Not the infamous Floriduh voters.
I remember this ‘Rat POS on the night of Election 2000, when he was mugging for the network cameras telling them that he actually had senior citizen voters coming up to him “crying in the parking lot” because they feared that they might have cast their vote for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore due to the allegedly infamous ‘butterfly ballot’ (the ballot that was approved by Republicans, Democrats AND Independents LONG before Election Day.
What has been almost tossed down the memory hole is that a telemarketing firm hired by the DNC began calling voters in Palm Beach County (among other counties) on Election night to ‘inform’ them that they may have cast their votes incorrectly and that they should return to their polling place and ‘demand’ a replacement ballot so their votes could ‘properly’ be counted.
What that gambit did was to gin up prospects in the minds of gullible seniors (and others) that their votes indeed might have been wasted, but what it also proved was that the ‘Rats had premeditation so far as arranging that scam, because you don’t set up telemarketing operations with scripts, staffing, etc., on a moment’s notice. That takes time, planning and $$ MONEY $$.
The ‘Rats intended to create chaos in Florida in a failed attempt to steal the State because they knew Al Ghoul was probably not going to prevail in the Electoral College.
Florida was their fraudulent ‘firewall’ and we all know the rest.
So *GOOD RIDDANCE* to Bob ‘Crying in the Parking Lot’ Wexler, he is a total scumbag.
Yeah......everything that comes out of that guys mouth is a manipulative lie....he really disgusts me. This news makes my week!
Not the infamous Floriduh voters.
Jesse Jackson did the exact same thing in St. Louis that year.
A simple request and okay to access his phone company records would tend to verify his allegation. That of course, never happened. The guy has no business anywhere near a position of remote responsibility.
Thanks for that info. I didn’t know about the Dems hiring a telemarketing firm for scaring seniors in Florida on election night. Strange, you’d think the big 3 networks would be quick to tell America about a story like this, right? Right???
(oh yeah... never mind.)
By the way, is it Wexler that doesn’t even live in Florida but has his primary residence in Maryland or some place like that? Or was it another slimy Dem congressman that I’m thinking of?
Thanks for jogging my memory. As I remember the DNC had hired a Texas telemarketing firm. A dark episode in U.S. history. And they almost pulled it off.
Unbelievably, nine years later, we are again on the brink of becoming a banana republic.
What you said...everything...+1
What that gambit did was to gin up prospects in the minds of gullible seniors (and others) that their votes indeed might have been wasted, but what it also proved was that the ‘Rats had premeditation so far as arranging that scam, because you don’t set up telemarketing operations with scripts, staffing, etc., on a moment’s notice. That takes time, planning and $$ MONEY $$.
Wow. I had no idea a telemarketing firm was used like this back during FL Recount 2000. RATs are truly scumbags.
Good riddance to this slimeball Wexler, although it's kind of strange that he's resigning out of the blue like this...
Yes! Thanks so much for the history lesson reminder. I knew this guy Wexler was a real piece of work during the Clinton impeachment hearings. He was the PERFECT guy for the machinations of the 2000 election because they probably had the goods on him in spades.
“What that gambit did was to gin up prospects in the minds of gullible seniors (and others) that their votes indeed might have been wasted, but what it also proved was that the ‘Rats had premeditation so far as arranging that scam, because you don’t set up telemarketing operations with scripts, staffing, etc., on a moment’s notice. That takes time, planning and $$ MONEY $$. The ‘Rats intended to create chaos in Florida in a failed attempt to steal the State because they knew Al Ghoul was probably not going to prevail in the Electoral College. Florida was their fraudulent ‘firewall’ and we all know the rest.”
Great analysis. Well done.
* Greg Simon, former chief domestic policy advisor to Vice President Gore and president of Simon Strategies, a strategic planning and public affairs consulting firm.
DEMOCRATS.COM - THE GORE CAMPAIGN CONNECTION: http://community.democrats.com/members/simon/ - notes that Simon was an"informal" adviser to the Gore campaign. But elsewhere Simon's role is suggested to be a little more than simply an informal advisor...
"With a full recount in Miami-Dade, said Gore senior adviser Greg Simon, "we would easily have a net gain to win the election." - Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60380-2000Nov26.html
"The decision was certainly right for some of Gore's biggest benefactors, which quickly cashed in on what turned out to be a $75 million bonanza. Wall Street firms such as Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Company; Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.; and Goldman Sachs & Co., Gore’s No. 3 career patron, collectively raked in at least $42 million in underwriting fees. Well-connected law firms, among them Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Patton, Boggs, earned nearly $11 million for their part in taking the company private. USEC retained J.P. Morgan & Company, Inc., as its adviser in the deal; J.P. Morgan, in turn, hired Greg Simon, Gore's domestic policy adviser, for a fee of $10,000 a month to help it select the new, privatized company's directors. " Simon was more than just an informal campaign advisor - he was an insider in the middle of the decision to retract the concession! Yet at the same time he was associated with an "independent" website that was promoting litigation in Florida AND collecting donations to do so during the election aftermath. Note again that Lytel registered www.trustthepeople.com on 11/8 before it was known that the recount battle would go on for months.
~ freeper GOPactivist