Tea Party and Conservative Endorsement from Sarah Palin, Former Republican VP Candidate and ex-Governor of Alaska. Does it Hurt Now?

That Crazy Woman From Alaska Who Shall Not Be Named, who this week said on national news that North Korea is a US ally, endorsed Ann Marie last summer. 

Ann Marie accepted the endorsement, thankful and ever-so-happy for national attention, and posted it on her website. It is still there. 

Maybe it's time to take it down? 

Ann Marie Buerkle on Choice: Science? Fear? Is All That So Far In Her Past That She Respects Choice for Other Women? Changing The Subject Does Not Put Blueskigirl's Fears To Rest

From 55 Plus  13 June 2010
In 1976, she moved with her husband back to Central New York, settling in Syracuse, and they had their first child. She attended Le Moyne College and in 1977 got involved in the pro-life movement, helping establish a Friends for Life chapter in Syracuse.

She approached her speaking and educational role in Friends for Life from a medical perspective. “I talked about fetal development and told the audience, ‘I’m giving you the facts so you will be able to make an informed decision if and when you need to do so,’” she says.

From Syracuse.com 29 March 2010
Buerkle is the former head of the Syracuse Right-to-Life group and served as the spokeswoman for the anti-abortion groups Friends for Life and Operation Rescue.  
She was the local spokeswoman for Operation Rescue when the group demonstrated outside of a gynecologist’s office in 1989. In that protest, 44 abortion protesters who blocked the entrance to the office were charged with trespassing. Earlier that year, she was with a group that carried a blackened fetus named “Baby Choice” to a protest at Planned Parenthood in Syracuse, where 14 protesters were arrested.

Buerkle makes no apologies for her past activism, and said her views on abortion have not changed. But she said it’s not the single issue that defines her, nor will it be a top priority of her campaign.
“I want to be really careful not to make this a referendum on abortion,” Buerkle said. “People here are concerned about jobs and the economy. I have six kids, and five of them live outside of the state because of a lack of opportunities.”
Buerkle said her days as an anti-abortion activist were from a different part of her life and career, when she was a young mother and working as a nurse.
“Life is an evolution,” she said. “You never stay in the same place. I have a pretty consistent record of public service. And that’s why I’m running now. I see a lack of representation for people who live here.”

Google Alerts For All Your Political Watchdog Needs

Having just started a blog about the next two years of Ann Marie Buerkle's life in and out of Washington, I have discovered a useful tool: Google Alerts.
Google Alerts are delivered to my mailbox at least 3 times a day right now. Google is searching high and low for Ann Marie's name, in any context, and it has made up for lost time over the past 4 days, sending me a trove of old and new information.
Very helpful...and I think it will make research far easier, giving me a lot more time to put information together into a coherent set of posts for a more comprehensive picture of our newly elected US Representative.

Ann Marie Buerkle on Climate Change [Really!?!]

Interview with Ann Marie Buerkle 

by Paul Riede

Syracuse.com

Sunday, November 28 2010

PR:  What is your view on global warming?

AMB:   Well, the reason this came up was Dan’s vote on cap and trade (the climate change bill). I said I didn’t think it was a good idea to pass legislation such as cap and trade where we know [really?] it’s going to be so harmful [really?]— whether it’s farmers in the cost of fertilizer, the cost of doing business, the cost of energy for families — that to create a bill and support a bill that has such a bad effect on people and families and businesses and farmers, [Ann Marie,really!?!] that its benefit and what it’s going to do to carbon emissions was negligible. And there’s still debate out there on global warming. [(chorus) really!!!] I think global warming politically has probably been decided, but scientifically I don’t think it has. [I mean, really??] I think you can talk to reasonable people, meteorologists, and they have differing opinions on it. [Really? ...or could it possibly be something else, like these weather people being paid by carbon producers to say untrue things? Really.]

Thanks loads to Jerry Seinfeld and Seth Meyers on SNL, really!

http://rackjite.com/archives/4714-Video-SNL-Seth-Meyers-and-Jerry-Seinfeld-Really-discuss-Eric-Massa.html

The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint, For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. Except for the War till the day he retired He worked in a factory and never got fired But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views, For his Union reports that he paid his dues, (Our report on his Union shows it was sound) And our Social Psychology workers found That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink. The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way. Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured, And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured. Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Installment Plan And had everything necessary to the Modern Man, A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire. Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; When there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation. And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard. W.H. Auden