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On Her Contested Florida Congressional Race...
WASHINGTON - It's not that Christine Jennings has given up on sliding into Katherine Harris's old seat in the new Congress: "I earned it, I deserve it, and I want to be seated.'' But, she says slowly, "I am not confident.''
And who would be, stuck in a Holiday Inn near the Capitol, where the Republican she ran against, Vern Buchanan, is busy locating the washroom and voting with her party to increase the minimum wage?
Jennings is here to remind her fellow Democrats that while Buchanan has been sworn in provisionally, she is still trying to get a court to order a new election in Florida's 13th Congressional District, based on widespread complaints that electronic voting machines there did not record thousands of votes cast in Sarasota County.
When I met her for lunch, she was coming from a morning of meetings and working the phones at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "I was not too impressed with the Democrats' coffee,'' said her attorney, Kendall Coffey, who was on Al Gore's legal team in 2000. If she does get seated, Jennings promised, she'll try to turn these people on to some Maxwell House. But first, of course, she's got to take on paperless ballots.
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