I don't live in District 15, but I do come from a District 15 family, so I know a little about the lay of the land up there and I get the occasion updates on the political happenings.
So what to make of this recent mailing, featuring *some* of the Democratic candidates? Let's see, we have John Madigan, Pat Kirschman, and Kathy Miles. First off, isn't somebody missing from the District 15 Team? Like, perhaps, the only (to my knowledge) pro-choice candidate: Martha Vanderlinde (daughter of beloved District 15 Representative Mary Vanderlinde)? Also, what the heck is Kathy Miles doing there? She doesn't even have a primary!
I've been hearing some gossip about Madigan and Kirschman "working against" Vanderlinde and perhaps engaging in some not-so-cool negative campaigning, but until this mailing, I hadn't seen any proof. Is this just a case of the anti-choice candidates banding together? Word around the blogosphere is that something a little more nefarious is going on. Scott over at South DaCola did a little cartoon about the fact that Madigan was, until recently, a registered Republican and is currently an employee of the Catholic diocese. Some of the comments on that blog and the subsequent repost at South Dakota 123 suggest that perhaps Madigan wasn't inspired to switch parties out of disgust with the repubs, but because either his friends or his bosses wanted him to take out a strong pro-choice candidate (apparently, they couldn't get Travis Benson to change his registration).
I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if the GOP or the conservative element in the Catholic Church were trying to infiltrate the Democratic party. I don't expect a lot from them. I am a little disturbed by the implication that Kirschman and Miles are involved. First of all, Dem on Dem hate makes me very uncomfortable. I don't like it in the presidential primary and I like it even less at the district level, where we should all be treating each other like friends and neighbors. It makes me even more uncomfortable to hear that someone may have been recruited to switch parties based just on the abortion issue.
If their loyalty isn't to the party, maybe they should think about re-registering. Start an Anti-Choice Catholics for Introducing Abortion Bills 24/7. Otherwise, start acting like Democrats and play nice! Leave the dirty tricks to the Republicans.
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I heard Madigan has no plans to support either of the two Dem Presidential candidates and was recently a big fan of Huckabee. Some Democrat if you ask me.
That would be an interesting question to ask all three of them, actually: "Who are you supporting in the Democratic presidential primary? Why are you supporting them?" I have a sneaking suspicion that two of the three of them aren't going to be voting for a Democrat for president in November.
Does anyone have a clue where this John Madigan stands on other issues? I suppose it doesn't matter to the Kathy Miles types, but I'd be interested to hear more.
Maybe they thought that people wouldn't notice that they stuck Kathy's face on their lit instead of Martha. "People won't notice anything, as long as we have 2 men and a woman on the lit!"
Gross.
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