Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Delivering the news, as always, was court spokesman Craig Waters, who read a statement explaining that while the court recognized irregularities in the actions of the Republican defendants, there wasn't going to be any tossing out of 25,000 ballots because two supervisors of elections had allowed GOP staffers to add missing information to some misprinted applications...
Last week Bush's aides felt upbeat, though not quite cocky, about Friday's high-court arguments. "Ted Olson himself urged us not to try to read into the mood of the Justices," says Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett. But even if they lose with the high court, the Bushies believe they're doing very well indeed in the Florida courts. The end of last week brought strong evidence for that proposition. On Friday the Florida Supreme Court refused to order both immediate hand counts of disputed ballots and the revote in Palm Beach County sought by voters confused...
...Bush that lately he has been overshadowing his boss. In the first crazy 36 hours after election night, it was Cheney, not Bush, who made the key decision to ask his old colleague James Baker to head Bush's Florida legal team. And in taking to the airwaves as spokesman and transition director, Cheney has been so clearly in command that Republicans don't know whether to be cheered or worried. "We have to keep Dick Cheney healthy," goes a joke making its way around G.O.P. circles in Washington. "Otherwise it will be the first time in history that...
...Florida Supremes are back to being the veep's last best shot at the White House after Leon County court spokesman Terre Cass, at 2:15 p.m., finally delivered twin rulings from judges Terry Lewis and Nikki Clark on the Martin County and Seminole County absentee ballot application cases. The punishment, said the judges, didn't fit the crime...
...case or boil it down to a "summary judgment" on the legal issues. Then at 12:30, the expected rulings were delayed until 2:15 - to a groan from the assemblage of reporters - because "one of the judges, I'm not going to say which one," said court spokesman Doug Smith, "needs more time to consider her ruling." Laughs...