So it should come as no surprise that Alma would jump at the opportunity to secure more money from her buddy, Jim Vick.  Somehow, I can't help but think that when Alma files her next campaign finance report, there's going to be a nice new contribution from Jim or Helen Vick - or maybe both.

But maybe not.  After all, it wasn't like Alma's pathetic pleading for her friend got him the job - in fact, judging from the 6-to-1 vote rejecting Vick, it appears that Alma's rhetorical exercise in playing the fool may have back-fired.

Then, again, Alma may not have gone out of her way to sing Vick's praises at the meeting only for the promise of more money for her campaign coffers.  I would venture to say that Alma also probably felt some kind of sick solidarity with Vick - after all, they both have participated in covering-up murder.

The parallels between the two are striking.  Alma's whole political identity is wrapped-up in her bizarre obsession with promoting abortion on demand.  Therefore, Alma routinely covers-up the truth about what abortion does to living unborn children in much the same way that Vick worked to cover-up the truth about Laura Dickinson's death.  

In Vick's case, he covered-up the truth about Dickinson's murder in order to protect EMU's image (and, of course, advance his career).  Meantime, Alma continues to cover-up the truth about the murder of innocent unborn children via abortion in order to advance the goals of the radical feminist movement (and, of course, satisfy her unending thirst for power).

But the sad reality is that, while Vick has been rightly ostracized and condemned for his participation in the cover-up of a young woman's murder, Rep. Wheeler-Smith continues to be celebrated in many circles as a champion of "choice" for her participation in the cover-up of the murder of tens of millions of innocent unborn children via legalized abortion.  

Nonetheless, let's keep praying and working for the day when Rep. Alma Wheeler-Smith will suffer the same (or worse) fate as which has befallen her disgraced campaign contributor, Jim Vick.

About the author: Andrew Shirvell, Esq., is a pro-life citizen activist who writes a weekly column that is published every Thursday for RightMichigan.com in which he focuses upon Michigan pro-life issues. He is the co-author of "Michigan Law and the Scales of Justice, Life in the Balance," a white paper published by Americans United for Life (2007).  Shirvell attended Ave Maria School of Law - Ann Arbor, where he served as president of the school's Bioethics Society, from 2004-2005.  He also served as president of Students for Life at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, from 2000-2002.