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Victims Wanted This report from Politico's Jonathan Martin seems a bit creepy:Barack Obama's campaign earlier this month sought to find a rape victim to appear in a campaign commercial, according to an e-mail obtained by Politico.Kiersten Steward, director of public policy at the Family Violence Prevention Fund, served as a conduit between the campaign and victims and women's advocates."Obviously, this is a big ask and I haven't seen a script but presumably it will be a brief 'this is what happened to me, we need someone who will fight for women like me, these are the guys to do it,'" Steward wrote in a Sept. 15 e-mail. "Again, that's just my assumption, given how these things usually go."Steward didn't comment, and the Obama campaign wouldn't disclose the topic of the prospective ad, but "did suggest the ad may be aimed at underscoring their candidate's support for abortion rights." This seems rather silly, since the chances of abortion ever being outlawed in cases of rape are somewhere between slim and none, and slim left the room after someone called him racist.Mikele Shelton-Knight, a rape victim and "full-time victims advocate" from Virginia who declined to appear in the Obama ad, has another theory as to its content:Shelton-Knight said she thought that the focus of the ad may be about the practice in Wasilla, Alaska, to charge rape victims to pay for their own exams.The law was on the books when Sarah Palin became mayor of the small city, and it's unclear whether she supported it or opposed it during her tenure. But Shelton-Knight said Palin should not be criticized for having governed a city with such a law as they were quite common until recent years.Alaska didn't pass a bill until 2000 requiring state and local law endorcement [sic] to pay for the exams. And Shelton-Knight said it wasn't until lobbying by her and others that Virginia last year put the financial burden on localities. Many states still charge victims for the cost of the exam.In an interview with Wasilla's Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Palin says, "The entire notion of making a victim of a crime pay for anything is crazy. I do not believe, nor have I ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test."
