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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9282)	1/11/2001 3:26:28 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

No, it wasn't the Judge who responded to the Pope's request. I admit that article is a hard one to follow and I believe the article was badly edited. The person who was under fire for commuting a killer death at the Pope's request was Gov. Mel Carnaham (D-Mo). He and Ashcroft were in a fight for the position of Governor. Ashcroft was defeated in the election even though Mr. Carnaham was killed in a plane crash during the campaign. Later on, in another campaign, Ashcroft managed to become Governor. From The Washington Post Article about Carnaham and Ashcroft Campaign: "In any case, Ashcroft did not turn White's nomination into a referendum on the death penalty until he was locked in a reelection battle with Gov. Mel E. CARNAHAN (D-Mo.), who was under fire for commuting a killer's death sentence at the behest of the pope." (from the Washington Post) As I read the story, Ashcroft needed a campaign issue so he found out about Ronnie White. Ronnie White didn't have anything to do with the case that involved the Pope. The Governor Carnaham commuted the death sentence as you can see from the above quote. As far as Ronnie White's vote for the death penalty when he was in Missouri, this is the quote from the Washington Post article: "Ashcroft began accusing White of "reaching for loopholes to benefit criminals," denouncing his "very serious bias against the death penalty." In fact, as Stuart Taylor wrote in the National Journal, White had upheld 70 percent of the death sentences before him, not far off the 75 percent to 81 percent averages for the Ashcroft appointees on the bench AND WELL ABOVE THE 53 PERCENT AVERAGE FOR THE ASHCROFT APPOINTEE HE (White) REPLACED."