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Michael Schiavo Targets Intervening Pols
Michael Schiavo won a headline-making legal battle last year to remove his brain-damaged wife Terri’s feeding tube, but he’s still bitter enough to continue the fight 16 months later.
Schiavo has created a political action committee, TerriPac, which targets lawmakers who intervened in the case and tried to stop Terri Schiavo’s death.
Michael Schiavo traveled from his home in Clearwater, Fla., to Connecticut last month to help Ned Lamont, who defeated Sen. Joseph Lieberman in the Democratic primary, the New York Times reports.
Schiavo reminded voters that Lieberman had supported an emergency bill asking a federal court to consider reinserting Terri’s feeding tube days before she died in March 2005.
Story Continues Below Terri Schiavo’s parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, adamantly opposed her death and pleaded with Congress and President Bush to intervene. Schiavo – who switched his voter registration from Republican to Democrat last year – also delivered a letter to Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, a Colorado Republican, who spoke out against Terri’s death, and endorsed her Democratic opponent, Angie Paccione.
"He is the human face of government intrusion,” said Paccione, who appeared with Schiavo at a news conference on July 12. "We need more individual citizens like him to step up and put an end to it.”
Schiavo said he was motivated to take action by television and newspaper clips from the end of the case.
"I didn’t pay attention to a lot of it in the last couple of weeks because I spent my time with Terri,” Schiavo, 43, told the Times.
"But when I saw it all, I thought, this is absolutely out of control.
"I had to remind people that what this government did to me, they can do to you.”
The Schindlers and their two surviving children are also seeking to raise money. They have established the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation Center for Health Care Ethics, whose stated goal is to protect "the rights of disabled, elderly and vulnerable citizens against care rationing, euthanasia and medical killing.” The foundation collected $379,855 in contributions last year, its lawyer said.
Michael Schiavo’s PAC has collected $26,000.
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