GORE GOT MORE! In the 2000 Presidential election, Al Gore recieved over 500,000 votes more than his opponent. But did you know that he also:
Received more votes than any other Democratic Presidential candidate in history?
Received the second largest number of votes of any Presidential candidate in history?
Received more votes than any other first time Presidential candidate?
Received more votes than any other Vice President who ran for President?
Floridagate -- the crime we will NEVER forget:
The truth about the stolen Florida election can be found on our Floridagate pages and at these external sites:
Gorewonflorida.org
Bushneverwonflorida.com
Scary Facts About The Florida Vote
The Five Worst Republican Outrages
None Dare Call It Treason
A kinder, gentler Apartheid
Boy, it's a crying shame Al Gore is so unpopular he lost his home state of Tennessee. Or did he? Was there organized, racist vote fraud in Tennessee as well?
Nine Basic Talking Points for Gore Supporters
1. Gore Knows How Real People Live: Before entering politics, Gore's father was a farmer and teacher; Gore's
mother
was a waitress. Both worked their way through college and law school. As a child, Gore worked for his father on the family
farm, getting up before dawn to help feed the livestock, clean out hog parlors, and help to clear and plow fields with a mule
team. Gore served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army. After he left the service, Gore worked
as a newspaper reporter in Nashville, Tennessee.
2. A Lifetime Spent in Service to the Nation: Although he was offered
a position in the National Guard that would have kept him out of the Vietnam war, Gore volunteered for the Army and was
posted near Saigon. Gore served four terms in the House (1977-1985) and two terms in the Senate (1985-1993). He served
as Vice President from 1993 to 2000; his duties included being an advisor to President Clinton, a Cabinet member, President
of the U.S. Senate, a member of the National Security Council, and head of a wide range of Clinton Administration initiatives.
3. Intelligence: Al Gore received a degree in government with honors from Harvard University in 1969. He wrote
"Earth in the Balance", a groundbreaking book on the environment which reached #13 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Gore was instrumental in the creation of the Internet and literally dreamed up the Triana
satellite, which was designed to study global warming. Since leaving the Vice Presidency, Gore has taught graduate level
college courses, even creating a new academic discipline on how to build family friendly communities.
4. An Economy For The People, Not The Powerful: Gore cast the tie-breaking vote that passed the 1993 federal
budget, which turned record deficits into record surpluses and ushered in
the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. More than 22 million new jobs were created under the Clinton/Gore
Administration, the most jobs ever created
under a single Administration. The unemployment rate was the lowest in three decades (3.9%). Hispanic unemployment
and African-American unemployment were reduced to the lowest levels ever recorded. Under Clinton/Gore, the minimum
wage
was increased for the first time in five years, real wages rose at all income levels and home ownership reached record levels.
5. A Champion OF The Environment: Gore chaired the first Congressional oversight hearing dealing
with toxic waste clean up. He co-sponsored early
legislation to study global warming and was an original cosponsor of the Water Quality Act of 1987. The Clinton/Gore
Administration cleaned up three times as many
toxic waste sites as the Reagan and G. H. W. Bush Administrations combined. Gore was instrumental in launching a
partnership
between Detroit and the Federal Government to
develop more fuel-efficient vehicles by 2003. Al Gore helped negotiate an agreement between 142 countries to reduce
greenhouse gasses at the Kyoto Global Warming Conference. The Clinton/Gore Administration created 13 new national parks
and used the Antiquities Act to preserve
and protect more acreage in the lower 48 states than any prior administration.
6. A Commitment To Civil Rights, Not Photo-Ops: Gore cosponsored the Civil Rights Restoration Act. He was an
original cosponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1990, the Equal Remedies Act and also an
original cosponsor of legislation to create a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Clinton/Gore
Administration filed over 500 cases to enforce fair housing laws, more than any
other Administration. Gore made history in the 2000 campaign when he selected Senator Joe Lieberman as his Vice
Presidential running mate, making Lieberman the first
Jew to run on a major party Presidential ticket. Although he was criticized bitterly by the media and some members of his own
party, Gore fought to have every vote counted in the Florida 2000 election, and asked the Justice Department to investigate
Civil Rights violations that occurred there.
