Mullings by Rich Galen | Secret Decoder Ring for July 14, 2000

I Endorse Thee, I Endorse Thee, I Endorse Thee Friday, July 14, 2000

TITLE: "I Endorse Thee, I Endorse Thee, I Endorse Thee" A play on the mythical mechanism of ending a marriage by saying, "I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee."

"So, you finally get Bill Bradley to agree …" Bradley, after disappearing from view for five months, endorsed Gore yesterday, at an event in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

"Gore can stop by Carthage …" Tracy Mayberry and her family were the poor, rural family who had to live in a house owned by Al Gore in which repairs hadn't been made in over a year. The family, saying Gore had not lived up to his word, moved to Ohio last week.

"I seem to remember a whole Cabinet Secretary …" Here's the beginning of an AP account of the Cisneros affair:

Former HUD Secretary Cisneros indicted on 18 felony counts

By Kevin Galvin
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted Thursday on 18 felony counts of conspiracy, obstructing justice and making false statements to the FBI about payments to a former mistress.

Three other people, including the former mistress, were also charged in the 21-count indictment brought by Independent Counsel David M. Barrett in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.

Barrett alleged that Cisneros made the false statements to FBI agents conducting a background investigation of him when he was nominated to the Cabinet post in 1993.

Barrett's investigation focused on allegations that Cisneros lied about his payments to his former mistress, Linda Jones.

Truly Sophomoric Picture.
I wasn't going to use this, but I saw it on a news-site so I decided to throw it in.

Tell me this doesn't look like Al Gore is saying to NAACP Chairman, Julian Bond:

"No, no. Your hands are too flat to make the noise. You have to put your hands like this and then squeeze!"

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Texas under Governor Bush:

1st in student improvement on test scores, especially for African-American and Hispanic students.

1st in reducing the amount of releases and disposal of toxics - more than all 49 other states combined.

1st in the nation to allow a patient to appeal an HMO's decision to deny care.

1st to create a prison ministry to help offenders reintegrate into society.

1 of only 3 states to require reductions of harmful pollution from older, unpermitted utility plants.

1 of only 10 "highly successful" states in reducing welfare rolls between 1995 and 1998.

4th in growth in total personal income.

9th in teacher pay, when adjusted for cost of living and teacher experience.

$1.8 billion investment in healthcare initiatives.

1.2 million jobs created, representing more than 10 percent of new jobs created nationwide and 48,000 new businesses.

Lowest unemployment rate in twenty years -- 4.7 percent.

Doubled the number of adoptions of abused and neglected children in Texas.

America under Clinton-Gore:

The number of uninsured Americans increased by more than 8 million.

Almost 70 percent of fourth graders in the highest poverty schools cannot read at basic level.

Teachers were victims of 1.8 million crimes at school, including 657,000 violent crimes.

Illegal drug use among high school seniors increased 78 percent.

Federal prosecutions of gun-related offenses decreased by 46 percent.

More than 12,000 U.S. soldiers are on food stamps.

Enacted a $115 billion tax increase on Social Security enefits.

Federal government is the nation's largest polluter, costing taxpayers nearly $400 billion for cleanups.

45 convictions, 72 indictments/misdemeanor charges, and 8 imprisonments related to the 1996 campaign finance scandal, improper conduct by Clinton-Gore cabinet officials, and Whitewater.

What did Arkansas look like when Al Gore joined Bill Clinton in 1992?

50th in environmental policy initiatives.

47th in per capita state spending for education.

43rd in per capita spending for higher education.

41st in citizens living in poverty.

45th in children living in poverty.

47th in children without health insurance.

45th in children living in hunger.

43rd in infants born with low birth weight.

47th in personal income.

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