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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve

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To: sandintoes who wrote (6301)12/14/2000 10:26:57 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 6710
 
>>GORE REFUSED TO WATCH BUSH'S SPEECH; VP PERSONALLY ORDERED ATTACK ON HARRIS

Vice President Al Gore refused to watch George W. Bush's acceptance speech on Wednesday night,
choosing instead to mingle with about 100 close friends, aides and family members who had
gathered under a white tent at his residence for a hastily planned party.

The party broke up near 3 a.m., the vice president and his wife spent much of the evening
dancing, clearly happy with a "sense of release," the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report in
Friday editions.

According to publishing sources, The TIMES is preparing a bombshell behind-the-scenes account
of Gore's election battle.

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The TIMES has learned that Gore personally lobbied top newspaper and newsmagazine editors and
television news executives during the past month. "Gore made two rounds of telephone calls,
once when he feared Harris would certify the Florida results on Nov. 18 and again when she was
about to certify on Nov. 26."

The vice president personally urged editors and executives not to join Harris in declaring Bush
the winner.

The TIMES outlines a memo written by Gore spinner Mark Fabiani' which detailed a weeklong plan
that left little to chance in a crusade to "create news relentlessly, especially news that is
televised."

He suggested ways to plant stories in the TIMES and prescribed "a strict schedule of two
televised press events each day,'' including a Thanksgiving-eve visit to a homeless shelter.
While there, he wrote in his script, "Gore wanders over to the cameras and gives a statement so
we have sound from him over the holiday.'' That is essentially what Gore did as he unloaded
boxes of food. "We don't have to count these boxes, do we?'' he asked with a grin.<<

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