NOW They Want a Recount
“‘To publish illegal votes as legal votes would be to mislead the readers and the public,’ complained Tucker Eskew, a spokesman for Bush. ‘Anything that undermines Bush’s ability to govern is of my concern,’ fretted Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida.”
No game, the 2000 election launched an important debate over electoral laws and procedures, states’ rights, federalism, the Constitution, and the judiciary that the Tribune could have been contributing to by arguing its positions instead of merely pronouncing them. Admirably, the newspaper’s front page got serious on Christmas Eve. Reporting on its own backyard, the Tribune said it “has found the ‘undervote’ in Cook County not only dwarfed the rest of the state but was more than double that of the last two presidential elections.”
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In April, Anglin made the downtown dailies with his story of being bushwacked outside his Homewood office. The getaway car was traced to the office of former alderman Edward Vrdolyak, a onetime Anglin pal. Anglin, who dove for cover and miraculously escaped injury, claimed his assailant was 66-year-old Joseph Sallas, Vrdolyak’s longtime friend and employee and the godfather of several of his children.
Apparently Anglin took Sallas’s acquittal in stride. “It comes down to, was it the same person who shot at me that day?” he told the Tribune. “That day I believed so. Today the judge said it might not have been, so I’ll go along with him.”
He’s Their Man–Sort Of
