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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank Griffin who wrote (4739)	11/4/2000 1:15:35 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 10042

And numerous sources reporting a rumor make it true? I've heard about Bush's cocaine habit from "numerous" sources. Some claimed to be friends. I always wonder what kind of "friend" would come out and rat on you. So I don't give them any credence- nor, actually, do I care about drug use. Although I wasn't into drugs myself- I've asthma and I can't even be around smoke, lots of my friends were, and they were fine people who I would not wish barred from public office because in their youth they did what youth do. The whole thing is a non-issue. (imo)

To: Frank Griffin who wrote (4739)	11/4/2000 1:15:52 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 10042

Speaking of candor (or lack thereof): Sources told MSNBC.com’s Jeannette Walls that Bush associates had been worried for several years about his arrest record and had hoped that because it was in Maine, and not Texas, it wouldn’t surface. The sources said Bush took one step to keep it under wraps in March 1995, when his driver’s license number was changed. Walls first reported this in August 1999 in The Scoop, an MSNBC.com column. At the time, the sources told Walls that Bush got his license number changed because he was worried about an arrest record surfacing. "He has an arrest record that has to do with drinking,” a source said then. “He’s worried it will come out, but his handlers keep assuring him it won’t.” The allegation was not disclosed by MSNBC.com at the time because the arrest could not be confirmed. Also in August 1999, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles told MSNBC.com that changing one’s driver’s license number was “highly unusual” and that it is done only when the holder of the license can prove that someone is using the license number for illegal activities. msnbc.com