Rick Santorum Visits Marquette
The Michigan presidential primary election takes place tomorrow.
And you’re not alone if you’re getting unwanted telephone calls from several of the campaigns.
But one of the contenders was welcomed into Marquette over the weekend by several hundred supporters.
A Marquette-area resident shared several voice mail messages with us.
They’re robo–calls, dialed and delivered by computer.
The candidate the robo–calls were attacking showed up in Marquette on Sunday.
Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was trying to show that he’s the real conservative in the Republican race.
President Obama’s concept of health care reform is the reason he decided to run, and it’s a concept he pledged to repeal if elected.
Santorum says it implies that Washington doesn’t trust individual Americans to make their own choices.
As a devout Catholic, opposed to same–sex marriage and birth control, he strongly opposes a recent ruling by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services requiring religious employers to provide contraception coverage as part of their health insurance, even if it violates their religious beliefs.
Santorum says the president and Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius shouldn’t have the right to tell the Catholic Church what it should believe or should do regarding its beliefs.
And he claims former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney isn’t very different from the president when it comes to health care, saying the near-universal health care proposal he signed into law for Massachusetts in 2006 is the blueprint for the President’s reform package.
After primary day tomorrow, the robo–calls should go away, but they’re likely to return as the November general election nears.
Posted by: Mike Hoey