7. A Leader In Women's Issues: As a Congressman and Vice President, Gore was an advocate for the Family and
Medical Leave Act, which was
the first bill signed into law by President Clinton. Gore cosponsored the Freedom of Choice Act, which sought to
codify the Roe v. Wade decision into federal law.
Gore was one of the most outspoken supporters of the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He
cosponsored the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990 and the Women's Health Equity Act. In 1988,
Al Gore fought
successfully for legislation that would require a warning label on alcoholic beverages about the dangers of alcohol for pregnant
women.
8. A Real Education President: Gore co-sponsored the bill which created the Department of Education. The
Clinton/Gore Administration made the largest single investment in higher education in 30 years, securing a historic
increase in the Pell Grant program. Gore cast the deciding vote to create the Direct Student Loan Program. The Clinton/Gore
Administration increased funding for Head Start by 90 percent. In 1994, Al Gore
set a goal of connecting every classroom in the country to the Internet; by 2000, 63% of classrooms and 95% of schools
were online.
9. Gore Has Proven He Can Beat George W. Bush: The 2000 Presidential campaign began with George W. Bush leading Gore by 15 points; and it ended with Gore receiving the second
largest number of votes of any Presidential candidate in history -- over 540,000 more votes than Bush.
Gore's victory was record breaking in a number of other ways: he also got more votes than any other Democratic Presidential
candidate; more votes any other first time Presidential candidate;
and more votes than any other Vice President who ran for President. Mathematical models prove that Gore's margin of victory
in Florida would have been over 49,000 votes, if everyone in who voted in Florida had been able to cast their vote on modern
equipment.
You can download a flyer with these nine basic talking points by clicking here. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
Bill and Al's report card
Clinton/Gore administration acheivements: 1. The longest economic expansion in our history.
2. The creation of more than 22 million new jobs.
3. The lowest unemployment in 30 years.
4. Real wages rose at all income levels.
5. The highest home ownership in American history.
6. Unemployment reduced to 3.9 percent.
7. Hispanic unemployment reduced to 5%, the lowest level on record.
8. African-American unemployment reduced by 50% to its lowest level ever recorded.
9. The lowest welfare rolls in 32 years.
10. The lowest crime rates in 26 years.
11. Teen pregnancy and drug abuse were down.
12. Student test were scores up.
13. The number of people without health insurance was reduced for the first time in a dozen years.
14. The size of the federal government was reduced by over 340,000 workers.
15. The federal budget was balanced.
16. The Reagan-Bush I federal debt had finally begun to be reduced.
Gore's teaching "Family Centered Community Building"? Why? And what is it?
Traditional
community development approaches have placed a relatively
greater emphasis on building community infrastructure: building,
business and other determinants of economic productivity.
These are critically important but not sufficient components
of a comprehensive community building effort. They do not
directly address the important family and human development
issues.
Family Centered Community Building is
broader and more integrated. It considers strategies that
invest in the human and social capital of a community as well
as its productive capacity. These include a range of different
strategies that enhance services that support families, child
development and family education, and parenting and skill
building activities. Family Centered Community Building also considers how communities create
the environmental, social, educational conditions to enhance
individual relationships within families and family relationships
within the community.
The course
starts with the basic premise that families and communities
are complex and dynamic systems. To understand the relationships
of families and communities, one needs to understand how family
relationships develop and change how relationships within
a community develop and change over time, and the mutual interdependence
that exists within dynamic systems between families and communities
and, as well, with the broader ecology of human development
(e.g., the natural and designed physical environment and public
policies and cultural institutions).
(From Middle Tennessee State University's Community Building website.)
Where did the whole idea of a Family Centered Community Building course come from in the first place?
Visit the Family Re-Union web site, a collection of reports, speeches, and resources from the annual Family Reunion conferences. Moderated by Al and Tipper Gore, this remarkable initiative provides those who make policy at the federal, state and local levels an opportunity to learn from the experiences of families and those who work with them. Since its inception in 1992, each conference has led to significant advances in research, policy, and program development in the public and private sectors.
