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| 2003-05-08 |
| Note: A linchpin of Democrats' strategy is to use Karl Rove as the "strawman" to attack the President. They will paint Rove as being behind every strategic decision from federal offices down to city councils. I've already seen this in South Dakota (in the Daschle-Thune probable match-up), Colorado and elsewhere. Republicans won their fight to redraw Colorado's congressional districts as lawmakers wrapped up their 2003 session Wednesday, but Democrats vowed the war was far from over. But, I thought Democrats were against war? "The battle doesn't stop at 12 o'clock (midnight) today," the end of the session, said Sen. Peter Groff, D-Denver. "The battle goes into the court. . . . Awfully bellicose coming from an avowed pacifist. The Senate passed the redistricting bill on a party-line vote of 18-17 at 8:45 p.m. Thirty-four minutes later, the chamber adjourned. The governor is not expected to call a special session. SB 352, the bombshell bill that threw the legislature into turmoil this week, redraws Colorado's seven congressional districts to strengthen the GOP's hold on five of them. Heh, heh In the House, which passed the bill earlier, Democrats protested by refusing to vote, then holding up masks with the likeness of Republican Rep. Bob Beauprez. Beauprez won the 7th Congressional District seat by only 121 votes in November. Can always count on the Democrats for street theatre and empty gestures. In the Senate, a tearful minority leader vowed to fight redistricting "with every breath." Sen. Joan Fitz-Gerald, D-Golden, called it "tyranny by the majority," a plan "conceived in darkness and introduced in stealth." Obviously, Joan went to the Senator Bobby Byrd School of flowery and dramatic oratory. Here it is, the money quote: She told fellow Democrats she was convinced President Bush's chief adviser, Karl Rove, had a role in the plan. "Absolutely not true," said Sen. Jim Dyer, R-Littleton. "I can vouch for that." |
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