General Discussion

Actually, it started in 2000 when Sandra Day O'Connor gave Bush the presidency after the Brooks Brothers Riot.

The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration led by Republican staffers at a meeting of election canvassers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on November 22, 2000, during a recount of votes made during the 2000 United States presidential election, with the goal of shutting down the recount. After demonstrations and acts of violence, local officials shut down the recount early.

Rev. Jess Jackson led a protest as well at the time.

Jesse Jackson raised a shorts-'n'-shirts insurrection yesterday in a town that is the relatively poor neighbour of the traditional winter home of America's super rich, the Kennedys, the Rockefellers, the Pulitzers and, more recently, the upstart Trumps.

Perhaps it was not quite the Rainbow Coalition that the black leader had in mind when he named his civil rights organisation. But still, more than 1,000 people protesting at the voting irregularities that may have robbed Al Gore of the presidency defied the police and spilled on to the street, streaming towards the West Palm Beach department of elections. There were blacks, whites and Hispanics; the young and wheelchair-bound; union leaders and self-made business people; the passionate and the passive.