Schlabach's false advertising

By John Labriola - Politicians are known for telling whoppers, but once in a while a lie is so blatant it just sticks in your craw. 

Liberal County Commissioner Ruthie Schlabach, who cast the deciding vote last year for a whopping 18 percent tax increase, recently claimed in an ad published in the Citrus County Chronicle that she "voted against tax increases." The lie is so easily verifiable that it's astonishing she has such a low opinion of voters to tell such a bald-faced lie and believe she can get away with it.

Schlabach, who is running for reelection in the Aug. 20 universal primary, describes herself in the ad as a "constitutional conservative," which renders the phrase meaningless. Schlabach has more than once publicly cited the late far-left Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a role model for girls, saying she "can't say enough nice things about Ruth." 

Ginsburg's judicial philosophy was that the Constitution is a "living document" in which new "rights" can be discovered that were never intended by the Framers. Ginsburg was the deciding vote in the infamous 2015 Supreme Court ruling that invented the "Constitutional right" to same-sex marriage, forcing the practice onto all 50 states, including states like Florida where voters had overwhelmingly passed state constitutional amendments defining marriage as between one man and one woman. The decision to redefine marriage to suit the desires of a sexual minority has devastated children, forcing them into homes where they are often subject to sexual abuse by their homosexual adoptive "parents."

Another of the rights Ginsburg found was a "right" to partial-birth abortion, in which an abortionist grabs a child's feet with forceps, draws its legs from the womb and extracts most of its body except for the head. An incision is then made at the base of the infant's skull through which a pair of scissors is inserted to puncture the cranium and suck out the brains with a tube. The murdered infant is then removed to complete the "partial-birth abortion." 

Quite the role model for a "constitutional conservative."

Schlabach is falsely advertising herself as a "conservative" because she knows Citrus County is more than 70 percent conservative. But she's never more comfortable than when she's in front of a crowd of like-minded liberals. Two months ago, she spoke at the Women's Democratic Club of Citrus County monthly meeting, where she openly bragged about her liberal record, including voting to allow annual "LGBT Pride" displays in the library system (which fortunately were canceled anyway by library administrators). Schlabach was clearly enjoying the enthusiastic applause of fellow liberals, who know she's lying when she claims in ads to be a "conservative."

Fortunately, there's a better choice for voters. Schlabach's opponent is Janet Barek, a conservative government watchdog who is pro-life and opposed to taxpayer-funded LGBT propaganda displays. 

So on Aug. 20, vote for Janet Barek!

(Or check out the Early Voting schedule and vote early.)

The Aug. 20 primary is the final election in the race for the Commission seat, since there is no general election opponent.