Operation Rescue Number Found In Scott Roeder’s Car
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Abortion
People were asking for more of a connection. Well, here ya go. The number of Operations Rescue’s senior policy adviser.
Not only that, the adviser was convicted of conspiring to bomb an abortion clinic in 1988. I’m all for prison reforming somebody, but why does she still work a militant anti-abortion outfit? Seem a little odd to anybody?
[Cheryl] Sullenger tells The Pitch that she hasn’t spoken with Roeder recently.“No, he hasn’t called me recently,” Sullenger said. “No.”
She went on: “You know, he’s somebody who’s been around. My name is on the Internet. It’s on every press release. My phone number is on every press release it. It’s all over the internet. I don’t know. He probably has lots of people’s phone numbers. You know? So I don’t know. I don’t have any more comment other than that.”
“You know, he’s somebody who’s been around.”
The folks at Operation Rescue obviously know who Roeder is. I think that’s established now. To what extent his involvement in their org is will be determined in the coming days I’m sure.
More as it develops…
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June 2nd, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Before she was OR’s “Senior Policy Advisor” she was their “Outreach Coordinator.”
Even as a convicted felon, under Kansas law with her prison sentence having been fully discharged, she can (and does) vote.
And yes, she obviously knows Roeder and has had contact with him. He’s been around OR and their operations. I’m pretty sure that local, state, and federal investigators are carefully checking out the connections. Even using throw-away cell phones it’s tough to hide contacts.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Wow, JG, you *desperately* want them to be responsible for this.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Exiled, all I care about are the facts in the case, and this is a key piece of evidence. Honestly, I doubt they are responsible for any actual organization of this event. My guess is that Roeder was a lone nut.
However, don’t you find it the least bit odd that OR employs somebody who was convicted of conspiring to bomb an abortion clinic as their senior policy adviser? Of course everybody deserves forgiveness for the sins of the past, but if OR was concerned with the appearance of not condoning ANY violent actions, you’d think they could find somebody else to fill that role.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 pm
No, people weren’t “asking for more of a connection,” we were saying that you couldn’t make a connection based on the thin reeds you had, and that it was inflammatory and unwise for you to attempt it. This unseemly rush to connect Roeder to OR – first declare a connection, then find evidence to support it – undercuts theclaim that “all [you] care about are the facts in the case….”
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 am
From Ellen Goodman’s latest column:
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 am
All those defending this operation, for whatever political reason. You would not say the same thing if this were a muslim action with even the thinnest connection to Al Qaeda. Look, let’s really take a look at the roles. You have an organization that harasses, intimidates, threatens a group of people. They make militant statements to large number of followers, explicitly and implicitly encouraging “action” against another group. Members of this group have resorted to violence in the past. They send members out to commit the deeds for them, with their encouragement. Am I speaking of OR or Al Qaeda? Just because you don’t like the group that they are threatening and harassing doesn’t mean that these people are not domestic terrorists.