Lead by example – Candidate Morgan Bowen comes out swinging, will the media pay attention?
Posted By JM Bell on July 8, 2008
This is a press release from Democratic Candidate Morgan Bowen, running against GOP shill Rep. Rob “The Invisible Republican House Vote” Bishop up in Utah CD-1.
Bowen even has the stones to call out Matheson for his cowardly FISA bill vote. Leading by example, not beholden to party loyalties when the right and wrong of an issue is at stake.
Bowen for Congress
345 North 48 West
Hyde Park, Utah 84318
Phone: 435.770.1488
morgan@bowenforcongress.com
http://www.bowenforcongress.comBowen Challenges Hatch, Bennett to Restore the Rule of Law
Urges Senators to vote against FISA Retroactive Immunity Bill.
Criticizes Matheson, Bishop for House CapitulationHYDE PARK, UT: (UT CD-1) Democratic Candidate Morgan Bowen again today blasted what he calls “government run amuck.” On the day of the US Senate’s vote on whether the Congress should grant retroactive immunity to telecoms that cooperated with the government’s illegal and unconstitutional domestic spying program, Bowen released the following comments:
“I urge Senators Hatch and Bennett to protect the Constitution and to vote on this bill with the rule of law foremost on their minds. Illegal and unconstitutional acts should not be forgiven, long after the fact, regardless of excuses, or party pressure.
“Members of the Utah Congressional Delegation, including a member of my own party, have already shown unfortunate judgment on this bill and, because of the surrender of their oath to protect the Constitution, set adside by these US House members, Hatch and Bennett have the opportunity to stop this egregiously un-American bill.
“I oppose granting retro-active immunity to telecommunications companies – who willingly broke the law, when so many others refused to do so - and the illegal wiretapping of Americans on the notion that no entity or body of government is above the law, according to our Constitution.
“While we do face serious threats to our national security, it is possible to combat these threats without the erosion of our most basic liberties, and the protection from an invasive government body that the founding fathers made great efforts to include when drafting the Bill of Rights.
“This bill is nothing more than a thinly masked agenda to grant retro-active immunity and remove oversight from the surveillance process. It has little, if anything at all, to do with protecting Americans from realistic threats. I ask Utah’s Senators to keep in mind the Constitution and the laws of our great country today. I ask them to vote against this silly and senseless bill.”
Benjamin Franklin said “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
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Bowen deserves some serious consideration for this.
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