Mass. Stem Cell bill PASSES Senate 35-2 despite Gov's ad blitz

[Bluebear]

"There are more Republicans in this room than in my own state!"--Mitt Romney speaking in South Carolina during his gala pre-2008 Presidential run tour of the red states.

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Ratcheting up the political pressure on undecided lawmakers, Governor Mitt Romney will launch a radio ad today describing the state Senate's stem cell measure as a ''radical cloning bill" and urging its defeat.

'Cloning would mean creating new human life, new embryos, just for experimentation," Romney says in the 60-second ad, which will run on stations statewide, paid for by his political committee. ''If like me you support stem cell research but you oppose cloning human embryos, please tell your legislator. Help me oppose the radical cloning bill now on Beacon Hill."

Romney's maneuver, part of a flurry of activity on the eve of the Senate's vote on the issue today, is a bid to tap into the public's ambivalence over cloning. Recent polls indicate strong support for stem cell research, but deep doubts about the morality of cloning involving human cells. The bill under consideration on Beacon Hill would ban reproductive human cloning, or the creation of babies, but allow scientists to produce embryos for research. The latter is called therapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer.

The Senate and House are expected to approve the measure, but it is unclear whether the House will produce a two-thirds majority that would be required to join the Senate in overriding Romney's expected veto. House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi said yesterday afternoon that ''I will do everything I can to get to two-thirds." But Kris Mineau of the Massachusetts Family Institute, which opposes all embryonic stem cell research but is backing Romney's stance, said, ''We are within striking distance of sustaining a veto."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/30/romneys_ads_blast_stem_cell_measure/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News

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UPDATE BOSTON - Despite a veto threat from the governor, the state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to give scientists more freedom to conduct embryonic stem cell research in Massachusetts.
The 35-2 vote came after less than two hours of debate, on the same day Gov. Mitt Romney launched a statewide radio campaign to urge the bill's defeat.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050330/ap_on_sc/stem_cells_3

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Oh, Mitt

That opening statement should go over well in your re-election campaign. I think that dipshit is toast in MA.

[wicket]

2. God I hope so

I'm so freakin' sick of him!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. $5 says he won't wind up running for re-election in MA.

That would derail his presidential aspirations.

There's an old saying that goes, "If they want to run you out of town, put on a funny hat, grab a baton, and turn it into a 'Farewell Parade' instead!"

[Bluebear]

4. Updated

[Disturbed]

5. Embryonic stem cell research

The only reason that this is not a National agenda is because the RW zealots block it and the Silverspoon Sociopath is in their pocket.