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And Here I Thought Bullying Was Wrong: Gary Peters Bullies Cancer Patient, TV Stations
And Here I Thought Bullying Was Wrong: Gary Peters Bullies Cancer Patient, TV Stations
Nov 29, 2025 6:56 AM

The Department of Health and Human Services, under the direction of Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration, has a website aimed at stopping bullies: StopBullying.gov. While it has pages for parents, kids, educators and munity members, it apparently needs to add a page for politicians.

Michigan resident Julie Boonstra is currently featured in a mercial funded by Americans for Prosperity. Boonstra suffers from leukemia, and lost her health insurance due to the Affordable Care Act. She calls out Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters for voting for Obamacare. Peters doesn’t like that, and he’s turned to bullying tactics:

Lawyers for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters sent TV stations a letter threatening that failure to rip down the ad, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, could result in the revocation of their broadcasting license. The letter, which cites a Washington Post fact-check on the ad that gave it two “Pinocchios,” warned broadcasters, “Failure to prevent the airing of ‘false and misleading advertising’ may be ‘probative of an underlying abdication of licensee responsibility’ that can be cause for the loss of a station’s license.”

Peters is clearly not a fan of free speech, either.

Boonstra, for her part, is not afraid of a bully:

They’re not scaring me. Cancer scares me. The growth of my cancer, possibly losing my life over this, that scares me. I battle cancer every day. They’re not going to intimidate me.”

Read “Democrats Declare War Against Obamacare Cancer Patients” at .

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