Corrine Brown: You Stole the 2000 election...no we're not getting over it!

[Stargleamer]

At DU, posters often comment on how spineless Democrats in Congress are. Well, Corrine Brown spoke truth to power yesterday, and you all should be applauding her for it. As the Washington Post reports, yesterday in Congress she said the following to a Republican member of Congress.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53357-2004Jul15.html> registration required.

"I come from Florida, where you and others participated in what I call the United States coup d'etat. We need to make sure it doesn't happen again," Brown said. "Over and over again after the election when you stole the election, you came back here and said, 'Get over it.' No, we're not going to get over it. And we want verification from the world."

If you're from her district in Florida, you should write her a "Right On!" Thank you message. Hell if you're not from her district consider sending her one anyhow.

Also the article states how Republicans have passed in the House a foreign aid bill that also gratuitously includes a provision barring foreign poll observers from observing the 2004 election (and maybe future ones too). This is what prompted Ms. Brown's anger.

Unfortunately, her remarks were stricken from the Congressional Record, so future generations won't see it there. Jack Balkin looks at how she should have said it: <http://balkin.blogspot.com/>

[gmoney]

1. I sent her an encouraging word

even though I'm not a Floridian, I did send her a fax expressing my support for her having the courage to speak up.

[talleyJudy]

2. ?stolen?

Too bad she did not recall that if Gore would have won his home state of Tennessee, the Florida question would have not mattered.

Not many are aware that Gore won Wisconsin by only .002%. There definately should have been a recount here in Wisconsin.

I for one would welcom UN ovservation, maybe they could enforce proper inentification procedures at the polls and make sure some do not vote two or more times under various names.

[Sparkly]

4. Yes, STOLEN

547 votes overrode half a million.

Citizens were prevented from exercising their right to vote at the polls.

The will of the people was NOT held sacrosanct.

[gumby]

5. What about, what about, what about....

You can "what about" about anything you want.

It still doesn't change the FACT that George Bush STOLE the election.

In other countries they call that a coup d'etat (regardless of Tennessee).

[murielm99]

6. Yes, stolen.

Get over it Judy. It was stolen.

[shraby]

8. A UN observation

might just see to it that people aren't turned away from the polls also. They might be able to notice if exit polls match to some extent what the electronic voting machines totals are.

Florida has already been caught trying to remove 29,000 Democrats, 9,000 Republicans, 61 Hispanics by saying are felons from the voting rolls. When caught at it, they decided to toss the list...but they weren't caught in 2000 and eliminated even more voters from the rolls.

Yup, Florida doesn't rig elections at all.

[Stargleamer]

10. Yes, stolen

If all ballots that the machines rejected as overvotes or undervotes statewide had been counted, Gore would have won. Plus, if Harris hadn't unjustly disenfranchised a lot of African-American voters with her purge list, Gore would have won. So I don't see what difference losing Tenn. makes. One could also argue that if Clinton had campaigned for Gore, he wouldn't have lost Arkansas. And if the Bush-Cheney camp wanted a recount that was permitted by Wisconsin law, I don't see why they didn't go for it.

[Cleita]

3. Another post that need a

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[Nicholas_J]

7. Corinne is cool

She is Congresswoman for a district adjacent to mine and they have had her on the local news all day today(with hints as to her being a troublemaker, becasue she is demanding that the Republican Supervisor of Elections, who was responsible for many of 37,000 votes which were not counted in this area in 2000, resign) Knowing the way this area runs, I have no doubt that they simply intended on throwing out tens of thousands of Democratic votes thinking that no one would check up on it. It turns out that when the final count was done, there were over 2500 more votes for Gore that had were removed for absoltely no reason at all, as nothing was wrong with them in anyway, than there were ballots for Bush that were problematic. In the end, it is certain that Gore won the state of Florida by at least 2750 votes and that most of the votes that were not counted came from this county. I witnesses a large number of people being turned away from their polliong stations who were flabbergasted at being told they could not vote because their names had been purged. These people were infuriated when told that they were purged in a felons list.

Lets hope that Congresswoman Brown is monintoring what hapeens on election day here.

[Cleita]

9. Another kick

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