Schiavo tries to head off Governor Bush's attorneys

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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/27/Tampabay/Schiavo_tries_to_head.shtml

St. Petersburg Times
By Associated Press
Published November 27, 2003

TAMPA - A husband battling Gov. Jeb Bush in court over the fate of the man's severely brain-damaged wife is trying to block Bush's attorneys from questioning some potential witnesses.

George Felos, an attorney for Michael Schiavo, asked a judge Tuesday to stop Bush's attorneys from taking depositions from seven people, including Schiavo and the woman with whom he now lives.

Felos contends that testimony of those witnesses would be irrelevant to the issue at hand - the constitutionality of a state law that let Bush order reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube last month.

He accused the governor of trying to improperly intervene in the fight over Terri Schiavo's guardianship. Her parents have mounted a court challenge to try to show their son-in-law as unfit to be legal guardian.

Bush's attempt to depose the witnesses "is nothing more than an attempt by the governor to reopen guardianship proceedings, something he is not permitted to do in this case," the motion said.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. How would you feel is someone as ruthless as Bush were coming after

you? This move is nothing more than an attempt to intimidate Schiavio into submission.

[ClintonTyree]

2. "Something he is not permitted to do in this case"......

since when has ethics deterred any member of the Bush family from exercising their "God given duty" to have their way whenever they want? Jebbie will get his way, the Bush's always do, no matter what the cost.

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3. win/win for john E. bush

No matter how this turns out, it's a win/win situation for john E. bush.

If this meddling succeeds, break out the champagne and line up the fundie voters.

If it's declared unconstitutional, it's only a bottle of beer to cry alligator tears into and line up the fundie voters.

In the meantime, it's an emotion-filled headline grabber.

I feel so awful for this family and what they have all gone through for what- 13? 14? years now. It's just heartbreaking.

[trapper914]

4. Who's paying?

When all is said and done, who pays for Jeb's lawyers? Oh, wait! Maybe it comes out of the Iraq reconstruction money, like the 9 million for the storm troopers in Miami earlier this week.

[teryang]

5. JebFRAUD has stolen hundreds of millions

...from the state of Florida and the Federal government. His purchase of $300,000,000.00 of Enron stock for the state pension fund right before its bankruptcy was a gross criminal conspiracy, like his IMC medicare/medicaid fraud years earlier. When one adds the fraudulent transfer of federal funds to his government last year and his previous Iran/contra fraud (the Destin Country Club development) this makes him one of the greatest thieves in American history.

His unconstitutional grandstanding is another "devious plan" to cover his corrupt administration of the Florida satrap. In response to a overwhelmingly popular constitutional amendment to limit class size, he did away with the Senior year of high school. He made no secret of his contempt for the popular amendment which was caught on video BEFORE THE NOVEMBER 2002 election.