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

To: William Brotherson who wrote (106558)	12/8/2000 9:18:19 PM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Lets be totally honest, when did he say that? When he called for his recounts or way after the 7 day period that was the law for asking for recounts, so did he really? It is easy to say lets count when you know that it will not happen even if Bush had agreed, the law would have said no! Looks like he said it eight days after the election, so it may have been after the seven day period, but not "way after": cnn.com Gore offers to accept manual recounts as final, meet Bush Florida court actions remove some barriers to manual recounts November 15, 2000 Al Gore personally extended a proposal to end the ongoing battle over presidential ballots in Florida, saying he would accept the results of manual recounts in a select number of Florida counties, added to state and overseas absentee ballot totals, as the final word in the 2000 presidential contest. * * * "If this happens, I will abide by the results, I will take no legal action to challenge the results, and I will support no action to challenge those results," Gore said. Gore then said, should his opponent, Republican George W. Bush prefer, a full recount of all Florida counties could be conducted. cnn.com Transcript: Gore remarks on his challenge of the election results November 28, 2000 Web posted at: 4:44 p.m. EST (2144 GMT) Here is a transcript of U.S. Vice President Al Gore's news conference comments Tuesday: * * * Two weeks ago, I proposed to forego any legal challenge if Governor Bush would let a complete and accurate count go forward, either in the counties where it was proposed or in the full state of Florida. He rejected that proposal and instead became the first to file lawsuits. And now, two weeks later, thousands of votes still have not been counted.