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Thank you Linda,You are so smart. Thats why we keep you around. HA!HA! Just kidding. Shirley ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/ -----Original Message----- From: Linda J Herman <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, February 20, 2000 4:32 AM Subject: Re: ProHope Good news article & Bad news Anti-Abortion (Not ProLife) article >A suggestion for those looking for facts about the candidates and their >records on important issues -- see Project Vote Smart >http://www.vote-smart.org/ > >This site gives information on all candidates for public office --- >President, Governors, Congress and State Legislatures. You can find out >about the candidates backgrounds, their positions on issues such as >health care, their voting records, campaign finances and ratings by >special interest groups from throughout the political spectrum. Then you >can draw your own conclusions. > > You can also search by keywords,the full text of candidates' speeches, >issue statements and position papers. The Vote- Smart organization says >they are completely non-partisan and are supported by the Ford, Carnegie >and Pew Foundations, 3,000 public libraries, CNN, NBC and hundreds of >other news organizations. > >I searched for McCains public statements about Parkinson's and found >these 2: > From a speech in Concord, NH 01/11/2000 >SPEAKERS:U.S. SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), REPUBLICAN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL >CANDIDATE >I'm honored to have had the support of the senior citizens in my state. >I'm honored to have-from time to time engaged in humor with my dear >friends. My dearest friend perhaps ever in the Congress of the United >States was my dear and beloved friend Morris Udall, who I watched >languish with PARKINSON's disease for six years. >I will never ever lose my commitment to see that we do whatever we can to >cure that terribly pernicious disease. > >2) Talks To Sam Donaldson From His Home (Interview) > 02/06/2000 >Donaldson asked McCain about changing his position on fetal tissue >research. > >DONALDSON: You promised the people of Arizona in a letter you would >oppose it in January of 1992. And then, in April, you began a series of >votes and you voted for it. >Sen. McCAIN: Yes, I did. And I changed my position on that issue, and >I'll tell you honestly-it probably shouldn't have been-but it was driven >by the-watching the spectacle of my dear friend, Morris Udall, dying of >PARKINSON's disease. His daughter, Ann Udall, and others came to me and >said, 'Look, we got a way that we may be able to find a cure for this >terrible disease.' I publicly announced that I was then supporting >fissal-fetal tissue research. I'm not supporting abortion to provide it. >I'm not-I'm adamantly opposed to the sale of it. But the fact is that >I've been convinced that it's promising in a way to find a cure for a >terrible, terrible disease. And I made no secret of my changing my >position. And I've changed my position on several other issues when I've >been convinced of it. >So I-I misspoke in San Francisco, but I still think that I-most >Americans-and by the way, it's like 93-to-4, Senator Thurmond voted for >fetal tissue research and so did many others. Connie... >DONALDSON: He's from South Carolina. >Sen. McCAIN: Connie Mack and-and others. And-and they did that because of >the information that we received that this would help in a dre-in trying >to find a cure to a terrible disease. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----------------------------- > I'm a registered Democrat, so I cannot vote for or against McCain in my >state's primary, but I greatly appreciate his past efforts on behalf of >PD research funding and sponsorship of the Udall Bill. I also hope to >hear further explanation of why he now opposes stem cell research. >Linda Herman