Failed Democrat Pol Sues Critics Over Election Loss
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:38 pm
Failed Democrat Pol Sues Critics Over Election Loss
October 24, 2011
U.S. News & World Report
New lows from the democrat party: "You beat us fair and square in an election, and we'll sue you for loss of livelihood!" OH. MY. GOD!! Talk about a sense of entitlement. Somebody needs to beat that guy with a bat..........the judge too, for not being able to recuse himself from an obvious conflict of interest.
October 24, 2011
U.S. News & World Report
(emphasis in red is mine)There's nothing quite like a politician scorned.
When voters in Ohio's 1st Congressional District threw Democrat Steve Driehaus out of office after only one term, he did not bow out gracefully. No, he decided to get even. So he did what anyone does in today's culture: he sued somebody.
Charging that its activities contributed to his defeat and thus to his "loss of livelihood," Driehaus is suing the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that supports pro-life candidates for Congress and which has been one of the leading and most effective organizations involved in the fight to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
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Driehaus's suit is breaking new legal ground and may already be having a very chilling effect on political speech. It goes directly at the heart of our First Amendment protections and criminalizes what is at least a difference of opinion. And it's curious that the case has not received more attention from the national press.
What is equally curious, however, is why Judge Black has allowed the case to move forward and why he did not recuse himself from it since, as Barbara Hollingsworth reported Friday in The Washington Examiner, he apparently is the former president and director of the Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati. As seeming conflicts of interest go this one is a real humdinger.
New lows from the democrat party: "You beat us fair and square in an election, and we'll sue you for loss of livelihood!" OH. MY. GOD!! Talk about a sense of entitlement. Somebody needs to beat that guy with a bat..........the judge too, for not being able to recuse himself from an obvious conflict of interest.
