Al Gore Warns of Election Grab by Bush
/Former Vice President Al Gore, who lost the bitterly contested
2000 election, is warning of a repeat of the recount nightmare in
Florida. " The widespread efforts by (President) Bush's political
allies to suppress voting have reached epidemic proportions,'' he
charged yesterday. "Some of the scandals of Florida four years ago are
now being repeated in broad daylight even as we meet here
today.'' He said the Bush team used an Enron jet to ferry ``their
rent-a-mob to Florida in 2000 to permanently halt the counting of
legally cast ballots.'' In a stinging indictment of his former
rival, Gore accused Bush of forbidding dissent, disdaining facts and
ignoring his mistakes in a ``recklessness that risks the safety and
security of the American people.'' "It is love of power for its own
sake that is the original sin of this presidency,'' Gore said in a
speech at Georgetown University sponsored by the liberal group
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