Gee, thanks for reminding me Kristin of those good times. I’m proud to have been a bur under your little saddle. And for the record, I wasn’t bussed in. I drove.
In Bill Sammon’s excellent book about the 2000 election, he reports that Gore was freaked out about the cries of “Get out of Cheney’s house” and several times personally called ALF-CIO president John Sweeney to try and get some union people out there to counter the protestors. Sweeney, by that time had become convinced that Gore should concede, so he told Al that it was impossible, because it was the holiday (Thanksgiving) weekend and he couldn’t get any peopel to come out to demonstrate..