Florida Recount Expenditures

There was a story briefly mentioned in one of the newscasts I caught over the weekend stating that the Bush campaign spent four times more than the Gores on expenditures during the 2000 Florida recount. It is available on CNN.com and via the Washington Post.

This is a rather inconsequential piece of news now, obviously, but it further discredits the Republican line during the recount that, while they were making a noble "appeal to the law," Democrats were meddling behind the scenes to steal the election. In reality, as Republicans were painting Gore as a crybaby trying to assault the Constitution, the Bushies were spending freely and getting their pawns into place. The Republican rhetoric was basically a smokescreen to hide their own frantic maneuvering in trying to influence the recount and subsequent legal decisions.