Bolton was part of the Florida "mob"...picture)..("Stop the count")

[SoCalDem]

<------BOLTON on the right..looking over the shoulder of Judge Burton

[nodictators]

1. Bolton allegedly did "Stop the Count" in Miami-Dade County

That was according to a Sidney Blumenthal column a month or two ago. (Sorry, no link).

[SoCalDem]

2. and this is his payback...

Maybe he was getting edgy and *² finally gave him his reward.. Perhaps term #1 was too dangerous to reward him because of the connection to Florida 2K.. It's safe now, because he cannot run again:(

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Yep

And Bush knows that Bolton hates the UN just like him and his administration and he's a lap dog. The Bush administration is trying to destroy the UN and they're going to use Bolton to help. Either that or just make it to where they're no longer needed unless it helps them. :eyes:

[Synnical]

6. "I'm here to stop the count,''

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0715-01.htm

July 2002
Bush's Florida Strategists Land Plum Jobs in D.C.
by Carol Rosenberg


MIAMI - John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, caused a stir in May by accusing the Cuban government of transferring bioweapons technology to rogue nations. Nineteen months ago, he caused a different stir - bursting into a Tallahassee library on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign to stop a recount of Miami-Dade County ballots.

''I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count,'' he was quoted as saying in news reports at the time.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. that looks photo-shopped to me

[SoCalDem]

4. He was there.

:)

[acmejack]

22. He worked for Baker-Botts

James Baker's law firm, which was working the Bush case in Bush v Gore. Baker himself was the lead atty.

[Skidmore]

7. I think so, too.

Until someone comes up with an attributable photograph, I'll reserve judgment.

[SoCalDem]

11. right click for attribution Oakland Press (a real newspaper) not a website

[BurtWorm]

12. Read the stories in other posts on this thread. That is Bolton.

He was there. He did say he was there to stop the count. And the Bush administration did reward him for his dirty work with a bully pulpit iun the State Department to throw bombs at the UN from.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. here's the original photo

[SoCalDem]

15. Thanks.. I could only find the other ones with caption added

The hubris is astounding:(

[displacedtexan]

8. Here's the link to Oakland Press story & pic!

http://theoaklandpress.com/stories/101604/nat_20041016017.shtml

[SoCalDem]

9. link

Posted on Sun, Jul. 14, 2002

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:kjwG2teiGBcJ:www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3656186.htm+florida+recount+bolton&hl=en



Bush recount troops land plum D.C. jobs

Many of president's appointees fought Gore's bid to take Florida, White House

BY CAROL ROSENBERG

[e-mail]


John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, caused a stir in May by accusing the Cuban government of transferring bioweapons technology to rogue nations. Nineteen months ago, he caused a different stir -- bursting into a Tallahassee library on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign to stop a recount of Miami-Dade County ballots.

Matt Schlapp, a former congressional aide, is currently White House special assistant to the president and deputy director of political affairs. In November 2000, he was part of the supposedly spontaneous window-pounding protest at Miami-Dade County Hall that brought to an end the first recount of Miami-Dade ballots. Sue Cobb, a Coral Gables developer, today is the U.S. ambassador to Jamaica. Twenty months ago, the generous Republican donor volunteered her legal skills to the Bush-Cheney campaign -- working as part of the legal team that contested recounts in Miami-Dade. Although they now serve President George W. Bush in sharply different roles, the three share a common experience. They are among more than 50 political appointees found by The Herald to have served as troops in the frantic Florida recount battle that followed the Nov. 7, 2000 election.

snip

WORKING 'BY INSTINCT'

Diplomat says he received no assurance of a reward

Bolton, the U.S. diplomat now responsible for arms control issues, said no payoff was promised for his decision to join the post-election fray. He had worked for the first Bush administration and, finding himself in South Korea on election night, contacted former Secretary of State James Baker in Texas to see how he might lend a hand. The reply: Go to Florida. ''I think, frankly, most of the people who did it just went down there by instinct,'' Bolton said. He said he received no legal fees, although the campaign paid his hotel bills and other expenses. Bolton was part of the legal team and a ballot observer in Palm Beach County. Then he rushed to Tallahassee as the recount battle reached higher courts.

It was his role, on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, to burst into a library where workers were recounting Miami-Dade ballots and relay news of the U.S. Supreme Court's stay in the on-again, off-again presidential recount.''I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count,'' he was quoted as saying in news reports at the time.

snip

[Goathead]

10. He was most definitely there.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3656186.htm

He also worked for Phillip Morris as a lawyer peddling tobacco to little kids in third world nations. He is completely underhanded, evil and dangerous.

On edit:

Bush recount troops land plum D.C. jobs

Many of president's appointees fought Gore's bid to take Florida, White House

BY CAROL ROSENBERG

John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, caused a stir in May by accusing the Cuban government of transferring bioweapons technology to rogue nations. Nineteen months ago, he caused a different stir -- bursting into a Tallahassee library on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign to stop a recount of Miami-Dade County ballots.

[Straight Shooter]

18. A tobacco lawyer? Wow, that's really promoting a culture of life.

Oh, wait. Third world children. Nevermind. :grr:

[SoCalDem]

21. We always export death.. When DDT was banned here,

we continued to sell it abroad.:( Money first.. that's the real US motto

[KoKo]

14. Thanks SoCal...plus John Lauck, Jimmy Jeff's buddy in bringing down

Daschle was in Florida "helping" with the recount. Lauck just got a nice job in DC for Thune as a reward.

I wonder if "Jimmy/Jeff" was down there, too. Seems everyone who was involved in that has gotten nice payback. And some DU'ers still don't believe that Bush stole two elections.....sheesh..

[Bluesplayer]

16. more

from newamerica.net

"More important, when the rest of the neoconservatives were milling around Washington, Bolton served as a lead Republican lawyer in the Florida recount rumble, earning kudos and respect from the rank and file. According to a Newsweek account, after the Supreme Court halted the massive recount, Bolton strode into a library full of officials counting Miami-Dade votes. "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the vote," he declared."

[annabanana]

24. Someone should have cleaned his clock then and there!!.eom

[begin_within]

17. Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub

[0007]

19. I can always count on you for catching stuff like this.....

Great catch girl!

[redqueen]

20. Oh how very surprising... not.

Thanks for this post!

:applause:

[MelissaB]

23. OMG!

:grr:

I actually am surprised.

[Pachamama]

29. Why is it that the same cast of characters seems to be showing up all over

the place and seem to have repeating roles in various controversial and questionable activities?

I too was shocked to see this and yet not really...it seems every day that I am discovering more and more "connections" and "ties" between the Bush Cabal and they always seem to link back to James Baker and Dick Cheney....:eyes:

[AzDar]

25. kick. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

26. This is a great find..I am going to email this info to eveyone I know.

Thanks. :yourock:

[stevedeshazer]

27. Mr Bolton, have you NO shame?

[WillyT]

28. Um... Is That Trippi, In The Middle There ???

:scared: