Sam Bennett for Congress 2008 - Big Brother Has Come Back

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Statewide Elected Officials:
•Governor Ed Rendell
•Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll
•State Party Chair T.J. Rooney

Federally Elected Officials:
•Senator Bob Casey
•Rep. Allyson Schwartz (PA)
•Rep. Robert Brady (PA)
•Rep. Charlie Rangel (NY)
•Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT)
•Rep. Rob Andrews (NJ)
•Rep. Jay Inslee (WA)

•Rep. Russ Carnahan (MO)
•Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH)

Local State Officials:
•State Senator Connie Williams
•State Senator Lisa Boscola
•State Rep. Jennifer Mann

•State Rep. Joseph F. Brennan

Local Elected Officials:
•Don Cunningham
Lehigh County Executive
•Rick Daugherty
Lehigh County Party Chair
•Joe Long
Northampton County Party Chair
•Marcel Groen
Montgomery County Party Chair
•Tom Herman
Chair Berks County Party
•Mayor Ed Pawlowski
Allentown
•Mayor John Callahan
Bethlehem
•Mayor Sal Panto
Easton

Labor Unions:
•International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
•International Union of Operating Engineers Local 542
•International Union of Operating Engineers
•Mid-Atlantic Laborers'
•Laborers' International Union of North America
•Plumbers Union Local 690
•United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry
•International Brotherhood of Teamsters
•International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
•International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
•Sheet Metal Workers International Association
•United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
•United Steelworkers of America
•American Postal Workers Union
•International Union of Painters & Allied Tradess
•International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers
•International Union of Bricklayers
•Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
•Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union
•United Union of Roofers local 30
•International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
•International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers
•International Union of Elevator Constructors
•Communications Workers of America
•United Auto Workers
•Service Employees International Union
•Pennsylvania AFL-CIO

Issue Advocacy Groups:
•EMILY's List
•Business Professional Women USA/PA
•The Feminist Majority
•National Women's Political Caucus
•National Organization for Women (NOW)
•People for the American Way
•Democratic Advancement PAC (DAPAC)
•Allentown Women's Center
•Women's Campaign Forum (WCF)
•American Association for Justice (AAJ)
•Democracy for America (DFA ) - Lehigh Valley
•Sierra Club
•Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs (pro-Israel)
•J Street
•League of Conservation Voters

Big Brother Has Come Back

The Bush Administration seems to have things exactly backwards. Where government should be robust – protecting and caring for its citizens – they have made it weak. Where government should tread lightly, they have made it overbearing.

The government has no business in family medical decisions.

The government, along with the community and families, should be working to reduce unwanted pregnancies to as close to zero as possible. But it should not criminalize private medical decisions made by women and their doctors regarding reproduction. As Ohio Congressional candidate Paul Hackett put it so well: “I don’t want the government in my gun cabinet or in my wife's doctor’s office.”

The government should not be regulating adult personal relationships, nor should it discriminate in governmental benefits or responsibilities. Couples or single people who are otherwise qualified should not be discriminated against in adoption decisions. (We need more people willing and able to adopt, not fewer.)

Most of all, in our fight against the threat of terror, we must not surrender our essential liberties in the name of preserving liberty. We cannot forget the essence of our most cherished values as we fight to preserve them.

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