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To: JohnM who wrote (639)	5/7/2003 11:07:08 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794009

Who makes certain that the folk who solicit meetings are who they say they are? Etc. Worries me. Well, they are setting it up in coffee shops. You could get one going in Bergen County. I checked, and nobody has got off the dime there yet. :>) But the service claims to have 297,000 people registered for over 6700 meetings of some sort. I think this is an idea, when refined, that could really pull out people who could be organized for grassroots work. And "Get out the Vote" is the name of the game. On the Rove article, the rundowns on various ways to find voters that Rove is using are interesting. As we know, he is a "Direct Mail" guy. And his power in Texas to pick candidates, based on his "in" with the big donators, was very interesting. He was "Boss" of Texas, in many ways. The Impresario. His rejection of the "Swing" voters as being in the "middle" between the right and the left can be expanded. Looking at them as voters from both sides of the spectrum who can be attracted by specific values or issues, instead of "don't knows," is a new way to go. But we know what the "Base" on either side is, don't we? Churchgoing families vs dyspeptic, atheistic, Academics. :>)

To: JohnM who wrote (639)	5/8/2003 8:56:12 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794009

'A Legislative Nuclear Bomb' Wow! This would really be nasty! Some Republican senators are considering a parliamentary maneuver to stop Democrats from filibustering judicial nominees, reports the Hill newspaper: Under the most likely scenario now under discussion, [Republicans] would secure a ruling from the chair that Senate Rule XXII does not apply to executive submissions to the Senate--and that includes judicial nominees. Rule XXII provides for unlimited debate on all legislative issues that reach the floor unless three-fifths of the Senate calls a halt. With such an approach, a favorable ruling from the chair on limiting the scope of Rule XXII could stand after only a simple majority approved it. . . . One drawback of this proposed tactic is that it might destroy whatever is left of the working relationship between Democrats and Republicans. That is why some legislative experts liken the parliamentary tool to a legislative nuclear bomb. Does it strike anyone else that likening such a thing to a nuclear bomb is an absurdly overwrought analogy? opinionjournal.com