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Monday, May 12, 2003Chichester and Pro-Life Activists Want to know how much trouble Chichester is in with the rank-and-file Republicans in the 28th? Here is an excellent letter from Mary Walsh explaining just that: Last year in the 2002 session, parental consent remained bottlenecked in the Senate Education and Health Committee, 7-7, while Sen. Chichester, the deciding vote, played hooky. Del. Black hand-delivered a letter to Sen. Chichester on the floor of the Senate urging him to break the tie vote. If the senator did not come, parental-consent legislation would die. Sen. Chichester neither came to break the impasse, nor did he send a proxy. Mary is right. For as often as I hear from Richmond about the importance of "the Catholic Vote" in Virginia, when folks come out and rail against pro-life activists as "goofballs" as Chichester has done, you have a problem. As a Catholic, I am invariably pro-life. That belief applies to much more than abortion. It applies to my stance on the environment, taxation on lower-income households, social programs, labor unions, and a host of other issues. That abortion is currently the best vent for the beliefs of 60 million Catholics shouldn't shock anyone. But to describe pro-life efforts as the result of "goofball" politics? No small wonder why Mike Rothfeld is getting all the support he is getting in the 28th.
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