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To: LindyBill who wrote (5450)	8/20/2003 10:42:06 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793624

Key parts of that article are: 1. That the Reps run a very serious danger of major league blowback on these. Much more of a danger than the gain of House seats, in my estimation. Brown said the new effort is a White House ploy to expand the GOP's majority in the House. "The question is: How partisan do they want to look in one of the key states in a presidential election?" he said. "There will be a political price to pay for them. That's not a threat; it's an observation." 2, And then there is this one. Oopps, indeed. Bennett said the idea of redrawing the state's congressional lines was sparked by local Republicans who feel marginalized, not by Bush administration officials, though he added that he "might have said something to Karl Rove" about the plan.