BishopAccountability.org
	Ad Alleging Sex Crime Cover-Up Heats up Campaign By Richard Roesler Spokesman-Review October 20, 2006 http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=155500 Olympia – As the days count down to November's election, Washington's second-most-expensive state Senate race is turning more ferocious. Since Friday, Spokane residents have been opening their mailboxes to find large postcards that maintain that Sen. Brad Benson "voted to cover up sex crimes against our children." The mailer – which features a photo of a hurt-looking girl clutching a teddy bear, as well as some Spokesman-Review headlines about alleged church and boys home sex abuse – focuses on a vote by Benson three years ago. Benson, R-Spokane, called the mailing "a new low." "I guess when you're desperate you dig deep and stretch things," said a fellow senator, Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, who voted the same way on the bill. In 2003, Benson was one of 35 House lawmakers who voted against adding the clergy to the occupations required by law to report allegations of child abuse. The bill passed the House, only to die in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution.