From: Tim Inwood
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:22 AM
Subject: Betty Montgomery put on the
spot

Here is a report from last night's Blue Chip Republicans meeting [in the Hamilton County/ Cincinnati area], which featured State Auditor and gubernatorial-hopeful Betty Montgomery.

Rep. Tom Brinkman spoke earlier in the evening. Montgomery arrived about 30 minutes late from a fundraiser. She got before the group of 40+ people and gave the standard stump speech, which included a defense of the recent tax hikes.

When it came to questions, I stood directly across from her, smiling occasionally, while puffing on my Fuente Curly Head cigar, trying to look as friendly as possible. She took one question, then called on me.

"Mrs. Montgomery, as you know, last year Ohio finally joined roughly 40 other states by passing a concealed carry of handguns laws, after much wrangling with the state legislature. You were one of the vocal opponents of this law, urging the Governor to not compromise with the legislature over things like public disclosure. And there is every reason to think the public disclosure section of the law is responsible for the death of a shop keeper in Cleveland, as within a week of his name being published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he was ambushed and murdered in front of his shop by three thugs. Can you tell us why you opposed restoring the right of self defense to your fellow Buckeyes?"

January 25, 2005
Toledo Blade

One of the bodyguards for Michael Moore, who has made millions of dollars producing movies that call for the end of private gun ownership in America, was arrested at JFK International Airport for carrying an unlicensed handgun.

Rosie O'Donnell, a spokeswoman and supporter of the notoriously anti-self defense group and horribly misnamed Million Mom March, also had a bodyguard arrested for a similar transgression of laws that both of these hypocrites support and promote.

In her defense, Rosie said that being a highly contentious, public personality makes her and her "family" far more likely to be a target of violence than an "average" citizen. No doubt Michael Moore will also come up with a similar excuse.

While I will agree that both of these self-indulgent, delusional, elitist snobs definitely make much larger targets than the average American, I am furious that they would so pompously declare their right to self defense while denying that same, God-given right to us serfs.

The woman cowering in her apartment while her estranged husband, no doubt ignoring a court-issued restraining order, kicks in her front door and kills her deserves the right to any means of self-defense available to her just as much as the hypocritical elitists in Washington and Hollywood.

Joe Sporer
Perrysburg

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