Pelosi's dilemma or a call to arms?

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Partisan battle boils over Fla. House seat
A dispute over a GOP victory may test Pelosi's pledge to keep peace.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-florida17dec17,1,2967664.story?coll=la-headlines-politics&ctrack=1&cset=true

WASHINGTON — Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi's pledge to bring bipartisan peace to that most partisan of institutions — the House of Representatives — could be put to a test early in the new Congress by an election dispute in Florida....

Republicans have made clear they would view a Pelosi embrace of Jennings' challenge as a call to arms.

Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) said Friday that if Democrats attempted to prevent Buchanan from taking the seat, it would be a "poisoning of the well by depth charge."

"This is a first major test for Nancy Pelosi," added Ed Patru, a spokesman for the House Republican Conference. "Will she side with the voters of the 13th District? … Or will she make a blatant partisan power grab?"



The choice should be clear. Florida's latest election dispute impacts all Americans. We dropped the ball in 2000.

Let's not let it happen again.


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