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Saturday, January 22, 2005
Gregoire shines in Dems weekly address
Christine Gregoire, fresh off of her win in Washington state, was chosen to deliver the Democrats' weekly radio address and she didn't disappoint.
America's newest governor, Democrat Christine Gregoire of Washington, chided President Bush on Saturday for shortchanging the states and urged the former Texas governor to remember their financial needs.Link.
The Democratic Governors' Association picked Gregoire to respond to President Bush's weekly radio address to the nation. She took office on Jan. 12 after winning by just 129 votes out of 2.9 million cast. Her Republican rival wants the courts to overturn the election and order a revote.
Gregoire wished Bush well as he enters his second term, but then lit into him. Many of the states' gravest problems are a shared responsibility with Washington, D.C., but the federal government continues to let down the statehouses, she said.
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Gregoire cited homeland security, transportation, health care and education as areas where federal mandates are heaped on the states without a corresponding flow of money and help.
In the war on terror, she said, "Candidly, there is too much talk and too little action coming out of Washington, D.C.
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