Posted on 08/08/2006 9:22:17 PM PDT by davidosborne
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W-Girl....You should be furious at Bill Nelson not Tom Gallagher!
Katherine Harris has cosponsored a bill to provide for a National Catastrophic Fund to stem Florida's insurance crisis and sponsored a bill to address key operational and organizational deficiencies within FEMA.
Today, Florida's property owners are paying a big price for Bill Nelson's monumental error in his previous role as State Insurance Commissioner. Nelson allowed insurance companies to separate Florida from the national pool, resulting in soaring rates for policy holders.
Will McBride is a 33 year old kid with no elected experience....The Senate Dems will have him for lunch! Katherine Harris has the guts to take them on and get the job done!
Harris could have held the House seat easily.. I think that would have been a better choice for her.. IMHO
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>>Nelson allowed insurance companies to separate Florida from the national pool, resulting in soaring rates for policy holders.
Government has no role deciding commercial strategies for insurance companies, any more than for Walmart. A better criticism is that Nelson took a job that amounts to nothing more than welfare: a pointless job funded by the taxpayers in which you do least harm by doing nothing. Better still would be to focus on his failings as a Senator. You will get nowhere arguing he should be sacked as a Senator for something he did or didn't do in a previous job.
>>Will McBride is a 33 year old kid with no elected experience....
Thirty three years old is adult. No elected experience? You mean he has had real jobs? Good for him. Same level of experience that Reagan and both Bush brothers had when they ran for governors in three of the largest states in the Union. And governors have real jobs to do; Senators just talk and vote. Better to have people with real world experience than people who have spent years living off the taxpayer.
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Excuse me, but what does "bttt" mean?
interesting article in today's Miami herald. Not sure the title fits the content but seems to be very telling about the senate candidates immigration stance.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/15291048.htm
U.S. SENATE RACE
Campaign immigration spat hinges on misunderstanding
An immigration argument in Florida's U.S. Senate race turned on a questionable translation.
second paragraph from bottom:
McBride said he would support a barrier -- if it were shown to be cost effective -- and favors a compromise between the House and Senate bill in which illegal residents could legally get their work papers. He said that, before they could win citizenship, illegal immigrants would have to go back to their native countries and check in at a ''mini Ellis Island'' to process their paperwork, provided the system were efficient and didn't rip families apart.
LeRoy Collins Jr. and Harris are only senate candidates to come right out and say NO Amnesty, they both favor the House bill. I'm not crazy about McBrides plan, seems like amnesty to me.
I'll be voting for Harris.
it in a common internet term means "Bump to the top" a short reply to a post for the purpose of placing the thread at the top of you "My Comments" list..
Thanks. I have encountered the one word post 'bump' before but never the bttt abbreviation.
http://www.votebrianarmstrong.com
Thank you, I will be calling him with some questions. thanks for posting that
Just had a brief discussion with Brian Armstrong, and I will continue to support him. Brian told me that he "has not formed an opinion" on the consoldation issue, however he seems willing to seriously consider what is in the best intrest of the citizens, which is the best we can get at this point.
David
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