Word: daley
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore, Joe Lieberman and campaign chairman William Daley spent Friday working the phones, calling moderate Democratic House members and Senators, shoring up support. But even Gore's legal team was aware of the dangers. Imagine the perception, an adviser noted: "Al Gore lost the election but won it back in a lawsuit." He added, "I don't think his support will collapse immediately, but there's got to be some real concern about a guy who lost the initial returns, the automatic recount, the first certification and the second certification...
Here in America, we make a firm distinction between good old honest cheating and dirty cheating. Honest cheating is the kind of all-American swindling we're comfortable with: Mayor Richard Daley rustling up dead men's votes for John Kennedy; Lyndon Johnson twisting arms and paying out ready cash to win his first Senate election. That's good old-fashioned cheating, the kind that uses money and muscle...
...Florida court sprayed its decision with fragrantly pietistic aerosol to the effect that "the right of the people to cast their votes is the paramount concern," but what the Justices meant was that such dynastic masters of electoral arithmetic as William Daley, of Cook County, Illinois, should be permitted to continue with their interpretive foraging amid the chads until they come up with the total they need...
...rich that Daley's son, Gore campaign manager Bill Daley, should now stand before the cameras decrying an unfair election outcome. Richer still that Gore should now be counseled to take a lesson in statesmanship from Richard Nixon, who conceded the 1960 election rather than go to court and inflict incalculable damage on the stability and legitimacy of our presidential system...
Gore's grounds for action are far weaker than Nixon's. After all, there have been no serious charges of Republican misconduct, just voter confusion over a ballot--the "butterfly" ballot (in use, by the way, in Daley's Cook County)--designed and approved by Democratic Party officials...