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To: lakey
WE have forced a state to convene its legislature for the explicit reason of having the governor intervene in a court ordered case.

Lakey, I disagree with you here. We were applying pressure, but that special session had already been determined 2 or more weeks before. We didn't cause that session to happen, it was happening whether or not Terri's bill was brought up. In fact, they still covered their other material that they were planning to vote on anyway.

Don't you remember how frustrated we were to find out that there was a special session, but that they didn't bring up Terri's bill? It was hours before it made it into their discussion on Monday. In fact, IIRC they didn't even vote on it until Monday evening. We were getting the run-around all day from everybody's office assistants. The House passed their original version Monday night, and it went to the Senate on Tuesday. By then, the media had broken the story about what happened in the House, so the Senate felt compelled to discuss it. We didn't force anything on any legislators. We did compel them to act, but then so did the media storm around them. I still believe that what they did was constitutional for them to do. They were doing their jobs!

2,058 posted on 10/23/2003 9:40:03 PM PDT by Ohioan from Florida
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To: Ohioan from Florida
People called Tallahassee Monday afternoon and relayed Terri's declining physical condition. When told the legislature would reconvene, that wasn't good enough. They convened Monday instead of Tuesday which probably saved her life. It proves that being "on scene" giving up to the minute updates to our elected officials IS INVALUABLE, especially fact checked freeperized information.
2,078 posted on 10/23/2003 10:49:45 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Breaking at baynews9.com & Contact terrisfight.org)
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