Reply #16: Some snips--it is confusing

[librechik]

Originally she had registered to vote as a Republican, like her dad, a disabled Korean War veteran who never told her just how he injured his left arm. But he never really was about partisan politics, and in 1979 LePore reregistered as an independent. When a third-party formally registered as "Independent," she changed her registration to "no party."

http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/01/04
/01/tapperch1.html

Is Terry a Democrat? It depends on what the definition of "Democrat" is. She was a registered Republican in her youth, switched to Independent, then entered politics as a Democrat. You might say that Terry was a Democrat in the same way that Bill O'Reilly is an Independent. She has since changed registration back to Independent.

(Terry ran for office the first time as a Democrat, and the first listed elective office she held was in 2000)

"When I ran, I chose Democrat because the incumbent was Democrat and the county registration is predominantly Democrat."

http://www.geocities.com/francis_uy/palmbeachvote.html
(kinda interesting site)

so the impression I got is that she started out as a Republican, changed to an Independent, and then had to register in a party when she ran for County Election Supervisor. Sometime after that (I'm hearing 2001 or 2 whispering in my brain) she switched back to Independent (no party) Did she have to re register as Dem recently for the run against Anderson in the Dem primary? Seems to make sense.

better chronology (snip)
"This is not the first time LePore has changed parties. She first registered as a Republican in 1973 but switched to non-party in 1978. She has since said she followed her parents in registering with the GOP but changed when she increasingly was working with political candidates and campaigns in the elections office. Before running for office in 1996, she became a Democrat, in
part because her predecessor was a Democrat. Brad Hahn can be reached
at bhahn@s... or 561-832-2905.
http://radiobergen.org/terrorism/binladen_8.htm

BY all acounts she is either basically non-political or somewhat to dim to really have a concept of what party she might be. She also spent time in the 80s as a "private stewardess" for Adnan Khashoggi! This site implies she was put in place throught the Reagan-Khashoggi connection simply in order to mess up the FL election process. Strange duck to be a lifetime election worker.