Some sort of a star on her lapel. Probably a red one.
Posted on 09/10/2003 3:39:48 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Zaffirini injured in fall on iceSenator breaks shoulder bone practicing for hometown event
10:13 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 9, 2003
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Texas redistricting battle has exacted a price from the Legislature and its members, but now there's a broken bone on the list.
Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, broke her right shoulder bone in two places late Monday in a fall at an Albuquerque ice skating rink.
Ms. Zaffirini, one of the 10 Texas Democrats who have spent six weeks in New Mexico to thwart a GOP plan to redraw congressional boundaries, said Tuesday she was using some of her spare time in Albuquerque to brush up on skating so she could "drop the puck" at an upcoming match of the minor league Laredo Bucks hockey team.
"I'm a real sports enthusiast," said Ms. Zaffirini, 57, who said she had performed the ceremonial role at a Bucks game last season but was embarrassed to have to walk to center ice on a red carpet rather than skate.
"I told them I would skate out this time," she said. "I skated in college and after that, but I have never learned to stop."
The senator was practicing for a skating lesson scheduled for Tuesday, she said, when two youngsters skated close to her. She tried to alter her course but lost her balance and fell, she said.
But Ms. Zaffirini, who is known as a workaholic, remained true to form.
From a hospital emergency room late Monday, she participated in a conference call with her fellow Democrats. Tuesday, wearing a sling, she resumed work in her hotel room, went to an orthopedic surgeon and shopped for "stretchy tops" that she said will make dressing less painful.
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This is the first I'd heard about this ...
Gee, too bad....
Some sort of a star on her lapel. Probably a red one.
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Hmmm.
The local media has been reporting that the runaways were working on their normal duties. Wonder how long it will take them to make a big deal out of this story? [NEVER] There was a small, teenie, tiny blip BURIED in the Metro section of the local paper about this today. I remember seeing the one senator ironing the TX flag on the FRONT page. The whiners were ALWAYS on the front page of the paper.
Yep ! If she'd been in Texas doin' her JOB, this would have never happened !! ...
Some sort of a star on her lapel. Probably a red one.Probably a red Commie Star that MoveOn.org gave her after they raised $1 MILLION to help these renegades out.
The Communist Party USA links MoveOn.org on their website. It's the DARK BLUE link at the TOP LEFT of the CPUSA site ...
Communist Party USA
MoveOn.org
Here are recent Redistricting articles and a few relating to MoveOn.org's Fundraising for the scoundrels ...FR Search: Keyword "Redistricting"
08-26-2003
MoveOn.org Aiding Fugitive Texas Democrats (Update!)
08-25-2003
Costs for Democrat exiles may hit $400,000 -
MoveOn.org, DNC, Texas 'RAT Party raise funds for them
08-21-2003
MoveOn.Org Supporting the Texas Chicken D's -
Letter from Senator Rodney Ellis
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