Word: spokesman
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...Florida Supreme Court takes supplemental briefs from Gore and Bush lawyers Tuesday at 3 p.m. on the case SCOTUS sent back to them for retooling, and by then court spokesman Craig Waters will likely have announced the arrival of the Sauls hand-count appeal, which Gore still thinks he can win on legal grounds. Sauls' sweeping "burden of proof" rejection may well have been an acknowledgment that David Boies was going to sue no matter what he did. So Sauls kicked the whole mess upstairs, and it'll be up to Florida's highest court - barring a 5,000-vote...
...responses occasionally hindered by a thick Quebecois accent, Hengartner nonetheless proved an important spokesman for the Gore team - unfortunately for the vice president, the forthright Yale professor proved almost as valuable to the Bush effort. Under questioning by Gore attorney Stephen Zack, Hengartner, who qualified as an "expert" witness, painstakingly explicated a pile of placards bearing simplified bar graphs and carefully highlighted statistics, simultaneously charming the courtroom and making a solid case that the newly famous Votomatic voting machines (used in Palm Beach County) are more likely to fail or register incomplete voter choices than other voting methods...
...Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters relayed the news at the end of a very busy legal day: "We conclude as a matter of law that the Palm Beach County ballot does not constitute substantial noncompliance with the statutory requirements mandating the voiding of the election." With prejudice. Meaning end of story...
Circuit Court Judge Nikki Ann Clark hasn't yet reached the exalted instant-celebrity status of, say, Sanders Sauls, presiding over Al Gore's hand-count contest, or even Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters...
...Washington before the committee's gavel was cold, warning that the move would set a "terrible precedent" for future elections and "threatens to put us in a constitutional crisis which we are not in now by any stretch of the word." He asked them, Bush-style, to "reconsider." Gore spokesman Chris Lehane, dusted off for the attack, called the special session a "Bush-brother brazen power play designed to circumvent the counting of the votes in our court system." (When asked about it, Bush gave his usual spiel about "counts and recounts" and referred the reporter to James Baker...