''I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count,'' he was quoted as saying in news reports at the time.
Bush consigliere and foaming at the mouth Zionist John Bolton.
In what was dubbed the "Brooks Brothers Riot", mobs of goons, hired by the Bush campaign, stalled the recount to give time to the Supreme Court to anoint GW as president.
Here's a partial list of that mob:
John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, caused a stir in May by accusing the Cuban government of transferring bioweapons technology to rogue nations. Nineteen months ago, he caused a different stir -- bursting into a Tallahassee library on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign to stop a recount of Miami-Dade County ballots.
Three members of the window-pounding crowd that on Thanksgiving Eve helped persuade the Miami-Dade County canvassing board to abandon the recount are now members of the White House staff: Matt Schlapp, now a special assistant to the president; Garry Malphrus, deputy director of the president's Domestic Policy Council; and Joel Kaplan, also a special assistant to the president.
Former Texas Transportation System Chairman David Laney left his Austin law firm to serve as a ballot recount observer in Volusia County. Bush appointed him recently to Amtrak's seven-member board of directors. The directorship is a federal post touted by Laney's firm as a ''leadership role in the transportation arena.'' It has no salary but pays a per diem and travel expenses.
New York lawyer Brad Blakeman, who helped organize protests in South Florida and appeared in one Associated Press dispatch at the time as a ''Broward County GOP volunteer,'' today is director of White House scheduling.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Stuart A. Levey represented Bush-Cheney in Martin County. He was with Baker's Texas law firm at the time.
Boca Raton developer Ned L. Siegel, long a generous donor to the GOP, has been nominated by Bush to serve as a director of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. During the recount crisis, he sued Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore in a bid to stop the manual recount of the troubled butterfly ballots on constitutional grounds.
Three senior strategists in Tallahassee now hold $130,000-a-year jobs as general counsels to Cabinet departments: David D. Aufhauser, now at Treasury, supervised a unit of lawyers that ran Bush's military and overseas ballot campaign;
Kevin Martin, now a $130,000-a-year commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, was one of the first national Bush-Cheney people to arrive in Miami from Washington, on Nov. 8. He had been a deputy general counsel for the Bush campaign and before that worked for Ken Starr, the independent counsel in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Mel Sembler, current board member of Freedom's Watch, donor to Bush and former ambassador to Italy who helped finance the 2000 Florida recount battle.
Howard Leach, also on Freedom's Watch board and also helped to fund the 2000 Florida recount.
Most will recognize the Republican Rottweiler at-large, John Bolton, who was our ambassador to the United Nations.
Some will recognize Brad Blakeman, who is now leading the dubiously named "Freedom's Watch." FW is putting together a 200 million dollar war chest to promote another ME war fought for Israel by U.S. troops against Iran.
Gosh, when multi-millionaire and billionaire Jews not only help torpedo the 2000 presidential election, but form groups like "Freedom's Watch" to help start another Middle East war, fought by Americans for Israeli interests, that must mean they really do have American interests at heart, huh?
And a lot of people will recognize the name of Kevin Martin, currently head of the Federal Communications Commission, who is scheduling a vote to let Big Media consolidate even more than they already have.
Kevin sure does get around. Back when the Republicans were impeaching Clinton over lying about a sexual act, Martin was on the Ken Starr Inquisition Team that spent upwards of 70 million dollars of our tax money to see if Clinton lied about getting a BJ.
After Martin does his master's bidding and helps turn the MSM into an even bigger joke than it already is, look for Kev to get a nice, cushy, high-paying job with the people he helped."
