Wendy Long: NY's Best Choice to Defend Religious Liberty and Rebut the "War Against Women" Charge
New York's Republicans and Conservatives should nominate Wendy Long to debate and then replace Gillibrand in the United States Senate, because she's the best qualified AND a women and not nominating her would give credence to the idea that Republicans and Conservatives are unfair to women.
The upcoming presidential election is huge.
In New York, there is a United States Senate race too.
It's not as important as the presidential race, but it is potentially a game changer too.
Just imagine a well qualified female Republican-Conservative Senator actually representing New York.
New York's junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, whose exemplifies flip flopping, is running for a full term. She was appointed to replace Hillary Clinton in 2009 and elected to complete Clinton's term in 2010. After her appointment, she quickly morphed from a moderate representing an upstate congressional district to win the same designation that National Journal gave to then Senator Barack Obama before he was elected President--most "liberal" United States Senator.
Gillibrand is so "liberal" that she was upset with Obama's phony "accommodation" intended to quell the outrage over the violations of religious liberty that would result from his proposed HHS regulations.
But Gillibrand won easily (by more than 27%) in a Republican year against a male Republican-Conservative candidate.
Gillibrand has a gender advantage against all of her potential male opponents.
The liberal Democrats know it and plan to exploit it.
New York's senior Senator, Chuck Schumer, is already working to help Gillibrand win re-election by posing as a women's champion in an illusory "War Against Women."
"New York Sen. Chuck Schumer believes he has found a political weapon in the unlikeliest of places: the Violence Against Women Act.
"Republicans have several objections to the legislation, but instead of making changes, Schumer wants to fast track the bill to the floor, let the GOP block it, then allow Democrats to accuse Republicans of waging a 'war against women.'"
The United States Senate soon may begin debating a bill to update expired provisions in the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which provides assistance to victims of domestic abuse and other crimes.
The bill is far from a mere reauthorization and was approved in committee last month on a party-line vote.
Seven years ago the bill sailed through committee on its way to reauthorization a second time.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the committee, explained that he supports a reauthorization of the law, but voted no because the bill would result in the granting of legal status to illegal immigrants who are victims of crimes under "liberal" criteria, among other things.
Democrats are pretending that Republicans are conducting a "War Against Women." For example, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) ranted, “Not to reauthorize this [Violate Against Women Act] is a tragedy. This is one more step in the removal of rights for women.”
This "War Against Women" notion is nonsense, but politically potent nonsense.
Of the five female Republican United States Senators, three have already expressed support for bring the reauthorization bill to the floor.
Republicans need women to stand up for religious liberty and not to be cowed by the phony "War Against Women" charge.
New York's Republicans and Conservatives should nominate Wendy Long to debate and then replace Gillibrand in the United States Senate, because she's the best qualified AND a women and not nominating her would give credence to the idea that Republicans and Conservatives are unfair to women.
Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.
Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.
The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.
Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.