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Karl Rove Replaced By Fake "Protestor" of Miami-Dade Vote Recount in 2000
The news today that Karl Rove's non-blatantly political duties at the white house....the actual government "job" that he was paid to do, are being transferred to an admitted, "bussed in" republican "thug" who was part of an orchestrated "protest" "Op", in Florida in Nov., 2000, that hinged on the rapid deployment of 700 republican operatives, from other parts of the country, to Florida with a plan to monitor, impede, interfere with, or shut down efforts to recount the close Florida vote.
With the 2000 pre-election efforts of Bush's brother, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and Fla. Secretary of State, Catherine Harris, who played dual roles of chief official Fla. election official, and Bush-Cheney 2000 Fla. campaign, chairwoman, to bar eligible Fla. voters from the polls by listing them on a flawed "Felon's List". The "List" was totally discredited four year later, in 2004, when it was discovered by the press, after CNN sued to force public access to the names on the list, that there were no Hispanic names on the list! A majority of Hispanics in Fla. vote for republican candidates.
Why was it necessary for republicans to deploy such a large, out of state contingent of national, partisan, political operatives to Florida, considering that the governor of the state was candidate GW Bush's brother, and the chief state election official was also that state's Bush campaign chairwoman?
I've put together this thread to post the background of unique, organized, and intentional efforts by out of state republicans to interfere or stop the 2000 vote recount in Florida, where Bush was "ahead" by 527 votes, on Dec. 12, 2000, when the SCOTUS granted a Bush-Cheney campaign request to block completion of the vote recount, granting Bush the U.S. presidency by default.
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Bush Advisor Karl Rove Won't Be Grooming Policy
At the same time, presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan resigns, effective in two or three weeks.
By Joel Havemann
Times Staff Writer
April 19, 2006, 12:48 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- In the latest White House staff shakeups, Karl Rove, President Bush's closest advisor, lost half of his portfolio and presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan resigned, effective in two or three weeks.
Rove will carry the same title — deputy chief of staff — but he will no longer be responsible for policy. He will focus instead on politics. <b>The policy part of his job will become the responsibility of Joel Kaplan</b>, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.......
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Mr. President, you've described yourself as a "uniter", over and over. Your supporters advise the rest of us, to forget, give it up, "move on". You, yourself, are still rewarding the thugs that helped you avoid an unimpeded, Fla. vote recount in 2000. You show that you have a long memory, and so do we!
<center><h3>The Background</h3></center>
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Posted on Sat, Jul. 13, 2002
Bush gave plum jobs to supporters who worked recount, paper reports
By CAROL ROSENBERG
Knight Ridder Newspapers
......Three members of the window-pounding crowd that on Thanksgiving Eve helped persuade the Miami-Dade County canvassing board to abandon the recount are now members of the White House staff: Matt Schlapp, now a special assistant to the president; Garry Malphrus, deputy director of the president's Domestic Policy Council; and <b>Joel Kaplan</b>, also a special assistant to the president.
Schlapp and Malphrus, both of whom declined to talk to The Herald, were first identified in 2000 in The Washington Post as part of the Miami-Dade demonstration. <b>Kaplan described his role</b> in a lecture at the Harvard University Institute of Politics, calling the demonstration the ``Brooks Brothers Protest,'' a reference to the way the demonstrators were dressed.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...,89450,00.html
Web Exclusive| Nation
Mob Scene In Miami
We look at the players behind the 'spontaneous' protest that preceded the shutdown of Miami-Dade's recount
By TIM PADGETT
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Posted Sunday, Nov. 26, 2000
Marjorie Strayer insisted she was just a Virginian on vacation in Miami. She had come to the downtown Stephen P. Clark Government Center to watch the Dade County vote recount — something to do before the trip to the Seaquarium. But Strayer, it turns out, is a top aide to New Mexico's Republican congresswoman, Heather Wilson, and was one of hundreds of paid GOP crusaders who descended on South Florida last Wednesday to protest the state's recounts. "The system is unfair, inaccurate, fraught with human error!" Strayer cried. In a Winnebago outside, GOP operatives orchestrated the ranks up to the 19th floor, hoping to halt the tally of the largest potential lode of Gore votes. Republicans, not usually known for takin' it to the streets, got what they wanted. Just two hours after a near riot outside the counting room, the Miami-Dade canvassing board voted to shut down the count. Yet the way the Republicans went after it, by intimidating the three-member board or by providing the excuse it was looking for, gave Americans the first TV view of strong-arm tactics in what was supposed to be a showcase of democracy in action. If Jesse Jackson can do it, the Republicans argued, so can we. But the GOP's march turned into a mob. The screaming, the pounding on doors and the alleged physical assaults on Democrats suddenly made a bemused public queasy......
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By DAVID ADAMS
© St. Petersburg Times, published November 29, 2000
.........Republicans were outraged and demanded that any hand recount include all ballots.
