An Open Letter to

Representative Kevin McCabe

Big Lake District 30

An Open Letter to

Representative

Kevin McCabe

CONDUCT BENEATH THE DIGNITY OF YOUR OFFICE

Mr. McCabe,

I recently reviewed a small sample of your responses to the Alaska Watchman article, 5 Alaska House Republicans Oppose Amendment to Stop State-Funded Abortions and find your comments to be deceitful and despicable.

To begin with, it seems that since you have nothing to offer in terms of facts to offer in countering the article, you resort to childish name-calling that is beneath your office as an elected representative. 

Unsatisfied with smearing Representative Eastman, by referring to him as, “Saint Eastman,” you expose your malice toward the main a full Rules for Radicals Alinsky-ite move by implying Representative Eastman’s motives must be monetary gain.  Another shameful character attack that is beneath your office, but that the communist organizer Saul Alinsky would be proud of.

Perhaps the most egregious of your juvenile smears was aimed at Alaska Right to Life.  Since you did not mention me by name as is your normal course of offense but referred to all Alaska Right to Life members as Eastman’s “henchmen,” I can only assume you meant the hundreds of donors and the thousands of Alaska Right to Life members that are committed to ending abortion in Alaska. 

Why is it, Mr. McCabe, that any time you feel the need to make statements or enter into a debate, you refuse to bring any facts, but only inflammatory statements and ridiculous claims?

For example, you labeled the article as “intellectual dishonestly,” and “100% BS because it is incomplete.”  Where is the intellectual dishonesty?  Does it exist because you said so, and that is sufficient?  Based on what standard is there any intellectual dishonesty?  Your own?  I certainly hope not, as you’ve demonstrated, that is as reliable as today’s weather report: never accurate and always changing.

Likewise, what makes an article “100% BS because it is incomplete?”  Every article – including every article you have ever offered – is incomplete.  It is simply impossible to gather and report ALL of the facts.  But as you’ve resorted to leftist smears of Eastman and Alaska Right to Life, it seems only fair that you would do so of the fine people at the Alaska Watchman as well, as you are either unwilling or incapable of providing corrections or filling in the gaps.

CONDUCT BENEATH THE DIGNITY OF YOUR OFFICE

Mr. McCabe,

I recently reviewed a small sample of your responses to the Alaska Watchman article, 5 Alaska House Republicans Oppose Amendment to Stop State-Funded Abortions and find your comments to be deceitful and despicable.

To begin with, it seems that since you have nothing to offer in terms of facts to offer in countering the article, you resort to childish name-calling that is beneath your office as an elected representative. 

Unsatisfied with smearing Representative Eastman, by referring to him as, “Saint Eastman,” you expose your malice toward the main a full Rules for Radicals Alinsky-ite move by implying Representative Eastman’s motives must be monetary gain.  Another shameful character attack that is beneath your office, but that the communist organizer Saul Alinsky would be proud of.

Perhaps the most egregious of your juvenile smears was aimed at Alaska Right to Life.  Since you did not mention me by name as is your normal course of offense but referred to all Alaska Right to Life members as Eastman’s “henchmen,” I can only assume you meant the hundreds of donors and the thousands of Alaska Right to Life members that are committed to ending abortion in Alaska. 

Why is it, Mr. McCabe, that any time you feel the need to make statements or enter into a debate, you refuse to bring any facts, but only inflammatory statements and ridiculous claims?

For example, you labeled the article as “intellectual dishonestly,” and “100% BS because it is incomplete.”  Where is the intellectual dishonesty?  Does it exist because you said so, and that is sufficient?  Based on what standard is there any intellectual dishonesty?  Your own?  I certainly hope not, as you’ve demonstrated, that is as reliable as today’s weather report: never accurate and always changing.

