ACTION ALERT: Ask your senator about Pryor and the Repub. AG fundraising

[LynneSin]

This is starting to become a little bit of a stink here in Delaware because our Republican Attorney General, Jane Brady, is also one of the six being criticized for these fund-raising ill-regularities. One of the other six in question: Bill Pryor!!!!!
(And PS, this will become even a bigger stink if Jane Brady runs for governor, which she is considering, if this comes out it'll sink her career)

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/mascitti/07222003.html

For our state's attorney general, it's business - as usual

By AL MASCITTI
07/22/2003

Without even trying, state Attorney General Jane Brady finds herself involved in another controversy.

Fresh off her failed effort to enforce a 1970s waiting period for women seeking abortions, Brady last week found herself defending her actions for a fund-raising group called the Republican Attorneys General Association.

According to internal documents leaked to The Washington Post, Brady was one of six attorneys general who actively solicited money from corporations and trade groups.

The records, as Brady said, were produced to impugn not her but Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, one of the attorneys general association's founders, whom President Bush has nominated for a federal appeals court. Pryor is forthright about the group's aims - it was formed, he has said, to counterbalance the influence of trial lawyers' organizations with Democratic attorneys general. The group opposes class-action suits against industries

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Now that we are going to a filibuster, we may be able to get more reprublicans to question this issue, even Arlen Specter said he could very well change his mind after hearing about the issues with the fundraising (see link below)

A filibuster is not enough! We need a solid defeat to let Bush know that these right-wing judges are NOT acceptable

http://www.senate.gov/~specter/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=446&Month=7&Year=2003
I am voting in the affirmative to send Attorney General Pryor to the floor reserving my final decision until the vote by the full Senate. As indicated in my questioning of the nominee at the Committee hearing, there are a number of areas of concern in his record. Since that hearing, an additional issue has arisen on campaign contributions. Before the floor vote, I intend to talk to Attorney General Pryor about his role, if any, in soliciting campaign contributions from companies or individuals who were or were likely to be under investigation by his office.