Cell phones and beepers came alive.
In order to conduct the undercount vote the board decided to move operations back to its 19th floor offices, where the 13 computerized ballot scanning machines were kept in a small room. The limited space allowed for a far smaller contingent of observers and media.
Republicans, and some members of the media, complained the board was violating Florida open government laws by excluding them.
Cuban radio stations in Miami that day had also warned listeners that Democrats were poised to steal the election. Listeners were told that by opting not to do a full manual recount, their heavily Republican districts in Little Havana and Hialeah wouldn't be included.
Meanwhile, GOP phone banks were making recorded voice "robo-calls" to get out the party faithful.
By mid-morning an angry crowd had gathered outside the government building. The crowd included top Republicans, including local Cuban-American members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
But it was the out-of-state contingent that was the most vociferous.
"Thugs in that building are trying to hijack this election," the crowd was told by U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y.
According to one published report, Sweeney issued the decisive battle cry. "Shut it down," were his words to an aide, according to Wall Street Journal columnist and conservative commentator Paul Gigot, who was present.
<h3>Within a short time, some 40 to 60 GOP observers -- mostly from out of state -- moved en masse to the 19th floor tabulation room, chanting "fraud, fraud, fraud," and "three blind mice."</h3>
Some pounded on the doors and jostled with security guards.
Leading the charge was Elizabeth Ross, a 26-year-old staff assistant from the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss. Another was Thomas Pyle, who works for House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Both staffers were also among a crowd that set upon Miami-Dade Democratic Party chairman Joe Geller.
Geller was shoved and pushed as he left the tabulation room with an unused sample ballot. Screaming insults, the crowd accused him of stealing an actual ballot.
"This Republican observer -- a woman with blond hair, a suit and clipboard -- was watching the whole thing," Geller said. "But the moment I started to walk away, she sicced the crowd on me. She said I was stealing a ballot and they surrounded me. It was all orchestrated."
As Geller made a dash for the elevator, the crowd followed.
"Suddenly, I was surrounded by a screaming, shoving, insane crowd, shouting that I had done something I hadn't done, that I should show them the ballot," Geller said. "People grabbing at me and my clothes and there was almost no security. I couldn't believe those people weren't arrested."
The actions of Ross and others have led to charges from Democrats that the assault on the tabulation room was a "near mob-like action" by "out-of-state paid political operatives."
Lott's office said Ross was not acting on orders from her boss.
"She was on vacation time when she was down there. She wasn't on the senator's salary," said Lott spokesman Sam Whitfield.
A few hours later, the canvassing board members did what that the protesters had been hoping for. In a stunning reversal, they unanimously voted to call off the recount. ...............
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The "diplomat" who could not get confirmed as UN Ambassador by a majority of his own party's senators, was rewarded for his part in the Florida 2000 vote recount disruption "Op", with a temporary, recess appointment as UN Ambassador, by president Bush. Bolton's appointment will expire at the start of the new congressional term, 9 months from now.....
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Posted on Sat, Jul. 13, 2002
Bush gave plum jobs to supporters who worked recount, paper reports
By CAROL ROSENBERG
Knight Ridder Newspapers
MIAMI - John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, caused a stir in May by accusing the Cuban government of transferring bioweapons technology to rogue nations. Nineteen months ago, he caused a different stir - bursting into a Tallahassee library on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign to stop a recount of Miami-Dade County ballots......
.....Bolton, the U.S. diplomat now responsible for arms control issues, said no payoff was promised for his decision to join the post-election fray. <b>He had worked for the first Bush administration and, finding himself in South Korea on election night, contacted former Secretary of State James Baker in Texas to see how he might lend a hand. The reply: Go to Florida.</b>
``I think, frankly, most of the people who did it just went down there by instinct,'' Bolton said. He said he received no legal fees, although the campaign paid his hotel bills and other expenses.
Bolton was part of the legal team and a ballot observer in Palm Beach County. Then he rushed to Tallahassee as the recount battle reached higher courts.
<b>It was his role, on a Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, to burst into a library where workers were recounting Miami-Dade ballots</b> to relay news of the U.S. Supreme Court's stay in the on-again, off-again presidential recount. ``I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and <b>I'm here to stop the count,''</b> he was quoted as saying in news reports at the time.......
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My opinion is that the six year, post 2000 election efforts of POTUS Bush to promote to key government positions, and surround himself, with folks of such demonstrated, compromised ethics and partisan zealotry, as Joel Kaplan and John Bolton have publicly exhibited (they are both proud that they acted as intimidating "thugs", against Miami-Dade Fla. 2000 vote recount offficials, speaks volumes about Bush's own ethics and character.
Six years later, the conduct of the 700 "bussed" in republican "staffers" and politcal operatives in the midst of efforts to recount the Fla. vote, still contributes to the "stench" of a coup.
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