Posted on 06/06/2004 5:13:09 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Gore says Miami Mayor Penelas betrayed Democrats
Former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore delivered a harsh message to Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas, three months before he faces a U.S. Senate primary.
BY BETH REINHARD
breinhard@herald.com
Former Vice President Al Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election by 537 votes in Florida, on Saturday called Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas ``the single most treacherous and dishonest person I dealt with during the campaign anywhere in America.''
The statement was e-mailed by a Gore spokesman in response to a Herald inquiry about Penelas's role in the 2000 campaign. Gore supporters say the vice president had counted on Penelas for a late boost in the Hispanic community, and the mayor did not come through.
The harsh remarks come just three months before Penelas faces a Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate. Gore's reproach could seriously damage the mayor's bid to succeed Sen. Bob Graham, since party loyalists tend to dominate turnout in a primary.
In a telephone interview Saturday evening, Penelas defended himself, saying he was ``by Gore's side from the very beginning.''
''Al Gore has a right to be upset about the election, but had he won his home state of Tennessee or West Virginia, we wouldn't be here,'' Penelas said. ``He also owes an explanation as to why he waited until the middle of October to engage in Florida.''
He said Gore has declined to return his phone calls to discuss the 2000 campaign.
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Clinton did just TWO very good things in his Presidency.
1) Bomb Kosovo
2) Return Elian Gonzalex to his father.
And don't bother replying...
It's very simple. Al Gore is moving "around the bend." It's sad to see a human being make a spectacle of himself this way. His behavior also reminds me that God was with us the day that George Bush won the election.
I wouldn't let him near any bulldozers either!
"Gore...called Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas ``the single most treacherous and dishonest person I dealt with during the campaign anywhere in America.''
Wait - I thought Bush was the most dishonest traitor in America.
Gore is irrational, and the Dems have trotted him out to show solidarity with their base of leftie loonies.
They can't have Kerry do it, but they can't afford to lose the loonies. So they have trotted out head loony #1. Thank God for those 500+ voters in Florida. If not for them, he would be president.
This is hilarious, but so rediculous, that it seems unreal. Maybe this is democrat strategy, this "anti-endorsement" by a liberal democrat like Gore is intended to actually REINFORCE Pinelas among the conservative Cubans down here. A "rally around our guy" sort of thing, a "hey, if Gore hates him, maybe he ain't that bad" kind of thing... are they that crafty, those Dems? Hmmmm...
"And don't bother replying..."
Why not? I can stand the fact that someone doesn't agree with me without calling it "crap". How about you?
It is sad that Bore continues blaming everyone but himself for his mistakes.
Hi father wanted to stay. Open your eyes. Alex did.
That is pretty much my take on it, but, clearly, not everyone agrees. :)
El pobre Alberto Gore, él necesita terapia.
Elian became an issue whent he Cubans in Seattle held up signs with pictures of Elain stating "This is the result of Castros's Revolutuion?" His reps at the WTO reported back to Castro this embaressment and the rest is history...
If Al Gore ran for President he would have been the 'rat nominee. (Damn)
To most of the secular elites horror, I actually believe this!
Of course I am just an uneducated slob that got brainwashed somewhere during my life.
The seems to be an upset in paradise.
"Unlike Clinton, Gore inhailed."
...and never exhaled.
They need to send the men in the white coats for Gore. He is a complete nutcase.
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