August
2006
Sullivan draws Standing Room Only crowd as Reynolds hides
Tom Reynolds, the evangelical State Senator, insulted the faith community tonight. Despite promising to show up for a debate at the Brookfield Unitarian Universalist Church West over a month ago, he withdrew from the debate late yesterday claiming that putting him on camera would lead to attack ads being filmed at the debate.
Various groups from the metro-Milwaukee faith community sponsored the event including the Unitarian Universalist Church West, MICAH and SOFIA. Reynolds knew that the majority of people attending the church would be people of faith yet he blew off the debate — a harsh irony since Reynolds considers himself "born again" and an evangelical.
Still, people packed the church so it was standing room only. Candidate Jim Sullivan spoke for over an hour, taking questions and interacting with the crowd. In the end, nearly 50 people volunteered to work on the Sullivan for State Senate campaign.
One has to wonder how Reynolds feels that he will get away with insulting these people. They came to see the debate and yet they only saw one candidate. How is he going to get away with this? Recently, even right wing bloggers have turned on him.
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For more on this story, visit Milwaukee Rising. Hat tip to Milwaukee Rising blogger Gretchen Schuldt who snagged this great photo of the "debate".
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I wonder if we can expect Reynolds to again reneg on his commitment to people of faith at the NEXT debate sponsored by these interfaith organizations. After all, that one, scheduled for late Sept, will be held in a ROMAN CATHOLIC church. I wonder how well printing lit calling John Paul a “minister of Satan” will go over there.
I guess Tom will just have to have another bout of camera-shy paranoia at the last minute to get out of that one, too.
The “empty chair” that represented Reynolds last night was really quite descriptive of the “senhater”, don’tcha think?