Environment & Energy

Your continued blaming of Al Gore for the Bush campaign's all-out assault on American democracy in Florida and theft of the 2000 Presidential election that was rubberstamped by the anti-democracy GOP controlled SCOTUS with its unconstitutional ruling is unacceptable. The actual facts are not on your side. Despite the fact that you've never lived in Florida and worked on election campaigns in Florida you continue to think that you know more about Florida than people like me who actually lived in Florida and worked on campaigns there. Your posts continue to indicate to me that you have no idea about what happened in Florida or Florida election law in 2000.

You seem to be perfectly fine with 160,000 legal votes located in the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida not being counted. Your latest post again makes only the vaguest mention of 2000 because you really have no clue to what actually happened there. You also continue to fail to mention that Al Gore got the most votes nationally so he was in fact the choice of the people. The electoral college is clearly an anti-democracy relic that helped to thwart the will of the people. You think it's perfectly ok for 5 unelected, highly partisan GOP SCOTUS judges to shred the U.S. constitution and Florida election law in order to install their personally preferred candidate in the White House. Your attitude is why our country is now on the verge of becoming a Nazi dictatorship.

Unlike you, in 1992, I was actually living in Florida and worked on the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign in Florida. It was very close. I think the difference was that south of Miami had been seriously damaged by hurricane Andrew and the Clinton/Gore campaign did not want to campaign in south Florida because of the extensive hurricane damage. South Florida was the democratic stronghold. Had there been no hurricane Andrew south of Miami, I think the result would've been different. Florida in 1992 also forced Bush Sr to spend way more money trying to hold on to Florida which prevented him from having a larger presence on other battleground states and that gave the Clinton/Gore ticket a big advantage.

BTW, In 1996 the Clinton/Gore ticket did win Florida. Because of this in 1999 and 2000, the Jeb/Harris cabal illegally removed more than 50,000 legally registered mostly African American democrats from Florida's voting roles by wrongly identifying them as felons with their now infamous "felon purge". Jeb/Harris did this in order to reduce the number of democrats eligible to vote on election day 2000. Jeb/Harris did this knowing full well that African Americans vote overwhelmingly for democrats. In addition, Jeb Bush made numerous very public threats that he would carry Florida for his brother and that's exactly what he did using illegal means.

In conclusion, it's beyond all reasonable doubt that Al Gore did in fact get the most votes in Florida and is the rightful winner of the 2000 election. It took 5 unelected, highly partisan GOP SCOTUS judges in an anti-democracy, unconstitutional power grab to thwart the will of the people to keep Al Gore out of the White House. Because of it, our country is now failing miserably to address the serious threat of human caused climate change. It's time for you to take your head out of the sand and face the ugly truth of what happened in Florida in 2000 and the catastrophic consequences of what the anti-democracy Bush campaign and the anti-democracy GOP controlled SCOTUS has done to our country.