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By Compiled by MIKE WILSON
© St. Petersburg Times, published November 24, 2000
From a letter by Michael Moore, host of the cable TV show The Awful Truth. Moore, who comments on politics at his Web site, http://www.michaelmoore.com, posted this letter after he learned that Worker's World Party candidate Monica Moorehead received 1,805 votes in the Florida presidential election.
Moore backed Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.
-- MIKE WILSON, Floridian editor
As I studied these results, I suddenly saw the true culprit, the one candidate responsible for putting Bush in the White House. And it was NOT Ralph Nader.
It was MONICA MOOREHEAD! . . .
Had Monica not been on the ballot, it is safe to assume that . . . her supporters would have voted for Al Gore. Exit polls confirm this fact. Al Gore was the second choice of over half of the Moorehead voters!
A vote for Monica was a vote for Bush.
The Worker's World Party is a socialist political organization that has been around for decades. . . . They are in favor of unions, a fair distribution of the wealth, and are pro-choice, pro-environment and pro-gay. You can see why, if they had nowhere else to go, Moorehead voters would have held their nose and voted for Gore.
And we wouldn't be in the mess we're in right now!
I hold Monica Moorehead personally responsible for all the havoc a Bush presidency will wreak. If women are forced to return to back-alley coathanger abortions, it will be because of Monica. If the Alaskan wilderness is ravaged by corporate greed, it will be because of Monica. If we are unable to repel an attack of Martians, it will be because of Monica.
What kind of weird, sick ego filled this candidate, compelling her to run and do so much damage? Oh, I get it -- "principle!" She was running on "principle," not to actually WIN. Hey, get a clue, Monica -- this is the REAL world the rest of us live in. While you decided to have your ego party and travel the country with celebrities, the rest of us were trying to do something practical. . . .
I encourage everyone to shun Monica Moorehead. If she enters a room, just leave. If she speaks to you, tell her that she is a "non-person" and then leave. When her name comes up in conversation, change the subject -- and then leave. . . . If they put her name on a candy bar, don't eat it. . . .
Let us all make the name "Monica Moorehead" synonymous with EVIL. Do NOT return her calls. Delete her name from your Palm Pilot. . . .
I am announcing the formation of the "Blame Monica Movement." Heretofore, whenever anyone wants to know WHO is responsible for putting Bush in the White House, you just tell them, "IT WAS MONICA!"