Roger Stone, CANF, & Miami Canvassing Board shut down recount

[DoYouEverWonder]

During the 2000 Recount, Jim Baker called Roger Stone to help fix the election down in Miami. Armando Gutierrez, formerly Elian's spokesman, helped organized the Cuban side of the mob. The same people who happened to be in the mob at Elian's house. The next day the canvassing board decided to stop the recount, but claimed that they had not been intimidated.

Of course, they weren't intimidated. It was all part of the show. Armando Gutierrez is directly connected to each of the three members of the canvassing board. Gutierrez was a paid consultant for Judge Lawrence King, the Chairman of the Canvassing Board.

This 'violent action', shut down the recount. The rights of millions of people in Florida were denied. The right to have their vote counted was denied. This was not a violent riot, it was a staged event. The Miami/Dade Canvassing Board, Robert Stone and Armando Gutierrez should be investigated and charges should be filed against them for their numerous crimes. It's time for this to stop.

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What the world watched was a GOP melee. When Geller walked out of the room with a sample ballot, the crowd accused him of stealing a real one and responded as if he had just nabbed a baby for its organs. Geller says he was pushed by two dozen protesters screaming, "I'm gonna take you down!" Luis Rosero, a Democratic observer, claims he was punched and kicked. Republicans dispute the charges, but video cameras caught scenes of activism that had morphed into menace. The organizers in the RV outside, who GOP protesters have told TIME were led by hardball Washington strategist Roger Stone , had phone banks churning out calls to Miami Republicans, urging them to storm downtown. (Stone could not be reached for comment.) One of them was a fire fighter, Rob Eltus, 45: "What Americans are finally seeing is Republicans fed up."

But what really may have given the canvassing board pause was a sight that strikes fear in any Florida politician, especially elected Dade County judges like Lawrence King, the board's chairman: angry Cuban voters. They marched on the Clark Center after a conservative radio station, Radio Mambí, broadcast interviews with two Cuban-American GOP members of Congress, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who decried the board's moves. For Miami's Cubans, almost 80 percent of whom voted for Bush, this election is mostly about avenging Elian Gonzalez. One of Judge King's paid political consultants is Armando Gutierrez, the man who distributed the Orwellian videotape of Elian denouncing his father last spring.

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On Nov. 22, 2000, after learning that the Miami canvassing board was starting an examination of 10,750 disputed ballots that had previously not been counted, Rep. John Sweeney, a New York Republican, called on Republican troops to ?shut it down,? according to Down and Dirty. Brendan Quinn, executive director of the New York GOP, told about two dozen Republican operatives to storm the room on the 19th floor where the canvassing board was meeting, Tapper reported.

?Emotional and angry, they immediately make their way outside the larger room in which the tabulating room is contained,? Tapper wrote. ?The mass of ?angry voters? on the 19th floor swells to maybe 80 people,? including many of the Republican activists from outside Florida.

News cameras captured the chaotic scene outside the canvassing board's offices. The protesters shouted slogans and banged on the doors and walls. The unruly protest prevented official observers and members of the press from reaching the room. Miami-Dade county spokesman Mayco Villafana was pushed and shoved. Security officials feared the confrontation was spinning out of control.

The canvassing board suddenly reversed its decision and canceled the recount. ?Until the demonstration stops, nobody can do anything,? said David Leahy, Miami?s supervisor of elections, although the canvassing board members would later insist that they were not intimidated into stopping the recount.

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There was substantial Miami Cuban right wing involvement in the Miami Dade Canvassing Board decision to stop the recount: the mob which intimidated the Board was urged on by no less than two Cuban American members of Congress over the radio and on-site, in effect giving them the green light. The Gully reports that Congresswoman "Ros-Lehtinen, who is Cuban-American, was protesting against the recount outside the Miami-Dade county building last week while Sweeney was getting ready to utter his fateful phrase inside. Both she and Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart, the other Cuban-born Republican in the U.S. Congress, had called on Cuban-Americans to join the protest, in on-site interviews granted to Radio Mambi, Miami's biggest Spanish-language station." Both members of Congress support and are supported by the all powerful Cuban American National Foundation, the CANF.

The mob consisted of a mix of Cuban American thugs and Republican politicos from out of town, a mix reminiscent of Watergate. Whether they actually intimidated the commission or not is of course disputed but it is irrelevant for as the Gully reports, "two of the three canvassing board members ... county judges Myriam Lehr, an Independent, and Lawrence D. King, a Democrat, were re-elected to the bench thanks to the cut-throat political consultant Armando Gutierrez, last spotted as the 'spokesman' for Elian's Miami relatives." You'll remember Gutierrez as the political consultant who was paid $10,000 by the Family Court judge who ordered Elian into the custody of his Miami relatives. Gutierrez was very busy citing human rights abuses in Cuba as a reason for Elian to stay in Miami, land of the free.

We also have word from Peter Dale Scott that "Elections supervisor David Leahy of the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board, one of the three who voted to stop the recount, works for Penelas." Mayor Penelas also featured prominently in the Elian affair, siding with the hard liners. Scott is the co-author of Cocaine Politics and of an informative memorandum on Jose Basulto, another CANF ally who is at the heart of the current US Cuba phone dispute.


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[Raster]

1. Roger Stone, guilty of inciting a riot and interfering with lawful...

...democratic process. Stone is a prime example of Imperial American Fascism, and belongs in a prison.

The dark side is using every despicable trick in the book because they can't afford having their dirty tricks scrutinized by the citizenry. Regular Mom and Pop would be truly aghast at the outright illegal activities curtailing democratic process. Democracy to them is something to bait the plebes with.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Not just Roger Stone, the Miami Canvassing Board too

they colluded with Stone and Gutierre. They knew what was going on and did nothing to stop it, except to use the Riot as an excuse to stop the recount.

Gutierre was a paid consultant to Judge King, at the time he helped stage the riot. Judge King only saw friendly faces in that crowd. He knew who all these people were and where they came from. Some of them were his friends.

So here's the chain of command for the Miami side of the operation:

Jim Baker --> Roger Stone --> Armando Gutierrez --> Miami Canvasing Board.

They were all in it together.

[flordehinojos]

2. ISN'T IT SCREAMING MAD IRONIC THAT ARMANDO GUTIERREZ,

a man who left a country because he does not believe in dictators would himself be instrumental in the installation of a dictator's regime right here in the United States. HE OUGHT TO BE PARACHUTED RIGHT BACK INTO CUBA.