{"id":4097,"date":"2006-11-02T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/11\/02\/by-the-way\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T19:24:30","slug":"by-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/by-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"By the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15463760\/site\/newsweek\/?page=3\">This is wonderful:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe issues dominating this election season remain Iraq, terrorism and various scandals, but the Schiavo matter may prove to be a sleeper issue. It has cropped up in contests across the country\u2014from the Florida governor&#8217;s race to close congressional campaigns in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and points west. Schiavo himself has helped stoke the debate by campaigning for candidates who backed his position on Terri&#8217;s case and lambasting those who opposed him. Using funds raised by TerriPAC, a political committee he founded last year, he has also given 15 candidates a total of $20,000. All of it is aimed at driving home his message: &#8220;Government should not interfere with personal matters,&#8221; says Schiavo, who still seethes at the memory of Congress&#8217;s and President Bush&#8217;s attempts to block removal of Terri&#8217;s feeding tube.<\/p>\n<p>After mourning Terri&#8217;s death, Schiavo had planned to move on with his life (he has a second wife and two kids). But in the course of writing a book about the case, he reviewed news footage that he&#8217;d never seen from the height of the controversy. He became incensed all over again\u2014and decided to do something about it, teaming up with Democratic consultant Derek Newton. Schiavo&#8217;s hardly an electrifying speaker, and he mangles names on the stump. But he has an ordinary-guy appeal and a wrenching tale. Formerly a Republican, he&#8217;s now a Democrat, though he has supported candidates from both parties. As Election Day nears, he&#8217;s trying to squeeze in one more round of campaign stops, in response to requests from candidates in Georgia, Iowa and Virginia. And after Nov. 7? &#8220;On to 2008,&#8221; he says. An activist has been born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/\">John Cole<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is wonderful: The issues dominating this election season remain Iraq, terrorism and various scandals, but the Schiavo matter may prove to be a sleeper issue. It has cropped up in contests across the country\u2014from the Florida governor&#8217;s race to close congressional campaigns in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and points west. Schiavo himself has helped stoke the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/by-the-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;By the way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-145","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}