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OrangeCountyDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:08 PM
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Conyers On Now
Randi Rhodes NOW
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OrangeCountyDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:09 PM
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1. He Says Senator Lines Jammed!
Lots of calls coming in.
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insane_cratic_gal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:10 PM
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3. I heard that
Ringing off the hook today!

wooooooo hooooo
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Darknyte7 Donating Member (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:11 PM
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5. KEEP IT UP GUY & GALS!!!
This is the bell lap!
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:10 PM
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2. please give us a play by play
I can't listen to it here


thanks!!!
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k8conant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:10 PM
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4. I'm listening..."The phones all over the capital are lighting up"...
"This is not just another minor story on the way to the inaugural".

--Conyers
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:11 PM
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6. He is such an inspiration!
He is NOT giving up!!!!
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Kota Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:11 PM
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7. I can't listen either, need play by play. please
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:12 PM
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8. Tasty!
"We've got to make sure that Ohio doesn't go down as some glitch. We've got to examine this. And the only prospect we have for doing it is to challenge the electoral vote coming from OH and force the congress to see that there needs to be a congressional investigation with far more resources to determine the extent of the action... and then take action to make sure it doesn't happen anymore.... Trying to make sure the voting process in every state, not just OH, is as good as it can be."
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:13 PM
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9. Randi sez:
Sentators have to be argued to. If they don't use what political capital they have tomorrow they'll never get to take it out for a spin. Because we're the minority party. If they don't band together all 45 of them and put their necks on a line. America's democracy hanging by a thread.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:13 PM
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10. The purpose of the Contesting of the Votes is to force Congressional
Hearings on Election reform, and expose all irregularities.

Sounds like the Challenge is NOT to overturn the election, but to force hearings to take place.
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madbelgiancow Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:18 PM
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19. Wwhich makes perfect sense.
If the senators can be convinced, and the corporate media has to cover the event, the public will become aware.

It will be so much harder to dismiss the Arnebeck suit as "silly" after that.

So there may come a true investigation in Congress or in the suit.


Let the Light shine.
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politicasista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:26 PM
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53. BOOOO!
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:39 PM
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56. Hey - please don't "Boo" the messenger ...
I was simply paraphrasing what Conyers said.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:14 PM
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11. Conyers on why Senators don't wanna contest.
"Kerry has conceded the election, it's now over and there's no point in going back over this because it sounds like sour grapes. That's why I say R's have a stake in this, not just for Dems."
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:15 PM
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12. Hey all you "Conceding is not legally binding" people--now what?
All the senators are using Kerry's concession as an excuse.

Isn't that great?
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njbuddy Donating Member (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:17 PM
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15. I think it was specifically Republican Senators n/t
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:18 PM
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20. Simple Answer, This Is About Protecting Democracy Not John Kerry
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:16 PM
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13. Draw down W's "political capital"
YEAH!!!!! Love that Conyers is bringing up the "coincidence" that in last 2 elections, it was one state with voting problems (and with SOS heading Jackass' campaign) that put him over the line? NO COINCIDENCE!
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:16 PM
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14. Randi says we have to challenge to lessen Shrub's
political capital.

Conyers: Bush was "Elected twice by one state each time, and each of those two states had the most irregularities and problems with the voting process more than any other state in the union."

Randi: Notes that SOS of both states were also head of elect Shrub campaign.

Conyers is pushing for "a half dozen" members of the Senate. "You don't have to be from OH to worry about fair elections."
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k8conant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:17 PM
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16. More...talking about long lines, lack of machines...
"We've got to make sure Ohio doesn't go down as some "glitch""

"The only prospect we have is to force the Congress to challenge Ohio"

"Take action to make sure it doesn't happen anymore"

About senators:
"Well, their answer is essentially the same...that Kerry has conceded the election......"sour grapes""

"Isn't unusual and more than coincidental that we have one President that is elected twice by one state...."

"You don't need to be from Ohio to want to have this examined."

