Saturday, August 21, 2010

Post election explanation of prolife endorsement process

The Grand Rapids Press printed a guest editorial by Right to Life of Michigan Political Action Director Larry Galmish regarding RLM-PAC endorsements.
Throughout its existence, the RLM-PAC has been guided by time-tested, carefully developed bylaws which outline the criteria which candidates must meet in order to be endorsed. These bylaws also guide the state PAC board when making a final decision on candidates.

In some races, all candidates will meet the RLM-PAC endorsement criteria, in which case no specific candidate will be endorsed. Rather, the RLM-PAC will stay out of the race and declare that all candidates meet criteria.

Unfortunately, some races with multiple candidates will include at least one who does not meet our criteria along with several who do. In these races, the RLM-PAC bylaws require the endorsement of a single pro-life candidate who does meet the endorsement criteria. The reason? To try to unite the pro-life vote behind one candidate and prevent a split among many, thus allowing the pro-abortion candidate to win. Unfortunately, unification of the vote doesn’t always occur, but common sense dictates this to be the right course of action.


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