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In Arizona, influential Republican women increasingly coming out for John Kerry. |
From Salon, 10/2/04:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/02/arizona/
In Arizona, influential Republican women are increasingly coming out
for John Kerry.
By Leigh Flayton
PHOENIX, Ariz. --
Judith Allen, longtime Arizonan and lifelong Republican, says her
choice is clear.
She is voting for John Kerry on Nov. 2 and says there are plenty more
where she came from.
Allen is not a lone voice, crying in the wilderness.
She currently serves as a volunteer coordinator for the group
Republicans for Kerry, which believes in "putting aside partisan
politics to do what is right for America."
In spite of recent polls to the contrary, Allen says her fellow
Republicans, turned off by the Bush administration's sharp turn to the
right, are defecting in droves to the other side.
If what these Arizonans want is any indication, Bush may well be in
trouble.
Since Arizona earned statehood in 1912, no Republican has been elected
president without carrying the state.
Allen is also part of a brewing revolution of Republican women called
the WISH List (Women in the Senate and House), a Washington-based
organization committed to electing moderate, pro-choice Republican
women to public office.
WISH raises about $1 million a year to elect candidates and boasts a
75 percent success rate for the 1,400-plus candidates it has supported
since 1992.
In the presidential election, says WISH national board member Deborah
Carstens, the group stands firmly behind the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Behind the official facade, though, is a different picture.
"I've met and talked with numerous Republicans since I've been in this
march for John Kerry," says Allen, now a senior adviser to Arizona's
Kerry-Edwards campaign.
"They have all echoed to me, 'I will vote for Kerry.'"
Allen, who served for 11 years as a clerk in Maricopa County's court
system, says she was inspired to work for Kerry because she got tired
of yelling at Bush on TV.
She says that of the more than 700 cross-over Republicans she's spoken
to in Arizona, many remain active in the GOP and reluctant to discuss
their support for Kerry.
Two WISH women corroborate this with Salon. When asked if they plan to
vote, they say yes, then add emphatically, "but not for Bush," who won
Arizona by just 6 percent in 2000.
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Another nail in Bush's coffin.
Harry
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