negative payload "he"

[Peter A. McGraw]

--On Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:56 AM -0500 Jim Parish
<jparish at SIUE.EDU> wrote:

> Jonathan Lighter asked:
>> Republican Congressman Clay Shaw of Florida knows that Jeb Bush is
>> Governor. So what could have led him to say on Fox News about five
>> minutes ago, in regard to Hurrican Rita,
>>
>> "In Florida we had a governor who knew what they were doing"  ?
>
> My guess is that there's an implicit contrast with Louisiana Governor
> Kathleen Blanco:
> "In Louisiana they had a governor who didn't know what *(he was)/they were
> doing."


???
What would be wrong with, "In Florida we had a governor who knew what he
was doing," and, "In Louisiana we had a governor who didn't know what she
was doing"?  Implicit contrast has nothing to do with it, dearie.

Peter Mc.

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