The Miami Herald's "Double Standard" [BARF ALERT]

The Miami Herald ^ | 03 December 2003 | Alvin W. Forbing

[MegaSilver]

Double standard?

Pat Buchanan, in his Nov. 29 Other Views column, It's time to revolt against judges, on gay marriage, states:

• ''It is time for elected representatives to take back powers that were never constitutionally granted to any court.''

• ''The Massachusetts court has just usurped the power of the elected branches, and they should slap the court down.''

• ''Time to go to the root of America's social crisis: the power usurped by judges and imposed against the will of the people and their chosen representatives.''

Why didn't Buchanan apply those same ideas after the 2000 presidential election?

[MegaSilver]

He does have a point. It shouldn't have gone to the Supreme Court. By law, it should have gone to Katherine Harris and ended there, as I wrote in a November 23 letter which THE HERALD NEVER PRINTED.

In fact, look at their entire "Letters to the Editor" section today, or any day. Lefties almost always rule the page. If there was ever any doubt in anyone's mind that *this* paper had a liberal bias, they were gravely mistaken.

[Izzy Dunne]

I guess I don't understand the point - what did the "elected representatives" of Florida have to do with the 2000 election?
How did the USSC "usurp the power" of the reps?

[MegaSilver]

Here's my letter to the Miami Herald in response to this nut:

Re: Alvin W. Forbing's December 3rd letter to the Herald, saying that Patrick J. Buchanan was willing to call the Supreme Court when they ruled in favor of gay marriages, but not when they ruled against further recounts in Florida in the 2000 election.

He has a very good point. It should never have gone to the Supreme Court. By Florida State Law, it should have gone to Katherine Harris and ended there.

As of 2000, Section 102.111 of the Florida Statutes required the secretary of state to certify the election results within seven days: "If the county returns are not received by the Department of State by 5 p.m. of the seventh day following an election, all missing counties shall be ignored, and the results shown by the returns on file shall be certified." Section 102.112 gave Katherine Harris the discretion to refuse late returns: "If the returns are not received by the department by the time specified, such returns may be ignored and the results on file at that time may be certified by the department."

Is there a reason why I seem to be the only person in Florida who understands this?

[looscnnn]

It would not have ended there. Algore was supposed to wait until the results were certified before challenging, he didn't which is why we had the long delay before recounting started. He still would have challenged if he had followed the rules and waited for the results to be certified.

[weegee]

Wasn't the Florida Supreme Court applying a changing standard for "good ballots" after they had been cast and counted? And then again the standards were changed?

2 can play at this game. Hit this paper with a bunch of letters any time the Democrats say that they support the military and point out how they tried to ignore the overseas military ballots.

[MegaSilver]

2 can play at this game. Hit this paper with a bunch of letters any time the Democrats say that they support the military and point out how they tried to ignore the overseas military ballots.

That's just the thing... apparently, the Herald considers itself above printing the letters of a Goldwater boy.

[ExSoldier]

I get published in this section of the MIAMI HERALD four to six times a year and have been for the last ten years. My last publication in the Herald was about two weeks ago. Every one, a pro-gun or conservative letter. In Oct of 2001, they published my post 9-11 letter, responding to the attacks and calling for armed citizens (CCW) as a deterrence to terrorism.......all seven paragraphs.

Yeah, the Herald is a liberal rag, but I got no complaints on the editorial publication of my letters.