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Politics In Case You Missed It: Hans Zeiger's Short List of Terrorist Organizations That Are Threatening America
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:25 AM
The National Education Association, the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The News Tribune calls Zeiger a "thoughtful conservative." Goldy calls Zeiger out—along with the New Tribune, the Bellingham Herald, and the Seattle Times. It's required reading.
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Cool! We have crazy people here in Canada, too, but they tend to be found walking down Robson shouting into imaginary mobile phones, not running for office. You guys are SO weird!
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You know, if the Girl Scouts were made up of radical feminist lesbians, I think I'd have had more fun.
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I live in the district Hans Zeiger hopes to represent. The Republican incumbent, Bruce Dammeier, has endorsed Zeiger despite Zeiger’s extreme views. (Tacoma News-Tribune, April 16, 2010.)
Zeiger not only equates Girl Scouts with abortion and Lesbianism. (World Net Daily September 8, 2005) In his book about the Boy Scouts, Get Off My Honor, he says, “Churches fail to speak for manly virtue.” (Page 55.) He denies that Episcopalians are Christians. (World Net Daily June 22, 2006.) He disdains “Unitarians, mainstream Baptists, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, members of the ‘Military Pagan Network’ and other watered-down ecumenists.” (World Net Daily May 6, 2004.)
Zeiger labels the PTA "decadent" (World Net Daily November 13, 2004.) and his public school as the “local government indoctrination center.” (World Net Daily November 13, 2004.) He believes "government is not meant to be in the college-aid business," (Seattle Times May 24, 2003.) which can’t be good news for the University of Washington, Washington State, and the other state supported universities and community colleges where in-state students by definition receive aid in the form of in-state tuition rates?
Zeiger has both disclaimed his writings as youthful and tried to hide them (Tacoma News-Tribune September 2, 2010), but they reveal his core character—both his mind and his heart. They show that Zeiger is entirely too extreme to represent our district.
With Zeiger so clearly out of the mainstream, it is extraordinary that Bruce Dammeier thinks Zeiger would be a worthy colleague. Given what we now know about Zeiger, if Dammeier won’t abandon Zeiger, then he too is unqualified to serve the District and the State.
Zeiger not only equates Girl Scouts with abortion and Lesbianism. (World Net Daily September 8, 2005) In his book about the Boy Scouts, Get Off My Honor, he says, “Churches fail to speak for manly virtue.” (Page 55.) He denies that Episcopalians are Christians. (World Net Daily June 22, 2006.) He disdains “Unitarians, mainstream Baptists, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, members of the ‘Military Pagan Network’ and other watered-down ecumenists.” (World Net Daily May 6, 2004.)
Zeiger labels the PTA "decadent" (World Net Daily November 13, 2004.) and his public school as the “local government indoctrination center.” (World Net Daily November 13, 2004.) He believes "government is not meant to be in the college-aid business," (Seattle Times May 24, 2003.) which can’t be good news for the University of Washington, Washington State, and the other state supported universities and community colleges where in-state students by definition receive aid in the form of in-state tuition rates?
Zeiger has both disclaimed his writings as youthful and tried to hide them (Tacoma News-Tribune September 2, 2010), but they reveal his core character—both his mind and his heart. They show that Zeiger is entirely too extreme to represent our district.
With Zeiger so clearly out of the mainstream, it is extraordinary that Bruce Dammeier thinks Zeiger would be a worthy colleague. Given what we now know about Zeiger, if Dammeier won’t abandon Zeiger, then he too is unqualified to serve the District and the State.
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