RE: Elections and cynicism (fwd)

[John Cavalieri <jcaval@uidaho.edu>]

	If anyone partisans appointments are too be blamed it would be
Democratic appointments.

	Remember the majority Florida Supreme court justices were
appointed by Democrats.  The Florida Supreme Court is who misinterpreted
the law, which in returned guaranteed the electoral slate going to Bush.  
All they had to do was only allow a constitutionally fair recount.  The
lower courts in Florida knew that and the Supreme court knew that.

	If the roles were reversed for Bush and Gore, we would have still
seen the same process.


			John Cavalieri
			jcaval@uidaho.edu

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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Shahab Mesbah wrote:

> Well, actually the members who made the decision were (mostly) those brought
> in by republican presidents.
> 
> Shahab...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jason mcmunn [mailto:mcmunn@mmdt.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 9:23 AM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: Elections and cynicism (fwd)
> 
> 
> It's really amazing how he(Bush sr. ) managed to control the supreme
> court.  If only he could have pulled that off when he was in office.
> 
> Okay, reality check.
> 
> I'd say that it would be even harder if your brother was governor.  That's
> just one more thing for the democrats to whine about and throw fits
> over.  That's just one more reason for everyone to double check
> everything.
> 
> I think Gore made himself look like an idiot by dragging out a simple
> confirmation process.  Once they validated that he lost, he should have
> stopped playing on people's ignorance about republic vs. democracy,
> etc.  Grow up.
> 
> Jason
> 
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, bill london wrote:
> 
> > Yeah.  George W. Bush stole that election fair and square.
> > He had a brother governor pulling ballots and pulling strings.
> > He had a father, former head of the secret police, close buddy with the
> > gun/drug runners of the anti-Castro and anti-Sandanista Miamians.
> > I am just amazed they let Gore get that close.
> > BL
> >
> > Ry Jones wrote:
> >
> > > I have to say I'm really shocked by this hue and cry over elections.
> > >
> > > I assume that the people elected to office in Moscow or anywhere else
> > > in the world are the people that the wealthy and criminals who
> > > live in that area decided to put into office.
> > >
> > > Elections are rigged and there is nothing you can do about it, except
> > > to hope that one day you are the person rigging the machines. Get
> > > over it.
> > >
> > > Ry Jones
> > > Moscow
> >
> >
>