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FL-16: Negron Wins Nod To Run For Foley Seat
Florida attorney and state representative Joe Negron has just won the nod from GOP leaders to run for the seat of disgraced GOP Rep Mark Foley. Due to Florida law, Foley's name will remain on the ballot, but Negron will collect his votes. TPMmuckraker's Paul Kiel has the details. A bit more on Negron -- including his past support for government intervention in the case of Terry Schiavo -- here.
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Everything you really want to know about the right wing Republicans is condensed in this Florida race...they're for protecting life, in theory, and will do anything and everything--including reconvening Congress and flying back from the Ranch- to promote their cause, symbolized by a helpless brain dead woman. They'll promote laws which would invade everyone's privacy, insisting on black and white answers as if the blunt instrument of yes/no policies can deal with citizens' most intimate and troubling moral dilemmas. Yet faced with a living, breathing example of vile and threatening behavior, their "leaders" suddenly throw off the mantle of "protection" and "sanctity", calling press conferences to explain and contradict why THEY weren't the responsible party, or why it was simply "naughty" behavior. To the point where, to advance their cause and candidate, they must insist that their "followers" vote for a PREDATOR!
This is New Testament Biblical stuff...Christ was absolutely correct about the money-changers in the marketplace. And we have a chance, right now, to overturn the tables in righteous anger. It can't be any clearer than this!
October 3, 2006 6:50 AM | Reply | Permalink