Likewise, what makes an article “100% BS because it is incomplete?”  Every article – including every article you have ever offered – is incomplete.  It is simply impossible to gather and report ALL of the facts.  But as you’ve resorted to leftist smears of Eastman and Alaska Right to Life, it seems only fair that you would do so of the fine people at the Alaska Watchman as well, as you are either unwilling or incapable of providing corrections or filling in the gaps.

RIDICULOUS CLAIMS

What may be the most ridiculous claims of all center on the tabling motion and five Republicans who voted to table Amendment 36 to CSHB 39.

You characterize the tabling motion in your comments as doing “nothing other than put it on the table and give the maker [Eastman] time to explain it to people.”  Mr. McCabe, if there were ever an example of “sophomoric” “intellectual dishonesty,” “100% BS,” and “bull-crap,” this, sir, would most certainly qualify.

In case you – or our readers – are not familiar, tabling motions are not meant to inform, provide the maker – Representative Eastman in this case – time to inform other members about his amendment except in the rarest of circumstances. 

In the case of tabling abortion de-funding amendments, when a Planned Parenthood abortion advocate sees a possible threat to the abortion industry – and therefore his career – his tabling motion will not be for the benefit of the de-funding amendment, but for the abortion industry.  Representative McCormick’s motion to table was a motion to kill the introduction, discussion, and debate of Eastman’s amendment. 

Representative McCormick’s motion to table Representative Eastman’s abortion de-funding amendment was a motion to kill the amendment. 

Therefore, every vote to table was a vote to kill.

You’re not really going to stand behind this absurd idea that Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic Representative McCormick made the motion to table Amendment 36 so that Representative Eastman could have “time to explain it to people,” are you?  I am giddy with anticipation for your explanation.

RIDICULOUS CLAIMS

What may be the most ridiculous claims of all center on the tabling motion and five Republicans who voted to table Amendment 36 to CSHB 39.

You characterize the tabling motion in your comments as doing “nothing other than put it on the table and give the maker [Eastman] time to explain it to people.”  Mr. McCabe, if there were ever an example of “sophomoric” “intellectual dishonesty,” “100% BS,” and “bull-crap,” this, sir, would most certainly qualify.

In case you – or our readers – are not familiar, tabling motions are not meant to inform, provide the maker – Representative Eastman in this case – time to inform other members about his amendment except in the rarest of circumstances. 

In the case of tabling abortion de-funding amendments, when a Planned Parenthood abortion advocate sees a possible threat to the abortion industry – and therefore his career – his tabling motion will not be for the benefit of the de-funding amendment, but for the abortion industry.  Representative McCormick’s motion to table was a motion to kill the introduction, discussion, and debate of Eastman’s amendment. 

Representative McCormick’s motion to table Representative Eastman’s abortion de-funding amendment was a motion to kill the amendment. 

Therefore, every vote to table was a vote to kill.

You’re not really going to stand behind this absurd idea that Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic Representative McCormick made the motion to table Amendment 36 so that Representative Eastman could have “time to explain it to people,” are you?  I am giddy with anticipation for your explanation.

A VOTE WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD

IS ALWAYS A VOTE AGAINST LIFE

Next, you tell us that “These Republicans all voted for a motion to table, NOT against life.”

Returning to the motion to table itself, offered by a Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic Member of the House, should be a hint that this is a motion to be voted AGAINST.  You should know this by now, that a vote with Planned Parenthood on an issue of healthcare, sexuality, gender, etc. is ALWAYS the wrong vote, and on the issue of life and abortion, that vote is always, and 100% AGAINST life.

Regarding the Republican House Representatives that voted with Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry to kill Amendment 36, because of politicians like you and four of those five, the term ‘pro-life’ when used in connection with a politician has become as meaningless as a hairbrush to a man with no hair.  What matters is the bills they sponsor and the votes they cast.  In the case of every single one of the five that voted to table Amendment 36, their bill sponsorships and votes place them well outside even the broadest definition of ‘pro-life.’

