PrintSeptember 17, 2005
Michael Moore's Senator
So now a Democratic Senator can be influenced by a discredited Hollywood filmmaker?
Sen. Barbara Boxer says Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" had nothing to do with her challenge of Ohio's 20 electoral votes, but she nevertheless regrets not challenging the Florida electoral votes four years ago.
Mr. Moore's Bush—bashing movie "had nothing to do with what I'm doing now," she says.
At one point in the 2004 film, Mr. Moore scolded Senate Democrats for remaining mute as members of the Congressional Black Caucus contested the assignment of 25 pivotal Florida electoral votes to President Bush in the 2000 election.
But Mrs. Boxer said "Fahrenheit 9/11" gave her guilt feelings about her deference to Vice President Al Gore's request that his Democratic colleagues not contest the Electoral College count over the disputed 2000 race in Florida.
"It did make me, again, think about the fact that I didn't stand up those years ago, because I was relying on Vice President Gore, and I felt I should have stepped back and looked at the bigger picture in retrospect."
"Looking back on it, I wish I had," she said.
Ed Lasky 1 07 05
