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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (38757)	10/25/2000 2:40:23 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

I said it before and you discounted it. It is too important to risk. Supreme Court nominees! Actually my reasons to vote for Gore are 1. SC issue 2. Bush is stupid 3. Once elected Gore will become Clinton and wont impose his most objectionable postions particularly if there is a Republican congress who wont let him. 4. Foreign policy--finger on the button issue So I should vote for Gore and all Republicans not captured by the Christian right--in NJ thats all of them. Actually thats the plan for the day. Watch the polls shift back to Gore as election day nears.

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (38757)	10/25/2000 2:41:35 PM
From: Pete Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

All that said, is anyone buying today in semis or just staying pat? The opticals (JDSU, CIEN, SDLI) are just getting taken out behind the wood shed and failed on today. Naz down hard, and AMAT? Flat. Bullish for semis?

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (38757)	10/26/2000 12:21:28 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Cary, You said some pretty nasty things about Republicans and the Republican Party. You say you are in favor of human rights, yet the present administration seems to go out of their way to trample peoples rights if it is in their best interest. Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio are currently running for a Senatorial seat in NY. Yesterday Bill Clinton(Bubba) silently signed a breast cancer bill(the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act) authored by Lazio in the silence of the night, without any recognition of the author, highly unusual to put it mildly. Even Democrats are complaining. The silence from the majority of Democrats is deafening. BK Clinton's quiet signing of Lazio bill provokes loud reaction October 25, 2000 Web posted at: 9:35 AM EDT (1335 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The hotly contested campaign for a New York Senate seat took an unusual detour through the White House on Tuesday, as Republicans and Democrats argued over whether President Clinton was playing politics with the signing of a breast cancer bill. Rep. Rick Lazio, R-N.Y., who is running for the Senate against Hillary Rodham Clinton, complained that the president was signing the bill privately rather than at a public ceremony to which Lazio, a co-sponsor, would have been invited. "They don't want to give me any acknowledgment for any of the work that I've done," Lazio said while campaigning in Syracuse, N.Y. Clinton signed the bill later Tuesday, saying "I am proud to sign this bipartisan legislation into law." The first lady said she was not consulted about how the bill would be handled. "Many bills are important that are not big, public, staged events," Mrs. Clinton said after a campaign stop at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse. She said she had been involved in helping win passage of the measure. The White House denied it was trying to slight Lazio. Fourteen days before the election, the bill-signing dispute underscored the high stakes and tightness of the most closely watched Senate race in the country. It was an unusual case since bill signings are rarely, if ever, the grist for political spats. Most bills are signed privately. The bill, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act, helps uninsured women who currently rely on the government for breast or cervical cancer screening but lack insurance for treatment. The measure gives states the option of providing Medicaid reimbursement for treatments. Mrs. Clinton said the president "has been on a very busy travel schedule through the Middle East, he's had a lot of things he's been dealing with. They allocate his time." Lazio spoke about the issue again during a visit to a breast cancer treatment facility in New Rochelle. "I think it's a missed opportunity for the president," the congressman said. "I don't have to be there at the bill signing if he feels it's not a politically wise thing for him to do. But it is an opportunity for us to promote breast cancer awareness, cervical cancer awareness, especially this month." The White House denied trying to keep Lazio out of the limelight. "Sometimes we sign bills publicly, sometimes we sign them privately, depending on the president's schedule and our own judgment," said spokesman Jake Siewert. "This one we'll be signing in private." He said there was no attempt to deny Lazio credit. "He is certainly free to -- I think he is today -- spend some time talking about his role in putting together this bill," Siewert said. Sixty-one Republican House members sent President Clinton a letter urging him to change his plans. "A public signing ceremony for this law would be an extremely effective vehicle for disseminating and publicizing this vital information," the lawmakers said. "Mr. President, the core matter here is not a question of political credit." Clinton strongly supported the bill and devoted two of his weekly radio addresses to it. Given his interest, it would not have been unusual for the president to have taken time out for a signing ceremony, as he did on Monday for a bill setting a national blood alcohol content standard for drunken driving. Siewert noted Clinton did not have public ceremonies last week to sign a children's health bill or the Ryan White Care Act, which authorized more than $1 billion a year for AIDS prevention and treatment. "We always try to decide what the best forum is and what's not the best forum," he said. Siewert said Tuesday night that supporters of the bill would be invited to the White House for an event after the election. Clinton will face another question soon on a Lazio bill signing. Congress on Tuesday sent to the White House a Lazio-sponsored bill requiring the government to publish information on injustices perpetrated against Italian-Americans during World War II. The legislation, which passed the House by voice, requires the attorney general to report in a year the names of all Italian-Americans who were arrested, interned, relocated or subjected to curfews and other restrictions during the war. More than 600,000 Italian-Americans were branded "enemy aliens" because the United States was at war with Italy. Thousands were arrested, hundreds went to detention camps and many had their property seized. cnn.com