Word: richman
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...fingers at one another. "Consumers are being asked to conserve on power, but suppliers are unwilling to give up a shred of their profits," complains Susan Weisberg, a San Francisco editor whose home office went dark for more than an hour last Thursday. In Sacramento, Republican state representative Keith Richman, a practicing physician, accuses Davis of Hamlet-like indecisiveness as the crisis worsened. "If I had stood by and watched one of my patients decline without taking action," Richman says, "I would be sued for malpractice and have had my license revoked. And I would have deserved...
...When Clark bristled at plaintiff's lawyer Gerald Richman's closing-argument suggestion that she could put the fear of the court into future elections supervisors - "My job is not to send a message... my job is to rule in the case that's before me" - it seemed a statement that could cut both ways. Then there was the lunchtime injection of suspense: Was the situation fluid? Could one or both of these cases turn George W. Bush into what he hasn't been for 31 days now - the challenger...
...Goard lawyer Young claimed in his opening statement that he would demonstrate that "no Democratic applications were incomplete and voided." Richman claimed just the opposite. But the burden of proof is on the Democrats to prove that some nefarious inequity took place and "adversely affected the sanctity of the election," as Clark herself put it early Wednesday morning...
...time the lunchtime recess rolled around at 12:30, more than five hours into the trial, Richman had called three witnesses - and been admonished once by Clark for wasting the court's precious time. And if he had an unfairness-to-Democrats trump card that could persuade Clark to throw Seminole County's 15,000 absentee-ballot babies out with the bathwater, he hadn't played...
...after a low-level lawyer sat down at the witness stand and read excerpts of Goard's deposition, any such card was still way up Richman's sleeve. Goard testified that Democrat applications did not have the missing space for the voter-ID number, and that no Democratic staffers had asked for the same assistance with the forms that she gave Republicans...