Perhaps the most significant outcome of each conference has been
the ongoing partnerships created between organizations and
individuals in each field that have built momentum behind new ways
of addressing long standing issues. Conference topics have included
strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the
media culture on children, the delicate balance between work &
family, family involvement in education, family centered health care,
ways in which community life supports families, and
intergenerational programs.
Click here to learn about the outcomes of past Family Re-Union conferences.
"I will never forget a little boy named Ian Malone." -- President Gore, August 17, 2000
 | | Photo courtesy of babyian.com | |
During the 2000 Democratic Convention, President Gore told America the story of Ian Malone, an infant who suffered from a medical mistake during childbirth and needed full-time nursing care in order to survive. But instead of providing the care guaranteed by the Malone's insurance policy, their HMO insisted that Ian's care wasn't medically necessary and suggested the Malones give Ian up for adoption. Visit babyian.com to read the full story of Ian Malone, how President Gore helped the Malones get help for their son, and how he has remained part of their lives.
The True Clinton/Gore Environmental Record
In 1994, the Republicans gained control of both the House and the Senate and proposed a large number of environmentally
harmful bills and riders. President Clinton made good use of his veto authority to block bills containing legislative riders that
would have weakened environmental protections provided by law.
Visit The Natural Resources Defense Council's website for the complete, very long list of environmental threats vetoed under the Clinton/Gore administration.
DNC websites documenting the Smirk Administration horrors
http://www.100daysofbush.com. The first 100 days of the Smirk occupation, documented in detail. This site will become more and important as time passes, since Smirk's MO is to do all the unpopular, ugly stuff in the first half of his term, and spend the second half of his term posing for fluffy photo-ops, pretending to be a moderate.
http://www.grandoldpetroleum.com. Originally launched during campaign Y2K, the DNC has updated the site with information about Team Smirk's energy "plan" -- you know the one, where they strip mine our cash and give it back to Smirk's campaign donors.
The New York Times gets something right for a change!
February 4, 2001
Will the Democrats Decide to Get Mad or Get Even?
By RICHARD L. BERKE
WASHINGTON - IT is no accident that the first lapel buttons to sell out at a gathering here this weekend of Democratic officials from around the country proclaimed: "Re-elect Al Gore in 2004." Or that Terry McAuliffe, in his pitch to party members to crown him the new Democratic chairman, declared that he was driven to run because "I'm a little outraged about the last election. I'm a littleangry."
Outside Washington, people are more than a little angry. Veteran Democratic organizers say they have not seen such vehemence against a Republican president since at least Richard M. Nixon.
Hard-core Democratic activists are seething. They screamed (some even cried) at the inauguration out of sheer frustration, and they believe President Bush stole the presidency. They will never view him as legitimate.
"Conservatives have been the road-rage crowd, and liberals tend to work things out," said Robert L. Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, a liberal research group. "This time, the liberals are enraged. You'll see people erupting in ways that they wouldn't normally."
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Jumping the gun and off to the races
From Hotline Scoop:
The '04 Iowa Caucuses
As quiet as he's been in recent weeks, the speculation that Al Gore will run again in '04 continues. And recent polls should provide him ample reason to expect favorable conditions. A new poll by the Des Moines Register shows the ex-VP as an easy favorite among Iowa Democrats for their '04 caucuses. At least for now, Gore has a tremendous leg up over his potential competition there. The only other candidate to join Gore in double-digits is a certain senator from New York. Democratic Caucus Matchup
| Ex-VP Al Gore | 39% | | Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) | 12% | | House Min. Leader Dick Gephardt | 9% | | Ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) | 6% | | Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) | 5% | | Senate Min. Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) | 4% | | Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) | 4% | | Ex-Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) | 3% | | Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) | 2% | | Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) | 2%
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Des Moines Register poll, conducted 1/15-21, surveyed 241 registered Dem voters; margin of error +/- 6.3% (1/24).
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