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Council President-elect Matthew J. Glazer ’06 noted that these changes were preliminary suggestions, and the final plan might differ significantly from Mahan’s e-mail...
...Yushchenko was working on a speech in his small second-floor office at the headquarters of his party, Our Ukraine. He had plenty to feel good about: he'd survived an assassination attempt and a plot to steal Ukraine's presidency away from him, and he was finally President-elect - the results were in from the Dec. 26 poll, and he had pulled over 2.2 million more votes than his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. That evening Yushchenko was to address his supporters on "the Maidan," or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev's Independence Square: the symbol of the civil disobedience campaign...
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...latest move by the Governor's team is to threaten the legislature with a redrawing of the districts that elect them. Because the statehouse now determines voting districts, the current map generally ensures that incumbents face minimal challenges to re-election. That promotes the election of politicians who tend toward the extremes of their parties, and the resulting polarity in the statehouse produces gridlock. Schwarzenegger wants to set up a panel of nonpartisan judges to supervise redistricting. If, as expected, the legislature opposes the idea, he is considering going back to the people in a special election...
Looking down the line, Schwarzenegger is already collecting donations for his re-election campaign in 2006, although he has not yet announced that he will run. The fund has $1.1 million on deposit. His staff is "operating on the assumption of a re-elect unless he makes a decision otherwise," says spokesman Stutzman. And what about a constitutional amendment that would allow a foreign-born citizen to run for President? "He is in favor of amending the Constitution, but he thinks the amendment shouldn't be about just him," says Stutzman. The talk of a presidential...