-Caveat Lector-
Tuesday, December 5, 2000
Seminole Ballot Challenger Paid for Anti-Cheney Ads
By SCOTT GOLD
LATimes Staff Writer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--The attorney behind a lawsuit charging that
Republican operatives altered flawed absentee ballot request
forms in Seminole County spent more than $100,000 on Al Gore's
campaign, including as much as $60,000 on a television spot
attacking Dick Cheney.
Details of Harry Jacobs' involvement in the Gore campaign--and
the extent to which he has sought advice from Gore
representatives--were revealed in a transcript of a deposition
obtained Monday night. The deposition, which hints at questions
Bush lawyers are likely to pursue when the case goes to trial
Wednesday, was taken Saturday in Orlando, Fla.
In the deposition, Jacobs said he spent as much as $60,000 this
year financing a television spot attacking Cheney's business
dealings at Halliburton Co., the oil services firm he headed
until he became the Republican vice presidential candidate. The
company dealt extensively in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma,
which has well-documented human rights violations, including
forced labor.
Jacobs and his West Palm Beach attorney, Gerald F. Richman, have
also said repeatedly that they are acting on their own--that no
one from the Gore campaign has been involved in their lawsuit.
The deposition does not indicate that Gore's campaign is directly
backing the lawsuit, a notion Republicans would relish proving.
But Jacobs acknowledged that he spoke to several Democratic Party
representatives in mid-November before filing his lawsuit,
including friend Mitchell Berger.
Berger, an influential Fort Lauderdale, Fla., attorney, is a Gore
campaign insider and fund-raiser.
Jacobs said he discussed with Democratic insiders an election
"protest" that he was preparing to file--a legal precursor to the
lawsuit--but not the lawsuit itself. And he said that he briefly
discussed "whether or not the Democratic Party, I guess Vice
President Al Gore . . . would provide assistance, join this
particular lawsuit.
"And they did not, have not, would not," Jacobs said. "Have they
encouraged you or discouraged you?" asked GOP attorney Terry
Young, who is representing the Seminole County election
canvassing board. "Neither," Jacobs said.
The election supervisor in Seminole County, an elected
Republican, has conceded that she let two GOP operatives use her
office to correct the flawed absentee ballot request forms.
Without the corrections, about 2,000 Bush supporters would not
have received ballots.
Jacobs is seeking to persuade a Leon County Circuit judge to
throw out all of Seminole County's 15,000 absentee ballots--about
two-thirds of which were cast for Bush.
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