Michael Baumgartner
Michael Baumgartner
Michael James Baumgartner is a member of the Washington State Senate and a Republican. He was the 2012 Republican nominee for U.S Senate, running against Democratic incumbent Maria Cantwell. He lost the election, receiving 40% to Cantwell's 60%...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
CountryUnited States of America
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I am still a Catholic. I still believe life begins at conception. That is consistent with my Catholic beliefs. And I believe we must protect life. Whenever abortion comes up, we get questioned about the exceptions, but no one ever questions the extreme positions on the other side: late-term abortions, no on parental notification.
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A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
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Cantwell is so extreme that she doesn't see anything wrong with 11-year-old girls getting Plan B without a prescription. She is more liberal than Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and more liberal than President Obama. That is pretty extreme - a lot farther to the Left than most Washingtonians are comfortable with.
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When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.
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The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.