DCCC Launches Radio Ads on John Mica’s Opposition to Protecting Women From Marital Rape, VAWA
Today, the DCCC is launching a paid radio advertising campaign highlighting John Mica’s opposition to a Florida House of Representatives bill that would allow married women to file charges for rape by their husbands. In his opposition to this bill John Mica said, “[T]he Bible doesn’t give the state permission anywhere in that book, for the state to be in your bedroom and that’s exactly what this bill has gone to. It’s meddling in your bedroom…[W]e don’t need to go to meddlin’ in the marriage bedroom.”
“It’s shocking that John Mica could have ever been so wildly out of touch as to think the law shouldn’t protect a woman whose husband rapes her,” said Jermaine House of the DCCC. “And given his opposition to the Violence Against Women Act, Mica is clearly still on the wrong side of issues important to Florida women.”
Following is a script of the :30 second ad holding John Mica accountable for his abhorrent comments and votes that will be airing in Orlando Media Market this week.
Debating a bill that would make it illegal for men to rape their wives, John Mica said ‘[W]e don’t need to go to meddlin’ in the marriage bedroom.’ Is it any surprise Mica repeatedly opposed the Violence Against Women Act? Call Congressman Mica, tell him that when he votes, Florida women matter. Paid for by the DCCC, www.dccc.org. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. The DCCC is responsible for the content of this advertising.