“Phyllis was conservative, but she voted for Gabby,”

[ScreamingMeemie]

http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2011/01/09/news/doc4d2a21c007e9c041122128.txt


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TRENTON — One of the murder victims at Saturday's assassination attempt on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was a 79-year-old Jersey girl who retired to Tucson years ago to escape winter but came back every summer to play at the lake.

Phyllis Schneck attended Giffords’ “Congress on Your Corner” event on Saturday to meet the woman she voted for even though the mother of three and grandmother of eight was a lifelong conservative. No one is sure if Schneck saw or spoke to Giffords because the Rutherford native became the oldest on a list of fatalities that included the 9-year-old granddaughter of former Phillies manager Dallas Green.

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It's not fair. What would the world be like if there were more conservatives willing to listen?

[gateley]

1. Isn't Gabby pretty conservative? nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Doesn't matter. Most of the conservatives I know would sooner stay

home than vote for a Democrat. :hi:

[gateley]

4. Good point. Phyllis had probably come to that time in her life where she

made her own decisions regardless of what she was 'told' to do, and maybe one of the 'your grandfather's Republicans' that are so rare these days. Reasonable people, and you're right, what would it be like... :hi:

[Arkana]

3. She broke with the Blue Dogs on several issues.

As Blue Dogs go, she's pretty liberal--in fact, one of those issues was the health care bill.

[gateley]

5. D'oh! Boy, the health care bill was right in my face and it didn't click. I also

heard the reason she left the Republican party is their views regarding illegal immigrants. She's a good one. So sad.