PRESS RELEASE

(11/06/2006)

Cecelia Fire Thunder and Stephanie Herseth Cut From the Same Mold

RAPID CITY- Cecelia Fire Thunder the impeached former President of the Pine Ridge Reservation holds press conference in support of Abortion with Healthy Families.

Cecelia filled the room with her voice of hatred toward men, Christianity and unborn babies. "Gov. Rounds acted as a Catholic not a Governor when he signed HB1215; he should be impeached," said Fire Thunder. She went on to state "I alone can create life;" "If you grow up speaking Lakota you don't need the Bible;" and "Christians are 99% to blame for the problems on the reservations with women." Cecelia also said in her remarks, pregnancy in violence is not sacred, and our god would not want that pregnancy.

Lisa Cook, a Rapid City lawyer, inferred that the Council in Pine Ridge was paid to ban Abortion by saying during her remarks there is, "Monetary compensation to Indians and Tribal Leaders to jump on the Christian bandwagon to ban abortion." She also went on to say in closing, "It is not God, Church, husband, boyfriend, or man's decision, it is the woman's decision," to end life.

Bruce Whalen, Republican Candidate for U.S. Congress, had this to say in response, "Ms. Fire Thunder's distortion of reality does nothing for me but evoke a very limited amount of pity toward her. The governing Council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe rejected Ms. Fire Thunder's worldview, as do I."

"Cecelia is on the board of the Democrat Party and an organizer of the Unhealthy Families Campaign. The Democrat Party supports Ms. Herseth and from her recent conference call, she is very, very involved with Planned Parenthood and the Unhealthy Families Campaign. Ms. Herseth must explain to South Dakota if she supports Cecelia and the statements she made today," said Whalen.