[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Vote Recount Judge a Gore Donor
> CNSNews.com
> Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000
Conservative News Service. Another supposed news story posted by Marcel.
The website of Media Research Center, the parent organization of CNSNews.com,
has this bit of information on its site: "To ensure the views of conservatives
are disseminated, in 1998 the MRC created the Conservative News Service."
Newsmax.com and worldnetdaily.com are also right-wing news services that we've
seen reports from recently (along with others not attributed to any source) and
all are very biased, without making their starting point clear. For example, it
does not say anywhere on the CNSNews site what those initials stand for. Nothing
from these websites should be considered full and accurate information. It would
be like me claiming that articles from the left-wing Village Voice are "just the
facts." No way, and no way for these right-wing "news" services either.
Anyway, regarding this latest posting: Judge Middlebrooks is definitely a
Democrat and his donations are public record. What is ALSO public record is how
he has decided cases that have come before him. His decisions are clearly based
in the law and sometimes run counter to what is expected a Democrat would
decide, which is why he has the reputation, built up over many years, of being
an independent thinker. But, none of that information is part of the CNSNews
report, of course.
The Secretary of State of Florida, Katherine Harris, is relatively new to
politics so she doesn't have much of a track record yet. But, she is definitely
a Republican who, unlike the judge, has never done anything that runs counter to
her party. In Florida newspapers in October there were stories about how she was
being so helpful to George W that she could possibly become an ambassador or a
member of his cabinet.
The idea that hand recounts are allowed in Florida if requested by the
candidates in a close election, but that enough time in which to do such a
recount is not allowed seems bizarre to me. And the fact that Harris stopped
the recounts several different times in the past week and yet now is sticking
strictly to the deadline of seven days after the election for certifying all the
votes (even though a recent court decision allows her to exercise her discretion
about the time allowed) is quite suspicious.
Debra Shea
P.S. Marcel, send your comments about this to the list only, NOT to me directly.
I'll see them on the list along with everyone else.
