Michael Schiavo (Terri's husband) in the news again

[flashl]

Where’s The Media Now?

The Tampa Tribune, ABC Action News, New York Times and scores of other media across the nation touted the exploitation of Terri Schiavo’s name for the new federal PAC which was supposed to raise money to “educate voters on where their elected officials stood when they had a choice between individual freedom and personal privacy and overreaching government action”, as the SP Times blared.

But now that Schiavo’s PAC is under federal inquiry and has been terminated, there’s been nary a word reporting the latest development by the media. In fact, the Florida media as well as the national media, seems to be intentionally avoiding the issue of Michael Schiavo, particularly his latest courtroom controversy involving his credibility and alleged retaliation, as well as alleged extra-marital dalliances. And it all goes to the credibility of his claim that his disabled wife wanted to die so he removed her feeding tube and “kept his promise”. The only thing that appears to be clear and convincing is that Michael Schiavo has no credibility and ulterior motives.

http://www.northcountrygazette.org/news/2007/10/03/accusatory_fingers/

“Michael Schiavo vowed to use donations to pay for television advertisements and “personal appearances … in the states and districts of political leaders who chose their own political gain over personal privacy”, another article said.

Last month, in the wake of a federal inquiry by the Federal Election Commission and a year-long investigation into the committee’s operations by the Florida Election Commission the plug was pulled on TerriPAC.
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It seems that memories of Terri lingers.

[hlthe2b]

1. Posting from very right wing blogs, I see....

Is it time to check in with the imminent Dr. Frist and ask if poor Ms. Schiavo is (still) dead? :sarcasm:

[flashl]

3. Using Terri Schiavo shamed me then and now. n/t

[Zenlitened]

21. Really? 'Cause at the momemt, you seem pretty shameless. - n/t

[flashl]

22. Just how do you think that I personally gain?

[Zenlitened]

27. Did I say that you "personally gain"?

Or, downthread, did anyone suggest you had an agenda before you felt the need to blurt out that you don't have an agenda?

I dunno... you might want to Google "protest too much" and see what comes up. :eyes:

[flashl]

33. Short term memory? Your comment:

Really? 'Cause at the momemt, you seem pretty shameless

[Zenlitened]

54. That seems to be an odd definition of "you" that you're using there.

Seriously... http://www.goenglish.com/ProtestTooMuch.asp

[flashl]

55. ad hominem

[Zenlitened]

56. Oh, the irony. You post a smear about someone...

... and then complain about an ad hominem argument? Oy!

Have a super day. :hi:

[Ian David]

7. Dr. Frist says Jo Ann Davis is still alert and responsive.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3019333#3019414

In fact, Ronald Reagan is still living on Bill Frist's couch, eating jelly beans, and riding horses.

[Mz Pip]

2. That was one case

where I didn't like any of the players. Her family was nuts. ANd her husband seemed like kind of a jerk. Wish they would all just go away.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Whisp]

5. I found her husband to be the least jerky of the lot.

but I agree, let it all go away unless Michael needs help.

[sam sarrha]

4. the fact she had no functioning brain left, just the autonomic brain stem doesn't make a difference

in this case..

[DURHAM D]

6. I don't know much about Michael but

if you google the author (June Maxam) of that piece which was published in her own free newspaper (North Country Gazette in NY) you will see that she is s total whack job. Also, she apparently has a book out with her own views stated as fact. Hummm...

It seems she just can't let some things go.

[flashl]

8. Years ago, I ran across the North Country Gazette and learned more

than I ever wanted to know about Terri.

[mondo joe]

9. It looks like you learned bunch of crap, if it came from this Maxam person.

[flashl]

10. Sometimes, even in the ramblings of a mad person ...

there is some truth.

[mondo joe]

13. And sometimes they're just full of shit and lies. NT

[flashl]

17. And that for each to judge nt.

[mondo joe]

18. Maxam is a verified liar. You really ought to use a more reputale source rather than this

anti-choice shill.

[flashl]

20. I have no agenda n/t

[knitter4democracy]

28. She helped with Th1onein's sister.

She's not entirely evil. I'm just sayin'.

[CatWoman]

11. I don't get it

what's the purpose of this thread?

to bash Michael Schiavo?? :shrug:

[flashl]

12. Its just one of hundreds of stories that is not on the MSMs radar. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

15. Probably rightly so

[mondo joe]

16. It's just another Michael Schiavo bashing.

Schiavo shut down his PAC. He wasn't very good at managing it which is not a complete surprise.

[Pastiche423]

19. I don't get it, either

What news did he make recently?

[0007]

30. I guess!

:shrug: We all know he's such an incorrigible scam artist.(and freerepublic.com will prove it, right?) The right wing has to do something to gain creditability .... so I guess they're trying hard to fuck themselves even. Or at least get their nuts out of hock. :hi:

[CatWoman]

58. Hey sweets!!

:hi:

Haven't seen you for a while :)

[flashl]

31. PAC = political action committee

Committee ID: C00417576

TERRIPAC

BOX 348322
CORAL GABLES, FL 33234

[janx]

35. Obviously, YES. n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. That's quite a hit piece.

And I'm rejecting it based on Maxam's use of "disrespected him" ... for starters.

