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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cola Can who wrote (1673)	11/21/2000 2:55:34 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

Gore Campaign Recruited Herron on Election Night Source: NewsMax.com Published: Monday November 20, 2000; 11:53 PM ET Author: With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff Posted on 11/20/2000 21:40:26 PST On Sunday, Sen. Joe Lieberman said that neither he nor Vice President Al Gore sanctioned efforts to stop military absentee ballots from being counted, implying that Tallahassee lawyer Mark Herron, who authored the Gore campaign's five-page memo on how to strike military ballots, was acting on his own. But reports reviewed by NewsMax.com show that Herron was anything but a loose cannon - and was actually one of the first Florida lawyers the Gore campaign turned to on election night. "By 4 a.m. last Wednesday [Nov. 8], with the presidential election too close to call and Florida the key to the race, Tallahassee lawyer Mark Herron got a call from the Democratic National Committee," reported the St. Petersburg Times on Friday, the day before controversery over Herron's memo erupted. "They wanted him on Vice President Al Gore's team." "In the past, in fact, Herron was general counsel to the Democratic Party in Florida," reported the Broward Daily Business Review on Nov. 14. According to the Review, Herron "was known for his politically charged legal work." Indeed, Herron was so committed to the Gore effort that he sacrificed his job, resigning from the law firm Akerman Senterfitt two days before he issued his anti-military memo. The law firm wanted to steer clear of the presidential dispute, What's more, this isn't the first time Herron has gone up against the Bush brothers. In 1994 he defended former Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles on ethics charges stemming from his successful campaign against Jeb Bush.