Word: martz
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...know you?re in trouble as a governor when you have to pray for rain - but without the lightning - in order to ease your budget crunch. Drought-parched Montana is being ravaged by fires and Republican Gov. Judy Martz has enraged social activists and Democratic legislators by diverting money they believe should be spent on welfare programs to fight the blaze...
...Martz enjoys the distinction of having poll numbers worse than Gray Davis?s: a 20% approval rating as of the last count. A former Olympic speed skater, she?s had her share of ethical lapses. When an intoxicated top aide drove off a mountain road, killing a passenger in his car, Martz had him spirited off to the governor?s mansion where she washed the blood from his clothes. He was given a suspended sentence for negligent homicide...
...Montana?s tax base also has shrunk, which has forced deep cuts in education, health and welfare programs. And the biggest blow for Martz came from what ended up being an ill-advised utility deregulation approved by her predecessor, Gov. Marc Racicot, who went on to chair the Republican National Committee, then Bush?s reelection committee. Before deregulation, the state?s residents enjoyed the nation?s fifth lowest utility rates from Montana Power Company. But then the unregulated company sold off its generation and transmission equipment and plowed the $2 billion in profits into a telecom subsidiary that went bankrupt...
...Bottom line: Montana has a recall provision but Martz has escaped it by tearfully announcing last month that she won?t run for reelection next year...
...between observers and participants has also reached a vanishing point. In at least two cases, American journalists traveling with the troops chose to drop any pretense of detachment. Ron Martz of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution held the IV drip bag of a wounded Iraqi civilian awaiting emergency medical assistance, while Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a contributor to TIME and CNN, operated on a critically injured 2-year-old who later died. The lines these men crossed may seem important in peacetime, but in wartime such lines grow fuzzy and indistinct compared with the bold line that separates life and death...