-Caveat Lector- http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001127/newsweek_p_3.html Newsweek: Gore, Lieberman 'Totally Charged Up' By Fight For Presidency, Christopher 'Radicalized,' Daley 'Struggling' Cheney's Power In Bush Camp Growing, Edging Aside Strategist Rove 'Spontaneous' Demonstrations In Miami-Dade Led By Senior Republican 'Operatives; 'Democrats Decry 'Brownshirt' Tactics NEW YORK, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Vice President Al Gore and his team of advisors are combative and defiant in the face of the latest twists in events to elect a president, write Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas and Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the December 4 issue of Newsweek. An aide says Gore and running mate Sen. Joseph Lieberman are ``Totally charged up,'' while other advisors, like campaign manager Donna Brazile, are urging a fight to the finish. ``This is war without bloodshed,'' says Brazile, denouncing the Republicans for their ``goddam guerrilla tactics.'' (Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001126/NEWSWEEK ) Surprisingly, former secretary of State Warren Christopher, brought in to oversee the post-election day effort, has also been ``kind of radicalized by this process,'' one campaign aide says in the current issue (on newsstands Tuesday, November 28). Christopher, who was once expected to be the elder statesman who would tell Gore when it was time to gracefully exit, was taken aback when his Bush camp counterpart, James Baker, virtually invited the Florida Legislature to overturn a Gore victory on a recount. Christopher's ``become really pissed off at Baker,'' the aide said. ``He thinks he's been arrogant and presumptuous. And with Christopher, the absolutely worst thing you can be is arrogant and presumptuous.'' Contrarily, campaign chairman Bill Daley, expected to play hardball, is unsure how far the fight should go. ``Daley's a pro. But he's struggling with this,'' says an aide. Daley told Newsweek the night before the final deadline, ``I know what they [the Republicans] are going to try to do. They're going to 'find' some more votes at the last minute and try to surprise everybody - make the margin bigger than expected.'' Daley's own father, Mayor Daley of Chicago, was accused in the 1960 presidential election of vote-stealing to ensure that the Democratic vote would put John F. Kennedy over the top. Newsweek reports that last Tuesday night, as the Gore camp anxiously awaited the results of the Florida Supreme Court, which was set to rule on whether the hand recounts would count, the high command held a conference call. There was silence on the phone, which burst into relief and elation all around when the court ruled in their favor. Gore, who came on the line a few minutes later, was businesslike, almost clinical, as he has been with his staff since Election Day. He peppered them with detailed questions on whether the court said anything about how to evaluate the chads. No one knew for sure. Call me back when you get it, said Gore, and hung up. In the Bush camp meanwhile, Republican running mate Dick Cheney's power appeared to be growing, despite his recent heart attack. There were signs last week that Texas Gov. George W. Bush's once all-powerful campaign strategist, Karl Rove, was being edged aside in the post-election maneuvering by Cheney and Jim Baker - top cabinet advisors to W's father, former president Bush. Both Cheney and Baker are constantly on the phone to candidate Bush, write Thomas and Isikoff. Newsweek also reports on how the ``spontaneous'' demonstrations in Florida were led by senior Republican ``operatives.'' They were summoned from all over by e-mail from the Bush campaign, provided with plane tickets and hotel rooms. These election ``observers'' were handed placards to wave, T shirts to wear (SORE-LOSERMAN) and led in chants. Their commanders included Ed Gillespie, a well-known Washington lobbyist; Barry Jackson, the chief of staff to Ohio Republican Congressman John Boehner; and Ken Mehlman, the national field director for the Bush campaign who had flown in from Austin. When Miami-Dade officials decided to recount ``undercounted'' votes in a small glass-enclosed room that lacked seating for the press or public, a congressional aide, Martin Torrey, alerted his boss, New York Rep. John Sweeney. ``We should shut this thing down,'' replied Sweeney. ``I'll be right over.'' Another Republican, Brendan Quinn, the executive director of the New York state GOP, began urging demonstrators to head upstairs to the 19th floor. One of the shock troops was Duane Gibson, who had his trip to Miami paid for by the Bush team and is an aide to Alaska GOP Congressman Don Young. He told Newsweek he was angered by what he saw outside the canvassing board's ballot-counting room. ``I thought, 'My gosh, they're taking those ballots to a closed area and they're not going to let us see them.''' He insisted the angry demonstrations were ``spontaneous.'' But the Democratic chairman of Miami-Dade, Joe Geller, described the demonstrations as ``classic brownshirt tactics.'' Geller arrived at the center Wednesday morning to pick up a sample ballot to show an expert witness who planned to testify in the coming court challenges. As he slid the ballot into his pocket, a woman yelled at the top of her lungs, ``He stole a ballot!'' ``It was totally a deliberate thing,'' said Geller. ``How else did they know I was a lawyer? It was designed to intimidate people.'' In Miami-Dade, where the election canvassing board halted the hand recount, an official tells Newsweek that David Leahy, the county's election supervisor, was against the recounts from the beginning. ``His view is, once you start with these recounts, you find all kinds of problems,'' the official said. But Leahy denies being intimidated by protesters to stop the counting. ``The only thing that forced [our hand] was a deadline that we didn't have before and which we felt we couldn't meet,'' he said. And one of his colleagues on the canvassing board, County Judge Myriam Lehr, was also reluctant to continue the counts. County officials said Lehr, an Orthodox Jew, complained about working on the Jewish Sabbath to complete the recount on time. But she may have felt other pressures as well, write Thomas and Isikoff. Though officially nonpartisan, Lehr is married to a Republican activist, Miami lawyer Bruce Lehr, who two months ago was appointed to the Dade County Republican Executive Committee. A spokeswoman for the Florida Trial Courts in Miami said that Lehr and her husband ``do not discuss anything that goes on with the canvassing board.'' ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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