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Florida Revisited
Al Gore to return to scene of the crime. Also: Nancy Pelosi risks Frost bite.
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SUNSHINE STATE PROVISIONER
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Former Vice President Al Gore intends to travel to Florida within
the next month to stump and raise money for Democratic Rep.
Peter Deutsch
. It’s one of his first forays into
the state that doomed his presidential bid. He has offered to help
other Florida Democrats in the Sunshine state, but Deutsch was the
only one to take up the offer … for now.
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“They’ll want him down the road,” says a former Gore adviser. “He’s too good a campaigner, and they’ll want him to remember them if he makes a good showing in 2004.”
There’s one person Gore has told friends he won’t be campaigning for: former colleague Janet Reno, who is seeking Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination. “[But] I wouldn’t say it would never happen,” says the former adviser. “If Reno were to ask, I could see him doing it, if only to show he’s a bigger man than Clinton.”
p> FROST ON PELOSI’S PUMPKIN br> As it become increasingly clear that House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt will step aside from his leadership position after the fall elections to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, Democratic Caucus chairman Rep. Martin Frost of Texas is trying to line up support to challenge House Democratic Whip Rep.
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