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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ThirdEye who wrote (151280)	6/7/2001 8:27:35 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

No question, things could have run more smoothly. JLA

To: ThirdEye who wrote (151280)	6/7/2001 12:23:40 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

No evidence of racism in FL. but there is a Southern jurisdiction where Black voters HAVE JUST BEEN disenfranchised: In a 1994 referendum, voters in the District of Columbia gave 62% approval to a referendum limiting members of the D.C. Council to two consecutive four-year terms. Now the council has decided to dissolve the people and elect a new one. "Nine of the council's 13 members--a veto-proof majority--voted to abolish term limits for the mayor, the council and the four elected members of the D.C. Board of Education," the Washington Post reports. "They argued that the 1994 measure was on shaky constitutional ground and interfered with the right of D.C. residents to choose their leaders." It's the first time an elected body has overturned a voter-approved term-limit measure anywhere in America. opinionjournal.com