I'M FROM FLORIDA AND SUSPICIOUS AS HELL!
I have no need to lead into this writing...except he doesn't
mention the misplaced-all-night boxes of votes. Kay Lee
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November, 8 2000
Stop Bush's Theft of the People's Will
Dear friends,
It's after 5am on the East coast and things couldn't
be more insane.
At 2:20am, they declared Bush the winner. Gore
called Bush and conceded.
One hour later, all hell broke lose. Suddenly, Bush's
50,000 vote lead in Florida had dropped to 500!
Gore, getting ready to take the stage in Nashville to
tell his supporters he had lost, looked at the new
numbers and called Bush to take his concession back!
At 3:45am, they took Florida out of the Bush column.
Bush's lead had dropped to just 224 votes -- with
thousands of ballots still uncounted! The Florida
Attorney General acknowledged on NBC that ballots
in the Palm Beach area were suspiciously structured in
such a way that people who thought they were voting
for Gore ended up having their votes being counted for
Pat Buchanan!
Now, an hour later, Gore has pulled out significantly
ahead of Bush in the nationwide popular vote -- at
last count, Gore leads Bush by over 260,000 votes
-- and it continues to climb. Ten percent of California
-- a state which Gore is winning big -- has yet to be
counted. This will only add to his popular vote as the
morning goes on.
One thing is certain now: According to all the networks,
Gore is going to win the popular vote.
But they are also saying that, no matter if he has won the
most votes, he may be denied the Presidency -- because
of the Electoral College!
My fellow Americans -- we have to set aside our
differences regarding Gore and Nader and demand,
IMMEDIATELY DEMAND, that Bush step aside and
not claim the Presidency based on this insane ancient
Electoral College. The Electoral College was designed by
the founding fathers who wrote it into the Constitution
along
with this rule: only white men who owned property and paid
taxes would be allowed to vote.
The United States is no longer that country. This is a
democracy. One person, one vote. We should have done
away with this antique long before now. I guess no one ever
thought it would come to a night like this.
Well, it did.
Even though I did not vote for Al Gore, for all the reasons
I have previously stated (from his support of the death
penalty to his promise to expand our militrary), the
majority
of those who voted yesterday DID vote for him -- and,
therefore the will of the people must be honored. He must
take his seat in the Oval Office.
Already, the pundits and professional political hacks are
harumphing about how the Constitution must be followed.
They are saying both candidates knew the rules and now
must abide by them.
It's also against "The Law" to wear a hat on Sunday in
Helena, Montana, and it is written into LAW that a woman
in Tucson must not spit on the sidewalk. Those and thousand
of laws like it are still on the books. But common sense
dictates that we ignore these laws.
We must ask that common sense and decency prevail here
with this election. Al Gore is the choice of the people. To
go against that single, explicit fact would do more damage
to an already cynical electorate than I want to imagine.
Once again we had the same sad situation yesterday when
half the country didn't even vote! Can we afford to have
more citizens lose even more faith in our democracy?
There will be ample time to analyze and discuss the
other issues regarding this election. One thing is clear
-- most of the Nader voters decided at the last minute
to change their vote to Al Gore. Nader's 5% in the polls
for the past month ended up being less than 3% in the
voting booth. In Florida, Nader went from an expected
6% of the vote to only 1.7% of the votes cast! Exit polls
showed that Fear of Bush lead to nearly all of Nader's
support there to switch over to Gore. Nader's votes
came from those who said they were registered
Republicans or who were initially planning on not voting
for either candidate. In Oregon, half of Nader's voters
went for Gore, with the same happening in Wisconsin. In
the end, Ralph achieved neither his 5% goal, nor did his
supporters help to elect Bush.
For me, what truly put Gore in jeopardy through most
of the night was losing his home state to Bush. Those 11
electoral votes could have made all the difference. And
to lose Clinton's Arkansas was a serious blow to wrapping
up the election early.
But a dead guy won, defeating a Republican incumbent
Senator in Missouri. At least two or three women have
been added to the ranks of the Senate. Hillary won,
causing right-wing nuts everywhere to go into convulsions.
The governor of Vermont, who many thought might lose
because of his support of Vermont's new gay marriage law,
won. The state of Colorado, in the wake of Columbine,
passed a gun control law by a vote of 70 to 30 percent.
Michigan slammed Bush hard, as I predicted.
But, as I said, we can discuss all this later. Right now,
all
good citizens must speak out today, in the next few hours,
loudly and clearly, that George W. Bush has lost the vote
of the people and we will NEVER trust all the shenanigans
that took place with the vote in Florida tonight -- a vote
presided over by none other than Little Brother Governor
Jeb Bush!! Send e-mails, call talk shows, contact your
congressmen and women -- RAISE HOLY BLOODY HELL!!
I guess I'm not going to bed. My support for Nader will
have no integrity if I am not willing to do everything in my
limited power to support the main belief of the Nader
campaign
-- demand that the will of the people be heeded and heard. I
ask all of Ralph's supporters -- those who voted for him,
and
those who voted for Gore -- to join with me this morning to
stop
this potential theft of our majority democratic rule.
Yours,
Michael Moore
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P.S. For those in Florida: I know this name sets off
sirens in many of our minds, but this is NOT the FL DOC's
"Do-more-with-less" Michael Moore.
Visualizing the will of the people,
Kay Lee
2613 Larry Court
Eau Gallie, Florida 32935
321-253-3673
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