pro-choice,” says Martin. “The first ‘choice’ she made as a candidate was to choose a right-wing nut as her running mate, someone who favors forcing women who are raped to bear the rapists’ babies. Likewise Bill Brady says he is a moderate who can attract Democrats? He is equally nutty.
“The ultimate corollary of what Brady supports would give rapists custody rights. When you advocate forcing women who are raped or victims of incest to bear babies, as Joe Birkett and Bill Brady do, you are endorsing a situation where judges will ultimately decide that the ‘father’ of a child has custody rights.
“I am astounded by candidates who claim to be ‘pro-marriage’ and ‘pro-family’ who are unable to condemn pregnancies begun by rape and incest. By implication they endorse starting a family by raping a woman or having sex with your daughter. What kind of families do Topinka and Brady support?
“Judy Topinka has bamboozled women with the fraudulent assertion she is pro-choice. In her heart, she may be. But she knuckled under to the right wing as her first campaign decision. Some backbone. If she can’t be trusted to ‘choose’ right when she is a candidate, why should she be trusted to defend choice if she were in the governor’s office?
“There is a fallacy and fraud about Judy Topinka that the media have ignored. Topinka has ‘played’ at the role of ‘moderate’ during an era when she was protested by powerful men, the ‘boys’ she likes to ridicule. Now that Topinka is on her own, and the ‘boys’ are under indictment, she is incapable of standing up to the conservative power structure. Every decision she has made during the primary has been a capitulation to the right wing. Instead of calling Bill Brady what he is, a right-wing nut who also favors custody rights for rapists, Topinka has praised Brady because he has been playing footsie with Judy.
“The reality is that Topinka has no track record making real decisions, and the few decisions she has made since becoming a gubernatorial candidate have been obeisance to the right-wing. Topinka’s popularity as a candidate stems from her lack of making hard decisions, from her service in a powder puff office where the elected official does very little and does not face tough choices.
“Come November, the media will be skewering Topinka and pointing out the very same inconsistencies and fallacies I am pointing out today. They will be endorsing Blagojevich.
“I am sick and tired of the rank hypocrisy on the right about abortion. Extremists, starting from talk show hosts on down, like to blather against abortion. But the minute the tragedy strikes their own families, they run to have an abortion. A friend of mine rants and raves on the radio against abortion. But when his girl friend got pregnant she was marched off to end the pregnancy.
“Abortion should be a medical, not political, issue. I am running to lead this state, and lead it—kicking and screaming—into the 21st century, not back to the 19th. The efforts by some Republicans to divide Americans with abortion politics are regrettable, hypocritical and ensure that we will remain a minority party in Illinois.
“People do not want abortion mills on every street corner. I know I don’t. But they do believe that women of every age should have access to informed and impartial birth control information, and information on how to terminate a pregnancy. If they are comfortable discussing this with their family, praise God. If not, then they should have access to independent assistance, especially in cases of rape and incest.
“To the extent that Topinka has chosen a right-wing running mate, she has forfeited the pro-choice position. She is lying to the public, and the media are lying along with her. It is pathetic to watch, a morality play in reverse. To the extent that Topinka’s ‘partner,’ Birkett, and Bill Brady advocate forcing women to bear babies conceived out of rape or incest, their views are creepy and despicable and outside the mainstream of civilized society.
“As governor, I would work to reduce abortions. But I would word against abortion by empowering the medical community, and shaming parents into dealing with the sexual activity of their children, not by empowering judges, lawyers and prosecutors to politicize and judicialize unwanted pregnancies,” Martin will charge.
“Judy Topinka, Wrong for Illinois, Wrong for the Republican Party. Bill Brady, a right-wing nut case.”
MEDIA CONTACT: Andy Martin Campaign (312) 440-4124
CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:
WHO: REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE ANDY MARTIN
WHERE: SE corner of Huron and Wabash Streets
(St James cathedral), Chicago
WHEN: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 2:00 P. M.
WHAT: ANDY MARTIN BRINGS ABORTION TO THE FORE, SAYS
JUDY TOPINKA IS NOT “PRO-CHOICE,” SHE AND THE MEDIA
ALONG WITH HER HAVE LIED TO THE PUBLIC; BILL BRADY IS
A “RIGHT-WING NUT”
ANDY MARTIN RATCHETS UP ABORTION ISSUE, SKEWERS TOPINKA AS A “FRAUD” ON ABORTION, BILL BRADY AS “RIGHT-WING” NUT
MARTIN BEGINS ATTACKS ON WGN-TV, CONTINUES WITH NEWS CONFERENCE ATTACKING FOES ON ABORTION ISSUE
(CHICAGO)(March 14, 2006) Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Martin goes on the attack Tuesday on the abortion issue, and accuses Judy Topinka of being a “pro-choice fraud,” Bill Brady a “right-wing nut”.
