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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
Culture of Life truth-squad ping: Fighting for Dear Life: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo and What It Means for All of Us
LOL!! Have you been following the Crist-Gallagher primary?
This is on target; unfortunately most Americans cannot understand this concept because they think the government is there to "help" them.
He has already been in CT for Lamont, and he is taking "credit" now for Lieberman's temporary setback.
Send him back! I wanna see Michael and Ned Lament together on stage! Maybe MoveOn can arrange a Brezhnev-style hug and kiss...
what bothers me is how she died..not even timothy mcveigh was put to death by sealing him in a room for 15 days so he could starve to death..(even though he really deserved that kind of death)..yet poor Terri had to die that way..something is not right there..
Nice catch; you're right. Only his behavior was that of an "ex-husband," as he had moved on with a new family, while his 'beloved' wife was still alive.
If he had been truely heartfelt and morally tortured over pulling the plug on Terrie, it should be abhorrent to him to politically associate himself with the same painful decision in others' lives. Now it's easier for him to justify it by aligning himself with a political agenda that diminishes the value of a solitary human life. Atheist liberals are eager to put politics and liberal judges above God and Nature. (and pardon the mini-rant.)
No, haven't paid any attention to that one. I'm waiting and watching for Vernon Robinson to start mouthing off real good against Brad Miller.
He is yet another psycho nut-job; he fits in perfectly with the Democrats: self-absorbed, arrogant and deceitful. His wife better hopes she doesn't become gravely ill or injured...
His behavior was as an ex-husband your right. I would personally have handled it differently from the beginning. First of course not hitting her (if he truly did that). Second I would not have gotten involved with anyone and certainly not have children with someone else. However, once I felt like I could not handle the situation anymore and wanted out, I would have given her the divorce (although not a fan of it). Most importantly I would have given her to her parents (especially once they begged me not that it would have gotten to that point). His situation and behavior is so far from how I would of handled it.
It was also far outside any honest interests. Allowing Terri's parents to try to feed Terri orally would have disipated much of the resistance Michael faced. Further, it would offer the possibility that Terri might asphyxiate and die from the effort, resulting in Michael being rid of her sooner. So why such resistance?
Unless he was trying to kill her not because she was PVS, but because she wasn't.
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