I posted a lengthy story yesterday about the Twitter shenanigans of my duly elected Congressman, John Rutherford (FL CD 04) who is facing an energetic challenge from a popular and well-known Jacksonville native, Donna Deegan, a long-time on-air news anchor and 3X breast cancer survivor, running to ensure that everyone gets health care, to bring gun sense to our laws, and to clean up the environment, among other things. JR, as he is known locally, is a former Sheriff and self-proclaimed strident pro-lifer, so the week before the 4th of July was tough. He could hardly go on record about the abortion case without facing nasty questions about the Russian bounties on our Armed Service members, now, could he?
So he pulled a couple of stunts you can read about here if you have a mind to do so. Today, he seems to think he got a better decision to hang his hat on: Little Sisters of the Poor v. PA, the one about providing birth control to your employees if you really, really don’t believe in providing birth control. Here’s what he had to say about this one:
The replies so far mention a number of things: babies in cages, coverage of Viagra, hypocrisy, masks, somewhat oddly. Doesn’t seem to be going the way he thought. I’ll stick around for the ratio on this one and report back if anything changes.
One notable reply: