Subject:  Re The American Oligarchy Personified (Rowe).
Date:     Thu, 16 Nov 2000 015138 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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.........Response from EMF-L........

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Subject: Re: The American Oligarchy Personified..
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:46:26 -0800
From: "William Rowe" 
To: 
References: <3A121EC1.2DDB826B@emfguru.com>

Please, aren't we showing our liberal bias side.  She is only applying
established Florida election law.  Unlike the Democrats that change the law
as they go, Ms. Harris has chosen to play by the rules.

Bill
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From: "Roy Beavers" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:27 PM
Subject: The American Oligarchy Personified..


>
>
> .........From EMF-L........
>
> The lady below personifies what has happened to the American democracy.
> She, **alone,** will decide that the thousands of (mostly poor and black)
> votes in Florida -- which are presently the subject of a number of federal
> and state law suits -- will not be counted in the recent election......
> .......guru....
>
>
>
> London Times
> EDITOR TUESDAY NOVEMBER 14 2000
>
> US Election 2000
>
>
> FROM BEN MACINTYRE IN WASHINGTON
>
> KATHERINE HARRIS, multi-millionaire, avid supporter of George W. Bush
> and Florida's Secretary of State, may represent the Republican
> candidate's best remaining hope of clinching victory in the
> presidential election. Ms Harris flatly declined yesterday to extend an
> election deadline to accommodate manual recounting of the votes in
> several Florida counties, prompting outrage among Democrats, delight
> among Republicans, fresh litigation and a new flood of controversy, to
> which she is no stranger. The Republican camp opposes the hand recounts,
> which are likely to produce additional votes for Al Gore and could swing
> the election by wiping out Mr Bush's slim lead in Florida.
>
> Ms Harris, 43, who took office in January last year, is a close ally of
> the Bush clan. "I am thrilled and honoured to announce my support of
> George W. Bush for the presidency," she declared after becoming
> co-chairwoman of Mr Bush's Florida campaign.
>
> A delegate to the Republican National Convention, she recently
> proclaimed that working alongside Jeb Bush, the candidate's brother
> and the Governor of Florida, had "provided a constant reminder of the
> power of values-based leadership -- the same leadership George has
> shown in Texas."  Ms Harris, who is married with a teenage daughter, is
> the granddaughter of a citrus fruit tycoon. Last January she could be
> found, alongside Jeb Bush and other Republican dignitaries, during the
> primary campaign, handing out Florida strawberries and oranges in the
> snowy hills of New Hampshire, where she campaigned on Mr Bush's
> behalf.
>
> Her actions drew immediate suggestions of bias. "She is clearly a
> partisan Republican," Robert Wexler, a Democratic Congressman from
> Florida, said. He added: "The only reason to certify the elections at
> 5pm tomorrow is partisan one."
>
> When she took office last year, Ms Harris declared that she intended her
> job, usually focused on overseeing state elections, the arts and
> historic preservation, to shift attention to international affairs. Last
> month it was reported that the Secretary of State, inevitably nicknamed
> "Florida's Madeleine Albright", had made ten foreign trips to
> promote trade and culture, with an out-of-state travel bill of more than
> $100,000 (£70,000). One of the wealthiest women in Florida, worth more
> than $6.5 million, she reportedly filed several expenses items for less
> than $5.
>
> Her globetrotting has also raised suspicions she is angling for
> an ambassadorial post in a future Bush Government. She raised Democratic
> hackles during the election when she recruited retired General Norman
> Schwarzkopf, a vociferous Bush supporter, to appear in a nominally
> impartial public television advertisement calling on Floridians to vote.
> A former executive at IBM and a vice-president of a property company, Ms
> Harris served for four years in the Florida Senate before her election
> as Secretary of State.
>
> Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd.
>


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