Most candidates spend July 4th in patriotic fashion, attending parades and community events. Lois Herr, however, spent July 4th in Boston attending the annual convention of the National Organization of Women. She and celebrity partial-birth abortion doctor Leroy Carhart were among the panelists for the weekend.
Lois Herr, like most of the hard-core leftists at the convention, believes the “right wing” are out to get them. The most liberal senator of 2007 is the President. Nancy Pelosi presides over a historically huge Democratic majority in the House. Harry Reid had, until he lost it, an unprecedented filibuster-proof majority in the House. Liberal Supreme Court nominees are sailing through the confirmation process with ease. Even so, Lois Herr told her friends in Boston, “This election we have to be really mad. We have to send a message to the right wing.”
She called her opponent, Congressman Joe Pitts, a “poster child for what the far right is trying to do to us.” “… They want to control almost everything we do with our bodies, but they don’t want to control the rich,” she said. It’s not just abortion, she warned. “They’re going to be after affirmative action too.” [link]
Lois Herr is running against Congressman Pitts for the third time, despite losing badly twice before. Why? “Because I’m angry!” she shouted. “If I had any fault from earlier campaigns, it’s that I was too nice!” [link]
So how long has Lois been mad? Well, quite a while it turns out. Last fall, when the House passed the Stupak Amendment to Obamacare by a large margin (most Pennsylvania Democrats voted for it), Lois blogged on the Daily Kos: “My name is Lois Herr, and I’m running for Congress in PA-16. And I am mad.” She posted photos of Congressman Pitts and several Democrats with the caption “The Stupid Pac.” That’s surprisingly juvenile for a woman of nearly 70.
The blog post continues: “Everybody’s angry. And everybody wants to punish someone – anyone! – for this travesty. Here’s an easy way to let EMILY’s List, the DCCC, the DNC, and all the political insiders know that you CARE. Send them a message with your pocketbook.” Then, of course, she asks for money.
Going back even further to her 2003 self-congratulatory book on her activism while employed at AT&T in the 60s and 70s, she describes her actions with the words “war,” “battle,” “confrontation, ” and “radical” eight times in a four-and-a-half-page preface.
Yes, Lois Herr is angry. Perpetually so and not the right choice for Pennsylvania.
