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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (35651)	9/8/2000 8:38:27 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769667

Gore campaign refuses to accommodate wheelchair bound reporter: While in Flint, the Gore campaign was to make a stop at an undisclosed location that its spokespeople said was inaccessible to wheelchairs. The campaign said it couldn't allow me to follow the motor pool in my car to the location and the vans for the rest of the press corps couldn't accommodate my wheelchair. Going it alone would have drastically limited the scope of what I could cover to just the Hurley visit, making the story I could write inferior to what other papers and media could deliver. Not wanting to compromise the story for our readers, my editors and I agreed it would be best to have another reporter come in to follow Gore to his other appearance, which turned out to be at the GM Truck and Bus plant. fl.mlive.com

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (35651)	9/8/2000 8:40:27 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Gore campaign refuses to accommodate wheelchair bound reporter: While in Flint, the Gore campaign was to make a stop at an undisclosed location that its spokespeople said was inaccessible to wheelchairs. The campaign said it couldn't allow me to follow the motor pool in my car to the location and the vans for the rest of the press corps couldn't accommodate my wheelchair. Going it alone would have drastically limited the scope of what I could cover to just the Hurley visit, making the story I could write inferior to what other papers and media could deliver. Not wanting to compromise the story for our readers, my editors and I agreed it would be best to have another reporter come in to follow Gore to his other appearance, which turned out to be at the GM Truck and Bus plant. fl.mlive.com

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (35651)	9/8/2000 12:00:36 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Cheney did not vote in 14 of 16 elections -report DALLAS, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney failed to vote in 14 of 16 elections since moving to Texas in 1995, including the March primary in which he could have cast a ballot for his future running mate, George W. Bush, the Dallas Morning News reported on Friday. The newspaper said Cheney's 2-for-16 voting history in mainly state and local elections compares with a five-for-six rate of election participation over the same period for his Democratic rival for the vice presidency, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Cheney, campaigning on Thursday in Maine, declined requests for an interview about his voting record, the Morning News said. Cheney spokesman Dirk Vande Beek said, "He does think that voting is important. He did it whenever he could." Dallas County records show that Cheney registered to vote in Texas in December 1995 after moving to the wealthy Dallas enclave of Highland Park from the Washington, D.C., area. He moved to Texas as the new chief executive officer of oilfield service company Halliburton Co. The records show Cheney voted in the November 1996 presidential election and the November 1998 race for Texas governor and other state and local offices. The 14 elections Cheney skipped in Dallas County included the 1996 presidential and state primaries, primary runoffs and Highland Park city elections, and the 1999 primary and primary runoffs. To avoid a constitutional conflict with running mates from the same state, Cheney changed his voter registration to his home in Wyoming in July, days before being tapped as Bush's running mate. He voted in the subsequent Republican presidential primary there. The newspaper said records in New Haven, Connecticut, show that Lieberman voted in all but one of six elections there since December 1995, missing a November 1997 mayoral contest. Records were not available before 1995. Voter logs in Austin and Dallas show that since 1988, Bush has voted in 38 of 39 elections, missing only the 1992 primary. Gore has not missed any of the 16 elections since 1972 in his hometown of Carthage, Tennessee, the newspaper said. REUTERS * end of story *