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Dear Governor Bush, It appears that you and only you can save Terri Schiavo from premeditated judicial murder. Terri is dying a painful and inhumane death at this very moment. We, your voting base, implore you to immediately exercise your perfectly legal executive authority, take custody of Terri Schiavo, and have her feeding tube re-inserted. There are now new and very credible allegations, accompanied by compelling evidence, which indicate that Michael Schiavo, Terri’s former husband who is common-law married to another woman and has children by her, may have been systematically abusing Terri since she became incapacitated. You are perfectly...

WASHINGTON, March 24 - Gov. Jeb Bush's last-minute intervention in the case of Terri Schiavo, even after the president had ended his own effort to keep her alive, may have so far failed in a legal sense, but it has cemented the religious and social conservative credentials of a man whose political pedigree is huge and whose political future remains a subject of intense speculation. On one level, the Florida governor's emergence as the most prominent politician still fighting, despite a string of court and legislative defeats, to have a feeding tube reinserted in Ms. Schiavo was very much in...