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On CNN he said this about Roberts:
"John Roberts' legal career has been about taking away every protection for young girls and women who want to participate in sports, for African-Americans and Hispanics, who want the equal same right to vote as everybody else, for taking away for women who believe they should determine what kind of health care they have, instead of having politicians do it.
His entire legal career appears to be about making sure those folks don't have the same rights everybody else does. That's probably not the right thing to do two weeks after a disaster, where certain members of society clearly did not have the same protections that everybody else did because of their circumstances. Americans are fair people and they want a sense of justice. I know Judge Roberts loves the law. I'm not sure he loves the American people.
]BLITZER: So should the Senate reject his confirmation?
DEAN: Based on what I know now, absolutely, yes
In Miami he called for the new Bankruptcy Bill to have an exemption for the hurricane victims.
"Dean said that instead of considering proposed estate tax breaks, the Senate should channel the money into disaster relief.
"Shall we give that to the wealthiest people in the country, or should we rebuild New Orleans?" Dean said.
Dean also urged the government to exempt victims of Hurricane Katrina from a stricter new bankruptcy law for one year."
We should call our Democrats to urge this be done. It will be disastrous if they stick to the bill strictly. Since all of our Florida leaders voted for it, I have a lot of calls to make.
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