Bush names 2000 election lawyer to BOG
George Bush yesterday nominated Mickey D. Barnett of New Mexico and Katherine C. Tobin of New York to be members of the US Postal Service Board of Governors.
Barnett, a Republican from Albuquerque was a curious footnote to the disputed 2000 election that ultimately placed Bush in the White House. While GOP lawyers in Florida were scrambling to prevent ballots from being counted by hand, Barnett was taking the exact opposite position in New Mexico, where vote counts had Bush losing. As the New York Times reported at the time, “In asking the court to address his concern, Mickey D. Barnett, a lawyer for the party, used the same arguments that lawyers for Mr. Gore have pressed in courts across Florida against Mr. Bush.”
Barnett contributed $13,500 to Republican campaigns from 2002 through this year.