Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this week, it will be up to Harris to sift through the inevitable clamor from the hand-counters encouraged by Gore campers to turn in their results and never mind the afternoon ruling putting Harris in charge. Democrats are out in force declaring Harris too partisan (she was co-chair of Bush's campaign in Florida), and making very loud noises about how Harris would be in clear violation of the order if she turns any count-amending counties away hungry...
...Gore's lawyers can best answer that question, but for now they're ceding nothing. (An encouraging sign: Lately, sound bites about the "terrible injustice" of Palm beach's butterfly ballot have dropped off to nothing.) Gore's people continue to loudly push not for litigation, not for "partisan politics," but merely that all the votes be counted. So far, polls still show Americans are willing to wait. (And certainly the markets were cheerful enough Tuesday...
...campaign manager dismissed Baker's offer as a "reiteration of what the Florida secretary of state has already laid out" - which could be tossed out by Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis at any moment. He also brushed off the market-uncertainty issue as the complaints of "parobably partisan investment bankers." Though the Gore people may feel differently if the deadline-extension lawsuit goes against them, they see no reason to stop a manual recount at 5 p.m. when it could still add more ballots to their man's tally. This round will be up to the courts...
...Professor Terrence Anderson of the University of Miami law school. "But on an issue like [the Florida election] I would be very surprised if you could detect a bias." Jon Mills, interim dean of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, agrees. "This is not a partisan court," he insists. GOP leaders across the country can only hope he's right...
...first volume of Schlesinger's memoirs, A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 (Houghton Mifflin; 557 pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T.S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/Appeasing long forgotten wars...