Vengeance can be Randall's, so sayth William Greene, President of Rightmarch.com.
Last month, Greene sent out an e-mail to those on the "Christian Response" mailing list soliciting support for Randall Terry's State Senate campaign in Florida's Eighth District.
Mr. Terry, playing off his previous visiblility as the founder of Operation Rescue and more recently in the Schiavo case (he was a spokesman for Schiavo's parents at the time), is now working a right flanking maneuver against Republican State Senator Jim King, whom www.RandallTerry.com characterizes thusly:
Mr. Terry's opponent is a liberal, left wing Republican who is responsible for the death of Terry Schiavo.
or as Greene puts it in the e-mail:
PLEASE, let's do everything we can to KICK OUT the man in the state Senate who is the most responsible for the death of Terri Schiavo.
Also quoting Greene from the e-mail:
Now -- with your help -- Randall can avenge Terri's death by defeating Jim King in the upcoming Republican primary.
That would be high hopes for the former used car salesman.
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Randall Terry, in the same e-mail describes Sen. King thusly:
I'm taking on the former President of the Florida Senate. He is a powerful and corrupt man.
Terry goes on to accuse King of having given nothing to the district but a "radical liberal agenda". Despite the name calling directed at King, he is but a stepping stone to what Terry really hopes to achieve, something he's had his eye on for almost a decade now, elected office.
No matter how Mr. Terry attempts to reframe his campaign- as if it were suddenly birthed as a result of the Schiavo mess, being a candidate is not a new role for him, nor something he approaches reluctantly, as you see this is not his first bid for political office.
He ran for Congress from upstate NY in 1998 alongside other christian candidates labeled "Patrick Henry Men". Back in 1998, his platform included such gems as 'completely dismantling' welfare, labeling it a 'government as savior' program. His platform, as summarized by John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute ammounted to "no property taxes, no IRS, no social security, no abortion, and no homosexuals." Running as a Republican was an interesting twist, considering his role in the US Taxpayers party- which then eventually morphed into today's Constitution party.
Of course, one 'good thing'- for Mr. Terry that is, did come of that failed 1998 campaign, his second wife, Andrea, who served as his personal assistant during the congressional race. In Aug. 1999 Mr. Terry left his previous wife, Cindy, and divorced her in Nov. 2000. Seven months later, he remarried. Ah, family values in action.
You can see the campaign video from that 1998 Congressional campaign here. from deep within the archive of our site, (complete with an archaic version of our page layout).
Despite his recent attempts to pass off past statements as products of his 'youth', or as 'humor' that didn't translate well into written accounts, Mr. Terry's actions speak far louder than his pathetic excuses. At campaign events, Randall Terry has been passing out copies of his revolutionary manifesto favoring a so called 'christian nation', "The Sword: The Blessing of Righteous Government and the Overthrow of Tyrants" (we've posted a tiny excerpt from which one of our articles here.
While Terri Schiavo, and Jim King may be the excuses he's using to motivate people from across the country to give him money,
Don't let Terri Schiavo die for nothing. Her death should AT LEAST result in the political "death" of one of her worst persecutors.
they are but mere political motivators and brief layovers in his ongoing quest for both power and a larger megaphone to reach a larger audience, or at minimum, an enlarged national database and mailing list to suck cash from later.
There is a full copy of the e-mail from the Christian Response e-mail list online here, for full context.