Florida House Speaker used "Choose Life" auto tag list for political ploy

[seafan]

These people don't bother to hide their duplicity any more. This auto license tag has been a source of fury here. The tag reads "Choose Life". We fought for "Adopt a Child", if indeed, the tag's purpose was *to promote adoption*, as the anti-choice people sanctimoniously proclaimed. There is no end in sight to this as yet.
And Johnnie Byrd wants to run for Bob Graham's old Senate seat.


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TALLAHASSEE - House Speaker Johnnie Byrd used a list of "Choose Life" license tag owners to promote a new parental-notice abortion law, an aide confirmed Wednesday.

Byrd spent $14,000 in tax money on the mailing last month, days after he announced his bid for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. A letter sent to about 30,000 holders of the tags, signed by Byrd and Rep. Sandra Murman, R-Tampa, criticized the Florida Supreme Court for ruling that a parental notification law violated the state Constitution's privacy clause.

Byrd's use of the Choose Life database to send a political message shows that the tag is a political statement against abortion, not a pro-adoption plea as its supporters claim, says a lawyer who is suing the state to outlaw the tag.

"It's totally improper, but it's consistent with the agenda demonstrated up there," said Boca Raton lawyer Barry Silver, a former Democratic legislator. "They're totally responsive to the radical right. . . . The Legislature knew that the license plate was designed to be antiabortion."
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/21/State/Byrd_used_Choose_Life.shtml

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[Bombtrack]

1. Maybe he he just likes George Michael

I hear Whamm is big with southern conservatives

[realFedUp]

2. Life in prison

would be what I would choose for some of these guys....