WP: Miami (Brooks Bros.) 'Riot' Squad: Where Are They Now?

[kskiska]

As we begin the second Bush administration, let's take a moment to reflect upon one of the most historic episodes of the 2000 battle for the White House -- the now-legendary "Brooks Brothers Riot" at the Miami-Dade County polling headquarters.

This was when dozens of "local protesters," actually mostly Republican House aides from Washington, chanted "Stop the fraud!" and "Let us in!" when the local election board tried to move the recounting from an open conference room to a smaller space.

With help from their GOP colleagues and others, we identified some of these Republican heroes of yore in a photo of the event.

Some of those pictured have gone on to other things, including stints at the White House. For example, Matt Schlapp, No. 6, a former House aide and then a Bush campaign aide, has risen to be White House political director. Garry Malphrus, No. 2 in the photo, a former staff director of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice, is now deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. And Rory Cooper, No. 3, who was at the National Republican Congressional Committee, later worked at the White House Homeland Security Council and was seen last week working for the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

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Sources say the "rioters" proudly note their participation on résumés and in interviews. But while the original hardy band of demonstrators numbered barely a couple dozen, the numbers apparently have grown with the legend.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31074-2005Jan23.html

[KoKo]

1. Is this article by Kamen supposed to be a joke to us Dems? Are we

supposed to laugh that the WaPo decides to post this after the Chimp's Inauguration? Going back and showing what we knew four years ago and now dragging it up and sticking it in our eye? :wow:

[catzies]

2. Yup. They didn't feel 'safe' enough to gloat before. They do now.

I see it a lot. :puke:

[ebayfool]

6. I think that MSM is finally getting scared of what they have bought.

Buyer's remorse? *ush seems to have finally started to scare some of them & some of the repubs I talk to, as well. Seems to be little leaks & cracks appearing in the dam of the last few days. I'm glad they're letting some of it come out, now we need them to grow a full on set & dig up everything they can on little boots! Late yes, but MORE!

[UTUSN]

3. Where Are They Now?---------Why, Right HERE

Who are they? Roger J. STONE and his Cuban wife Nikki. He has been involved in Repuke dirty tricks since age 19 for NIXON. When DOLE ran for prez, STONE was a chief adviser and advised that "family values" be a key campaign issue. During the campaign the National Enquirer found out that Mr and Mrs STONE were "swingers" who advertised for other couples, and who posted their nekkid pics of themselves in magazines. More recently, Roger was the leader of the Repuke mob that stormed the Miami elections office in 2000.

The CBS documents were called-in to the BURKETT informer-dude by somebody named "Lucy RAMIREZ". Uh, could it be Nikki the Cuban? She was supposed to deliver them to BURKETT at the stock show in Houston. When BURKETT got there, a man in a suit is who delivered the documents. This was in May, 2004. BURKETT sat on the documents for months.

When CBS made contact with BURKETT and then aired the story in September, FOUR HOURS LATER a Repuke lawyer, Harry MacDOUGALD was on the internet claiming the documents were forgeries. Uh, how would he know, not having SEEN or handled the documents personally?

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http://www.voiceoffreedom.com/electionstuff/electionlaw ...

According to Judge Hooper’s 36-page order, Roger Stone, through his Washington, D.C.-based firm, "Ikon Public Affairs", was the real agent behind the campaign in late 2000 and 2001 to defeat the Florida Justices in the 2002 merit retention election. But who, if anyone, was paying Roger Stone and giving him orders remains unclear.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0405/barrett.php

'Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.'

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-091704buck...

Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist

WASHINGTON — It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles.

But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was the work of Harry W. MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Times has found.

The identity of "Buckhead," a blogger known previously only by his screen name on the site freerepublic.com ....

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[stevedeshazer]

4. That photo enrages me every time I see it

[bullimiami]

7. this is photographic evidence of criminal conspiricy

is there a statute of limitations for tampering with an election.

If we ever again have an honest government these guys will be in jail and the racketeering charges will take Delay and the rest of the creeps down with them.

