Chapter 1416 Constitutional Crisis
Peter is not like Song Ya, Underwood, Daly Jr. or Bill Bradley. Gore loses and Song Ya is still a top rich man. Underwood can still be a party whip, and Daly Jr. can still be his Chicago King, Bradley is a bit miserable, but Bradley's term as a federal senator will last until 2002, so there is enough time to turn around.
If Peter loses the bet, he really loses everything, so his mentality is very complicated now.
On the one hand, Gore has not lost after all. Even if there is a slight chance, Peter must have high hopes for Gore's comeback emotionally. He himself has spoken to the media and the party, calling for unity to help Gore win the Florida battle .
On the other hand, Peter's rationality undoubtedly tells him that Gore can't turn this game over, and he is a person who can't control himself too much in terms of personal enjoyment, otherwise, with his ability, he wouldn't have ended up like this.
He lived on the golf course with almost three meals a day, and the old habit of restraining himself from the prostitution scandal broke out has returned to his old ways...
At the same time, he didn't wait for the final result, and asked A to help hype that he and Alicia broke up after the end of this year's election, separated and prepared for divorce.
After all, if Gore loses, the sooner the outside world knows that the couple has severed the relationship, the better it will be for Alicia. Otherwise, the public will think Alicia is a snobbish woman when the news of Gore's official defeat comes out and the two divorce suddenly. , jeopardizing her run for Cook County state attorney next year.
"Boss, you will see him less often."
The manager Hayden appeared behind Song Ya and said.
Peter, who finished playing in the distance, was facing a golf cart. He talked and laughed with the two well-dressed blonde girls who got off the top, but they were actually high-end call girls, and then deliberately opened a distance. Walk towards the rest floor of the golf club.
"Well, in short, let him be happy during this time."
Song Ya nodded. Little Daly couldn't wait to send someone to test his words, and he didn't insist anymore. Once Gore lost the election, Peter would almost certainly be imprisoned, so...he really didn't have much time for indulgence.
On November 12, the Florida Federal District Court controlled by the Donkey Party rejected the emergency application of George Jr.’s camp to stop the manual counting of ballots.
That's good, it doesn't matter if you lose the lawsuit. Since you don't intervene, the Xiang party's Florida Secretary of State will use his administrative power to announce that November 14 is the deadline for reporting the results of manual counting. Counting results will not be recognized.
How can this work! ? Manual counting is inherently slow.
Even if you don’t consider that the electoral system of many counties in Florida is under the control of the Elephant Party, two days is not enough. The Donkey Party is in a hurry. Florida's state court system requested a grace period for the manual counting of ballots.
Soon the Florida court ruled that the executive order of the Secretary of State was in line with state law, but... But because the manual counting results in Florida have been deeply tied to the national election, the Secretary of State cannot ignore the county election commission appeal. '
It's also very good! So what is your request? The Secretary of State of Florida immediately asked the county election committee below to submit a statement of reasons why the manual counting must be postponed, and then probably didn’t bother to read it, and simply and rudely rejected it again with administrative power on the grounds of “insufficient reasons” and announced that it would be held on the 18th. announced the results of the Florida election.
The Gore camp had no choice but to appeal to the state Supreme Court, and then the state Supreme Law, which leans towards the Donkey Party, immediately did what it wanted, in the name of holding a court hearing, prohibiting the Secretary of State from signing any election results before the state Supreme Law makes a judgment.
So the executive power granted by the Secretary of State is not recognized by the Supreme Law of your state? The Elephant Party media immediately scolded and appealed to the Federal Supreme Court.
So far, the whole thing has finally become a complete farce. Peter is right, the florida fight has officially entered a stage where it looks like there are laws to follow, but it's really all about where your ass is, and even the law is actually being ignored because there's so much ambiguity in it Areas or areas that can be blurred, such as the Secretary of State directly using administrative power to play tricks, such as the state Supreme Court deliberately using trial procedures to delay Gore's time for manual vote counting.
Workers of the two parties were even more frantic at the manual counting scene, which was interrupted by executive orders and court decisions. However, the quality of grassroots party workers in various counties is mediocre, and some even pushed and shoved them on the spot.
Then this ugly scene was broadcast live around the world, and people all over the world ate melons to watch the show.
The media has also begun to refer to the embarrassing situation and institutional problems that the dignified American has not even been able to elect a commander-in-chief as a "so-and-so crisis".
"In any case, it is still beneficial to the party, because they still win the paper votes. They just need to delay the time of manual vote counting as much as possible, and the donkey party can't delay the whole thing indefinitely, right? The image and appeal of the United States, and the free world as a whole, is a disaster..." Sloan said.
"I let them die."
Song Ya can't be bothered anymore. He has more personal pain. Due to the general election dragged by the drama, investors have completely lost confidence in rice stocks, and rice stocks have plummeted across the board. The problem is that capital is leaving the United States.
It is still too early for Idemitsu to own YAHOO and other stocks!
Under the "careful care" of O'Grady and other speculators, Juniper fluctuated downward, but the lowest point has dropped below 100 dollars!
I believe that except for those short-selling vultures, the entire Wall Street will be anxious.
In addition, both the donkey and elephant parties have put more pressure on Channel A. Since McAvoy, the current anchor of A, generally supports manual vote counting, not to mention Gordon and other people, so the elephant party More pressure.
"APLUS, our mutual friends are running out of patience, we have a higher probability of winning, you have to consider this, right?"
John Liu, a friend of Xiangdang, called several times and said: "If this continues, we will become enemies. I believe you will never want to see this. I am a legal expert myself. The final battlefield of this duel must be the Federal Supreme Court. court, and you know we can't lose there."