[Richard Steele]

23. Really scraping the bottom of the RW barrel to come up with this ridiculous hit-piece.

[DemBones DemBones]

24. Most DUers had no sympathy for Terri Schiavo

because her family is Catholic and wanted to care for her and keep her alive until she died of natural causes. Pro-lifers got involved in the case, taking the family's side, and apparently you can't be a pro-life Democrat. You can oppose war and the death penalty but if you also oppose euthanasia and abortion, you're "not a liberal."

I don't guess they realize that pro-lifers also protest the death penalty, hold vigils at executions, protest against the School of the Americas, protest against the war, protest against nuclear weapons, etc.

Disability rights groups were also involved in protesting the starvation/dehydration killing of Terri Schiavo. When some of us who are disabled talked about the case in the Disability Rights forum, people who aren't disabled came in and argued with us. They said she wasn't disabled, she was dead, didn't have a brain, etc. Of course her suspected medical condition of permanent vegetative state could only be established at autopsy so she had to die to be diagnosed, don't you see?

Disabled people get in the way, you know? Some of us need special parking places or ramps or Braille on signs or service dogs, we're in the way. Some of us look different. Some of us don't die when we should. It was all very nasty.

I'm not surprised that Michael Schiavo is in trouble, sorry to hear that the St. Pete Times isn't reporting it. It used to be a very good paper, very liberal. The Tampa Trib has always been right wing. You'd think one of them would be reporting it, given their differing points of view.

[MonkeyFunk]

25. I had a lot of sympathy for Terri Shiavo

but very little for her wingnut family that wanted to keep her nominally alive despite her wishes.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. I disagree

Most DUers realized her brain stem was gone and there was no hope for her to live other than in a vegetative state. There were a few who agreed with her parents and wanted her kept 'alive' but the vast majority sympathized with her husband and understood the science and what it means when a brain stem is gone.

[knitter4democracy]

29. It was a very hard case, I agree.

Legally, only her husband had the right to make a decision. There was a lot of evidence to say that he'd done what he could to make her comfortable (all those years and no bed sores--that takes dedicated family to make sure that the patient is moved around enough), and the autopsy says that she really was gone and for a long time.

Still, it would've been so much better if everyone had been able to let the family hash it out and have peace.

[mondo joe]

37. Actualy no, HE didn't make the decision - he asked the court to do that.

And it did, based on evidence.

[janx]

38. Over and over and over again, no less! n/t

[knitter4democracy]

59. From what I remember, he wanted to, the parents said no, and that's what got it going.

The hospital didn't want to decide, so it went to court, and that's where it got really nasty with all sorts of allegations flying both ways (mostly against Mr. Schiavo, though).

[mondo joe]

62. In May 1998, Michael Schiavo peitioned the court

to determine whether Terri's feeding tube should be removed; Michael took the position that Terri would choose to remove the tube; Terri's parents took position that Terri would choose not to remove the tube.

Excellent reference here: http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html

[mondo joe]

36. Completely false. Sympathy for her meant honoring her choices - not those of her ghoulish

parents.

[NashVegas]

39. Most Think Terri Schiavo *Did* Die of Natural Causes

And that the feeding tube was an unnatural extension of physical life, where all mental life was gone already.

I was raised Catholic and to me, that seems more consistent with the Church's teachings as I learned them.

[Beelzebud]

46. What a crock of shit...

[Pastiche423]

60. I second that crock of shit

[SidDithers]

48. Most DU'ers supported Terri and the decisions...

that her husband made on her behalf. What most DU'ers didn't support were the parties who felt that religious reasons for keeping Terri alive should trump the medical reasons for letting her go.

Sid

[Individualist]

52. That's a lie

[Bluebear]

32. "In the news again" , , ,the North Country Gazette, no less!

:silly:

[NashVegas]

34. Aye, First Thing I Noticed

:rofl:

[Maribelle]

40. Rick Santorum, Freeperville, and you

When you said that he was in the news again... I googled, and guess what I found?

[flashl]

41. Try this:

TerriPAC come back and tell me what you find.

[mondo joe]

42. I find the PAC page, and then a bunch of Freeper sites.

:eyes:

[flashl]

43. Did you find the FEC or opensecrets.org?

Committee ID: C00417576

TERRIPAC

BOX 348322
CORAL GABLES, FL 33234

[mondo joe]

44. No - just a lot of anti choice and Freeper sites - at least for the first several

pages.

IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY WHY DON'T YOU JUST SAY IT INSTEAD OF HIDING BEHIND GOOGLE????

[flashl]

45. I have say it

PAC

[mondo joe]

47. So he formed a PAC and then disbanded it. Your point is.....?

What exactly?

[flashl]

49. Its disbanded

[mondo joe]

50. So what?

Seriously - so what?

[trumad]

51. Come on mondo joe

The Op author has an agenda but is too much of a candy ass to admit it.... Just like the GOP...

[flashl]

53. It simply hit my radar as I was following FEC stories. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

57. Have you gotten kudos from your handlers?

Tell them you might not deserve them. Being outed is a non starter to some handlers.

[walldude]

61. "It seems that memories of Terri lingers."... Only with people

who want to use her name for political or financial gain. This is plain stupid. LEave the man in peace. I wonder how many of these people would have come out of the fucking woodwork if the Schiavo family had no insurance and they were going to unplug Terri because they couldn't afford to keep her alive? There have been many cases of people dying from a lack of insurance, where are all these right wing assholes on those? Oh yeah, they are busy bowing to their savior who just vetoed health care for poor kids. :eyes: