There Was A Great Anti-Jim Moran Message On The JimMoran.org Site Today Showing That Moran Lies When He Claims A 100% NARAL Voting Rating

Congressman Moran,
I find it reprehensible, as an English teacher in Fairfax County, that your campaign staff could post on your website a message with such poor grammar and a number of typographical errors. Once again you are a bad example for the youth of our community.

Additionally, I question where you got your facts. According to the NARAL web site, you received a 65% percent rating in their latest Congressional scorecard (in case you were wondering the NARAL scorecard can be found at: http://www.naral.org/publications/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=2079) Perhaps you have given yourself a 100% rating from January 1, 2004 thru the present? I guess my response to that is it is easy to act appropriately when you are under a microscope (like now, with Andy gaining the support of individuals like myself) but harder to do the correct thing when nobody is watching.

Finally, I question your ability to attack Andy's credibility. Need I remind you that it was you, Congressman Moran, who took questionable campaign contributions (perhaps a bribe?) from a lobbyist with issues before your committee; shoved a fellow congressman off the House floor; beat up an 8-year-old African American boy; threatened to bloody the president's nose; and blamed the war in Iraq on the Jews. As I tell my students: those who live in glass houses should never throw stones!

My advice to you, Congressman, is this: run you campaign on what you will do in the future, because based on your record and credibility, you are a clear loser.

Looking forward to Andy's swearing-in ceremony.

by trary on Fri Feb 27th, 2004 at 09:55:02 PM EST

On a related note, I received a call today from the political department of NARAL, from the same young-sounding spokesperson L with whom I had spoken previously.

L. said that she wished to clarify what she had told me earlier about NARAL not supporting Moran. She said that NARAL had supported Moran before Moran started voting to outlaw partial-birth abortions (i.e., before 1995.) She said that recently Moran has realized that he should not vote to restrict abortions.

And on a further related note, here is what Post columnist Marc Fisher, a noted critic of Moran, said online on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004. (disclosure, I posted the question to Fisher):

Alexandria, Va.: The abortion-rights group NARAL is going to be sponsoring a march in Washington on April 25. I am concerned that NARAL is going to be featuring my congressman, Jim Moran, at this event, and providing Moran with exposure that it will deny to Moran's Democratic primary challenger Andy Rosenberg.

What is the best way to let a lobbying group know that allying itself with a controversial, divisive figure like Moran will hurt them more than it will help them?

Marc Fisher: Write them, call them, have your friends do the same. If Moran had a real challenger, that candidate would be doing the organizing for you.

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