Thursday, March 07, 2002
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Hollywood
actor and renowned President Bush basher Alec Baldwin made an
appearance at the Florida Capitol Wednesday to continue
speaking out against the president and his family.
Baldwin was in Tallahassee with People for
the American Way to criticize Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida
officials for not doing more to reform Florida's election
system.
When told of Baldwin's presence in
Tallahassee, Gov. Bush expressed surprise and said, "He had
promised he would leave the country if my brother got elected.
Well he's back, I guess. We'll welcome him to Tallahassee."
But Baldwin disputed that he said he'd
leave the country if George W. Bush were elected. Even if he
had made the statement, Baldwin said there was still no reason
to leave.
"I never made that statement," Baldwin
said, "but you can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not
going to leave the country because we have to get him out of
office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004.
We're not resting until we get that done."
The state was the focus of the world during
the 2000 presidential election when it took five weeks to
declare George W. Bush the winner.
The election dispute ended when the U.S.
Supreme Court stopped a recount. Many Democrats believe Al
Gore would have won the election if the recount had not been
stopped.
"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected
selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party
lines," Baldwin said.
Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan got in on the
discussion, saying outside the Capitol, "I haven't seen any of
Alec Baldwin's work myself; I understand he's mildly
talented."
The Associated Press contributed to
this report. | 
