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To: upanddown who wrote (78429)	11/9/2000 10:23:32 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95453

Spoke to a relative in Florida. Situation becoming very tense, mostly in West Palm Beach, but could spread to other areas. People trying to hit each other with political signs today, will get worse tomorrow. High probability of fights, riots tomorrow and next few days. Expect this to have effects as isopatch stated regarding foreign investment flows.

To: upanddown who wrote (78429)	11/10/2000 12:23:30 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

John, I pick stocks like I pick politicians with common sense- both Democratic and Republican, and sometimes indepenedent (I voted for Perot in 1992) depending upon their ability effectively to govern. There are, California announced this morning 1,000,000 absentee ballots in the State yet to be counted; Washington 700,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted; New Mexico has discovered "irregularities" intheir vote count. Gore's lead in the nationwide popular vote count has shrunk from 188,000 to 112,000 votes. I reject comments about "sancimoniousness" John. I'm trying to get out the facts of what I know and from the perspective of a former insider. The recount in Florida is now finished- Bush leads by 327 votes. But that's not good enough for Al Gore. Now he wants to "recount the recount"- handcount ballots in three precincts in Palm Beach County. Tell me John where does it stop? When is the election over? If I beat you in an upset with a last second field goal in a football game- Should we replay the game? One recount request is perfectly legitimate...But now two? and then lawsuits to folow the second recount?? Or should we recount the second recount to suit Al Gore? Al Gore's carnal lust for power is taking our Country down a very ugly road indeed- for his own personal gain. Shades of Juius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompey at the end of the Roman Republic. And the same goes with all of these staged demonstrations and interviews in Florida. I look back at the 1996 election when Al Gore ordered D. Meisner Head of the INS to rush citizenship papers on over 2,000,000 new citiziens, many of whom had not even yet applied yet for citizenship, and many of whom were convicted felons, just to get them onto the voter roles before that election. Failure to follow the rules of law and subverting the election process did not seem to bother Al Gore then. What I see is Al Gore and Bill Clinton going out in just the same style that they came into the Government- surrounded by a blizzard of trial lawyers ("No controlling legal authority" right John?), splitting hairs, engaging in meaningless legalisms, and causing great damage to the institutions of the United States, and for what purpose John?? Solely to aggrandize their own personal power. To me, as a former insider of a Presidential Administration, I feel that someone has to stand up and say "The emporer has no clothes" and to reveal what the heck is going on. That responsibility transcends Republicanism, Democratism, Greenism, and Independentism. It is a duty that each of us owes to our Country.