A shift to grassroots tactics for Georgia Right to Life
Georgia Right to Life, the state’s most active anti-abortion group, announced this afternoon that Mike Griffin, the group’s lobbyist at the state Capitol for the last four years, has been named GRTL’s field director.
From the press release:
In his new role, Griffin is available to educate legislators and prolife advocates around the state about GRTL’s effort “Personhood–the Paramount Right to Life”.
The program’s ultimate goal is to adopt an amendment to the state’s constitution which would affirm that a “paramount right to life” is vested in each human being from the earliest biological beginning until natural death.
“Mike is a dedicated, inspirational advocate for protecting the sanctity of human life,” said Daniel Becker, GRTL president. “He will bring added passion to encouraging our grassroots supporters to join our efforts.”
Griffin has turned many Republican lawmakers off with his bare-knuckled, sometimes confrontational approach to pushing GRTL-endorsed legislation.
House Republican leaders in particular have crossed swords with Griffin and the group he respresents. Which is why, in the House, GRTL’s proposed “personhood” amendment – which would give fertilized eggs legal protection as fully endowed human beings – is being carried by Democrat Rick Crawford of Cedartown.
But the re-assignment of Griffin sounds more like a shift toward improved grassroots tactics than an attempt to improve relations with GOP lawmakers. And if members of the General Assembly don’t like to see a button-holing Griffin outside their chambers – they certainly aren’t going to want to see him in their districts.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Obama Shateth a Bricketh
November 21st, 2011
9:47 pm
Please wake me up when the conversation turns to flag burning. This article is so 1988. Time to move forward to the 90’s, Georgia.
Obama Shateth a Bricketh
November 21st, 2011
9:54 pm
What’s next? Since corporations now have the rights of an individual, are we going to have to start paying them welfare the moment the attorney prepares the Articles of Incorporation?
Name
November 21st, 2011
10:07 pm
Ahh Republicans…..so useless they even make democrats look useful. Let’s stop wasting time on these stupid laws and stick to actual issues
double
November 21st, 2011
10:26 pm
Td I would guess that you are an accident.Surely you don’t come from planned parenthood.
td
November 21st, 2011
11:03 pm
double
November 21st, 2011
10:26 pm
I could trade insults with you but alas I know I am a better man than you and will just say I will pray for your lost soul.
DJ Sniper
November 21st, 2011
11:34 pm
TD, you just proved my point. Not every woman who gets an abortion does so simply because she was irresponsible and didn’t plan on getting pregnant. What about a woman whose life is threatened by the pregnancy? What about a woman who was raped? Better yet, what about a minor who gets raped?
Bond
November 22nd, 2011
12:28 am
Life? How about life for the uninsured? Life for the abused and neglected lives in being? Go away.
Sherman
November 22nd, 2011
12:35 am
And to the one who says, “… alas I am a better man than you…” I commend the short story, Revelation, by Flannery OConner.
It’s about a lady who thinks she’s better than people and what she discovers.
Buckhead Boy
November 22nd, 2011
5:30 am
td, in “preaching” personal responsibility, I suppose that you are not opposed to instruction in and provision of the effective means for exercising that responsibility?
Bill Orvis White
November 22nd, 2011
5:30 am
These good men are going to make sure that the unborn get the protection that they deserve. I love how the left-wing media gloats when these vital pieces of legislation go down in defeat. Guess what? WE THE PEOPLE bring the precious ideas back to the table and pray for their passage. I think that in at least five year’s time, WE THE PEOPLE WILL see the personhood amendment passed in most of these great Southern states, if not some of the Plain and Midwest states.
Amen,
Bill
Smoke
November 22nd, 2011
6:06 am
#1: It is rather funny seeing “lobbyist” used in the context of “grassroots.” Only in Dixiecratland.
findog
November 22nd, 2011
8:02 am
“The earliest biological beginning until natural death,” from the people who believe the earth is only thousands instead of billions of years old, don’t think in evolution, and global warming is a socialist plot to destroy capitalism. Based on their anti-technology, flat earth thinking, the earliest detectable biological beginning is somewhere between morning sickness and the hear crowning…
honested
November 22nd, 2011
8:13 am
Now that the annual exercise in absolute nonsense has been announced and cataloged, can we get on to the items of vital interest to all living beings that are already here:
Water-Real conservation and allocation of existing resources rather than selling out to the real estate parasites, speculators and dirt scratchers pretending that putting a ‘reservoir’ in every neighborhood somehow makes sense
Air-Meet existing and increasing VOC and Ozone rules using existing technologies. Get serious about functional, region wide mass transit so we can get from place to place without further fouling the air.
Those two could keep them busy for at least three sessions and stanch the desire to write stupid and pointless laws that only make the state look foolish!
findog
November 22nd, 2011
8:24 am
A dad,
How many Hitler’s, Stalin’s, Mao’s have we missed?
td,
The problem with the personhood idealist is that many current forms of contraception act between conception and the zygote attaching to the womb, which would be considered murder.
Madison
November 22nd, 2011
10:00 am
The magician sets up the trick once again. We’re not supposed to reveal how the trick works, but just for you:
Ok. We may not be getting rich off our legislative job, but we get treated really nice by lobbyists, so we want to stay here. Problem is we have to sell the stuff the lobbyists want us to and that is often to your detriment. Here’s the trick. We will argue about gambling and abortion and same sex marriage. (we may not argue about immigration much since that’s a little too controversial in the pulpits around the state) We’ll rail against spending in Washington while begging Washington for money we’ve cut from our budgets so we can beat our chests about fiscal responsibility. We will do this so you won’t watch when the lobbyist slips the check in our pocket and so you won’t realize we have no idea where next year’s budget money will come from and that we really don’t care.
Rabbit
November 22nd, 2011
10:07 am
I love Georgia. I want to see her prosper. I have an over 175 year family history here. But the systematic dismantling of public education and the historic neglect of that aspect of our lives leaves the state in a position where prosperity is on the wane. I fear that the spirit of neighborliness that characterized the early settlers existence is fading and that the big traffic issues we may face in the next few years is the congestion of lanes leaving the state.
td
November 22nd, 2011
3:49 pm
findog
November 22nd, 2011
8:24 am
I do not know if I will vote for the amendment or not. I do know that no one can tell me we have had more than 1 million occasions that the mothers life was in danger so we have a great deal of couples (Yes I think men are responsible also) using abortion as a method of birth control.
Madison
November 22nd, 2011
8:26 pm
This is not what we should be worrying about. Let the churches do their job. Government issues should be wrapped around our ro
E in the world, our prosperity at home and what kind of world we are going to leave, not for our grandchildren, but for their great grandchildren. Our short sighted view will lead us to ruin.
Madison
November 22nd, 2011
8:30 pm
Our role in the world