Last night PBS news reported that those felons or criminals who were allowed to vote were actually legal voters. They were minority voters who were disfranchised. Thousands could not vote. And the news commentator pointed out that 9 out of 10 votes would have gone for GORE. Yet, somehow these people were denied the right to vote. Their names mysteriously disappeared from the roster
I'd say the Florida election was rigged!
I believe at least six counties in Florida are under investigation for denying people the right to vote. Somehow thousands of people were deleted from the roster.
NAACP has marches going on. BIG PRESS COVER UP. Can't find any news about it.
William, over at the BIG K, says Jeb Bush, Bushy Jr., brother, pulls all the strings in Florida.
I thought this document was interesting:
The movement against "One Florida"
The fight against conservatives seeking to end Affirmative Action
Cuban American National Foundation supports One Florida
"One Florida" is Governor Jeb Bush's program to get rid of Affirmative Action in the state of Florida.
The NAACP and many others organized a large march against One Florida on 3/7/2000 in Tallahasse
and mustered between 25,000 to 80,000 participants, a very respectable showing for civil rights
marches, comparable to the numbers in historic marches. The country ignored it.
Jeb Bush's One Florida initiative, supported by right wing Cuban Americans, is said to be in response
to black California and Florida businessman Ward Connerly's drive to end Affirmative Action, known
as the "Florida Civil Rights Initiative," using typical right wing double speak. Connerly was behind the
California and Washington initiatives to end Affirmative Action and turned his attention to Florida in
1999, mounting a campaign which collected over $200,000 in that year. Observers estimate it will
cost a total of around $500,000 for a successful campaign to gather the nearly half a million signatures
required to get his Florida Civil Rights Initiative on the Florida ballot this year. The Bush brothers, Jeb
and George W., both oppose Connerly, fearing he will detract from their efforts to draw dissaffected
Democrats into their campaigns
Polls show Connerly's initiative would win if it got on the ballot, which seems likely as state contractors
are paying heavily to support it. The wording is key: 80% would support an initiative worded to end
discrimination in contracting and college admissions while only 40% would support one worded to end
Affirmative Action.
CANF watchers will be interested to note that the CANF (Cuban American National Foundation --
the Miami right wing group which has many ties to terrorists and drug smugglers) supports the end of
Affirmative Action in Florida, which is not suprising as they have a consistent record against civil rights
and against the advances of most any black group one can think of, from South Africa to Angola and
Miami, passing of course via Cuba, where these folks were responsible for massive suffering and
virulent racism prior to 1959 and where their policies and their manipulation of the US have created
untold suffering in the decades since. Their reception of Nelson Mandela in Miami was certainly
memorable as an insult.
Also interesting is the CANF's claim to represent all Latinos when announcing their support for Bush's
One Florida initiative. There are many latinos who disagree! In fact, USA Today published the
demographics for Miami: under Hispanics, there were Cubans 780,000. Nicaragans 105,000. Puerto
Riquenos, 99,000. Columbians 75,000. Dominicans 35,000. Mexicans 32,000. Others 174,000. The
non Cubans number 520,000. We suspect that state-wide, there is a stronger showing by
non-Cubans.
Finally, we should note that the CANF is not alone in the Cuban American community in their support
for One Florida -- most of the major Cuban American media outlets in South Florida have also come
out against Affirmative Action.
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