JJ: Senators should object to Ohio vote (includes a challenge to JFK)

[katinmn]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse04.html

Senators should object to Ohio vote
January 4, 2005

BY JESSE JACKSON

This Thursday in Washington Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the senior minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will formally object to the counting of the Ohio electoral vote in the 2004 presidential election. If any senator joins him, the counting of the vote is suspended and the House and the Senate must convene separately to hear the objections filed, and to vote on whether to accept them.

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If Harry Reid, the new leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, has any sense, he will lead members of the caucus to support their colleagues from the House and demand a debate that will expose the irregularities in Ohio. If Kerry wants to establish his continued leadership, he will stand first to join with Conyers and demand a debate.

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[IStriker]

1. Didn't I read on here that Kerry will not even be present?

[katinmn]

2. He could do it by proxy or email :-)

[Nothing Without Hope]

3. He speaks for me, too.

The word is that Kerry is going to be conveniently out of the country on Jan 6. If he fails to at least give Conyers a powerful supporting letter to read on the floor of Congress on that day, then he will have ceased to be a leader that I can follow, either.

[yinkaafrica]

4. Is this a nail biter or is there less to this than meets the eye?

[katinmn]

5. my nails are long gone! n/t

[gumby]

6. My understanding is that the House and Senate

would convene and the Repub majority will vote to accept the Ohio electors. The End.