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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: levy who wrote (102592)	12/5/2000 7:43:41 PM
From: MasonS	Respond to of 769670

The Judges do a rotation...and it was his turn! Sorry...you can't pin that one on Jeb...not Jed!

To: levy who wrote (102592)	12/5/2000 8:09:07 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Here is an interesting anecdote on how Judge Sauls was selected. History might have been different for Al Gore and George W. Bush if a fateful breakfast meeting of the judges on Leon County, Fla.'s circuit court had gone differently. On Nov. 27, shortly after 8 a.m., the chief judge of the circuit called a private meeting to decide how the judge who would hear Mr. Gore's lawsuit for a recount of disputed ballots in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties would be selected. According to the Washington Post, the chief judge, George S. Reynolds III, had a proposition. He wanted to skip the normal computer rotation that randomly assigns judges to cases and instead pick the judge himself. Accounts vary on why the plan was abandoned, but it may have involved a leak to the news media from a party who heard about the proposal. Because the computer lottery in assigning cases was preserved, the Gore lawsuit landed in the lap of Judge N. Sanders Sauls, who yesterday delivered a blistering defeat to the Gore "dream team" of trial lawyers, led by David Boies. Dan Abrams, the legal analyst for NBC News, called it "all all-out slam dunk" against Gore. opinionjournal.com

To: levy who wrote (102592)	12/5/2000 8:20:40 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 769670

Imagine how the poorer everyday-like folk felt, all dressed up with every intention of having a great time, standing in line hours on hours, waiting to get let in to the classy Studio 54-like club. Meanwhile, richer and better connected sorts continually cut and flash past the line, immediately gaining entrance into all the glamour. Crosscut to election day. You're a Democrat and want to support your candidate. So you drive past all the political tailgate parties, park your car and then begin slinking through a guantlet of hearty signholders. Eventually you make your way to the front door of the polling place. Problem is, there's two huge GOPwinger bullies with Bush tattoos on their forehead, standing heavy in the doorway. One eye look from them and they know instantly you're a Democrat. "Sorry, you can't come in--we're only letting Republicans vote!" When you add up what happened in the absentee ballot situation in both Seminole and Martin counties, it's exactly like the two scenes described above. A great many Republicans got their absentee ballots, 95 percent of whom voted; but many Democrats did not. Especially given that so few votes separated both Bush and Gore...is this fair?