Jeb’s appeals court choices have been so far to the right that they’d have to befriend Michael Moore and start listening to Air America just to be called conservative. The Miami Herald printed a partial list of the judges Jeb has appointed, which we’ll be stuck with long after his sneering countenance is a bad memory:
• Charles Canady to the Second District Court of Appeal in Lakeland. Canady, a former congressman from Lakeland, was one of the floor managers in the House effort to impeach President Clinton.
• Paul Hawkes and Brad Thomas to the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, the court most likely to hear any challenges to laws passed by the Legislature. Hawkes is a former state legislator and top aide to House Speaker Tom Feeney with well-known conservative views. Thomas, a former prosecutor and top aide to Bush, helped devise the governor’s plan to hand over some Death Row inmate appeals to private lawyers, a move that has since been roundly criticized for shoddy work by state Supreme Court Justice Raoul Cantero, himself a Bush appointee.
• Leslie Rothenberg to the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami. During her unsuccessful run for state attorney in 2004, Rothenberg signed a pledge from the Miami-Dade Family Christian Coalition that she would oppose gay marriage and domestic partnerships with “my votes, powers and privileges of public office.”
• Frank Shepherd to the Third District Court of Appeal. Before he was placed on the bench, Shepherd was Florida senior attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, a fierce advocate of private property rights that often challenges environmental regulations.
oh great. The state with the greatest income from faux-religious “events” combined with the second worst theft of votes, has a governator who prefers faith-based-law compared to justice.
The Bush dynasty is screwing over the entire country. Texas first, Florida second, and now, the country.
what a sad time we live in.
With regard to your Buchanan quote – it is “ideologue”, not “idealogue”.
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Ok, I hope Jeb wins in 2008, and I hope he turns AmeriKa into a theocracy. Also, let there be a draft. The people deserve what they vote for, the deserve what they get. I want heterosexuals to feel the pain of no civil rights – the same pain that gays have felt for the past 200 years. Suffer with your precious war mongering Bush Dynasty… mwhahahahaha
Um, wrong story, Boadicea.
what are they gonna do? i mean, florida is shaped like a limp penis…
i love my state and country it’s the Bush’s i don’t like
oh shhhhhh have you heard the one about the FBI looking into the prison system cheif
Be very afraid, agnostic. Jeb’s going to run in 2008, no matter how much he denies it now. THEN we’re all screwed.
I’m a liberal who despises queers AND republicans. Who cares if gays have rights? Seems the one right queers and repugs have in common is screwing people in the ass.
Just a quick question, Is this the country I was born in? It dosent look like Geramey in the early 40s. It’s begining to look far more frightening. Why bother with jeb, let’s just let jw declare himself King and be done with it. Face it folk, we have made some bad choices and now our children will have to live with them. Can anyone tell me just what religon I must convert to?
And he will likely win, Yahoo. Jebbie may preside over the last gasps of the American empire – bankrupt, environmentally degraded and with a dysfunctional, neofascist monarchy. The culmination of the modern conservative’s self-indulgent wet dream.
I have no faith in the intelligence of the American voter to do otherwise – they are too busy watching “Survivor”.