Martin will begin his attacks on Topinka and Brady as a guest on WGN-TV at 7:30 A.M., and continue on with an afternoon news conference.
“Judy Topinka is not ‘pro-choice,” says Martin. “The first ‘choice’ she made as a candidate was to choose a right-wing nut as her running mate, someone who favors forcing women who are raped to bear the rapists’ babies. Likewise Bill Brady says he is a moderate who can attract Democrats? He is equally nutty.
“The ultimate corollary of what Brady supports would give rapists custody rights. When you advocate forcing women who are raped or victims of incest to bear babies, as Joe Birkett and Bill Brady do, you are endorsing a situation where judges will ultimately decide that the ‘father’ of a child has custody rights.
“I am astounded by candidates who claim to be ‘pro-marriage’ and ‘pro-family’ who are unable to condemn pregnancies begun by rape and incest. By implication they endorse starting a family by raping a woman or having sex with your daughter. What kind of families do Topinka and Brady support?
“Judy Topinka has bamboozled women with the fraudulent assertion she is pro-choice. In her heart, she may be. But she knuckled under to the right wing as her first campaign decision. Some backbone. If she can’t be trusted to ‘choose’ right when she is a candidate, why should she be trusted to defend choice if she were in the governor’s office?
“There is a fallacy and fraud about Judy Topinka that the media have ignored. Topinka has ‘played’ at the role of ‘moderate’ during an era when she was protested by powerful men, the ‘boys’ she likes to ridicule. Now that Topinka is on her own, and the ‘boys’ are under indictment, she is incapable of standing up to the conservative power structure. Every decision she has made during the primary has been a capitulation to the right wing. Instead of calling Bill Brady what he is, a right-wing nut who also favors custody rights for rapists, Topinka has praised Brady because he has been playing footsie with Judy.
“The reality is that Topinka has no track record making real decisions, and the few decisions she has made since becoming a gubernatorial candidate have been obeisance to the right-wing. Topinka’s popularity as a candidate stems from her lack of making hard decisions, from her service in a powder puff office where the elected official does very little and does not face tough choices.
“Come November, the media will be skewering Topinka and pointing out the very same inconsistencies and fallacies I am pointing out today. They will be endorsing Blagojevich.
“I am sick and tired of the rank hypocrisy on the right about abortion. Extremists, starting from talk show hosts on down, like to blather against abortion. But the minute the tragedy strikes their own families, they run to have an abortion. A friend of mine rants and raves on the radio against abortion. But when his girl friend got pregnant she was marched off to end the pregnancy.
“Abortion should be a medical, not political, issue. I am running to lead this state, and lead it—kicking and screaming—into the 21st century, not back to the 19th. The efforts by some Republicans to divide Americans with abortion politics are regrettable, hypocritical and ensure that we will remain a minority party in Illinois.
“People do not want abortion mills on every street corner. I know I don’t. But they do believe that women of every age should have access to informed and impartial birth control information, and information on how to terminate a pregnancy. If they are comfortable discussing this with their family, praise God. If not, then they should have access to independent assistance, especially in cases of rape and incest.
“To the extent that Topinka has chosen a right-wing running mate, she has forfeited the pro-choice position. She is lying to the public, and the media are lying along with her. It is pathetic to watch, a morality play in reverse. To the extent that Topinka’s ‘partner,’ Birkett, and Bill Brady advocate forcing women to bear babies conceived out of rape or incest, their views are creepy and despicable and outside the mainstream of civilized society.
“As governor, I would work to reduce abortions. But I would word against abortion by empowering the medical community, and shaming parents into dealing with the sexual activity of their children, not by empowering judges, lawyers and prosecutors to politicize and judicialize unwanted pregnancies,” Martin will charge.
“Judy Topinka, Wrong for Illinois, Wrong for the Republican Party. Bill Brady, a right-wing nut case.”
MEDIA CONTACT: Andy Martin Campaign (312) 440-4124
CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:
WHO: REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE ANDY MARTIN
WHERE: SE corner of Huron and Wabash Streets
(St James cathedral), Chicago
WHEN: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 2:00 P. M.
WHAT: ANDY MARTIN BRINGS ABORTION TO THE FORE, SAYS
JUDY TOPINKA IS NOT “PRO-CHOICE,” SHE AND THE MEDIA
ALONG WITH HER HAVE LIED TO THE PUBLIC; BILL BRADY IS
A “RIGHT-WING NUT”
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