by Cal Skinner
Dan Zanoza of Republicans for Fair Media had an interesting column Friday in which he wrote,
Recently, I have learned a prominent pro-life organization in Illinois is, or was, actually considering the endorsement of a pro-abortion candidate for a statewide office. I won't name the group and I won't name the politician…
The suggestion one politician can represent the "lesser of two evils" is immoral and without merit, but we see this kind of brinksmanship occur much too often in Illinois…,
he continues.
If you espouse a pro-life agenda, but support a pro-abortionist for elected office, the blood of the unborn is on your hands as well.
And, there is much more., including an argument similar to that in the original "The Wrong Lizard" article to which I linked Saturday on McHenry County Blog and below.
I called Crystal Lake’s Irene Napier, who is a multi-decade leader in the McHenry County Right To Life.
To my surprise, I learned she is the leader of the PAC for the Illinois Federaton for Right to Life. She told me that she had just received an email about Zanoza’s column in which he cites an unnamed prominent pro-life organization which “is, or was, actually considering the endorsement of a pro-abortion candidate for a statewide office.”
Here is Napier’s reaction:
There are two statewide pro-life organizations who endorse candidates. IFRL is one and Illinois Citizens for Life is the other and we work very closely with each other.
I have never heard a member of either PAC discuss endorsement of Topinka, but he doesn’t name her. If it isn’t Topinka, I have no idea who he is talking about.
