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To: Mephisto who wrote (4076)	7/3/2001 8:52:36 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The Patient's Rights's Bill is a lawyer boondoggle. The only one the bill currently benefits is the trial lawyers. This bill will cause many to lose their coverage by driving up premium costs. JLA

To: Mephisto who wrote (4076)	7/3/2001 9:10:22 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

"CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION REPORT FATALLY FLAWED <<It Gets Worse More blunders from the civil-rights commission. By NR’s John J. Miller & Ramesh Ponnuru July 2, 2001 3:30 p.m. It's hard to believe anyone could compose a more persuasive and thoroughgoing rebuttal to the Florida election report put out by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in June than the one released last week from commissioners Abigail Thernstrom and Russell G. Redenbaugh. Yet evidence continues to emerge highlighting the commission's extreme sloppiness. The latest development involves a letter from Miami-Dade elections supervisor David C. Leahy. The commission's report leans heavily on a handful of anecdotal accounts as examples of "countless numbers" of voters who "were delayed at the polls or denied their opportunity to vote." One woman, Margarita Green, testified before the commission in February about showing up to vote and being told she was not registered. She blamed her situation on "a lot of people that are on jobs that really don't fit them or they are not fit to be in." In other words, she charged incompetence. Indeed, incompetence seems to have played a role in Green's situation, but not the incompetence of election officials. Leahy produced a form signed by Green in 1998, where she checked off a box acknowledging "I no longer live in Dade County." She apparently did not re-register to vote when she moved back, but somehow expected to cast her ballot last year anyway. Another one of the commission's witnesses, Felix Boyle, complained that he voted in a September primary but that nobody from the county notified him about a change in his polling place for the general election two months later. "I couldn't find where I was supposed to vote," he said of his election-day experience. "My precinct ... had become a construction site." There's only one problem with this account. As Leahy puts it in his letter, "Felix Boyle stated that the polling place for Precinct #36 was in a different building than was used in the 2000 primary election. The same building was used for both elections." There are similar discrepancies with other commission witnesses, but the point remains the same: The commission did nothing to verify the claims of the people whose testimonies it used to attack the credibility of Florida's elections. It also leaked its bombastic report on Florida without giving state and local officials adequate time to respond and clear up questions raised by Green, Boyle, and others. Last week, commission chair Mary Frances Berry responded to the detailed dissent submitted by Thernstrom and Redenbaugh this way: "It is a lie." Was she perhaps making a Freudian slip?>>