Anti-abortion fighter dies in plane crash, spends money on repairs when votes are recounted
Last summer, voters in Kansas faced a choice: Keep abortion legal, or give the state a chance to ban it? Kansans debut and support abortion by a wide marginbut that doesn’t stop those who oppose choice try to reverse the vote by recounting the votes. Now, one of the sponsors of the recount is dead – after a plane crash.
Mark Gietzen, the anti-choice activist who largely sponsored the unsuccessful 2022 recount effort, died on Tuesday, May 16 after crashing his Cessna in Nebraska . He was the only person on board, and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Wichita Eagle. On the subject of airplanes, however, the Eagles have more to say:
Gietzen, in an August interview with The Eagle, said the nearly $120,000 he’s spent on a statewide recount will likely complicate his plans to renovate his old Cessna. which he said he flew for the first time in the summer of 2022 after he booked 15 years. of work on it.
“My only limitation on the Value that they both recount is that that plane will sit still and collect dust for a short time,” he said in August. “Well, no dust collection. I would only fly it in unregulated airspace and we had to book it 50 hours before you could fly with a passenger, which is a necessary and good rule of thumb. I invested so much in that plane, I wanted to finish it. I am very proud of this.”
His obituary in Eagle is filled with flattery quotes from other antichoice politicians who have called him “the hardest worker I know in the pro-choice movement.” alive” and “an irreplaceable scarecrow.” Let’s hope so!
