Re: News from inside the FL recount: A Democrats perspective

["Cliff Todd" <forester@moscow.com>]

And having the Democrats hire a telemarketing firm to call 5,000 voters in
Florida before the polls closed to incite them into complaining about voting
irregularities is acceptable?

When all is said and done, there will be many mistakes by both sides. Trying
to subvert the current situation into corporate America versus individual
rights is ridiculous.

Cliff Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: Duncan Palmatier <dpalm@earthlink.net>
To: Scott Dredge <sdredge@yahoo.com>
Cc: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: News from inside the FL recount: A Democrats perspective


> Scott Dredge wrote:
> > Why were doors on polling places closed on thousands
> > of voters waiting in line?  In St. Louis there were
> > court orders first to keep them opened and then to
> > shut them down.
>
> Dear Vision2020:
>
> Because the Bush Republicans marched into Court with their big corporate
> lawyers to stop voting in Missouri. In this election, Bush has made it
> clear that he does not care about the right of the people to vote and
> have their votes counted legally; he only cares about winning, so that
> his corporate backers can get a big break.
>
> Anyone who thinks that the Republican party is the party opposed to
> lawyers and court fights is deluding himself.
>
> Republicans are only against allowing ordinary people equal legal power
> to fight the corporations.
>
> So, Bush was the first into court in Florida -- a federal court, no less
> -- to stop the prescribed legal action, under Florida election laws,
> from running its course. It should be noted that Governor Bush signed
> legislation in Texas allowing the same type of hand-count action. But,
> of course, his hypocrisy knows no bounds, since he is merely a talking
> head for the big corporations.
>
> As the moralizing, grand-standing, self-righteous Republicans said every
> 5 minutes during President Clinton's impeachment, we are a nation of
> law. In Florida, our laws are working. Someone should tell Bush to relax
> and let the system work. If he won the election according to the law, so
> be it. If he did not, so be it.
>
> Duncan Palmatier
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