Environment & Energy

which you make obvious with your lack of knowledge of the facts about what actually happened in Florida in 2000. Your disrespect for anyone who actually worked on Florida election campaigns like I have is highly offensive.

For the record, these are the following well documented facts about Bush/Florida 2000;

1. 160,000 legally cast ballots located in the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida not counted.

2. More than 50,000 legally registered mostly African-American democrats illegally removed from Florida's voting rolls before election day 2000 by the illegal Jeb/Harris "felon purge" that wrongly identified these voters as felons when thy in fact were not felons. This story was first broken a couple of days after election day 2000 by well respected investigative reporter Greg Palast.

3. on 5/7/2001, the Orlando Sentinel reports the fact that 10,000 absentee ballots that the counting machines could not read that are located in the most heavily republican voting counties in Florida were in fact hand duplicated and counted as allowed by Florida election law which allowed for the hand duplication and counting of any ballots regardless of political party that the counting machines could not read. These mostly republican absentee ballots favored Bush by more than 2 to 1 and are what made it possible for Bush to steal the election.

4. The GOP controlled SCOTUS Bush vs Gore ruling is unconstitutional because the U.S. constitution gives the elected U.S. House of Representatives the authority to settle a disputed Presidential election, not 5 highly partisan and unelected GOP SCOTUS judges. The U.S. constitution gives the states the authority to conduct the elections which is what the state of Florida was doing in 2000. Furthermore, the GOP controlled SCOTUS shredded the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment by stopping the legal Florida vote count because the uncounted votes were located in the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties. The counting of republican votes while not counting enough votes of democrats to change the outcome of the election which is what the Bush vs Gore ruling actually did, blatantly violates the 14th amendments equal protection clause. I suggest you review the U.S. constitution to understand these actual facts.

5. it's also a fact that many of the GOP SCOTUS judges who stopped the legal Florida vote count had significant conflicts of interest that destroyed their impartiality to the point that had they been lower court judges, they would've been forced to recuse themselves. Specifically, Judge Scalia's son worked for 1 of the law firms that Bush had hired to help him stop the legal Florida vote count. Judge Thomas's wife Ginny worked on the Bush campaign, Judge Rehnquist had a bias against Al Gore because when Rehnquist worked in the Nixon administration, his job was to get Nixon SCOTUS nominees confirmed by the U.S. Senate which brought .him into direct conflict with Senator Al Gore Sr. who strongly opposed Nixon SCOTUS appointees. Let's also not forget the very well documented election night comments of Judge Sandra Day O'Connor who was widely reported by many witnesses to have said, "that's terrible" when the networks first called Florida for Al Gore an it looked then like he would be the next President.

In conclusion, this is only a fraction of what the Bush campaign and it's GOP controlled SCOTUS actually did in Florida in 2000 to kill American democracy. Everything I've written are all well documented facts. It's long past time for you to take you head out of the sand and face the ugly truth about what happened in Florida in 2000. Our country suffers so terribly today and will likely not address the threat of human caused climate change in time because of it. You also need to learn to respect people who have years of election campaign experience in Florida where you've never lived or worked on an election campaign in.