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"You're headed for another election catastrophe."
Contact: Donna Ballentine,
Colorado Right To Life, 303 753-9394,
Office@ColoradoRightToLife.org
DENVER, June 16 /Christian
Newswire/ -- "Colorado Right To Life is warning Dick Wadhams, the state
Republican Party chairman, that by shunning their pro-life conservative base
they're headed for another election catastrophe in November," said Joe Riccobono,
CRTL president.
"Wadhams banned the nation's oldest Right To Life organization from their state
convention while he welcomed a radical pro-abortion group," said CRTL vice
president Leslie Hanks. "The state's top Republican is out of touch with his own
party's base, where 4 out of 5 Republicans at the convention voted to defend
life beginning at fertilization."
The thousands of convention delegates passed all forty resolutions offered,
except for the only one that failed, the pro-abortion Resolution #21. Convention
rules require literature to be approved by the party chairman. Wadhams allowed
the misnamed Republican Majority for Choice to distribute flyers quoting him
about the Personhood Amendment 48 sponsors as "on the fringe of the pro-life
movement, and they do not represent by any stretch of the imagination the
hundreds of thousands of pro-life Coloradans."
130,000 pro-lifers signed the Personhood petition. Delegates overwhelmingly
passed all uncompromising pro-life resolutions including the 78% vote affirming
that "life begins at conception." 20-year-old Personhood Amendment sponsor
Kristi Burton was elected among the top ten most popular of the 46 national
delegates.
The Denver Post last week quoted Wadhams regarding conservative leader Dr. James
Dobson's refusal to support the Republican presidential candidate. "Dobson's
comments that he would not vote for the party's presumptive nominee, John
McCain, won't hurt." Further, according to the Post, Wadhams agreed that the
party should "avoid social issues," and the liberal ColoradoPols.com headlined
their report about the state Republican chairman: "Wadhams: Dobson Is So
Yesterday."
"Wadhams sells out Dobson and pro-life voters in favor of pro-abortion
lobbyists," said Hanks. "Social issues have motivated Republicans in every
presidential cycle since 1980."
In sharp contrast, the ColoradoRTL.org candidate questionnaire has identified
many heroic leaders running for office. "But Wadhams has moved U.S. Senate
candidate Bob Schaffer to the liberal middle, and he's trying to drag the
Colorado GOP to the left."
"Wadhams promotion of abortion will be the straw that elects Democrat Mark
Udall," said Riccobono. Wadhams pushing the party to the left helps explain the
Rocky Mountain News report that Bob Schaffer's convention speech received, "the
loudest applause… when he criticized his own party."
In the past, Schaffer fought for protection of innocent human life from the
moment of fertilization. "Now he's allowing the party boss Dick Wadhams to
position his own former pro-life belief as bad for the Colorado GOP," said
Riccobono, "so Schaffer will be blamed for their third election strike out and
game over."