Here’s Helen’s email
Voter Guides
Sent By: helen@brionforsenate.com
On: Oct 10/26/08 10:03 PM2008 Gen. Sen M…Voter Guide.pdf (87.1 KB, download)
Hello Everyone,
…We also have Voter Guides that we want to deliver to churches across the district this weekend. I have attached a copy for you to review. We have a list of churches to share with you for your town or you can put them out at your own church. All I ask is that you help out at
some church and that you let me know which one(s) so I can plan for others. This Voter Guide is very important as it highlights the very
real differences between our candidate and the opponent. You can put as much or as little work/effort into this as you want. One church,
one mass, or more. This is a very important outreach effort. Please send this voter guide to everyone you know and if you can join us in
spreading them at churches please let me know.Sincerely, Helen
And here are the issues raised in the MA-GOP/MFI voter guide.
2008 MASSACHUSETTS
GENERAL ELECTION VOTER GUIDE
Election Day is November 4, 20081. Should legislators vote YES to allow Mass. citizens to vote on a Constitutional Amendment that would define future marriages as between one man and one woman?
2. Should the state mandate the new vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus, which is a sexually transmitted disease, for girls as young as 9 without parental approval?
3. Since there have been recent scientific breakthroughs enabling the creation of embryonic-like stem cells without creating, destroying or cloning human embryos, should
the state ban all human cloning?4. Would you oppose any legislation that potentially spends taxpayer dollars on the destruction of human embryos for research?
5. Should legalized gambling be expanded?
6. Should sex education be optional so that parents can decide when and how their own children should be taught about sex?
7. Should minors be taught abstinence in public schools, that is, how to set limits and maintain affectionate relationships without sexual involvement?
8. Should school options be expanded by any of the following means: vouchers, education tax credits or deductions for parents with children in private schools, or by expanding the number of charter schools?
9. Should the Massachusetts income tax rate immediately be reduced to 5%, as was passed by the voters in 2000?
10. Should children of illegal aliens be given the same lower tuition rate for state colleges as legal Massachusetts residents?
* Candidate positions are from voting records, questionnaires, public statements, and other sources. Nothing in this guide is to be construed as an endorsement of any candidate. Prepared according to IRS guidelines for distribution by 501(c)3 non-profits and churches. Massachusetts Family Institute.
the “Do you still beat your wife?” question.
On what do you base your purported marriage of MFI and MA-GOP?
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p>I don’t see where Helen used the name once.
was created by MFI and has their logo on it. You can view it here.
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p>There is no constructive reason for the MA-GOP to keep raising the marriage issue, because it is dead in MA. It only serves to divide and to define the MA-GOP as homophobic dinosaurs who refuse to drop their bigotry. Not pretty.
The man behind the MFI signature drive is now the MA-GOP Executive Director.
Do you have ANY citation for MA-GOP involvement?
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p>If not, will you recant?
Do you deny the Willington connection? If so, will you repudiate MFI? They, along with MassResistance, self-identify as Republicans, after all…
PP acting like PP
apparently still hasn’t learned their lesson. They could be a legit opposition party with a center-right position on economics and other issues important to people in the Commonwealth. I probably wouldn’t agree with some of these views, but at least they would offer an alternative vision for governance.
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p>Instead, they appear content with trying to reignite culture warfare that few voters care about in Massachusetts. Very strange.
You have a GOP State committee member working on a GOP senate campaign distributing MFI literature.
In this case, she’s sending it via the e-mail of an official GOP campaign, not as an individual. At minimum, I’d expect the State Committee to issue a statement distancing themselves from this. Instead, we can’t even get you to repudiate MFI.
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p>When you add in…
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p>- Rob Willington’s previous direct involvment in MFI
– Larry Cirignano putting his MassResistance activities aside to work on Jeff Beatty’s campaign
– The GOP platform’s call for a constitutional amendment to ban gay-marriage
– RMG’s love of phrases like gay liberal and tolerance of Ken Pittman dumping on Laurel for her sexuality
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p>..your case doesn’t look too good.