Tipper Gore

On Saturday, December 9th, the US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to abandon the hand recounts in the counties and set a new hearing for December 11th. This hearing lasted for two solid days, and on December 12th, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Bush v Gore and reversed the verdict made by the Florida Supreme Court. The court ruled that: not all ballots were being treated equally and thus a violation of the Constitution 's 14th amendment equal protection clause, the Florida Supreme Court would be…

L. Gore and Associates produced was customized wiring that could be used in a number of different settings and weather conditions. Mr. Gore’s original intent was to solve customer 's problems by providing customized wiring products. As time has passed W. L. Gore and Associates has been part of some of the greatest advances in technology and events in history. The company provided…

W. L. Gore – Culture of a Chaos or Innovation? Historically, bureaucracy was government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. Hierarchy and excessively complicated decision-making procedures are some of the main things Bill Gore did not want to see as the culture of his organization. Learning off the DuPont Task Force {Exibit 3} Bill, thrived off a collaborative small groups were clusters of employees bonded on projects and worked tight knit and relied on…

phrase “one person, one vote”, the Electoral College completely alters a voter’s choice. Under the Electoral College, every vote in a state is cast in favor of a certain candidate based on that state’s majority. All the Floridians who voted for Albert Gore in 2000 ended up unwillingly voting for George W. Bush due to the Electoral College (Congressional Digest…

popular election while winning the necessary number of Electoral votes should they win key states, thus securing the Presidency. This ‘electoral crisis’ (Spilerman & Dickens, 1974) can give rise to situations such as in the 2000 election where VP Al Gore won the popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes, yet lost the election to George W.…

Romer v. Evans is a case brought to the Supreme Court by Richard G. Evans (Respondent), a gay employee of the mayor of Denver against then Governor Roy Romers, The Attorney General of Colorado, and the State of Colorado (Petitioner). The case was centered around an amendment to the state constitution that prohibited “the state of Colorado… at any level of state or local government from adopting or enforcing any law or policy which provides that homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation,…

Gore (2000), and the persistent uncertainty about the results of the election in Florida is a clear example. Gore petitioned for a recount, thus the local court of Florida, required the city, Palm Beach, to manually recount their ballots since voters in Florida claimed that they had problems with the state’s…

Affirmative action, by definition, is an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. Using varying instruments and policies, Affirmative Action aims to help underrepresented groups have a better job opportunities or college admissions. Generations of people have been disadvantaged by institutionalized discrimination and one way to remedy this is to place a policy that evens out the playing field. There has been…

The most interesting detail I learned from the books is that a candidate being able to connect with voters is one of the most important things a candidate must do to win the presidency. It can be seen in the 1992 election as Clinton was able to connect with people and make them believe that change was possible. Bush in this election was unable to connect and so even though he was president when the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union fell, he was unable to win the presidency. I believe this…

Led by Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and future Vice President, the committee compiled and published the "Filthy Fifteen", a list of 15 songs they classified as 'dangerous'. Sex was made the Aunt Sally in the agenda of the PMRC. Songs by popular artists of that era…