THE MAN WE ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 2000 ACTUALLY DID HELP IN NEW ORLEANS

My friend Suzi sent me this today. Kind of makes you stop and think-- especially in light of the fact that EVERY recount conducted before Rehnquist and Co. stopped the official state of Florida recount has shown that Gore won Florida-- and thus the presidency-- by a SUBSTANTIAL margin. So while Bush was golfing in San Diego, campaign fund-raising, plotting to find as bad a Supreme Court Chief Judge as Rehnquist, trying to burnish his shattered image as a leader, etc, the man we actually did elect president in 2000 was taking some action. This is a letter Suzi sent me from a friend of hers:

Here is a story you will not hear on the endless media reports about Louisiana, because the man involved will do no interviews and has only told the press that he wants no mention of his action, lest it be "politicized". Al Gore, private citizen with, certainly, a certain clout, began an initiative on Thursday, September 1st. He personally and privately rented an American Airlines jet and crew, got a doctor friend of his and several nurses, and on Saturday morning, he flew to Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans, gathered up 140 elderly and ill people from the triage center there and flew them to the Knoxville, Tennessee airport. They were met by relief workers who unloaded the plane and took the people to area hospitals which were on alert and ready to welcome the people. After being checked out, those who were able were taken to a Red Cross shelter set up at a local church. Mr. Gore and his doctor had intended to make a second trip on Saturday, but the undertaking - the loading on and the loading off took several hours each, and by the time he could go back to N.O., it was getting dark and, of course, there are no landing lights at the airport in N.O. Sunday, they flew to Dallas and collected another planeload of refugees and brought them to Chattanooga. That's as far as my information goes. I only know this because the local paper was at the Knoxville airport and got pictures of the people and Mr. Gore moving among them, helping them off the plane. His doctor spoke briefly to the local press, saying, "Al called and asked for help. So here I am."
This is the man we elected president.