On the radar: Elections on Tuesday, Health Care on Thu/Fri

This is going to be an interesting week, politically.

On Tuesday there will be several ballots Catholics should care about:

• Doug Hoffman in NY's 23rd district - who I've been rooting for
• A pro-marriage amendment in Maine - which we should support
• Bob McDonnell for Virginia governor, and Ken Cuccinelli for Virginia attorney general - both faithful Catholics, both worthy of your support
• Chris Christie, pro-life and pro-family Catholic trying to unseat the Democrat incumbent governor Jon Corzine in New Jersey - who is running a very negative campaign

On Thursday or Friday - the big one:

• it is believed that Pelosi will bring her health care bill to a vote in the House of Representatives this week. I am strongly against this bill and so are the US bishops. Please visit usccb.org/action to contact your representatives demanding they VOTE NO on it!

The Tuesday elections look very good for pro-life, pro-family causes, but Marriage in Maine is going to be down to the wire (so please focus your efforts there!).

The Thursday or Friday vote on Health Care looks very bad right now, so it's imperative that Catholics mobilize and prevent this fatally flawed legislation from passing!