Protesters' tactics dispel lawmaker's doubts

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11215368.htm


TALLAHASSEE - 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.

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nuts I say. Is there any doubt?

they seem to have the opposite effect on governor not-george.

Jerry! Jerry! :silly: Oy!

I bet the wackos are plentiful these days, now that they feel emboldened.

I'm ready to accept that I now live in an alternate reality.

Please, I want to wake up from this nightmare!

hiring on the Christian right to represent them. They lost all credibility in the court, making religious claims such as Schiavo having to spend more time in Purgatory, and making claims that she "speaks," to one of their very own lawyers, no less. Religious right whackos in the legal profession are blinded by their own religious fervor, losing sight of what will play in front of a judge. The circus going on at the hospice turned the public against the Schindlers, in my opinion.