Press Room

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 31, 2008

Contact:
Matt Sande, Director, Victory Fund PAC, (262) 352-0890 or
Mary Matuska, President, Victory Fund PAC, (608) 201-8059

Pro-Life Wisconsin Victory Fund Announces
2008 Candidate Endorsements

Candidate endorsements by Pro-Life Wisconsin Victory Fund political action committee (PAC) are now available to be viewed on the web at www.prolifewisconsin.org. The Victory Fund PAC has endorsed a total of fifty-two candidates for state office in the upcoming fall primary and general elections. Included on the endorsement page is a message on what it means to be “100% pro-life.”

“These candidates support the ‘no exceptions’ pro-life philosophy and we are proud to endorse them,” said Mary Matuska, president of the Pro-Life Wisconsin Victory Fund PAC. “Only when we have lawmakers who will not discriminate against those preborn children who are politically unpopular – those conceived in rape or incest, for example – will we see an end to the scandal of abortion. Pro-Life Wisconsin holds high the banner of total protection for all preborn children, and thankfully, more and more candidates for elected office meet this standard.”

Pro-Life Wisconsin Victory Fund supports candidates for public office who demonstrate a commitment to protect each and every innocent human life – in all circumstances and at all stages of development. To be “100% pro-life” is to know human life begins at fertilization and to therefore understand there may never be a legal exception to an innocent child’s inalienable right to life. Accordingly, it requires defending the child conceived in rape, the child whose mother’s life is perceived to be in danger, the disabled preborn baby, the tiny embryo vulnerable to experimental research or hormonal birth control, or the “terminally ill” patient who is viewed as a “burden” on society.

“We are called to stand behind these candidates who are willing to stand behind 100% of the babies,” said Matuska. “With the pro-life majority at stake in the Wisconsin Assembly, 2008 is a critical election year. We are galvanizing our members to actively support our endorsed pro-life candidates and push them on to victory."

For further information, please feel free to call the Pro-Life Wisconsin Victory Fund political action committee, (262) 352-0890.


Senate District 20
Glenn Grothman, inc. (R-West Bend)

Wisconsin State Senate
Senate District 24
Tom Kimmet (R-Vesper)

Senate District 28
Mary Lazich, inc. (R-New Berlin)

Senate District 30
Chad Fradette (R-Green Bay)



Assembly District 1
Gary Bies, inc. (R-Sister Bay)

Assembly District 4
Phil Montgomery, inc. (R-Ashwaubenon)

Assembly District 5
Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna)

Assembly District 10
Charisha Allen (D-Milwaukee)

Assembly District 14
Leah Vukmir, inc. (R-Wauwatosa)

Assembly District 15
Josh Hoisington (D-West Allis)

Assembly District 16
David King (D-Milwaukee)

Assembly District 17
Samantha Bady (D-Milwaukee)

Assembly District 20
Phil Landowski (D-Milwaukee)

Wisconsin State Assembly
Assembly District 21
Mark Honadel, inc. (R-South Milwaukee)

Assembly District 24
Jason LaSage (R-Menomonee Falls)
Randy Melchert (R-Menomonee Falls)

Assembly District 25
Bob Ziegelbauer, inc. (D-Manitowoc)

Assembly District 26
Job Hou-Seye (R-Sheboygan)

Assembly District 27
Steve Kestell, inc. (R-Elkhart Lake)

Assembly District 29
Chris Buckel (D-Hammond)
Craig Mohn (L-Woodville)

Assembly District 32
Tom Lothian, inc. (R-Williams Bay)

Assembly District 33
Scott Newcomer, inc. (R-Hartland)

Assembly District 36
Jeff Mursau, inc. (R-Crivitz)

Assembly District 38
Joel Kleefisch, inc. (R-Oconomowoc)

Assembly District 39
Jeff Fitzgerald, inc. (R-Horicon)

Assembly District 40
Kevin Petersen, inc. (R-Waupaca)

Assembly District 41
Joan Ballweg, inc. (R-Markesan)

Assembly District 49
David Kuhle (R-Hazel Green)
Dennis Lundell (R-Livingston)

Assembly District 50
Anthony Carver (R-Necedah)

Assembly District 53
Mike Hatch (R-Fond du Lac)
Richard Spanbauer (R-Oshkosh)

Assembly District 56
Roger Roth, inc. (R-Appleton)

Assembly District 57
Jo Egelhoff (R-Appleton)


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Paid for by the Pro-Life Wisconsin Victory Fund PAC, George Kriegl, Treasurer
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s agent or committee



Assembly District 59
Dan LeMahieu, inc. (R-Cascade)

Assembly District 60
Mark Gottlieb, inc. (R-Port Washington)

Assembly District 65
Alex Tiahnybok (R-Pleasant Prairie)

Assembly District 66
Samantha Kerkman, inc. (R-Genoa City)

Assembly District 69
Scott Suder, inc. (R-Abbotsford)


Wisconsin State Assembly
Assembly District 72
Jeff Tyberg (R-Wisconsin Rapids)

Assembly District 73
Vern Johnson (D-South Range)

Assembly District 84
Mark Gundrum, inc. (R-New Berlin)

Assembly District 85
Jess Kufahl (R-Merrill)

Assembly District 86
Jerry Petrowski, inc. (R-Marathon)

Assembly District 88
Tony Theisen (R-Green Bay)


Assembly District 89
John Nygren, inc. (R-Marinette)

Assembly District 90
Karl Van Roy, inc. (R-Green Bay)

Assembly District 91
David Anderson (R-Whitehall)

Assembly District 97
Bill Kramer, inc. (R-Waukesha)

Assembly District 98
Rich Zipperer, inc. (R-Pewaukee)

Assembly District 99
Don Pridemore, inc. (R-Hartford)

2008 Elections: What does it mean to be “100% pro-life”?

Around election time, the true colors of the pro-life movement come into sharp relief. Unfortunately, embarrassing contradictions are often revealed. For many years, some pro-life organizations have allowed the candidates to define what it means to be pro-life. A candidate who supports regulating abortion or opposes taxpayer funding of abortion yet supports the killing of some preborn children is not pro-life. A truly pro-life candidate cannot pick and choose which children should have the right to life and which children can be killed.

Pro-life means defending each and every innocent human being at all stages of development and in all circumstances, including those whom it is not “politically correct” to protect. For example: the child conceived in rape; the child whose mother’s life is perceived to be in danger; the disabled preborn baby; the tiny embryo vulnerable to experimental research or hormonal birth control; or the terminally ill who are viewed as “burdens” on society. It is clear that life begins at conception, so it is clear that there may never be an exception to an innocent person’s inalienable right to life.

Pro-Life Wisconsin has held high the banner of total protection for all preborn children. Because we insist on this high standard, more and more candidates for elected office are 100% pro-life. We stand behind those candidates who stand behind 100% of the babies. And we lovingly but firmly challenge and educate those candidates who don’t believe every child has a right to live.

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