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The Blog for Thursday, March 24, 2005

Who Are These People?

    The Schiavo "protesters", they can't all be from Ohio? But those from Florida (and most of 'em are locals it seems) are the heart and soul of "Jeb!"'s GOP; consider:
    After casting an anguished vote last week against a bill to keep Terri Schiavo alive, state Sen. Larcenia Bullard said she began to reconsider, thinking to herself: I will not have her death rest on my shoulders.

    Word that the Miami Democrat was on the fence spread among protesters who have descended on the Capitol.

    But instead of pushing Bullard to their side, the protesters' aggressive tactics pushed her away. When the bill to keep Schiavo alive came up for another vote Wednesday, Bullard again voted not to intervene in Schiavo's case.

    Bullard told her colleagues how one group of protesters, initially claiming they were staffers from Gov. Jeb Bush's office, bowed down to her and spoke in tongues in her office Monday. They called her "our Esther," referring to the Old Testament figure who saved the Jews from death.

    "I've never been lobbied like that before," a hoarse Bullard said before the Schiavo bill was defeated 21-18. "I figured I better start praying myself because I didn't understand what they were saying.

    "They lost my respect, one, because of the lies, and secondly because of the mean-spiritedness I have felt."

    One group of protesters wouldn't leave her office. When she said she had to get something to eat, a man shouted she shouldn't get food if Schiavo can't.

    "Protesters' tactics dispel lawmaker's doubts". See also "Activists' tactics to prod Florida legislators appear to be backfiring" ("activists circulating a "wanted poster" with the picture of nine Republican senators who opposed the bill last week.")

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