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To: Road Walker who wrote (301546)	8/28/2006 12:03:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1580253

'What neo proclamation thing?' This "principle" thing: William J. Bennett, Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle..........these people are complete and utter parasites. What has this country spawned? Was it CJ who posted the danger lies within? Truer words were never spoken. Thanks.

To: Road Walker who wrote (301546)	8/28/2006 12:05:33 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1580253

It looks like Tampa may have lucked out.

To: Road Walker who wrote (301546)	8/28/2006 4:47:29 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1580253

Florida Vote Registration Law Unconstitutional By CURT ANDERSON, AP MIAMI (Aug. 28) - A federal judge on Monday declared a new Florida voter registration law unconstitutional, ruling that its stiff penalties for violations threaten free speech rights and that political parties were improperly exempted. The 48-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz means that state authorities cannot enforce the provisions of the law. It took effect Jan. 1 and has been blamed by several labor unions and nonprofit groups for effectively blocking voter registration drives across the state because of the financial risk. "If third-party voter registration organizations permanently cease their voter registration efforts, Florida citizens will be stripped of an important means and choice of registering to vote and of associating with one another," Seitz wrote. The law also "unconstitutionally discriminates" against third-party registration groups because it does not apply to political parties, Seitz added. The law imposes fines of $250 for each form that is submitted to election officials more than 10 days after it is collected from an individual and can reach $5,000 for each form that is collected but never submitted. State officials said the decision would be appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "At this point, we respectfully disagree with the ruling and plan to take the issue up on appeal," said Sterling Ivey, spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Sue Cobb, whose office oversees elections. The measure quietly passed the state Legislature in the aftermath of the 2004 presidential election which saw national attention focused on Florida as a key battleground state and the registration of more than 1.5 million new voters, nearly twice the number registered in the 2000 election cycle. "This is a win for democracy and will send a signal to officials in Florida and other states that you cannot erect unreasonable barriers to voter registration," said Wendy Weiser, co-counsel for the third-party groups and deputy director of the Democracy Program at the New York University law school's Brennan Center for Justice. The plaintiffs in the case included the League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida AFL-CIO, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and other groups. Attorneys for the state had argued that the Legislature was within its powers to single out third-party groups because of evidence of past registration problems. 08/28/06 13:02 EDT

To: Road Walker who wrote (301546)	8/29/2006 12:06:52 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580253

Bush Sees Renewal After Katrina forbes.com What a joke that headline is! Bush, partisan to the end, spends his first two days in ALA and Miss and will do a quick dinner in NOLA tomorrow nite before flying on to Arkansas for some fund raising. But look at the headline.........its sounds as if the Gulf coast has come back to life. In fact, some has but very little has become back to life in its most important city.....New Orleans. Of course, we need to note the magazine.......Forbes........one of the signatories on the neos' mein kampf. Just watched an hour of Anderson Cooper.....and was reminded of the whole mess all over again. But the neos have worked their magic one more time with the help of the media. A majority of Americans now believe that Nagin is responsible for the poor response to Katrina and not Bush and FEMA. Such garbage.....it insults the intelligence.