anti-abortion primary. they might think that is good politics for them but leaves democrats wide open to lock up every pro choice vote in the country and then some. it seems like now they are finally trying to. joining us is alan grayson, represented florida s 8th district, nice to see you again, thank you for joining us. thank you. how central is rolling back abortion rights to what florida republicans are all about right now? i think it s quite central. our polling shows locally and this is true throughout the state, around 10% of the republican voters are strictly anti-choice vote. by the way, 10% of the democratic vote is a pro-choice vote, they are relatively equal. the difference is the republicans have nothing else going for them. if you ask the republicans what is your policy to get people back to work, hear blah, blah, foreclosures, homeless necessary, nothing. health care, allowing people to
down the field on that one. because he has already locking up the anti-abortion vote, but that is not enough to help him do well overall, it is a like strange that rick santorum chose to do a big high profile wall street journal op-ed, doubling down on what is his single issue of abortion. dude, you re winning the anti-abortion primary. what you re supposed to try to wins the race for the republican nomination. unless the race for the republican nomination sort of is the anti-abortion primary. so far the dirt y tricks we know about in the campaign, nasty smears that south carolina republicans are known for, dirty tricks have been about abortion. flyer left on the windshield of cars denigrating rick santorum s wife. fake cnn e-mail denigrating newt gingrich. suffice to say, nasty allegations related to the issue of abortion. so the dirty tricksters believe
this follows on the heels of christine gregoire announcing her support for same-sex marriage rights and her introduction of state marriage equality legislation. today in olympia, washington, at a legislative hearing on this issue, a democratic state senator named mary hougen announced that she would support the bill. she said, i know this announcement makes me the so-called 25th vote, the vote that ensures passage. s need time to make up her mind on the issue to reconcile my religious beliefs with my belief as an american, as a legislator, and as a wife and a mother who cannot deny the to others the joys and benefits i enjoy. ith said, and it is the vote i will cast when this measure comes to the floor. and, meanwhile, also today, we had some serious and worrying news from the family and the office of republican senator mark kirk in illinois. senator kirk was elected in 2010 to the illinois senate seat,
similar to the state level personhood amendment that could ban many forms of contraception and in vitro fertilization. explains how under health reform mammograms and health screens are free, then it goes back on the attack. at the same time, our opponents have been waging a war or women s health, attempting to defund planted parenthood, overturn roe versus wade. if we will protect our progress and take more steps forward, we need to show we have his back now when the heat is on. then they ask you to sign a petition and puts you on their radar to raise money and to get out for the vote. with rick santorum or without, the anti-abortion movement has so taken over the republican party now that they have turned the republican party s nominating contest in an
indianapolis in two weeks by voting to strip union rights in the state. the nfl players association, the players union has put itself loudly on the side of the state s democrats and others who are fighting mitch daniels union-stripping plan there. even while the vote was still pending today, a breakaway group of pro union rights republicans, a group called the lunch pail republicans, announced plans to run pro-union rights primary challengers against two republicans in the legislature, who are going along with the union-stripping plan. and if the prospects of protests including the nfl players association at the super bowl were not high-profile enough around this issue, well, then, republican governor mitch daniels is giving the republican party s official state of the union response tomorrow night. to put that much more of a spotlight on his state and how his union-busting agenda seems to be tearing apart both his state and his party. and meanwhile, as the republican candidates for p