Posted on 08/23/2006 3:33:16 AM PDT by rhema
Naples, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's former husband Michael, the man responsible for her painful starvation and dehydration euthanasia death over a year ago, spoke to a local Democratic group in Florida on Monday night. He told those in attendance they should vote for Democrats over Republicans and blamed the GOP for wanting to protect Terri's life. Schiavo was well-received and got a standing ovation when he spoke to a small group of 150 members of the Collier County Democratic Club.
Last year, Schiavo switched his voter registration from Republican to Democrat and has been campaigning exclusively for Democrats during the 2006 elections -- despite bipartisan votes in Congress supporting Terri's parents and their efforts to protect Terri.
However, he told those attending that he would support Republicans who backed euthanasia and taking the lives of the disabled like Terri.
"I am on the campaign trail because of the conduct of certain politicians," Schiavo said, according to a Naples News report.
He singled out President Bush and Governor Jeb Bush as two elected officials he abhors because of their willingness to support Terri by backing her parents' legal efforts to save her life.
"If the right wing will do this to a card-carrying Republican, then no one is safe; they can do it to you," he said, according to the Naples newspaper.
He admitted he is still very angry at Republican lawmakers who approved a bill to allow Terri's parents to get a federal court review of their case. State courts had sided with Michael's efforts to kill Terri and failed to properly examine the case, her parents said.
"Is this a privacy issue or right to life issue? It's a privacy issue," said Schiavo. "Republicans let an out of control government do an out of control thing."
Stumbling over his words at times, Schiavo used playground antics to say he felt personally attacked by Republicans during the battle over Terri's life and death.
"It is personal for what they did, but they started this," said Schiavo.
Since Terri's painful 15-day starvation death in March 2005, Schiavo has been traveling around the country campaigning for candidates who agreed with him that she should die. He created TerriPAC, a federal political action committee aimed at defeating pro-life politicians who supported Terri.
The campaigning has taken him to Colorado and Connecticut, although it hasn't been entirely successful. One Congressional candidate he supported, Peggy Lamm, lost her Democratic primary this month.
In Florida, Schiavo is campaigning for Rep. Jim Davis, one of the Democrats seeking the gubernatorial nomination.
Following Terri's death, her parents, Bob and Mary Schinder, and her siblings Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Vitadamo have created a foundation to assist disabled patients. They hope to be able to provide them with legal and other resources to make sure they receive proper medical care and rehabilitative treatment.
Related web sites: Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation
would I really want this guy on my side in a "life threatening" situation?...:|
I've always thought it was more than that. I think the man is vindictive as hell.
Now that he's vented his spleen against Terri's parents, it's time to go after the pro-lifers. This move doens't surprise me at all.
There was a story not too long ago about a supposedly 'brain dead' man who has shocked the medical community. So much for starving and dehydrating Terri to death. This man is a scumbag so of course he'd be campaigning for his fellow scumbags that are the Demonrat party.
blamed the GOP for wanting to protect Terri's life.
Yep, he's a Lib.
"Michael Schiavo told pplice he awoke early on the morning of February 25, 1990 at 4:30am to the sound of loud thump."
Can't say I'm surprised.
( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)
Schiavo, his scumbag attorney George Felos and Judge George "Starve Her Out" Greer have already damned their own souls for eternity.
In a perfect universe, they'll all meet up in Hell, Judge Greer will order that Michael Schiavo be eternally starved, and while Satan and his demons have a feast fit for royalty right in front of Schiavo's fat f'in face, his attorney George Felos will explain to his client (in between bites of southern fried chicken) why the Devil has every legal authority to do what he is doing.
". . .Mr. Schiavos PAC has made no direct solicitations, but it has raised more than $26,000 in eight months, mostly in contributions of $100 or less made through its Web site, www.terripac.com."
The guy clearly has no shame. If he'd named his PAC www.philanderer.com or www.heartlessopportunist.com, we could at least credit him with a scintilla of honesty.
The horror. Is there a Judge Greer connection?
Culture of Death Ping
Yeah, Frist, Delay and those rascally Republicans trying to play to the one issue thumpers. Did you really expect this guy to have anything good to say about Republicans after the way they trashed him and made a difficult period even more difficult? Really?
That title is wrong. I even looked at it from the link. It should be Terri Shivo's widowed husband. I thought once a spouse dies you are widowed and that is regardless of reason for death. I think this might be an AP related story that the website copies they would be the only idiots to get that wrong hopefully.
He brings nothing new to the table of the "Party of Death". I can assure you I am not passive about this.
It's laughable. He is a legend in his own mind and what he does will not matter one whit.
What mirror are you looking in? You dont think the Pro-Lifers went after him in a personal matter, claiming w/o any evidence that he was a murderer trying to cover up the evidence. He who casts the first stone...
Life is always so heart-rendingly difficult for philanderers who are trying to grease the skids under their spouses.
Hasn't a recent president already reserved that URL?
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