Posted on 11/25/2014 8:41:08 PM PST by EveningStar
Havana -- Fifteen years ago today two fishermen plucked an exhausted, frightened five-year-old tied to an inner tube out of the waters off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale.
Elian Gonzalez, less than two weeks short of his 6th birthday, was the young Cuban boy whose rescue set off an international custody battle and reverberated in the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign.
Now nearly 21 and out of the public eye, Gonzalez is studying industrial engineering at the university in his home province of Matanzas in Cuba.
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Iirc Ralph Nader cost gore fla. 80,000 votes from dems
Ok. And how many Cuban votes went to Bush because of Elian Gonzalez?
Iirc Cubans then voted more republican. I’m sure your research will find the right number
Sounds like it’s something you should research, I really don’t care.
There was a South Park episode on this issue, where Janet Reno dressed as the Easter Bunny so she could personally kidnap Elian.
I don’t remember it... I only saw a few episodes of that show.
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