[Vision2020] The GOP War On Women Accelerates

[Tom Hansen]

Kinda says alot about the Missouri Republican Party, huh?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
 

On Aug 22, 2012, at 10:12 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

> The Republicans want him to  drop out. His opponent wants him to stay in. Apparently both sides think he will be easy to beat. The rumor has it that Mccaskill's backers funneled a lot of money into his campaign in the primary.
> Roger
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> From: Art Deco art.deco.studios at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:11:15 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
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>> August 21, 2012
>> Akin Controversy Stirs Up Abortion Issue in Campaign By JENNIFER
>> STEINHAUER<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/jennifer_steinhauer/index.html>
>> 
>> WASHINGTON — As an orator, Representative Todd
>> Akin<ttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/todd_akin/index.html?inline=nyt-per>of
>> Missouri may stand out for his clumsiness. But as a legislator, Mr.
>> Akin
>> has a record on abortion that is largely indistinguishable from those of
>> most of his Republican House colleagues, who have viewed restricting
>> abortion rights as one of their top priorities.
>> 
>> That agenda — largely eclipsed for two years by a protracted fiscal crisis
>> and the fight over how to manage the federal deficit — has wedged its way,
>> for now at least, to the center of the 2012 campaign. It is focusing
>> attention on an issue that helped earn Mitt
>> Romney<http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/candidates/mitt-romney?inline=nyt-per>,
>> the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a reputation as a
>> flip-flopper, threatening the Republican quest for control of the Senate,
>> and leaving Representative Paul D.
>> Ryan<http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/candidates/paul-ryan?inline=nyt-per>of
>> Wisconsin, Mr. Romney’s vice-presidential pick, in the uncomfortable
>> position of distinguishing himself from Mr. Akin, with whom he has often
>> concurred.
>> 
>> It is an agenda that has enjoyed t