A VOTE WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD

IS ALWAYS A VOTE AGAINST LIFE

Next, you tell us that “These Republicans all voted for a motion to table, NOT against life.”

Returning to the motion to table itself, offered by a Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic Member of the House, should be a hint that this is a motion to be voted AGAINST.  You should know this by now, that a vote with Planned Parenthood on an issue of healthcare, sexuality, gender, etc. is ALWAYS the wrong vote, and on the issue of life and abortion, that vote is always, and 100% AGAINST life.

Regarding the Republican House Representatives that voted with Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry to kill Amendment 36, because of politicians like you and four of those five, the term ‘pro-life’ when used in connection with a politician has become as meaningless as a hairbrush to a man with no hair.  What matters is the bills they sponsor and the votes they cast.  In the case of every single one of the five that voted to table Amendment 36, their bill sponsorships and votes place them well outside even the broadest definition of ‘pro-life.’

FLASHLIGHTS WITH NO BATTERIES

Something you should learn before you leave office, Mr. McCabe, is that being “personally pro-life,” or even “100% pro-life,” at home, in the car, or even in the voting booth on election day is completely worthless, meaningless, and without merit for a man or woman who occupies one of 60 seats of power, yet does nothing to advocate for babies, strip the abortion industry’s funds, and bring an end to the grisly practice of killing babies.

Remember that it was Representative Stutes who, as House Speaker, repeatedly sided with abortion advocates in the House and after allowing the abortion lobby to complain about the overruling of Roe v Wade, prohibited Representative Kurka to offer a pro-life commentary on the same.  Given her record, I cannot imagine that you regard her as one of those whom you “know VERY well,” and can tell us “that they ARE in fact pro-life.”

Remember that Representative Saddler has never met an abortion funding budget that he could not vote for, and that he co-sponsored the infamous HB 266, Abortion Procedures Act of 2018.  You may not be familiar with the bill, but that’s the bill that Representative Tilton sponsored that would have regulated how babies are killed but did not even attempt to prevent a single abortion.

A friendly hint to you and Representatives Tilton, Saddler, and all the others that co-sponsored that abomination: a bill regulating how babies are killed is not a ‘pro-life’ act.  We cannot prevent murder by regulating how murders are performed.

Next, Representative Prax has had enough time in office to rack up an impressive voting record against life, and were he the subject of this letter, I would outline his many offenses.  But to include him in a list of “pro-life” politicians is, as futile as a flashlight with no batteries.

The Freshmen – Representatives Ruffridge and Sumner, both claim the moniker of ‘pro-life,’ but given their votes on Amendment 36 to CSHB 39 and Amendment 2 to CSHB 41, your claim may be a bit… intellectually dishonest, to use your preferred description.  They may very well be “personally 100% pro-life,” but based on their votes, they’re as helpful as a paintbrush in a bucket of cement.

FLASHLIGHTS WITH NO BATTERIES

Something you should learn before you leave office, Mr. McCabe, is that being “personally pro-life,” or even “100% pro-life,” at home, in the car, or even in the voting booth on election day is completely worthless, meaningless, and without merit for a man or woman who occupies one of 60 seats of power, yet does nothing to advocate for babies, strip the abortion industry’s funds, and bring an end to the grisly practice of killing babies.

Remember that it was Representative Stutes who, as House Speaker, repeatedly sided with abortion advocates in the House and after allowing the abortion lobby to complain about the overruling of Roe v Wade, prohibited Representative Kurka to offer a pro-life commentary on the same.  Given her record, I cannot imagine that you regard her as one of those whom you “know VERY well,” and can tell us “that they ARE in fact pro-life.”

Remember that Representative Saddler has never met an abortion funding budget that he could not vote for, and that he co-sponsored the infamous HB 266, Abortion Procedures Act of 2018.  You may not be familiar with the bill, but that’s the bill that Representative Tilton sponsored that would have regulated how babies are killed but did not even attempt to prevent a single abortion.

