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In Last-Minute Congressional Move, Tax Deadline Moved up for Blue States
By Leo Continelli
Associated Press Writer

Washington DC (AP)– In a bold and unprecedented move, Congress changed the Tax
codes which will force blue states to file taxes by April 5 to avoid late penalties, allowing red states to file by the traditional date of April 15th.

Senator Lamar Alexander, R, from Tennessee, said ?It?s what the Democrats get
for trying to run President Bush out of office with a dirty campaign.
Christopher Bond (R, Montana), said, “It’s payback time.”

Diane Feinstein (D, California), outraged at the last-minute change to the tax
codes, fought against the measure in the Senate vote. “It is unfair for those
who live in the blue states. What are they [the Republicans] trying to prove?”
while Republican Junior Senator from Arkansas, Ted Stevens maintained, “It’s
not like the people on welfare in the blue states pay any taxes anyway.”

The tax deadline change will affect some 20 states, all of which sent Electoral
College representatives to dimple their chads for Democratic Presidential
candidate John F. Kerry last November. Kerry’s choice for Vice President,
then-senator of North Carolina, John Edwards (D) was hoping to sway the vote of
the southerners who “tended to vote along more Republican lines”, said Terry
McAuliffe, 2004 Democratic National Convention Chair for the 2004 election.
“Unfortunately, not only did this President successfully retain his oligarchy,
but he’s now punishing people for free speech at the ballot box.”

“It proves that this administration is corrupt and fortifies why President Bush should have lost this election” Al Franken, morning radio talk show host for Air America said in his Wednesday broadcast. “We’ve had people dying in Iraq and Afghanistan and now he drops this bombshell on the populace, many of whom have sent those soldiers off to war! It’s unconscionable!”

President Bush was unavailable for comment Thursday.

The measure passed 63-33, with Senator Ted Kennedy (D, Massachusetts)
missed the vote due to car problems.