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The Blog for Friday, August 19, 2005

"Democratic values"

    Sounds like a few trial balloons in the following passage:
    The Democratic Party must "uncover the right wing" and prevent Republicans from claiming the moral high ground on family issues, state Chairwoman Karen Thurman told Tallahassee activists Thursday.

    Thurman said the GOP should be vulnerable on Social Security, taxes, civil rights, environmental protection and conducting the war in Iraq. But she said Democrats must match the Republicans in letters to newspaper editors, calls to talk-radio shows and other grass-roots efforts to frame the debates of 2006.

    State Rep. Loranne Ausley, introducing Thurman at a Capital City Democratic Women's Club luncheon, said the party has often spent too much time on internal fights. Instead of "letting little differences divide us," Ausley said, Democrats should publicize the big differences between their party and the Republican Party.

    "I want to talk about experiences that I never had. I never had to fight for the right to vote," said Thurman, a former member of Congress and ex-state legislator from Marion County. "Women before me gave me the right to vote, and why did they give that to us? Because of the Democratic values."
    "Party chair encourages Dems, honors long-serving officials"

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