A friendly hint to you and Representatives Tilton, Saddler, and all the others that co-sponsored that abomination: a bill regulating how babies are killed is not a ‘pro-life’ act.  We cannot prevent murder by regulating how murders are performed.

Next, Representative Prax has had enough time in office to rack up an impressive voting record against life, and were he the subject of this letter, I would outline his many offenses.  But to include him in a list of “pro-life” politicians is, as futile as a flashlight with no batteries.

The Freshmen – Representatives Ruffridge and Sumner, both claim the moniker of ‘pro-life,’ but given their votes on Amendment 36 to CSHB 39 and Amendment 2 to CSHB 41, your claim may be a bit… intellectually dishonest, to use your preferred description.  They may very well be “personally 100% pro-life,” but based on their votes, they’re as helpful as a paintbrush in a bucket of cement.

ASSERTIONS THAT BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PROOF

Mr. McCabe, you made assertions of fact that we would all be glad if you could make good on:

  • “There have been several versions of this amendment [Amendment 36] tried for more than a decade… they have not worked… and have been struck down many times.”
    1. Please provide references to those “versions” and the court orders striking them down.
    2. Just a year ago you said we “should take it to the courts a hundred times if that’s what it takes…” speaking of the same issue and amendment. Please explain why passing such an amendment, and then going to the courts to fight for its enforcement is a bad thing this year, but was the solution last year.
  • The same amendment passed out of the House but was “stripped out by the Senate because the legal department said it would do nothing – absolutely nothing in a budget bill.
    1. Please provide the “legal department” memo stating it would “do nothing.”
    2. Please explain why, if it would do nothing, it would be “struck down many times.” It seems that legislation that could do something to prevent killing babies is struck down.
    3. Please explain why the Democrat-controlled Senate would care a bit about an abortion de-funding appropriation would or would not be effective.

ASSERTIONS THAT BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PROOF

Mr. McCabe, you made assertions of fact that we would all be glad if you could make good on:

  • “There have been several versions of this amendment [Amendment 36] tried for more than a decade… they have not worked… and have been struck down many times.”
    1. Please provide references to those “versions” and the court orders striking them down.
    2. Just a year ago you said we “should take it to the courts a hundred times if that’s what it takes…” speaking of the same issue and amendment. Please explain why passing such an amendment, and then going to the courts to fight for its enforcement is a bad thing this year, but was the solution last year.
  • The same amendment passed out of the House but was “stripped out by the Senate because the legal department said it would do nothing – absolutely nothing in a budget bill.
    1. Please provide the “legal department” memo stating it would “do nothing.”
    2. Please explain why, if it would do nothing, it would be “struck down many times.” It seems that legislation that could do something to prevent killing babies is struck down.
    3. Please explain why the Democrat-controlled Senate would care a bit about an abortion de-funding appropriation would or would not be effective.

TIME TO MAKE GOOD ON PRO-LIFE TALK

Mr. McCabe, while you bear the burden of proof for the statements you make, we are not looking for more double talk and spin.  If you can back up your claims and assertions with facts, then please provide the chapter and verse from which you reference.  Court cases, articles, Legislative Legal memos, etc.

I titled this letter as Conduct Beneath the Dignity of Your Office because you present yourself as the arbiter of truth, fact, and constitutional and legislative authority. 

Smearing Representative Eastman as you do seems to be a tactic one would reserve for a political opponent in an election season deserving the very worst of Alinsky’s communistic tactics.  Such conduct is shameful regardless of your relationship with Representative Eastman, and regardless of mine as well.

This is beneath the dignity of your office.

I recently saw your comments on a popular radio show that is streamed on Facebook in which you called your own constituents ‘Parasite Republicans.’

This too is beneath the dignity of your office.

The fine people at the Alaska Watchman deserve the facts or an apology.  Representative Eastman deserves an apology.  The thousands of Alaska Right to Life members that you call “Eastman’s henchmen” all deserve an apology.  Refusing to apologize for your offenses would likewise tarnish the dignity of your office.

