Red State Reform Vice President Daryl Groves reacted to the Democratic state election playbook in comments to The Sentinel by saying that he wishes “Christians were this civic-minded and motivated to take over the country.”
Democratic Party officials unveiled their plan to advance abortion policy at the state level, emphasizing ballot measures and victories in state legislative races.
Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee President Heather Williams released a memo last week detailing the “importance of building state legislative power” as they seek to protect the murder of preborn babies, noting that the future of abortion will be “decided in state legislatures.” She told fellow Democratic operatives that they should advance referendums allowing voters to expand abortion allowances while placing Democrats in state office.
“Ballot measures can move the needle to protect abortion access, but those protections remain in jeopardy unless elected state officials are committed to passing and defending laws that protect the sanctity of these measures and fundamental freedoms,” Williams advised.
The playbook asserted that ballot measures drive progressive voter turnout, even in states with Republican majorities in their legislatures, allowing Democrats to gain seats in election cycles when such measures are considered by voters. One such example was Michigan, where Democrats won control of the legislature in the midterm elections two years ago as voters cast their ballots in favor of a constitutional amendment enshrining legal abortion.
The six ballot measures placed directly before voters since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade have all resulted in more robust abortion allowances, prompting Williams to laud “the power of these referendums to turn out voters in red states like Kansas and Ohio.” She observed that there will be ballot measures this year in battleground states such as Arizona, as well as states with entrenched Republican political power such as Florida and Missouri.
Williams added that the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee will employ some $60 million on critical state races, marking their largest state election effort to date.
Red State Reform Vice President Daryl Groves, who resides in Arizona and whose grassroots mobilization group recently advocated against the repeal of their territorial abortion law, reacted to the Democratic state election playbook in comments to The Sentinel by saying that he wishes “Christians were this civic-minded and motivated to take over the country.”
“We of all people, who serve the Lord Jesus Christ, who says ‘all authority has been given’ to him, should be this strategic with the mission that the Lord has given to us,” he said. “When you think about it, it’s actually shocking that people who have no hope beyond the grave are so optimistic, and yet so many who know the Lord have become either pessimistic or apathetic when it comes to application of what they know to be true and right in the civic sphere.”
Originally published at RepublicSentinel.com
