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To: Aliska
Who had the most influence in getting this story into the national spotlight?

I would say Free Republic, who had the full story well before the summer of 2003, when I first read about the case.

And more importantly, who had the most influence in getting that first law passed in Florida that spared her for a little longer

Then Speaker Johnnie Byrd, State Senator Daniel Webster, and Governor Bush, but it was not widely mentioned at the time that Bush had signed the 1999 law making dehydration and starvation an option in cases such as that of Terri

and made the most noises in the final losing battle?

You must mean Randall Terry, but he was really very subdued and did all he could. The deck was stacked against the Schindler from the start because the elites in both parties actually believe in judicial supremacy.

What other activists were as vociferous as Free Republic?

That Empire-Journal in NY that hardly anyone had before Terri's final battle

58 posted on 04/02/2005 9:31:35 AM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: Theodore R.
Thank you for input on my questions. No, I wasn't referring to Randall Terry and try to stay out of the controversy about him.

I was referring to the evident flood of emails and phone calls that Florida and Washington evidently could not ignore. Who was responsible for most of those?

59 posted on 04/02/2005 9:36:28 AM PST by Aliska (Theresa Marie Schindler, December 3, 1963 - March 31, 2005, Never Forget)
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