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Packed with news-making disclosures and written with the drive of a legal thriller, Too Close to Call takes us inside James Bakers private jet, through the locked gates to Al Gores mansion, behind the covered-up windows of Katherine Harriss office, and even into the secret conference room of the United States Supreme Court. As the scene shifts from Washington to Austin and into the remote corners of the enduringly strange Sunshine State, Toobins book will transform what you thought you knew about the most extraordinary political drama in American history.
The Florida recount unfolded in a kaleidoscopic maze of bizarre concepts (chads, pregnant and otherwise), unfamiliar people in critically important positions (the Florida Supreme Court), and familiar people in surprising new places (the Miami relatives of Elin Gonzlez, in a previously undisclosed role in this melodrama). With the rich characterization that is his trademark, Toobin portrays the prominent strategists who masterminded the campaigns--the Daleys and the Roves--and also the lesser-known but influential players who pulled the strings, as well as the judges and justices whose decisions determined the final outcome. Toobin gives both camps a treatment they have not yet received--remarkably evenhanded, nonpartisan, and entirely new.
The post-election period posed a challenge to even the most zealous news junkie: how to keep up with what was happening and sort out the important from the trivial. Jeffrey Toobin has now done this--and then some. With clarity, insight, humor, and a deep understanding of the law, he deconstructs the events, the players, and the often Byzantine intricacies of our judicial system. A remarkable account of one of the most significant periods in our countrys history, Too Close to Call is endlessly surprising, frequently poignant, and wholly addictive.
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CONTENTS
To Ellen,
future voter
Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities.
Unsigned majority opinion,
United States Supreme Court,
Bush v. Gore,
December 12, 2000
CAST OF CHARACTERS*
THE CANDIDATES
Republicans
Governor George W. Bush
Richard B. Cheney
Democrats
Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman
THE CAMPAIGNS
For Bush
Donald L. Evans, campaign chairman
Joseph Allbaugh, campaign manager
Karl Rove, senior strategist
Karen P. Hughes, communications director
For Gore
William M. Daley, campaign chairman
Carter Eskew, Robert Shrum, media consultants
Tad Devine, strategist
Mark Fabiani, Chris Lehane, spokesmen
*Descriptions reflect actual duties rather than official titles.
Michael Whouley, chief field operative
Nicholas Baldick, Florida field operative
Donna Brazile, campaign manager
David Ginsberg, research director
THE STATE OF FLORIDA
Jeb Bush, governor
Frank Jimenez, acting chief counsel
Al Cardenas, chairman, Florida Republican Party
Robert A. Butterworth, attorney general
Katherine Harris, secretary of state
J. M. Mac Stipanovich, senior adviser
Joseph Klock, lead counsel
L. Clayton Roberts, director, Division of Elections
Benjamin McKay, chief of staff
THE BATTLE IN FLORIDA
For Bush
James A. Baker III, chief strategist
Robert Zoellick, Margaret Tutwiler, deputies to Baker
Benjamin Ginsberg, chief counsel
George Terwilliger, deputy chief counsel
Theodore B. Olson, federal appellate attorney
Barry Richard, lead local counsel
Michael Carvin, appellate attorney
Philip Beck, Irv Terrell, Fred Bartlit, counsel for contest case
For Gore
Warren Christopher, initial representative
Ronald Klain, chief strategist
David Boies, lead attorney
Laurence H. Tribe, federal appellate attorney
Jack Young, Chris Sautter, recount attorneys
Mitchell Berger, Dexter Douglass, John Newton, Joseph Sandler, Mark Steinberg, Robert Bauer, Stephen Zack, Jeremy Bash, attorneys
PALM BEACH COUNTY
Canvassing Board
Charles E. Burton, county judge
Carol Roberts, county commissioner
Theresa LePore, supervisor of elections
Bob Montgomery, Bruce Rogow, counsel to LePore
Jack Corrigan, Benedict P. Kuehne, David Sullivan,
Dennis Newman, attorneys for Gore
Mark Wallace, attorney for Bush
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
Canvassing Board
Lawrence D. King, county judge
Myriam Lehr, county judge
David Leahy, supervisor of elections
Kendall Coffey, Joseph Geller, attorneys for Gore
Miguel DeGrandy, Tom Spencer, attorneys for Bush
BROWARD COUNTY
Canvassing Board
Robert W. Lee, county judge
Suzanne Gunzburger, county commissioner
Jane Carroll, supervisor of elections (stepped down)
Robert Rosenberg, county judge (replaced Carroll)
JUDGES
Supreme Court of the United States
William H. Rehnquist, chief justice
John Paul Stevens
Sandra Day OConnor
Antonin Scalia
Anthony M. Kennedy
David H. Souter
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen G. Breyer
United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
Donald M. Middlebrooks, judge
Florida Supreme Court
Charles T. Wells, chief justice
Leander J. Shaw, Jr.
Major B. Harding
Harry Lee Anstead
Barbara J. Pariente
R. Fred Lewis
Peggy A. Quince
Leon County Circuit Court
Nikki Ann Clark
Terry P. Lewis
N. Sanders Sauls
L. Ralph Smith, Jr.
Palm Beach County Circuit Court
Jorge LaBarga
Prologue
Florida Sunrise
The sun rising over the Atlantic casts a peach glow on the Lake Ida Shopping Plaza. Its architectural motif is typical of the lesser strip malls in Floridas Palm Beach Countyersatz stucco, with a roof of battered tiles. The first rays of dawn land on Good Stuff Furniture, where factory-closeout sofas and love seats are sold on layaway. One storefront over, engineers and hard hats arrive early at the construction office for the job of widening I-95, the truck-choked superhighway whose low rumble and smoggy haze never entirely leave this commercial square. The medical office of Dr. Jean-Claude Tabuteau is open only at night, to serve his working-class Haitian clientele, men and women who spend their days changing sheets and watering lawns at the resorts on the other side of the highway.
On the morning of November 7, 2000Election Daythe mall had none of its usual subtropical torpor. One of the storefronts was home to the Democratic Party of Palm Beach County, and its offices served as the base for the biggest get-out-the-vote operation that anyone could remember. The plan called for one group of volunteers to work the phones in the party offices and another to disperse to the precincts. The poll workers were to be given their assignments, as well as their leaflets and signs, at a long folding table just outside the front door. A woman named Liz Hyman was in charge of the table.
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