Finally, Mr. McCabe, you ended your comments with, “Let’s stop beating our heads against the wall with these ineffective budget amendments and do something to save babies.”

While we will never stop fighting to end abortion in Alaska and provide equal protection and equal justice for all Alaskans from conception to natural end of life, we will not oppose any good faith efforts – certainly, we will throw all we have into any effort brought against the evil of abortion.  With that, and your appeal to “do something to save babies,” I invite you to set aside all of the head-to-wall beatings and indeed do something to save babies.

Mr. McCabe, in the battle to save babies, the next step is yours.

Patrick Martin

Outreach and Executive Director

The Alaska Right to Life Committee

Alaska Right to Life, Inc.

TIME TO MAKE GOOD ON PRO-LIFE TALK

Mr. McCabe, while you bear the burden of proof for the statements you make, we are not looking for more double talk and spin.  If you can back up your claims and assertions with facts, then please provide the chapter and verse from which you reference.  Court cases, articles, Legislative Legal memos, etc.

I titled this letter as Conduct Beneath the Dignity of Your Office because you present yourself as the arbiter of truth, fact, and constitutional and legislative authority. 

Smearing Representative Eastman as you do seems to be a tactic one would reserve for a political opponent in an election season deserving the very worst of Alinsky’s communistic tactics.  Such conduct is shameful regardless of your relationship with Representative Eastman, and regardless of mine as well.

This is beneath the dignity of your office.

I recently saw your comments on a popular radio show that is streamed on Facebook in which you called your own constituents ‘Parasite Republicans.’

This too is beneath the dignity of your office.

The fine people at the Alaska Watchman deserve the facts or an apology.  Representative Eastman deserves an apology.  The thousands of Alaska Right to Life members that you call “Eastman’s henchmen” all deserve an apology.  Refusing to apologize for your offenses would likewise tarnish the dignity of your office.

Finally, Mr. McCabe, you ended your comments with, “Let’s stop beating our heads against the wall with these ineffective budget amendments and do something to save babies.”

While we will never stop fighting to end abortion in Alaska and provide equal protection and equal justice for all Alaskans from conception to natural end of life, we will not oppose any good faith efforts – certainly, we will throw all we have into any effort brought against the evil of abortion.  With that, and your appeal to “do something to save babies,” I invite you to set aside all of the head-to-wall beatings and indeed do something to save babies.

Mr. McCabe, in the battle to save babies, the next step is yours.

Patrick Martin

Outreach and Executive Director

The Alaska Right to Life Committee

Alaska Right to Life, Inc.

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DEAR READER,

Do you pray for an end to abortion in Alaska?  If so, there is something urgent that you need to know…

Even though Roe v Wade is in the dustbin of history, the abortion industry is ramping up its efforts here in Alaska with more chemical abortions than we’ve ever seen along with more abortion advocates in the Legislature than at any time in Alaska’s history.

We will fight to protect babies until every child is ensured the right to life, equal protection, and equal justice as both God and our Constitution require.

This is where you come in.

With lives hanging in balance, I hope you will sign this urgent pledge and commit to stand for life!

Please take 30 seconds to add your name by clicking the button below:

I Stand For life

DEAR READER,

Do you pray for an end to abortion in Alaska?  If so, there is something urgent that you need to know…

Even though Roe v Wade is in the dustbin of history, the abortion industry is ramping up its efforts here in Alaska with more chemical abortions than we’ve ever seen along with more abortion advocates in the Legislature than at any time in Alaska’s history.

We will fight to protect babies until every child is ensured the right to life, equal protection, and equal justice as both God and our Constitution require.

This is where you come in.

With lives hanging in balance, I hope you will sign this urgent pledge and commit to stand for life!

Please take 30 seconds to add your name by clicking the button below:

I Stand For life