WP,pg1: Calderón Says He Would Accept Partial Recount: Chides Tony Snow

[DeepModem Mom]

Calderón Says He Would Accept Partial Recount
Winner of Disputed Mexican Vote Chides Bush Aide on Border Wall Comment
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 12, 2006; Page A01


Calderon wants an immigration accord with U.S. (Dario Lopez-mills - AP)

MEXICO CITY, July 11 -- Felipe Calderón, a free-trade booster who was declared the winner of Mexico's disputed presidential election last week, said Tuesday that he would accept a partial recount but that a complete recount would be "absurd" and illegal.

Calderón's main opponent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, has alleged widespread election fraud, called massive street protests and asked Mexico's special electoral court to order a recount of votes cast in all 130,000 polling stations. In his first international media interview since being declared winner, Calderón said Tuesday that he would abide by the decision of the court, even if it orders a recount of as many as 50,000 polling places....

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During the wide-ranging interview at his Mexico City campaign headquarters, Calderón also took exception to remarks made Monday by President Bush's spokesman, Tony Snow, about Calderón's opposition to building more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border. Snow told reporters that the "last time I checked, Calderón did not have any official authority over the activities of the United States government."

In the interview, Calderón said, "President Bush's spokesman is someone who does not have the authority to tell me what I should be saying."

Calderón also repeated his contention that the immigration problem "cannot be solved with walls." And he said he would rather see "one kilometer of road built in Michoacan or Zacatecas than 10 kilometers of wall in Texas or California."...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071101534.html

[Amonester]

1. Calderón said Freeper Snowjob is an idiot!

:rofl:

Calderón said, "President Bush's spokesman is someone who does not have the authority to tell me what I should be saying."

:popcorn:

[Erika]

2. I guess Tony thinks he can talk better than W

How insolent.

[merwin]

3. A complete recount would be illegal?

They're pulling the same shit they pulled in Ohio, not allowing full recounts.

[Ghost Dog]

4. Not at all illegal, I understand.

It would have to be ordered (like everything else in this context) by the Federal Electoral Tribunal.

However, the 'normal' procedure is to re-examine, to recount, only in those voting-places where some prima facie evidence of possible irregularities can be demonstrated - and by a deadline, which I understand in this case to have been Monday 10th July. Hence the 43,000 or so documented cases so-far presented to that court.

[flyarm]

5. and fla 2000..............n/t