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Terri and Terry and Florida politics...

The new convert to Roman Catholic is on the march to unseat Jim King.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Randall Terry hopes northeast Florida voters will not simply focus on the more extreme comments he made as founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue as he campaigns to unseat powerful state Sen. Jim King in the upcoming Republican primary.

Nor does he want them to solely look at his role in the unsuccessful effort last year to reinsert the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who was at the center of a right-to-die case. He also hopes they can forgive his divorce and 1998 bankruptcy, the latter an effort to avoid paying $1.6 million in court-ordered civil penalties to Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women.

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Terry, 47, says he is running because King sided with Democrats to block efforts to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube, appointed Democrats to committee chairs when he was Senate president and because he pushed for money to pay for the education of illegal immigrants living in Florida. Terry says King is too liberal for the district.

"This election is a referendum on what it means to be a Republican. I am a Ronald Reagan Republican," said Terry, who lost a 1998 primary bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York. He moved to Ponte Vedra Beach three years ago.

Anti-Abortion Leader Seeks To Oust Powerful GOP Legislator

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[8mmMauser]

The San Francisco Chronicle carried this (June 20)...

Today, the state Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony for and against legalizing physician-assisted suicide in California. It is a topic that has evoked passionate debate, and became a political one when Terry Schiavo's heart-wrenching story was thrust into the national spotlight.

The hearing will not be easy for committee members. With issues as deeply personal and uncomfortable as terminal illness and death, the scrutiny and debate is understandable, and warranted...

The thought of anyone, let alone a physician, helping another end their life seems both outrageous and unethical to many. That view is rooted in religious and professional beliefs that we respect.

But these opponents cannot, and should not, speak for individual patients who are facing impending death.

San Francisco Chronicle: "Politics of death"

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[T'wit]

Another reason I never watch TV news. This "story" was snotty and hostile from the first sentence. But if anyone deserves the contempt of decent and honest people, it is Terry's opponent, Jim King. Let no one forget that King voted to refuse to rescue Terri Schiavo from her murderers.

Jim King's "legacy" is the Early Exit Industry designed to snuff people who retire to Florida and to ransack their estates. Stay away, stay away from that place, stay away!

[floriduh voter]

Go Randall Terry!

And there's this: LAKELAND, FLORIDA, where the Second District Court of Appeals aided and abetted Terri's barbaric murder is SINKING. Right now, it's a big sinkhole in a ritzy neighborhood.

Will the appeals court bldg sink next?

All those folks whose homes are cracking and are now going "why me?" can experience what it's like when things are beyond their control.

Tallahassee shootings, Lakeland sinking... This place is a real picnic. Not!

[floriduh voter]

LAKELAND (home of the wicked 2nd DCA) is SINKING.

http://lledit.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060616/NEWS/606160381/0/FRONTPAGE

[floriduh voter]

NEVADA BREAKING NEWS PER FOX CABLE NEWS: DARREN MACK who murdered his wife in Mikey's favorite state is trying to negotiate a surrender to police.