Louisiana Senate sends abortion ban to Blanco

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=4991130

:wtf:

Un-effing-believable.

edited to add link

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Then their ability to own property will be taken away and all their possessions will be taken.

Then they will be made to wear burqas and cloaks like Taliban-era Afghanistan.

:sarcasm:

interests anyway!

to represent them because unfortunately they are probably the majority in this ignorant state that I wish I could leave.

dem governor and a female dem senator. I guess after Katrina it will be even more conservative, eh? Since NOLA pretty much no longer exists.

"Blanco said last week that she planned to sign the bill, which would ban nearly all abortions in Louisiana if the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 abortion rights ruling is ever overturned."

This is nothing more than Blanco playing the odds that the 1973 ruling won't be overturned, while gaining support from the anti-woman/choice crowd. It is sicking that she would sign this, no matter that it is dependant on something that hasn't happened.

with a woman's right to choose. Right now I wouldn't bet the Supremes will be the ones to blink. I can just see the opinion killing Roe... "While we may not agree with Louisiana's decision, it is not the place of the Court to substitute its judgment... (blah, blah)."

I really didn't think they would do it. I hope it buries the republican party forever.

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What if her bluff gets called?

She's gambling with women's civil rights. I find that disgusting, regardless of the possibility of it being implemented.

"dueling banjos"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6060089068352862859&q=%22dueling+banjos%22


:woohoo:

Don't they have some really big problems with getting NO back on it's feet? Maybe strengthening the levee system? Getting their hands on some of those oil revenues?

They did ban violent video games before tackling this issue. I'm glad they have their priorities in order.

Welcome to DU, FlamingCanine!

.....don't SEE how a DINO is any better than a PUKE either....I knew Blaco would be a disaster as Governor but eeeeeverybody said how much better she'd be than the opposition.....SIGH...all my *representatives* are beholden to the right it seems... :banghead:

:shrug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Haik_Terrell

In 2002 she challenged freshman Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu's bid for reelection. Terrell made it into the general election with Landrieu. The Landrieu-Terrell was the last Senate race decided that year. Terrell's campaign attracted national attention, including visits from President George W. Bush and his father, George Herbert Walker Bush, and Vice President Richard Cheney. Mrs. Terrell was an elector for the Bush-Cheney slate in 2000.

Senator Landrieu was reelected in the vote largely on the basis of her 79,000-vote plurality in Orleans Parish. Landrieu polled 638,654 votes (52 percent) to Mrs. Terrell's 596,642 ballot ballots (48 percent).

Ironically, the Republican that Terrell defeated for elections commissioner, Woody Jenkins, had been Landrieu's 1996 general election opponent, and he ran stronger against Landrieu than did Terrell. He lost by some 4,000 disputed votes.

In a debate with Landrieu in 2002, the senator lashed out at Terrell and told her the Senate race would be "her last campaign, but it was not. In 2003, Terrell ran unsuccessfully for attorney general of Louisiana. She lost to a Democrat backed by the Landrieu family, Charles Foti, also of New Orleans. Foti received 689,179 votes (54 percent) in the primary, to Mrs. Terrell's 597,917 (46 percent).

Terrell is a sister of New Iberia City Attorney Theodore M. "Ted" Haik, Jr., a former Democratic member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives. Another brother of Mrs. Terrell, Richard T. Haik, Sr., is a U.S. District Court judge in Lafayette. The Haiks are of Lebanese extraction.

Landrieu is a sister of popular Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu.
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Political Future
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Blanco

Governor Blanco has repeatedly indicated that she will seek re-election in 2007. However, she may face an uphill battle. The first statewide polling for the 2007 race was done by Multi-Quest, a Metairie polling firm. In a hypothetical rematch against her 2003 runoff opponent, Representative Bobby Jindal, Blanco trails 53% to 31%.


.....the lines are so very vague between *parties* in my neck o'the woods... :(

Family connections are a pretty big deal, I take it....

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