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To: PartyTime who wrote (74661)	11/14/2000 4:25:02 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

www.mediaresearch.org Media Are Hostile to Florida Official's Decision to Abide By Statutory Vote-Counting Deadline Networks Don't Pass "Smell Test" on Partisans Katherine Harris, the Republican Florida Secretary of State, repeated yesterday that the legal deadline for each of the state's 67 counties to certify their vote totals was 5:00 this afternoon. (That view was upheld this afternoon by a state judge who is a Democrat.) Shocked that Gore partisans wouldn't be able to continue collecting votes from selected Democratic precincts, the networks groused that Harris's decision was unfair and probably calculated by partisanship and her alleged ambitions for higher office. Monday morning, minutes after her decision was first announced, NBC's Tim Russert called it arbitrary and a prelude to chaos: "If in fact the Secretary of State arbitrarily says 5 o'clock tomorrow, 'That's it, give me your machine count or your votes don't count,' or if the Republicans say, 'Hold on a second. We initially didn't want a hand count statewide, now we do,' then we have chaos again." Monday night, CBS's Byron Pitts branded Harris "a GOP loyalist" and reminded everyone watching the CBS Evening News that she was "a delegate for Bush at this year's Republican National Convention." ABC's Linda Douglass said last night on the network's primetime special, A Nation Waits, that Harris has been "described by reporters who cover the state house as politically ambitious." This morning, as the clock continued to tick, the theme that Harris was playing favorites by following the law was repeated. ABC's Diane Sawyer lectured Bob Dole that "you have a Secretary of State, who is a Republican, and who is now making the central decision to cut this off at 5 pm this afternoon and that, on its face, looks unfair." Across the dial on Today, NBC's Katie Couric demanded of another Florida official, "she is a friend, she's a friend of Jeb Bush, is that accurate?" Actually, Bush endorsed Harris's opponent. On the same show, Matt Lauer asked Newsweek writer and MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter if he thought Harris's statement "passed the smell test." Alter smugly replied: "I don't think so, Matt. I mean this is not a Survivor episode.... This is supposed to be an election, and if she used a hurricane as an excuse to extend the deadline the last time, why not this? It's at least as important." When reminded that Harris has been a widely traveled Secretary of State, Alter snidely added that "if Bush is elected, she'll get an ambassadorship to Togo out of it." Contrast that with the reception that the networks gave Carol Roberts, the Democratic Palm Beach County Canvassing Board member who pushed through several pro-Gore decisions, including the controversial decision to push for a hand count of the whole county's ballots. (See box.) Instead of being tarred as a partisan, CBS's Jim Axelrod called her a "homemaker-turned-kingmaker." Profiling Roberts for the CBS Morning News on Monday, Axelrod was sympathetic: "She's the public servant who started the week minding her own business, and ended it with the world minding hers....Carol Roberts, a Democrat and mother of six, swats away challenges that she's playing partisan politics." But according to a profile in the local Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Roberts is an ambitious partisan who may be intent on seeking a U.S. congressional seat someday, the same alleged facts that the networks found so disqualifying in Katherine Harris.

To: PartyTime who wrote (74661)	11/14/2000 4:27:01 PM
From: FastC6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Manually recount ALL or NOTHING in ALL of the U.S.A.!!...not just FL. . .

To: PartyTime who wrote (74661)	11/14/2000 4:31:25 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

DEMOCRAT VOTE FRAUD IN WISCONSIN ABC finally gave some extended broadcast network air time Monday night to the charges that Gore-Lieberman operatives got homeless men in Milwaukee to vote by promising them cigarettes. ABC reporter Brian Ross picked up on the week-old WISN-TV story, but then advanced it by tracking down in New York City the wealthy Democrat who financed the operation. She insisted to Ross: "I am an ordinary Park Avenue matron." (Last week both ABC and NBC offered brief mentions of the Milwaukee vote buying charge.) World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings reviewed the close vote tallies in states other than Florida, including the Gore win by just 6,122 votes in Wisconsin where charges of irregularities have been made. Ross began his piece by reporting how Marquette University students boasted that they voted twice or even four times. The campus paper, he related, found 141 students who voted more than once and didn’t think the felony was that big of a deal. Ross moved on to the homeless maneuver: "Also under investigation, allegations that the Gore campaign used cigarettes to get residents of homeless shelters to vote." Michael McCann, District Attorney: "That’s a criminal act if it’s proven. It’s bribery." Ross: "The ABC affiliate in Milwaukee caught Gore campaign workers handing out cigarettes to homeless residents after they had been brought to a polling place to vote." Connie Milstein: "I’m here representing the Gore-Lieberman campaign. I’m chairman of the Major Supporters Committee." Ross: "Connie Milstein, a major Gore supporter and the wife of a New York multimillionaire, told the station she had been asked by the Gore campaign to come to Milwaukee." Milstein: "Wisconsin is a very key state for the Democratic Party." Ross: "The district attorney says there is evidence that the Democratic group went to at least three homeless shelters where residents said cigarettes were used to get them to vote. Willie Jackson voted for the first time." Jackson said something, but you’d need an ebonics translation to know what. Ross caught Milstein in Manhattan: "Today outside her Park Avenue home in New York, Mrs. Milstein said she had done nothing wrong." Milstein: "Brian, let me just say one thing. I am an ordinary Park Avenue matron." Ross: "Why were you in Milwaukee?" Milstein: "I was there as an ordinary campaign worker." www.mediaresearch.org Ross concluded: "Mrs. Milstein would not say who sent her to Milwaukee, and the Democratic Party maintains she went to the homeless shelters on her own."