Saturday, February 17, 2007

Bush + election = opportunity to demagogue

While visiting the Orlando Sentinel online, I noticed this story about a woman--Miriam Oliphant, whom you may not have heard of, despite the fact that she is somewhat of a Lefty cause celebre (see here, here, etc. etc.). Charges dropped against Oliphant by Mark Skoneki.
"Oliphant lost her job because of problems with the 2002 primary, when 23 polls failed to open by 7 a.m. and 32 polls failed to heed an executive order from the governor's office to stay open past 7 p.m. so voters could cast a ballot in the problem-plagued election.

She was removed from her post by then-Gov. Jeb Bush in November 2003 and failed to re-win her job during a 2004 primary against Brenda Snipes, whom Bush named to replace her."
Democrats' unyielding defense of Oliphant is ironic . . . until you realize that a Republican, not to mention a Republican named "Bush," was the one who had acted to replace her.

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