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In reply to the discussion: None Dare Call It Treason: O'Connor has forfeited the right to be respected [View all]deutsey
(20,166 posts)35. She was singing a different tune on election night 2000
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2000/12/24/the-truth-behind-the-pillars.html
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her husband, John, a Washington lawyer, have long been comfortable on the cocktail and charity-ball circuit. So at an election-night party on Nov. 7, surrounded for the most part by friends and familiar acquaintances, she let her guard drop for a moment when she heard the first critical returns shortly before 8 p.m. Sitting in her hostess's den, staring at a small black-and-white television set, she visibly started when CBS anchor Dan Rather called Florida for Al Gore. "This is terrible," she exclaimed. She explained to another partygoer that Gore's reported victory in Florida meant that the election was "over," since Gore had already carried two other swing states, Michigan and Illinois.
Moments later, with an air of obvious disgust, she rose to get a plate of food, leaving it to her husband to explain her somewhat uncharacteristic outburst. John O'Connor said his wife was upset because they wanted to retire to Arizona, and a Gore win meant they'd have to wait another four years. O'Connor, the former Republican majority leader of the Arizona State Senate and a 1981 Ronald Reagan appointee, did not want a Democrat to name her successor. Two witnesses described this extraordinary scene to NEWSWEEK. Responding through a spokesman at the high court, O'Connor had no comment.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her husband, John, a Washington lawyer, have long been comfortable on the cocktail and charity-ball circuit. So at an election-night party on Nov. 7, surrounded for the most part by friends and familiar acquaintances, she let her guard drop for a moment when she heard the first critical returns shortly before 8 p.m. Sitting in her hostess's den, staring at a small black-and-white television set, she visibly started when CBS anchor Dan Rather called Florida for Al Gore. "This is terrible," she exclaimed. She explained to another partygoer that Gore's reported victory in Florida meant that the election was "over," since Gore had already carried two other swing states, Michigan and Illinois.
Moments later, with an air of obvious disgust, she rose to get a plate of food, leaving it to her husband to explain her somewhat uncharacteristic outburst. John O'Connor said his wife was upset because they wanted to retire to Arizona, and a Gore win meant they'd have to wait another four years. O'Connor, the former Republican majority leader of the Arizona State Senate and a 1981 Ronald Reagan appointee, did not want a Democrat to name her successor. Two witnesses described this extraordinary scene to NEWSWEEK. Responding through a spokesman at the high court, O'Connor had no comment.
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None Dare Call It Treason: O'Connor has forfeited the right to be respected [View all]
kpete
Apr 2013
OP
And then the media HID the egg-throwing, furious protests at the inauguration of the
tblue37
Apr 2013
#47
I would have said the rise of Reagan via the Iran-Contra affair was the first contemporary coup
davekriss
Apr 2013
#60
They call it "loyalty",...to Party, to Reagan, to God. (Who is a Capitalist)
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2013
#37
O'Connor and the rest of the courtesans should go down as mass murderers with that decision.
freshwest
Apr 2013
#8
It's not overdramatic at all. It's what happened, and what was the inevitable result.
calimary
Apr 2013
#54
I don't believe it was a mistake at all. I believe it was deliberate crime. If SHE made a 'mistake'
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#21
I think she made a mistake if intentionally doing something illegal can be considered a mistake.
rhett o rick
Apr 2013
#49