Oh, Marilyn - why can't you just stay gone?

[madamesilverspurs]

Erstwhile congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, she of virulent anti-gay fame, is now rebranding herself as a "pro life" champion. Nevermind that she voted against childrens health care legislation repeatedly, nevermind that she very publicly swooned over a kiss on the cheek from notorious baby-bomber George W. Bush, nevermind that she voted against veterans on a number of issues and occasions. She wants us to ignore all that in order to sell herself as the queen of pro-lifers. Oh yeah, while in congress she was named "most corrupt." In the article below, please appreciate the irony of her "votes have consequences" stuff:


MUSGRAVE GIVES $50K TO ANTI-ABORTION GROUP


By KRISTEN WYATT
Associated Press Writer,

DENVER — Former Colorado Republican congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave is giving $50,000 in unused campaign funds to help an anti-abortion group for which she now works.

Musgrave said Thursday she donated the money to the Susan B. Anthony List to start an outreach program for young women. The group opposes abortion rights and politicians who support them.

“The youth are becoming more pro-life,” Musgrave said in a telephone interview. “It's a great opportunity.”

A spokeswoman for the Washington-based group said Musgrave's money would be used to train young women who oppose abortion to advocate their cause.

Musgrave served three terms in Congress but was defeated last year by Democrat Betsy Markey. She is one of six staffers for the Susan B. Anthony List and heads up a project of the group called “Votes Have Consequences,” which seeks to defeat officials who support abortion rights.

Musgrave described it as a voter-education group but said it hasn't determined which politicians to target or whether any of them are in Colorado.

Though politicians are banned from donating unused campaign funds to their employers, a spokeswoman for the Susan B. Anthony List said that the part of the group for which Musgrave works is in a different tax category from the outreach effort, making the donation legal.

Musgrave, who splits her time between Colorado and the Washington area, has not indicated whether she plans to seek her old seat in Colorado's 4th District. So far two Republicans have filed papers seeking challenge Markey — state Rep. Cory Gardner of Yuma, and Tom Lucero of Loveland, a member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents.

Musgrave declined to talk about her plans beyond working for the “Votes Have Consequences” campaign next year.

In a recent fundraising letter for the campaign, Musgrave blamed her loss on “the radical homosexual lobby, abortionists, gun-grabbers and all the rest of the extremists.”

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On the Net:

Susan B. Anthony List: http://www.sba-list.org

[gratuitous]

1. Marilyn won't be going back to Colorado

She's been swallowed by the Beltway, and she has found her niche at last: a Republican-funded sinecure where she doesn't have to mess with all those nasty voters, and can spend her time solely with the several dozen people who agree with her.

[katanalori]

5. Begone Marilyn.............

and take Palin with you. And keep your paws off the name of Susan B. Anthony, who would have had nothing to do with you.

[WeDidIt]

2. So Musgrave supports the terrorists n/t

[Trocadero]

3. The yutes are becoming pro-life. Um, Marilyn? The yutes are voting Obama.

[MADem]

7. Like DESE two yooots???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q7mjoxHzm4

You find the YOOTS bit at the very end of this clip, the last forty seconds or so.

[pkdu]

4. She effectively helping to pay her own salary with money not contributed for that purpose n/t

[MADem]

6. HA!! I thought this was a thread about the sale of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia.

I was thinking, "Gee, she's dead--not her fault they keep digging her up!"

But this is a Marilyn of a very different flavor, now, isn't it?

[nevergiveup]

8. That was my first thought also

I was all excited that maybe some of my old calendars had become valuable. Damn, I am getting old.

[MADem]

9. Well, they're selling her pill bottles and her fox fur lately... nt

[madrchsod]

10. marilyn.....i know of two women that used this.....

one ended up in the hospital for a week because of infection and the other bled for two days because she could`t go to the hospital for fear of being arrested....

so marilyn, now there`s several generations of women who have no idea what their mothers and grandmothers did when it was`t legal.

shall we bring back the coat hanger or the sharp "stick" so that women can suffer and die? oh yes.... you think they deserve to die.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. Hey, Musgrave, don't go away mad. . .

just go away.