Word: pleas
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...most significant message of the day may have been put forward by the lead Temptation, the natty, gray-maned Barry Richard. (Think of Baker as the band's manager.) Amid the legalese about the tortuous contest-phase give-and-take between the legal teams, Richard emerged with a plea very similar to Al Gore's: Be patient, because this is going to take a while...
...Bush this year--over capital punishment. Within two hours of the court's decision, the Vice President got more good news. The canvassing board in Miami-Dade County decided to begin a hand recount of its 654,000 votes. And a federal appeals court in Atlanta rejected Bush's plea to stop all manual recounts on constitutional grounds...
...same way. They are the only men who know what it feels like to be stalled just outside the White House door. Gore's friend Harry Reid, the Nevada Senator, who has been through two election recounts of his own, got a call from Gore on Monday--a plea not for help or information so much as empathy. "It was just a conversation where he was remarking that he had won a quarter million more votes than his opponent, yet this was coming down to hundreds of votes in Florida," Reid says. For all the talk about how Gore...
...Instead, Bush grabbed the presidential reins. Of the imminent Gore contest to the night's ragged results, Bush merely said, with studied magnanimity, "I respectfully ask him to reconsider." And then it was on to the coming term, and a nice plea for both sides to "show our commitment to the common good." See you in January...
...Late Monday, state election officials dismissed Butterworth's plea, saying their refusal to count as many as 1,500 "disqualified" votes - many of which are from military personnel, who tend to vote Republican - is couched in election...