Little Daly from the Donkey Party also came to the door in person. He even expected Song Ya to put some public opinion pressure on the only black federal justice, the staunch conservative Thomas, and even hinted whether he could contact Thomas to find a way to "get him". Because Thomas asked his assistant to beat around the bush and let go of his complaints when Song Ya was shot in a coma, everyone knew that there was no need to do anything to us. If the black man can't stand up by himself, let him lie on his stomach! ’ Philosophy Thomas hates many African-Americans very much, but he only has a good impression of this self-made young black richest man.
"I'm not going to do it, now I'm going to contact the federal justice? I'm not that stupid!"
Song Ya refused without thinking, "It seems that both parties foresee that this matter will eventually be submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. What should we do?" He asked Sloan.
"There is a high probability that the Federal Supreme Court will make a judgment in favor of the target party, although we don't know the specific cases that hit there yet."
"Unless Gore gets the votes and gets the lead before then," Sloan said.
But now, no one in the outside world knows the result of the manual counting of votes. Some media say that George Jr. has widened the gap, and some say that Gore has completed the overtake. The news is flying around. All kinds of powerful people on the Internet support our position, all kinds of quarrels and curses, like the party's mouthpiece FOXNews is fully fired, and a spray of B will not lose the wind.
The situation of paper media is similar.
The big TV stations around the world update the news in real time, and by the way, popularize the election law of the United States to the citizens, but many times they are confused when they talk about it.
"Let's play a little trick." Under the pressure, Song Ya thought it over. Those conservatives in the Xiangdang Party are very black. There are so many illegal operations in Florida this time, and they can't afford to lose. As for the donkey party, they can still explain how much money they paid this year, so they smiled slyly at Sloan, "So... so."
"Well, it seems possible."
Sloan nodded as he listened, and finally pulled out fifty dollars.
On the second day, the audience of A found that Gordon and the guest lineup on the news anchor station were gone, and it was back to the usual McAvoy alone with the financial anchor and at most one guest.
The reporter called to ask, and Channel A explained that the election special program cannot always exist, and the program mode will eventually return to normal.
On November 22, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 7-0 to continue the manual counting of ballots, which will be reported to the Secretary of State five days later, and the Secretary of State must accept the manual counting results.
The donkey party was just happy one day, when the Dade County Election Commission controlled by the Xiang party claimed that all manual counting of votes would not be completed in five days, so we simply dropped the pick.
The donkey party and the media were so angry that they investigated. It turned out that during this period of time, Dade County had only completed the recounting of 6,000 of the 600,000 ballots in the county, which meant that nothing had been done before!
The Elephant Party really made up their minds to play tricks, and they took Dade County to court. October 26th is just around the corner, and only one of the disputed counties has completed the counting of votes. The Secretary of State immediately signed the Florida As a result of the election, it was announced that George Jr. won by more than 500 votes.
Golfang will sue again on the 27th. At this time, dozens of large and small lawsuits have been launched in various parts of Florida at the same time...
On the 30th, members of the Elephant Party of the Florida Assembly, who had previously pretended to be neutral, proposed a motion, citing the "safety period law" of 1887 to convene a special session of the state assembly, demanding that the election be held before December 12. Twenty-five electors are selected.
The media began to refer to this general election as a constitutional crisis instead of a certain crisis, because it has not been many days since December 18th when the electors of each state voted for the general. It did not affect the final outcome of the general election, but this time the 25 votes in Florida were difficult to produce because of the crazy game between the two parties. If it cannot be resolved by then, a procedure that was originally only ceremonial will become very funny. Twenty-five electors were not elected by the state's six million voters, but instead were decided by a meeting of the state legislature.
The donkey party angrily denounced this as "anti-clause..." and unconstitutional.
"It's time to accept the reality. Although the whole process makes me very, very sick, but for the sake of the country, Deputy Commander Gore should stop fighting. This does not mean that this kind of fighting is unjust... But America needs tolerance and mutual understanding. We really, really need to stick together right now."
On December 1, McAvoy, the head anchor of Channel A, suddenly "rebelled", and he called on Gore to admit the reality.
"Hehe, personnel affairs are politics, so it will be successful..."
Song Ya happily said to Song Zecheng beside him: "I didn't influence him at all, but I know that this kind of journalist who claims to have a social conscience will make what he thinks is the right choice. I don’t want to see a constitutional crisis in the United States.”
"Why don't you be the boss, tall, really tall." Song Zecheng smiled and gave a thumbs up.
On December 4th, the Supreme Court of the United States intervened in the general election for the first time, "cancelled" and "returned" but did not overturn the Florida Supreme Court's favoritism towards the Gore camp, nor did it rule on the legality of manual vote counting.
In fact, the signal is enough, and the number of people from the original donkey party camp who followed McAvoy suddenly increased.
On the 7th, the Supreme Court of Florida held a debate. On the second day, the head iron continued to ask the counties to recount the ballots manually.
On the 9th, more than ten days after the Florida Secretary of State signed the election results, the following counties were still manually counting votes, and George Jr.'s lead was quickly chased to within 200 votes.
On the 11th, the Federal Supreme Court couldn't sit still, and suddenly asked all counties in Florida to immediately stop manual vote counting, and officially named the case George Jr. v. Gore.
At this time, it is not difficult for a discerning person to guess the final result.
"Mr. Gore will probably concede defeat after the Supreme Court decision," Sloan said.
"It's a pity, but it's the only way to go."
Song Ya smiled and said, "I did learn a lot this month."
"APLUS, there is a big buyer who wants to eat your YAHOO! All of it!" At this time O'Grady happily flew into Highland Park, "You will never guess who it is!"
"Oh? Who?"
"Carl Icahn!"