Tallahassee Judge Rebukes Gore Attorney Boies
By Jack Thompson / NewsMax.com
Fireworks went off late Wednesday afternoon in the Tallahassee, Fla., courtroom of Circuit Judge N. Sanders Sauls at the expense of Gore lead attorney David Boies. Boies put in front of Sauls an order prepared by Boies saying that the judge had ordered the hand recount not to occur. Once the order was signed, Boies could then take an appeal of this issue to the Gore-friendly Florida Supreme Court. Sauls angrily told Boies, who persisted in asking for the order, that he wasn't signing any order until he decided what to do on the recount issue after the hearing, not before.
Gore Fight Could Last to Dec. 18
By Sandra Sobieraj / The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- On Day 22, Al Gore suggested for the first time that the presidential election may not be decided until the day the Electoral College meets, one week before Christmas. Gore, in morning-and-night TV interviews Wednesday, offered a lingering glimpse of his thoughts on the unprecedented and protracted legal battle for the White House. "I think this is going to be over with by the middle of December," Gore told ABC News' Peter Jennings. When the news anchor pressed for a specific end date, Gore replied.
U.S. Agency Asked to Investigate TV Election Calls
By Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission was asked on Wednesday to investigate four major U.S. television networks for awarding Florida to Democrat Al Gore before the polls closed in the state on Election Day. Smithwick & Belendiuk, a small law firm that represents radio, television, telephone and other communications clients before the FCC, filed a five-page complaint against the ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox networks questioning whether they subverted the public interest in making their calls.
NBC: No Winners Until Polls Close
By David Bauder / The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- In the face of criticism from Capitol Hill, NBC became the
third television network to promise not to project election-night
winners in a state until all the state's polls are closed. NBC and Fox
News Channel also said Wednesday they were questioning their
participation in Voter News Service, a consortium that provides exit
polling and election data to news organizations.
Bush Team Opens Office
By Sean Scully And Dave Boyer / The Washington Times
The Bush transition team yesterday opened a D.C.-area office and made plans to move senior staff to Washington, as the campaign began reaching out to congressional leaders to smooth the Texas governor's path to the White House. "The fact is that the election in Florida's been counted, it's been recounted, it's been certified, and we've got to get on with the business of putting together a government," said former Defense Secretary Richard B. Cheney, the vice president-elect and head of the Republican transition team.
U.S. Keykeeper Rejects Pressure to Ease in Bush
By Jim Wolf / Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The agency responsible for easing the U.S. president-elect into office brushed off growing partisan pressure on Wednesday to hand over keys and $5.3 million in transition cash to Texas Gov. George W. Bush. The Republican heads of two House panels blasted the General Services Administration's wait-and-see stance as jeopardizing ``an efficient transition'' for the chief executive due to be sworn in on Jan. 20.
House Leaders Seek Reasons For Denial Of Transition Funds
By George Archibald / The Washington Times
House Republican leaders have called President Clinton's transition manager to a congressional hearing to defend his denial of $5.3 million in presidential transition funds to the Bush-Cheney team since Florida's vote certification.
Poll: Majority of Voters Want Gore to Concede
By Alan Elsner / Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of American voters believe Democrat Al Gore should concede the disputed presidential election to Republican George W. Bush. The poll of 604 voters conducted by pollster John Zogby on Tuesday found that 57 percent wanted Gore to concede right now while 37 percent disagreed. The survey's margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points.
Gore Wins Whimsical Election in Ore.
The Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - If George W. Bush wins the presidency, Al Gore can
take solace in knowing he won one election: that of volunteer district
director of the Marion Soil and Water Conservation Board. With 23
write-in votes, it appears the vice president won handily. Donald Duck
got more votes but was disqualified as an animated character.
Nunn Will Not Serve In Next Administration
By Mark Benjamin / United Press International
WASHINGTON, Nov. (UPI) - Former Democrat Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia will not serve in the next administration regardless of who wins the White House, Nunn announced Wednesday. In a prepared statement, Nunn said he would decline an offer by either administration to serve in a new cabinet.
Powell Says He'll Join Bush Team
By Tom Raum / The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas 末 Retired Gen. Colin Powell prepared to join George W.
Bush at his Texas ranch, where Bush worked to assemble a national
security team that he could announce as early as next week. Powell was
expected to get the job of secretary of state if Bush overcomes court
challenges to his presidency.
Government By Judges
By Thomas L. Jipping / The Washington Times
Even though Thanksgiving Day is behind us, Americans owe a debt of gratitude to the Florida Supreme Court. Its Nov. 21 hostile takeover of Florida election law did more to expose freedom-busting judicial activism than a steady stream of columns, seminars, documentaries, courses and books ever could. Judicial activism is indeed real and not at all tough to identify. Sen. Sam Ervin once defined a judicial activist as "a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he instead of the Founding Fathers had written it."
GOP Should Bypass The Bipartisanship
By Don Feder / Boston Herald
To hell with bipartisanship; this is war. Monday evening, Vice President Al Gore did not tell us he was tying up the election because of his all-consuming ambition. He did not admit he was whining because, even with the extension granted by Florida's judicial activists, he didn't have enough time to steal the presidency. He wasn't going into that good night kicking and screaming because he has no life outside politics.
No Controlling Dimple Authority
The Washington Times
Remember a couple of rulings ago when the Florida Supreme Court set its new and improved deadline for the tri-county hand-counts (superior, of course, to any deadline the legislative branch had come up with), overruled Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris' lawful certification of the election results (the executive branch is overrated, anyway) and gave a winking nod to counting "dimples" for Gore? Not only did the court run roughshod over its co-equal branches of government with an extraordinary display of judicial hyperactivism, it also rested its big Dimple Decision on an utterly wrongheaded reading of an earlier recount case.
Time For Curtain To Fall On Gore's Sore Loser Act
By Joe Fitzgerald / Boston Herald
There's a wonderful scene from a long-ago movie, ``Robin and the Seven Hoods,'' in which Dean Martin suggests to Frank Sinatra, ``When your opponent's holding all the aces there's only one thing to do: Kick over the table.'' It comes to mind watching Al Gore, rejected by the system he saw himself swearing to uphold, doing all he can to cut the legs from beneath his victorious opponent, crippling the latter's hopes for a smooth transition to a new administration.
Winner vs. whiner
By Suzanne Fields / The Washington Times
The Republicans have become the street fighters spoiling for a little action, and the Democrats the whiners. George W. has pinned Al Gore's shoulders to the playground asphalt. Look who turned the tables. The Gore team introduced David Boies, understudy for Warren Christopher, as if he was Napoleon at the victory of Austerlitz. Not for long. Suddenly the mild-mannered Jim Baker looks like the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo.
Gore Would Be Wise To Draft A Concession Speech
The Dallas Morning News
And you thought the election was over. Nonsense. It's just opened a new front. In the three weeks since the Election Day that wasn't, the battle for popular votes has morphed into a public relations war as well as a legal war.
America Tired Of `More Mush From The Wimp'
By Howie Carr / Boston Herald
Hey, Al Gore, as they say in the bars every morning at 2, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Al, you lost. You got the Florida Supreme Court to go into the satchel for you. You've changed the rules once, twice, many times. But in spite of it all, you and your ``confederacy of gangsters,'' in Pat Caddell's instantly memorable phrase on MSNBC Monday night, were unable to steal the election.
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