Allegations Haunt Okla. Senate Candidate

[quaoar]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040915_1498.htm...

Allegations of Medicaid Fraud, Sterilization Haunt Okla. Senate Candidate Tom Coburn in Campaign

The Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. Sept. 15, 2004 — An old lawsuit claiming Republican Senate candidate Tom Coburn, an obstetrician, sterilized a woman without her consent and committed Medicaid fraud has emerged as a major issue in his tightly contested race against Democratic Rep. Brad Carson.
Coburn said at a news conference Wednesday that he did nothing wrong and that his political opponents unearthed the lawsuit, which never went to trial, to hurt his candidacy.

"What you all are working from is an organized attempt to destroy my character," he said.

The lawsuit, first reported by Salon.com, was filed in December 1991 by a woman who was sterilized by Coburn more than a year earlier.

[pfitz59]

1. Is he a Fundie?

Then he has no character. If there's an "R" behind his name then he has no character. I hope he's toast!

[fishwax]

2. Not just any fundie

but one who has mentioned the death penalty for abortion doctors. I sure hope he loses.

(otoh, his opponent Brad Carson is running about as conservative campaign as you could find from a democrat ... still he'd be better than Coburn)

[LynneSin]

4. When then he'd have to kill himself

He's actually performed abortions until he "found god"

[fishwax]

6. perhaps he considers

conversion a legitimate defense, the same way nothing bush did matters if it happened before he got borned agyin

[Krupskaya]

3. What a monster.

I hope he loses and then gets run over by a truck.

[DBoon]

5. That's mean!

Think of the poor truck driver!

[Krupskaya]

8. Heh.

I meant a runaway truck where the driver had already bailed. There was nothing he could do!

[w4rma]

7. Another Republican sicko. (nt)

[Catfight]

9. Sounds like what the Nazi's did to women. Repugs are a sick group. nt