{"id":460414,"date":"2010-03-22T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1430"},"modified":"2010-03-22T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:31:56","slug":"baby-killer-yeller-randy-neugebauer-far-from-abortion-opponents-favorite-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/460414","title":{"rendered":"‘Baby Killer’ Yeller Randy Neugebauer Far From Abortion Opponents’ Favorite Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"randyneugebauer.jpg\"<\/a>Rep. Randy Neugebauer<\/a> (R-Texas) is a staunch conservative in a solidly Republican congressional district.<\/p>\n

But based on the meager financial support Neugebauer has received from special interest groups that oppose abortion rights, he seems perhaps an unlikely source for the utterance “baby killer!”<\/a> Sunday night as the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to approve sweeping health care reform legislation.<\/p>\n

For his career, Neugebauer has received less than $3,000 from people or political action committees directly associated with anti-abortion groups, a Center for Responsive Politics<\/a> analysis of federal campaign finance data shows. <\/p>\n

That’s just a tiny fraction of the more than $6.4 million Neugebauer has raised during his congressional career.<\/p>\n

The National Pro-Life Alliance ($2,000), Republican National Coalition for Life ($750) and Pro-Life Campaign Committee ($62) are the only anti-abortion rights organizations to donate to Neugebauer’s campaign committee.<\/p>\n

In contrast, the broad anti-abortion\/pro-life lobby donated<\/a> more than $15,000 to 20 federal political candidates during the 2008 election cycle alone, the Center’s research indicates.<\/p>\n

People and PACs associated with the National Auto Dealers Association, National Association of Home Builders, Quantum Energy Partners, National Beer Wholesalers Association and National Association of Realtors represent his top five bankrollers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neugebauer’s outburst, reminiscent of when Rep. Joe Wilson<\/a> (R-S.C.) last year shouted “you lie!” as President Barack Obama delivered a speech before congress, came as Rep. Bart Stupak<\/a> (D-Mich.) explained he would support the largely Democrat-backed health care reform legislation. In a statement today, Neugebauer said he wasn’t directing his comments at Stupak in particular, but still apologized to his colleague.<\/p>\n

Stupak has long opposed health care legislation he believed would result in federal financing of federal financing of abortion. And last autumn, Stupak sponsored an amendment that included tough anti-abortion language in an earlier House health care bill.<\/p>\n

Might Neugebauer’s outburst help his fund-raising from abortion opponents? If Wilson’s situation is any indication, that’s quite a possibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) is a staunch conservative in a solidly Republican congressional district. But based on the meager financial support Neugebauer has received from special interest groups that oppose abortion rights, he seems perhaps an unlikely source for the utterance “baby killer!” Sunday night as the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to approve sweeping health care reform legislation. For his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}