“Let’s go O’Connor this”
Friends are taking contributions to relocate the former home of Arizona’s onetime US Supreme Court Justice who reveled in her ability to wield the swing vote
Heaven forbid the 50-year-old adobe structure, located in Paradise Valley, should suffer the same destructive fate Roe v. Wade legalized for so many millions of pre-born babies.
O’Connor, who along with court allies, supplied the five votes to uphold Roe, was once quoted, “An entire generation has come of age free to assume Roe’s concept of liberty in defining the capacity of women to act in society, and to make reproductive decisions.” She had previously declared that “the essential holding of Roe v. Wade should be retained.”
Now a campaign has been launched to raise the estimated $2 million it will cost to move the house.
“That partisanship that permeates here in Arizona and nationally—it’s destructive,” Elva Coor, wife of former ASU president, Lattie Coor, said. “What we hope is that we can get cities and towns to use (the adobe) from time to time to compromise. Let’s make O’Connor a verb, if you will, and say, ‘Let’s go O’Connor this.’”
May 1, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Elva Wingfield Coor,
Partisanship in the defense of what is right and has been ignored is no sin.
Political partisanship in the guise of “compromise” is destructive.
May 1, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I happen to think partisanship in the defense of liberty is a virtue!
Go O’Connor that!
May 1, 2008 at 8:03 pm
What a joke! Barbara Barrett is quite capable of financing the entire house moving on her own.
I think I’ll pass on this venture and request some of those recall Mayor Gordon petitions. Much better use of my time, I’d say.
May 1, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Good analogy using Roe vs. Wade in this context. I’ll never forget that Sandra O’Connor, originally regarded as a conservative, was actually quite liberal on many matters of great importance.
May 2, 2008 at 8:14 am
Reproductive decisions? Shouldn’t those come prior to conception? Is killing one’s own pre-born child a reproductive decision?