In response to Hannah Miller's post of Aug. 10 ("Bob Casey is a friggin' feminist"), I wanted to give everyone a look at this excellent chart from Liberty PA that compares Casey and Santorum on key issues.
A sample:
Casey SUPPORTS emergency contraception
Santorum BELIEVES states should have the right to ban birth controlCasey SUPPORTS greater access to family planning
Santorum voted AGAINST $100 million to reduce teen pregnancy
You get the idea. Casey's not perfect, but he's a major, major improvement over Santorum, he gets us one seat closer to a Democratic U.S. Senate -- and he can win. The thing I like about the chart is that besides listing the highlights, er, lowlights of Santorum's awful record, it offers you reasons to vote FOR Casey.
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Decisions, decisions...
If Casey wins it will be, most likely, as part of a Democratic majority in the senate and that would neutralize his potential to be part of any majority against women's rights. If he is part of a Democratic minority he will forever be kissing ass to the GOP majority as the majority of Democrats in the senate do today.
That said, I would like to know more about his positions on human rights, civil liberties, social justice issues than his web site offers. Especially how he feels about the Jim Crow drug war. I have recently written and asked him his perspective but he has not yet responded to me.
This is the issue that decides my vote. Not a Democratic majority. A Democratic majority that keeps in place the Jim Crow, terrorist funding, crime causing drug war is no different, for me, from a Republican majority.
Sins of the father
Also - Sam makes this point and I agree - it seems like Bob Casey Jr. gets pasted with all the raving manical prolife things his dad did.
There is a BIIIIG difference.
I have a longer chart like this
The Casey campaign put together an even longer version of this, including a few more issues and (key) some damning quotes from Santorum (like he "can't imagine how anybody comes out normal" after going to public schools!). I finally managed to get my hands on one, but have yet to find it available online. If you guys have a way to host a PDF, I'd gladly send it over...
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I just posted it
at www.stier.net/politics/casey.htm