Florida 2000, Again: Times’ Paul Krugman Keeps Hoax Alive!

By Nicholas Stix There he goes again! Paul Krugman is still repeating the Big Lie of 2000 – that Republicans stole the presidential election by suppressing the black vote in Florida. If Krugman is right, the GOP must also have exercised mind control over or bought off Democrat election officials in Palm Beach County, when the latter designed the butterfly ballot that confused many voters. The GOP must also either have bought off or exercised mind control over the black Democrat activists who illegally entered polling places and went up and down lines of black Democrat voters, exhorting them, “Vote on every page!” and who in some polling places illegally handed black voters fliers, telling them whom to vote for. Since the presidential candidates covered more than one page, those voters illegally voted for two candidates, thus invalidating their votes. My letter to the Times follows below. To the Editor: Paul Krugman’s September 2 “correction” was truly amazing. He wrote, “… the recorded vote was so close that, when you combine that fact with the effects of vote suppression and ballot design, it becomes reasonably clear that the voters of Florida, as well as those of the United States as a whole, tried to choose Mr. Gore.” Almost five years after the myth of the GOP theft of the 2000 election in Florida was refuted, Krugman is still repeating the old, discredited lies. No evidence was ever provided that the Florida vote was suppressed in 2000. After the NAACP claimed to have thousands of affidavits from black Florida voters who claimed their voting rights had been violated, Mary Frances Berry of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission convened hearings on the suppression of black voters. Not one of those thousands of affidavits materialized. The NAACP had lied. And only three black Florida voters showed up to testify, none of whom testified that their voting rights had been violated, or that they knew of anyone else’s voting rights having been violated. As for the ballot design issue, the ballot was designed by Democrat officials. Hence, if Democrat voters’ wills had been thwarted, they were thwarted by officials of their own party. But there is no more evidence today that Florida voters’ wills were thwarted, than there was in 2000. Mr. Krugman has distinguished himself yet again, in keeping hoax alive! Nicholas Stix I violated the Times’ limit of 150 words, but that’s beside the point. The Times hasn’t published any of my letters to the editor since 1997, in spite of my having sent them about 100 during that time, virtually all of which kept to the word limit. Besides, if the letters editor wants to run a letter, he reserves the right to cut it down. Since I know the Times won’t publish any of my letters, and I planned on publishing the one above on the ‘Net, I also didn’t censor myself by refraining from using the “l” word, as in Krugman and the NAACP lied.