I agree with your assessment of Rush, Fox, and C-SPAN
Here's an interesting story about a Republican who's acting on his version of objectivity:
Republican philanthropist pays pro-Gore legal bills
December 6, 2000
Web posted at: 3:54 PM EST (2054 GMT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - A high-tech philanthropist -- and registered Republican --
has undertaken to help supporters of Democratic candidate Al Gore pay some of the
mounting Florida legal bills.
Steve Kirsch, who founded Infoseek and has become one of Silicon Valley's most
aggressive philanthropists, said he was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to
help pro-Gore forces battling over thousands of absentee votes in two Florida
counties.
"I think you can very easily show statistically that Gore won the election, and it is just
not right that the actual count does not reflect that," Kirsch told Reuters Wednesday.
"Even under the most extreme assumptions, the people of Florida voted for Gore."
Although a registered Republican, Kirsch has been a supporter of Gore's bid for the
presidency since he met the vice president at a Silicon Valley fund-raiser featuring
rock star Elton John.
With recount problems mounting in Florida after the election, Kirsch saw an
opportunity to help.
He has thus far wired about $200,000 to Seminole and Martin counties, where
Democrats are seeking to throw out some 15,000 absentee ballots in
Republican-leaning regions, and has pledged to spend at least another $150,000.
"There were lawyers who were about to drop out of the case because they were not
getting paid, they were doing it all pro bono," Kirsch said. "So I'm paying their legal
bills."
Kirsch said he remained hopeful that Gore would eventually prevail in Florida and take
the White House -- an unusual wish for a Republican multimillionaire.
"I tend to look at the candidates, I don't vote strictly on party lines by any stretch,"
Kirsch said. "Their position on the issues is just one thing. It's experience, it's proven
track record, overall ability, overall intelligence. I'm very bipartisan in the way I vote." |
