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In reply to the discussion: How many DUers are old enough to have experienced our bad losses? [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)If you want to talk about "hands in the cookie jar":
1) Bush's brother was governor of Florida, and before the election had more than 50,000 voters expunged from the voting rolls for no justifiable reason.
2) Bush's campaign co-chair in Florida was in charge of counting the freaking votes in the state. She set arbitrary deadlines and threw roadblocks at the Gore campaign.
3) The state legislature, which was controlled by Republicans, announced that they would give their state's votes to Bush, no matter how the actual election results turned out.
4) Judge N. Sanders Sauls told the Gore campaign to send 3 truckloads of ballots to Tallahassee, which they did, after 3 days of delays. But when the ballots finally did arrive, Sauls refused to look at them.
5) The counting at Miami-Dade was disrupted by a gang of Republican operatives, which should have been a Federal crime.
6) The Florida State Supreme Court ruled that the votes had to be recounted manually. That ruling would have overturned any prior legislative action to simply give the electoral votes to Bush.
7) Cheney's duck-hunting buddy on the US Supreme Court agreed to take Bush vs. Gore, even though he should have recused himself because of conflict of interest.
So don't try to give me this bullshit about Gore having his hand in the cookie jar!