Want a big scare this Halloween?
I can take you to a marbled mansion where whispers of injustice waft through great halls. Drafty air crackles with burning books. Cries issue from dim back rooms where bad deals come to life and good ideas are tortured and killed.
Boo! It’s Speaker Bedke’s Haunted House of Representatives!
For the past decade, nothing happened there that didn’t have his approval. Some of that was terrifying. I ask you: How dark is a heart that forces women to suffer and die rather than allow life-saving emergency abortions?
Yes, Bedke’s Haunted House is no place for the living.
Spirits here are so mean that they won’t let toddlers have Pre-K education. They won’t let teachers have raises. They won’t let LGBTQ folks have the same protection under the law as everyone else.
And the undead are everywhere. Everywhere! Lobbyists for giant corporations are an eternal presence and they possess the minds—and votes—of the weakest lawmakers. Mr. Bedke has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from these folks to try to beat me this year.
But don’t despair!
A good heart, a strong mind, and a fierce belief in justice, integrity and fairness will always prevail! If we all turn out to vote on Nov. 8, we can change everything.
Next year, we will have a very Happy Halloween.