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WHAT DOES BOB MCDONNELL REALLY BELIEVE?
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Posted by allison on Sunday, August 30
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August 30, 2009
WHAT DOES BOB MCDONNELL REALLY BELIEVE?
Candidate says views have changed, but his record tells a different story...
RICHMOND- When questioned about the extreme positions in his law school thesis, Bob McDonnell stated that "like everybody, views on many issues have changed."
Bob McDonnell is weaseling and attempting to downplay the content of his law school thesis that he had written while a student at Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcast Network University...
Of course McDonnell would say his view have changed. Why? In the same thesis he notes, "It is...clear in modern culture that the voting American mainstream is not willing to accept a true pro-family ideologue."
While McDonnell tries to run from his words, his record reveals a methodical effort to put his blueprint into Virginia law.
"During his 14 years in the General Assembly, McDonnell pursued at least 10 of the policy goals he laid out in that research paper, including abortion restrictions, covenant marriage, school vouchers and tax policies to favor his view of the traditional family. In 2001, he voted against a resolution in support of ending wage discrimination between men and women."
MCDONNNELL'S AMNESIA ABOUT HIS THESIS
CLAIM: McDonnell says "I wrote as a student during the Reagan era and haven't thought about in years."
FACT: "The Washington Post learned of the thesis in a recent interview with McDonnell, who mentioned it in answering a question about his political roots. McDonnell brought up the paper in reference to a pair of Republican congressmen whom he interviewed as part of his research. McDonnell then offered: ‘I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.'"
MCDONNELL ON BIRTH CONTROL
CLAIM: McDonnell says he doesn't support banning contraception.
MCDONNELL'S LEGISLATIVE RECORD:
McDonnell Voted To Restrict Access To Contraceptives Throughout His Career.
In 1997, McDonnell opposed a bill to prohibit the denial of benefits for prescription contraceptives.
Then again in 2002, McDonnell voted to pass a bill to expand the state's ‘conscience clause,' to health-care professionals who don't want to dispense "birth-control pill or other medicine for the purpose of performing an abortion."
In 2003, McDonnell voted to pass a bill to allow health care professionals to refuse to dispense any birth control pill or other medication for the purpose of performing an abortion without fear of disciplinary or legal action. (History of HB1233, 1997 and History of HB563, 2002 and History of HB1741, 2003)
2001: McDonnell Said Emergency Contraception Was As "Egregious" as an Abortion In The Ninth Month Of A Pregnancy.
"Some people feel it's less offensive because the child is less than one week old, but that doesn't make it any less egregious than aborting a child in the ninth month," said McDonnell in reference to emergency contraception, which is often called the morning-after pill. The Richmond Times-Dispatch also reported McDonnell speaking on the subject, ‘"This prevents the implantation of a human embryo,' he said in a forceful floor speech. ‘Should we give any less protection to a child at two days than we do at nine months?'" (The Virginian-Pilot, 01/26/01, and Richmond Times-Dispatch, 02/02/01)
McDonnell Voted To Ban College Health Centers From Distributing The Morning-After Pill.
The Virginian-Pilot wrote that McDonnell, on February 17, 2004, was one of 52 state House members who voted to pass HB1414, which was a bill to ban "health centers on college campuses from distributing the morning-after pill." More specifically, this was a bill to prohibit "state supported colleges from distributing the morning-after pill at their health centers," wrote AP. (The Virginian-Pilot, 02/18/04, History of HB1414, 2004, and The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 02/16/04)
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The Real Bob McDonnell: No Birth control, day care, or women working outside the home
http://prochoiceva.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/the-real-bob-mcdonnell-no-birth-control-day-care-or-women-working-outside-the-home/
Published August 30, 2009
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McDonnellisms
McDonnellism #9: Co-patroned bill requiring 24 hour wait before abortion.Think they haven't thought about their choice, Bob? http://bit.ly/pfgLm
McDonnellism #8: McDonnell sponsored 5 bills to make women or doctors felons for exercising right to choose http://bit.ly/pfgLm
McDonnellism #7: McDonnell is the reason Virginia's abortion ban surpasses federal law under Bush admin http://bit.ly/DLMRF
McDonnellism #6: McDonnell Voted To Allow Pharmacists To Refuse To Dispense Contraceptives and expand the refusal clause.
McDonnellism #5: McDonnell voted against HB1015 which required public schools to teach the importance of seeking medical attention after a rape. Did this come from the thesis too?
McDonnellism #4: McDonnell voted against bill to allow women to get emergency contraception without Dr. prescription because bill contradicts parent notification laws http://bit.ly/w03mx
McDonnellism #3: 2002, McDonnell voted to kill HB1263, a bill to allow “licensed pharmacist to dispense emergency contraception to women.”
McDonnellism #2: He Tried To Ban College Health Centers From Distributing EC in 2004. Still thinks birth control's illogical. Try again Bob
McDonnellism #1: A 1991 resolution McDonnell sponsored said Roe v Wade was “Likely Soon to Be Overturned.” Political agenda perhaps?
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Bob McDonnell, Culture Warrior
At 34, the GOP candidate for governor disapproved of fornicators, homosexuals and working women.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
ON MORE THAN one occasion, Robert F. McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, has offered a soporific description of his graduate school dissertation as a "thesis on welfare policy." This is false.
In fact, Mr. McDonnell's study, written in 1989 at age 34 in support of his master's degree in public policy and degree in law, is a full-throated attack on liberals, modernity, the Great Society and inheritance taxes, among other supposed ills, which he linked to and blamed for homosexuality, declining morality and the degradation of the traditional family, along with the proliferation of pornography, out-of-wedlock sex, day care, birth control, pregnant teenagers, divorce, single mothers, working women and feminists.
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A deeply researched, passionately written manifesto, the thesis posits a detailed Republican strategy to roll back the evils that Mr. McDonnell saw as afflicting American society generally and the family in particular. On the eve of his political career, Mr. McDonnell was a committed and convinced culture warrior of the right.
Mindful of Virginia's middle-of-the-road electorate, Mr. McDonnell has done his best since running for attorney general in 2005, and especially in the current campaign, to rebrand himself as a moderate willing to work with Democrats. He has cooled his rhetoric, criticized the Bush administration and bristled at questions about his decision to attend graduate school at what was then known as CBN University, the school founded by Pat Robertson (a leading donor to Mr. McDonnell) and named for his Christian Broadcasting Network. When The Post's Amy Gardner obtained his thesis recently and questioned him about it, he dismissed the paper as "an academic exercise."
More substantively, Mr. McDonnell said his thinking has evolved, citing, among other examples, his support for child day care in a 1995 welfare-reform bill. He said that government should not discriminate against homosexuals (though he backed Virginia's constitutional amendment effectively banning same-sex marriage) or prohibit contraceptives (though as a lawmaker he voted often to oppose government-sponsored access to and information about birth control). And he offered his own working wife and daughters, as well as the women he has hired as a candidate and in office, as evidence of his shift on women in the workforce.
Nonetheless, in his 14 years in the state's General Assembly, Mr. McDonnell did aggressively pursue a socially conservative agenda largely in line with his thesis. As governor he could do the same, although he would be constrained by a legislature at least partly controlled by Democrats. He could not ban abortion and contraception, but he could help restrict access. The Bob McDonnell who wrote that thesis would make a divisive, disruptive and partisan governor -- a sharp departure from the tradition of generally pragmatic executives who have helped make Virginia one of the better-managed states in the union. Virginians deserve specific answers about where the thinking of his early middle age has shifted, and where it remains consistent.
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