Former Boston mayor/Vatican ambassador DEMANDS up-or-down Alito vote!

[Bluebear]

:boring:

Contact: Kelly Connelly, Catholics for the Common Good, 415-651-4171

BOSTON, Jan. 26 /Christian Wire Service/ -– “After weeks of delay and an intense grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is time to give Judge Alito an up or down vote on the Senate floor this week,” said Ambassador Raymond Flynn, former Ambassador to the Vatican and mayor of Boston, and advisor to Catholics for the Common Good. “Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee should be embarrassed by how they have so obviously let themselves be used by powerful feminist and anti-family interest groups to delay the nomination of Judge Alito, who is so eminently qualified to serve on the Supreme Court.”

“With a ‘well-qualified’ rating from the American Bar Association — their highest rating, with strong bipartisan endorsements from people who know him and have served with him, and considering how he stood up to the grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee, there is absolutely no reason not to confirm Judge Alito.”

Raymond L. Flynn is the former Mayor of Boston and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and is currently an advisor to Catholics for the Common Good.

Catholics for the Common Good is a national non-partisan and independent organization of lay Catholics dedicated to promoting the common good, especially in regard to the dignity of life, the primacy of the family, human rights and freedom, and solicitude for the poor and vulnerable.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/ccg0126.htm

[EFerrari]

1. Might check that phone number? That's a San Fran

area code?

Feminist and anti family interest groups?!

Lol!

[Warpy]

2. Ray Flynn is a total jerk

and was a lousy mayor. He should have stayed at the Vatican.

Anybody who listens to anything he says needs his head examined.

[kevinbgoode]

3. Doesn't he mean it's time to give Harriet Miers an up-and-down vote?

How quickly the Repukes forget their own sabotage of the judicial nomination process.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. The up and down shit is laughable....

....and when you read a partisan hack job press release like this, you see why.

[WernhamHogg]

5. "Non-partisan" my ass

And can someone tell me WHEN Alito faced "an intense grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee"??? I must have missed that minute. Whenever I watched it, the Repuke majority on that committee was blathering on endlessly about how much of a great guy "Saint Samuel" is.

[TaleWgnDg]

6. Ray Flynn is an idiot. All of Boston knows him well. As does

much of Rome when he was America's ambassador to The Vatican. Yes, The Vatican (the Pope, the Holy See) is a sovereign nation with its own government. We have an ambassador there, as they do here. In any event, Flynn was well known for all the barrooms in Rome and throughout Boston. Allegations fly about Flynn's drinking problems.

He's an ultra (and I do mean ultra) conservative Roman Catholic. Anti-choice, anti-stem cell research, anti-right to die with dignity (Terri Schiavo stuff), no condom use even if AIDS is an issue, no public school sex education, no contraceptives whatsoever, a homophobe, anti-same sex marriage, anti-same sex civil unions, anti-same sex partnership for healthcare benefits, anti-gay everything, and on and on and on. Flynn is marching to the tune of Rome, period. He never waivers from it.


Here's ex-ambassador-to-Rome Ray Flynn (right in photo) marching in San Francisco on April 3, 2004,
in an anti-same sex marriage march "Support the Federal (anti-gay) Marriage Amendment,"
together with some Roman Catholic clerics

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edited to add: BTW "Catholics for the Common Good" is an organization that attempts to place their rightwing ultra-conservative Roman Catholic religious beliefs into our laws. Similar as does Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and other off-the-wall medieval clerics who now have their own guy, George Walker Bush, in the Oval Office. This is why they are in lock-step together pushing the fourth ultra-conservative Roman Catholic (Samuel Alito) onto the U.S. Supreme Court:

Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas = who cannot or will not separate their religious beliefs from law (except the death penalty)


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[Submariner]

7. Only "Allegations"?

If my memory serves me right, he is a falling down drunk. Years ago he was standing next to me in the Steaming Kettle coffee shop (govt center) mid-day and he wreaked of whiskey. I think I also read a blurb where he wanted to cover up the catholic priest child rape stuff so not to further blemish the Roman Catholic Pedophile Church.