Ginny Schrader, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House seat from Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, left a debate with Republican Mike Fitzpatrick, saying she was angry over a GOP mailer that criticized her screening of a controversial film at a fund-raiser.
Sponsored by the National Republican Congressional Committee and sent out Saturday, the mailer criticized Schrader’s decision in July to screen Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which is sharply critical of President Bush and the war in Iraq.The mailing, headlined “Ginny Schrader: The Hate America crowd has found their candidate,” claims Hezbollah, a group of Lebanon-based guerillas identified by the United States and Israel as terrorists, has offered to distribute Moore’s film.
“Let me assure you, I don’t hate America,” Schrader said in her opening remarks Monday. “This mentions Hezbollah. Half my family is Jewish. This is totally unacceptable.”
She also asked Fitzpatrick to apologize. Fitzpatrick, who sat stoically next to the standing Schrader, did not respond.
She’s on the left hand side!