A conservative blogger’s accusation that Nathan Deal, a Republican candidate for governor, “explicitly voted to fund abortions” earned a “false” rating Wednesday from a newspaper’s campaign fact-check website — and an online apology from the blogger.
“They are right. I was wrong,” Erick Erickson said Wednesday, alluding to PolitiFact Georgia’s “false” rating on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website. “My apologies to the Deal campaign on this one.”
Erickson’s apology appeared on his Peach Pundit website several hours after PolitiFact published its Truth-O-Meter rating. Erickson, a Macon city councilman, also is editor of redstate.com, a conservative blog, and is supporting former Secretary of State Karen Handel’s bid for governor.
Deal spokesman Brian Robinson said the campaign accepts the apology but encourages Erickson to be more balanced on his website.
“There is no difference between Peach Pundit and Handel’s campaign website,” Robinson said.
He said Deal is “pro-life” but believes laws should include allow protection of the life of the mother.
Erickson had asserted that Deal, as a congressman in 1993, voted for “legislation to give $500 million to Planned Parenthood to pay for actual abortions,” according to PolitiFact. The newspaper site on Wednesday concluded that “funding for actual abortions was never up for debate, and the bill never passed.”
Wednesday’s flare-up is the latest in a heated debate in the governor’s race over which Republican is more opposed to abortion. Handel and Deal are seeking the Republican nomination in an Aug. 10 runoff election. The winner faces Democratic former Gov. Roy Barnes in November.
On Monday, PolitiFact awarded its lowest rating, “pants on fire,” to Melanie Crozier, director of the Georgia Right to Life’s Political Action Committee.
Crozier previously had said Handel “would have felt like it was OK” to abort former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s son, who has Down syndrome.
The front-running Handel, who has been endorsed by Palin, responded by calling for Crozier and Georgia Right to Life President Dan Becker to resign for what she called a “second incident of disgusting and hateful comments.”
She also has said the group labeled her “barren and infertile.”
Handel opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother, spokesman Dan McLagan said Wednesday.
He said Handel and her husband, Steve, attempted for 10 years to conceive and that she supports in vitro fertilization and other fertility procedures.
Becker said Wednesday that Georgia Right to Life is not opposed to in vitro fertilization but favors restrictions so that extra fertilized eggs are not discarded. He said Handel’s position is not in line with the group’s on that distinction.
He attributed the “barren and infertile” statement to a misquote by an Atlanta journalist. He added that he and Crozier, who are volunteers, will not resign unless their board of directors asks them to.
Becker said Handel has attacked the group because she is “on the wrong side” of the abortion issue and is trying to gain sympathy by marginalizing Georgia Right to Life.
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It is about time that the Handel campaign is shown to use deception, misdirection and outright lies to further their agenda. To demonize GRTL volunteers like Becker with total falsehoods, that have been publicly refuted, show the depth that they will stoop in order to "shoot the messenger rather than deal with the message". Karen Handel does support abortion and funded Planned Parenthood to the tune of $1.2 million dollars over 3 yrs. See www.grtl.org for documentation and proof.
http://www.peachpundit.com/2010/06/05/dan-becker-continues-to-embarass-himself-hurt-pro-life-cause/#comment-241790
Abortion can wait because this issue is more important to the people of this city and the whole country. This will give you all some idea on how important Chattanooga TN is to "Homeland Security" and the people who will invest there futures in this town.
The whole internet system here in the United States is run from a CIA office in Signal Mountain TN.
They also contract with the US Military the basic 250.000 MHRZ wave freqency that they run it on is very powerful. Also a short wave * Alpha Ditrot Radio * does the rest as a filter and acts as a firewall to stop an incoming scamp virus that might infect the main fame.
If you don't believe this check this file at the library of congress in Washington DC and the file is under the sub text ( Alpha Internet Computer System ) or AICS and the file number is.
Class C File Unclassified Route File # 25452-14547-03 Pages: 520 Index: 43 By: United States Army Intelligence Washington DC Dept: Computer internet division Intro By: Gen. Colin Powell Year: 1984
If you do get a chance to read it you will never allow a computer voting system like DIEBOT to take over the old fashion way of doing it by paper ballot.
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