Michael Schiavo has formed a new political action committee, TerriPAC, to stick it to all the politicians that got in his personal business. I agree that the government overplayed it’s role, in fact they never should have been inviolved in the first place… but Michael Schiavo is a still a schmuck.

Government has little or no place in the medical decisions of my family.

That said, I don’t think he really gave a rat’s ass about his wife or her extended family.
He should have allowed Terri’s relatives to be involved in her final hours.

Take a look at the the site http://www.terripac.com/ and you’ll find that the logo prominantly features his name and the site features his picture ont he front page. For a PAC named after his wife, maybe he should have something about her on the site? Nah!

Maybe a better name would be MichaelSchiavo’sEgoGotBruisedandNowI’m BitchyThat NoOneIsPayingAttentionToMe!PAC

Guess TerriPAC won’t see any money from the NewmanPAC any time soon.

TerriPAC
MICHAEL SCHIAVO ANNOUNCES NEW POLITICAL COMMITTEE
December 7, 2005

FLORIDA – Michael Schiavo, whose 15 year struggle to grant his wife’s end-of-life wishes triggered unprecedented government intrusion and political grandstanding by political leaders from the Florida Legislature to President George W. Bush, today announced he has formed TerriPAC – a national political committee.

“The easiest thing would be to move on and let the headlines fade,” Schiavo said. “But my experience with our political leaders has opened my eyes to just how easily the private wishes of normal Americans like me and Terri can be cast aside in the destructive game of political pandering. The best way to hold them accountable is to make sure voters know where the candidates stand when they come looking for votes next November.”

In spite of overwhelming public feelings against their actions, politicians from Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., manipulated Michael and Terri Schiavo’s deeply personal family tragedy into a national media spectacle and exploited that attention for their own political gain.

That exploitation peaked last March when President Bush left his Texas ranch to return to Washington, D.C. where he joined more than 200 members of Congress in unprecedented federal action designed solely to interfere in the Schiavo family’s personal affairs and the court orders that protected them.

“Those politicians lost a basic respect for marriage, family and personal privacy,” Schiavo said. “Their blind obstruction of my wife’s wishes and the legal courts orders that enforced them was a sickening exercise in raw political power.”

Many observers believed this unprecedented political intrusion was purely political. During the debate in Congress, a memo surfaced from the office of Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) outlining Republican political advantages that could be gained by intervening in the Schiavo case.

“It would be easy to dismiss my actions as partisan. But I was a life-long Republican before Republicans pushed the power of government into my private family decisions,” Schiavo said. “And it is not so simple to forget those politicians who shamelessly sought to squeeze political leverage out of my family’s most emotional hour.”

Named TerriPAC after his wife, the PAC will raise and spend funds to educate voters on where their elected officials stood when they had a choice between individual freedom and personal privacy and overreaching government action. TerriPAC is a federal political action committee and will be able to endorse or oppose candidates for federal office – including members of Congress.

TerriPAC will request donations through its Internet site (www.TerriPAC.org) from the majority of Americans who were horrified by the political intrusion in Michael’s personal family tragedy. TerriPAC.org will also encourage citizens to obtain advance medical directives (living wills) and allow voters to learn how their own members of Congress voted and their public comments on this issue.

“If our political leaders have taken no lessons from their shameless exploitation of Terri, and the public outcry against it, I have,” Schiavo said. “I have taken my sadness, anger and worry and channeled them into a personal resolution: I will do everything in my power to keep another unsuspecting American family from re-living our private national nightmare.”