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...Florida politician, especially elected Dade County judges like Lawrence King, the board's chairman: angry Cuban voters. They marched on the Clark Center after a conservative radio station, Radio Mambí, broadcast interviews with two Cuban-American GOP members of Congress, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who decried the board's moves. For Miami's Cubans, almost 80 percent of whom voted for Bush, this election is mostly about avenging Elian Gonzalez. One of Judge King's paid political consultants is Armando Gutierrez, the man who distributed the Orwellian videotape of Elian denouncing his father last spring...
...save her unborn child, or she can decide , in effect, to abort it by being executed herself. It's a grisly choice. Unfortunately for Gore (not to mention the pro-choice movement in general), his response set legislative wheels in motion. The tie-in was obvious: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who sponsored a bill banning the execution of pregnant inmates, took to the House floor to lobby for her position, informing colleagues that unborn children had committed no crime, and did not deserve to suffer for their mothers' felonies...
...House approved the legislation Tuesday by a vote of 417 to 0. Ros-Lehtinen's bill represented a completely hypothetical situation; no such case has ever presented itself, but that didn't seem particularly important. Instead, the representatives went to town with the scenario that Tim Russert single-handedly introduced into the national consciousness...
...victims," says Ninoska Perez-Castellon, spokeswoman of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. "Elian's mother lost her life to give him a future." The foundation insists the boy should live with his relatives in Miami, where he was photographed with local politicians like Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen as he played with walkie-talkies and other toys they showered...
Dunham stopped all 18 Stars shots in the period. He made glove saves on Jason Botterill and Jamie Langenbrunner, then stacked the pads on Grant Marshall's attempt. Early in the third, he robbed Jere Lehtinen on a 2-on-1 and Derian Hatcher on the rebound...