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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (492061)	11/13/2003 2:35:21 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769667

I do not think it fair for you to say that. Zell Miller is a lifelong Democrat. In a career of public service spanning more than four decades, Zell Miller has focused on the kitchen-table issues of working families to get results for Georgia and for the nation. He was one of the nation’s most popular governors, and he is now enjoying huge popularity back home for his work in the United States Senate. Senator Miller credits two major influences in his life for his success: his strong mother and the U.S. Marine Corps. After finishing two terms as governor in 1999 with an 85 percent approval rating, Miller headed back to the college classroom and back home to his beloved north Georgia mountains. His retirement from public service was cut short when Gov. Roy Barnes asked Miller to accept an appointment to the U.S. Senate after the untimely death of Senator Paul Coverdell in July 2000. Miller accepted, and was immediately thrust into another statewide election. In November 2000, Miller won a seven-person race with 58 percent of the vote for the right to serve the remaining four years of Senator Coverdell’s term through 2004. Miller became only the third Georgian – following Richard B. Russell and Herman Talmadge – to be elected as both governor and senator. In the U.S. Senate, Miller has remained committed to his pledge to represent all 8.5 million Georgians and no single party. He has regularly reached across the aisle and worked with the White House to lower taxes, improve education and give our Commander in Chief his full support in the war on terrorism. It is Miller’s ability to tap into the kitchen-table issues of working families that gained him national prominence and made him Georgia’s most popular governor in modern history. The Washington Post in 1998 called Miller the most popular governor in America, and Governing Magazine named him Governor of the Year in 1998. His HOPE Scholarship program was dubbed by the Los Angeles Times as “the most far-reaching scholarship program in the nation.’’ And his pre-kindergarten program for 4-year-olds – the first in the nation – won an award for innovation from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Born Feb. 24, 1932, in Young Harris, Georgia, Miller followed his parents’ footsteps into the teaching profession and into politics. He was raised by his single mother after his father died when Miller was only 17 days old. Miller gets his work ethic and his appreciation for the arts from Birdie Miller, an art teacher and one of Georgia’s first female mayors. She hauled stones from a mountain creek to build the family home that Sen. Miller still lives in today. Though he never knew his father, Stephen Grady Miller, Sen. Miller followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming aUniversity of Georgia graduate, a history professor at Young Harris College and a state senator. Miller began his career in public service in 1959 with a term as mayor of Young Harris. In 1960, he was elected to the Georgia Senate at the age of 28. In 1974, he won the first of four consecutive terms as Georgia’s lieutenant governor. Then in 1990, Miller ran for governor and won the first of two terms he would serve as the state’s top leader. Miller walked into the governor’s office facing shrinking state revenues and an empty rainy-day fund. By the end of Miller’s two terms, Georgia’s coffers were full and he had eliminated the sales tax on groceries and cut the state income tax twice. The tax savings for Georgians added up to more than $1 billion. The centerpiece of Miller’s legacy as governor is his lottery-funded HOPE scholarship, which has sent more than 500,000 Georgians to college and forever changed the way Georgians think about higher education. In 1997, President Clinton borrowed Miller’s idea in announcing a national HOPE scholarship program. Governor Miller accepts a check for $1.1 billion from Georgia Lottery Director Rebecca Paul. Miller used the lottery to pay for HOPE scholarships and his Pre-K program. (1996) To ensure that young children are ready for school, Miller created the nation’s first voluntary pre-kindergarten program, available to all parents who want their 4-year-olds to attend. This lottery-funded program has served more than 375,000 4-year-olds, and studies show those children are thriving as they move into kindergarten and beyond. Miller’s passions are education, history, baseball and music. He is a walking baseball encyclopedia who is equally at home at the Grand Ole Opry or Symphony Hall. He has written six books, including “A National Party No More: The Conscience of A Conservative Democrat” and “Corps Values: Everything You Need To Know I Learned in the Marines.’’ After leaving the governor’s office in 1999, Miller taught at Emory University and at his alma maters, the University of Georgia and Young Harris College. He also served on several corporate boards. Miller has been married to Shirley Carver since 1954. They have two sons, Murphy and Matthew, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He also has two yellow Labs, Gus and Woodrow, named after characters in one of his favorite books, “Lonesome Dove.” miller.senate.gov

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (492061)	11/13/2003 2:53:20 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

yes kenny, anyone who questions your beliefs is a sell out. I call vacant liberal minded lefty loons your basic stupid outs. Now kenny if you said the words below it would be bad form. But for a US Senator to say this is the first cousin of treason. Now would go in public and state the following as what you believe in your heart. We meet at an important moment for Democrats and a time of change for the Republicans. They used to be the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan. Today they are the party of Rush Limbaugh and Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's the party of values? You know, after reading about the pill popping, skirt chasing, Hitler praising Republicans, it's very tempting to point out their hypocrisy. But is it the right thing to do? Absolutely. These are difficult, dangerous, and serious times we're living in. And so I want to take my time today to talk seriously with you. I have been traveling across America. And I can tell you, I have never seen the American people so fearful of their future, and so worried about the ability of their national leadership to make it better. It didn't have to be this way. During the 2000 campaign, we all remember how George Bush kept acting out his inauguration. He'd raise his right hand, and say: "When I take that oath, I will swear to uphold the honor and integrity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God." It is almost three years later, and we know. He has done no such thing. Sadly, since day one--since before day one, in Florida, in fact--there has been one value repeatedly missing from this presidency: integrity. The people who run this White House haven't trusted the American people enough to level with them, and so the American people are now losing their trust in this White House. There has been a pattern of broken promises and basic deceptions that diminish the presidency, degrade our strength, and disrespect the American people. These are serious charges. I understand. I don't make them lightly. But the evidence is clear. They promised us prosperity but gave us more unemployment and poverty, reversing the gains made when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were there. They promised to protect the middle class, but squeezed and shrunk it. They said they would pursue the whole truth about 9/11, but they have concealed it at every turn. They promised an era of responsibility, but they gave us the foxes to guard the foxes: The accountants' leading lawyer as the head of the SEC. A mining lobbyist to oversee our public lands. A lead paint industry executive put on the lead paint advisory council. They promised that air quality at Ground Zero was safe, after the experts at EPA told them it might not be. They promised a new immigration policy. Then used terrorism as an excuse to deny Latinos and millions of others the right to come safely and legally to this country. I'll welcome them. They talk about corporate accountability, but they reward corporate greed with billions in offshore tax shelters. I'll end them. They pledged fiscal responsibility, but then ransacked the Treasury, hiding as long as they could the historic, humongous debt they have created. joe2004.com