BBSNews 2005-12-07 -- Michael Schiavo announced a new political action committee today named TerriPAC after his wife Terri Schiavo. The woman who was used as a political football by politicians using her to play to the extreme right-wing of American politics.

The new Website described the PAC as an effort to promote sanctity of marriage and the right to personal privacy without fear of government intrusion into private family matters.

File photo of Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay in an undated election photo op. Image Credit: House.gov.

The Website quotes Schiavo as saying in answer to the launch of the new activist group, "The easiest thing would be to move on and let the headlines fade," Schiavo said. "But my experience with our political leaders has opened my eyes to just how easily the private wishes of normal Americans like me and Terri can be cast aside in the destructive game of political pandering. The best way to hold them accountable is to make sure voters know where the candidates stand when they come looking for votes next November."

The statement continues, "Those politicians lost a basic respect for marriage, family and personal privacy," Schiavo said. Their blind obstruction of my wife's wishes and the legal courts orders that enforced them was a sickening exercise in raw political power."

Another page at the site points out the first political target of the new PAC, on a page billed as the "Election Center" they ask an obvious question about who might be the first politician targeted for paid political advertising aimed at encouraing election defeat.

Prominently shown is one lone photo of one lone politician. Ethics embattled and money-laundering indicted Republican Congressman Tom DeLay from Texas.