Word: ronning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...chairman Poole, now a lobbyist in Tallahassee, regards that as tiresome demonization. Harris "has modernized the elections office," he insists. "And what she's done to bring in economic development outside of tourism shows how strong and independent she is." Even a Democrat like political consultant Ron Sachs, a former aide to the late Governor Lawton Chiles, says Harris has proved "a masterful hardball politician under extraordinary pressure. She's made sure that every move she makes says, 'I'll be damned if I'm the one who's going to get blamed for costing [George W.] Bush the election...
...planned their celebrations, the Democratic faithful were primed to fight on - especially after Harris decided to leave out the results of the hand count Palm Beach canvassers stayed up all night to produce. "George Bush can have as many balloon drops as he wants," said Al Gore's lieutenant Ron Klain, "but there's no one in this country who believes the election is over before the votes are counted." But Republicans disagreed. "The American people's tolerance is about to vanish," said Representative J. C. Watts Jr. "The Democrats keep trying to hijack the result, but Governor Bush...
...that Gore's worried about Sunday, mind you: Ron Klain, a senior adviser to the campaign, smiled for the cameras Thursday and said of Broward and Palm: "I believe that will be enough to get us over...
Truer words were never spoken. Before the motorcade had even made it back to the Loews, the Gore team was moving fast. Seventy lawyers and operatives, led by former chief of staff Ron Klain, piled onto Lieberman's chartered plane to head down to Florida. They would be on the ground within two hours...
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