It makes me furious at the democrats for letting this go without screaming about it.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. You know the law doesn't apply to Repugs

and the Dems rarely call them on it. Even when they do, they back down and end up appologizing for even thinking such bad things about their comrades on the other side of the eisle.

[bpilgrim]

11. but don't say something bad about THEIR image or record

or they'll (our leaders) be all over ya :crazy:

i love how long a memory the INTERNET got :evilgrin:

it has certainly come a long way and the 'blogasphere' is mentioned with increasing frequency on the M$M these days :bounce:

have i said...

thank GORE he 'INVENTED' the INTERNETs!

recently ;->

:hi:

peace

[gratuitous]

14. New law: IOKIYAR

It's okay if you're a Republican. You can fix elections, cheat on your spouse, hell even start a war if you're so inclined, and the media give you a pass. They'll even follow-up to show how consequence-free your life has gone since your crime just to rub your opponents' collective nose in it. Because . . .

IT'S OKAY IF YOU'RE A REPUBLICAN.

[BlueManDude]

9. I'd be angry too - if I was a pasty-faced, balding 22 year old. n/t

[stevedeshazer]

12. That would suck, alright

:)

[American Renaissance]

13. 10 is sort of cute...

3 looks like a nazi war criminal

[StuckinKS]

18. There are a couple with Kansas connections.

Number 6, Matt Sclapp is from Wichita. His mother is my city council rep and she is damn proud of her son. Ugh!!! Our local paper showed them both making merry at an inaugural event.

Number 1, Tom Pyle now works for Koch Industries, our homegrown reichtwingers.

"What's the Matter with Kansas?" indeed.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. kick

[annabanana]

10. This is so damned disgusting!

I want this photo of thuggery to be as familiar to the American people as the goddamn republican elephant is.

They are a big pile of elephant dung.

[CBHagman]

15. I'm going to copy it and send it to friends in SC and FL

The friends in Florida already despise the GOP. The friend in SC, of course, has a Senator who employs one of these pieces of human filth. I'll ask my friend how she would feel if, say, Ted Kennedy or Henry Waxman sent staff to disrupt vote counting in her district.

The wages of sin are pretty decent, if you're a -- say it with me, friends -- Republlican.

[blm]

16. WP whores are printing this NOW, after another media-manipulated election?

Why? So they can say at some point that they never ignored the facts about that story?

[jmcgowanjm]

17. DU 59sunburst GlobalResearch Xymphora come together

The Strange Death of American Democracy:

Endgame in Ohio


Another analysis that may have wide potential applicability
has been published at the Democratic Underground website
by a computer programmer who claims to have special
expertise in the reverse-engineering of calculations, and
who goes by the blogger cognomen of '59sunburst.'
(Because this analysis has been anonymously published--
and because, moreover, I have been unable to activate
the author's link to a field of supporting data--I present it with
due reservations, in the hope that those
possessing programming expertise may be able to
critically assess its validity.)

A third possibility also presents itself: namely, that a
substantial number of the people who voted for George Bush
in Miami County in 2004 do not in fact
exist.

Richard Hayes Phillips proposes that the Miami County
returns are riddled with fraud--sometimes rather sloppy fraud,
as when the precincts of Concord South and Concord
South West reported voter turnouts of 94.27 and 98.55
percent respectively, while in adjoining Concord South East
the turnout amounted to only 56.55 percent of
registered voters.<47> (The Concord South West turnout
figure means, by the way, that only ten registered voters failed
to vote--though more than that number of voters in the
precinct have signed affidavits testifying that they did
not vote.)<48>

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE501A.html

The 2004 election is the culmination of forty years of
American conspiracy starting with the murder of JFK, with
the failure to investigate each conspiracy leading directly to
the next one. When Earl Warren decided he had to lie to
the American people about who was really responsible for
the death of JFK, he set in motion a series of head-in-the-
sand bad decisions that continue up to today. The
consistent lack of courage in facing its demons has left
the United States in a bit of a pickle, as it now faces an
almost inconceivably bleak future of theocratic
leadership, disastrous economic policies, and a never-
ending series of wars.

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/