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SOME COUNTY EMPLOYEES REFUSE TO CHANGE LA COUNTY SEAL. As reported here in a previous post, the ACLU is suing to force LA County to remove the cross from the County seal, where it has been for the last 47 years. The City Council caved immediately, but there’s a grassroots movement afoot to oppose the ACLU on this matter.
David Hernandez emails:
On Friday December 17th, the new LA County Seals were hung in the Public Meeting Room at 500 W. Temple St . in Los Angeles. The new Seal which cost 1,800 to make, consisted of placing a new face on the base of the old seal.
Today it was reported the cross on the original seal is shinning through the new cover! The San Gabriel Mission on the new seal now has a cross above it!
The story will be in tomorrows Los Angeles Daily News.
In a related story, also to appear tomorrow, County Employees are revolting and refusing to change seals. Some of the old Seals are now appearing on E-bay.
From Dick Morris in an email newsletter (no link):
Ultimately, the only Republican who may be able to beat Hillary is Bush’s nominee for Secretary of State, Condelezza Rice. Able to appeal to black and female voters without sacrificing support among whites and men, she could be the only figure that stands between Hillary and the White House.
And, unlike Rudy – and also unlike Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) – Condi can probably win the nomination. A social conservative who will elaborate her largely traditional views on important values issues as an inevitable part of her service as secretary of State, Rice can win primaries where Guiliani cannot and beat Hillary where neither Frist nor Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) nor Jeb Bush nor Pataki can.
Will Condi run? It is very important that she does. But it is very important to end the Republican complaisance about a Hillary candidacy. The assumption that she is radioactive among moderates and will self-destruct is comforting but completely untrue. Hillary will be the strongest Democratic candidate since her husband ran.
Like Bill, she will tack to the center and take a traditional line on controversial social issues like gay marriage. But we must always remember that while Bill is a moderate who becomes a liberal when he must, that Hillary is a liberal who pretends moderation when she has to.
A Condi vs. Hillary matchup in ‘08? That would be great.
This would be very impressive:
Bush Plans Tight Budget to Slash Deficit
President Bush said Monday he will submit a federal budget that will cut the deficit in half in five years and maintain strict spending discipline.
“We will provide every tool and resource for our military, we will protect the homeland,” Bush said. He said he would “maintain strict discipline in spending tax dollars.”
The question is, can he do it?