"They misinterpreted the provisional ballot."
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greenmutha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:17 PM
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17. Woo Hoo! Go Conyers!
Love the "isn't it strange... both Bush elections... massive irregularities" statement! :bounce:
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:18 PM
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18. Now he's talking about how Ohio misinterpreted HAVA.
Randi says, talk to Senators, and say to them, "Object and let Congress choose the President -- because then you have less political capital for Shrub."
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madbelgiancow Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:21 PM
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30. big thanks for the play by play Crispini
and
:hi:
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:18 PM
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21. Conyers said this won't stop no matter what happens tomorrow! Wooooot! n/t
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:19 PM
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22. Randi: Force Congress to pick
Won't change the outcome but will lessen political capital. He had to go to the Supreme Court last time, make him go to Congress this time. He won't have been elected by the people EITHER TIME!
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Twist_U_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:19 PM
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23. she needs to let him speak
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:20 PM
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29. Yeah, she's only got him for a short time
and everyone is obviously DYING to hear what he has to say ...
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:19 PM
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24. Does she always interrupt her guests like that?
That could be annoying. I'd rather hear him, actually.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:20 PM
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26. Yeah, she does.
That's just Randi. :shrug:
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:19 PM
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25. Conyers talking about where they come from,
heritage of MLK. This is all within our lifetimes.
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roenyc Donating Member (824 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:22 PM
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35. we got a senator
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 04:22 PM by roenyc
keep hope alive!!
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:20 PM
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27. "The Senate won't embarrass itself like it did 4 years ago."
Don't know if that's a statement, or a hope.
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k8conant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:20 PM
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28. Rhodes: let the Congress pick the president, less political capital
Conyers:
"We also plan to continue this fight regardless of the outcome."

"I have a feeling that the Senate will support us this time."
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madbelgiancow Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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42. And a congressional investigation after a MASSIVE
outpouring of protest on the 20th will further reduce Bush*'s political capital to deficit country.

I do believe a loud signal from the PEOPLE will be what sends the matter over the edge.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:21 PM
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31. Randi says: Fax, Phone, WHIP EM UP! n/t
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:22 PM
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32. Randi: Lessen the Repugs' clout in the 109th
right off the bat with a contest. If we want to take some wind out of their sails and get them off their "high horses" a bit, this would be a great way to do it -- a contest right out of the gate.
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buddysmellgood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:22 PM
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33. This is as quiet as I have ever heard Randi be. She is letting him speak.
Hooray for Randi!
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greenmutha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:22 PM
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34. "Hundreds of thousands of people rallying around a fair hearing."
Wish I could be there tomorrow so much, it's killin' me!
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:23 PM
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37. And there are MILLIONS
who don't know yet
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madbelgiancow Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:25 PM
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51. That's what I expect as well - the corporate media veil
lifted from the rotten corpse of disenfranchisement
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roenyc Donating Member (824 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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43. we owe a lot to the glibs.
they started it all. we wouldnt be here at this point if it werent for them.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:23 PM
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36. Conyers going over point by point.
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM by crispini
Lines, machine irregularities, spoiled ballots, denying of absentee ballot, etc.

Randi: "Do you think you'll get a Senator tomorrow?"

Conyers: "OH YEAH!"

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!!
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:23 PM
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38. Conyers: OH YEAH
He seems convinced that THEY WILL GET A SENATOR TOMORROW. Won't say who, but WHO CARES? YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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NickiWitch Donating Member (303 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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48. Somebody fetch my vapors....
I think I'm going to swoon!
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AmerDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:23 PM
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39. Rhodes talks too much
and doesn't leave Conyers time to respond. She comes across like Tweety. I like Rhodes but she is a bit of a motor mouth.
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k8conant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:25 PM
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50. I agree: she should have let Conyers talk more n/t
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:35 PM
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55. Randi is wonderful but she sucks at interviewing, she always talks all
over her guests. Conyers is soft spoken and slow speaking so it is even more obvious that Randi can't keep quiet. I love her anyway. The most important sentences got through. Conyers thinks we have a senator, and he implied more than one!!!!!!!!!!!
I can hardly stand to wait 24 hours. Please, please, please, let it be true.
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bear425 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:23 PM
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40. Randi:
Do you think a Senator will stand?

Conyers: Oh,yeah.
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OrangeCountyDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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41. Says We'll Have A Senator
"Keep Hope Alive!"
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Darkhawk32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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47. Fuck YEAH!! {sorry about the language} n/t
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seito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:26 PM
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52. My first w00t
:bounce:
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njbuddy Donating Member (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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44. He does rock! n/t
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k8conant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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45. More from Conyers
"We have hundreds of thousands of people rallying right now around a fair hearing ."

:kick:

On the report:
"We examine the machine allegations...intimidation...denying absentee ballots...disparity "

We'll get a Senator tomorrow:
"Keeping hope alive"

(Did not say whom) :evilgrin:
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greenmutha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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46. "Keeping hope alive!"
Yeah baby!
:bounce:

I can't wait for tomorrow!

Dad! Are we there yet???
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:24 PM
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49. This man deserves all the medals of honor we have to give
he's a TRUE AMERICAN!
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:29 PM
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54. Randi presses him on knowing if there is a senator...
Conyers replies "Let's just say that we are a party who believes in keeping hope alive."
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