[But Siegelman tells a different story:] Sometime after midnight, after the poll watchers were sent home, a small group there decided to recount the votes a third time, ... No watchers legally entitled to be present were notified -- and then a different total was established. |
A few obsessed government officials have spent millions of dollars of taxpayers' money in an attempt to control a governor's election, ... The people of Alabama aren't going to let that happen, and I'm not going to let it happen. |
A lot of the momentum we started, he has allowed to flounder, |
Absolutely not guilty, again. |
Bob Riley has issued more no-bid contracts in three years than I did in four years, |
Either way, it comes down to just 3,000 votes out of approximately 1,360,000 votes cast, ... That's just two-tenths of 1 percent of the total vote cast in this election. Such a small margin would have already triggered a recount in 12 states. |
I ask for a statewide recount of every vote in this election -- a recount of every vote in every precinct, of every vote in every county, ... Let's recount all of the votes and discover once and for all who was the legitimate winner of Tuesday's election. |
I think the people deserve another vote, |
I think the people of Alabama now realize that they would rather have Don's lottery than Bob and Lucy's taxes. |
I'm not going to quit fighting so that Alabama will have a choice for governor in 2006, |
It was almost kind of a brainless kind of thing. |
It's like somebody wrapped up sticks of dynamite and just blew these homes into little tiny pieces, |
My announcement is going to be about getting Alabama back on track. We are going to go through and highlight the things that I've done and highlight the things that Gov. Riley has not done, |
obsessed government officials who spent millions in tax dollars in a pathetic attempt to control the election for governor. |
This was a huge, devastating impact for the state of Alabama, ... We're going to do everything we can to help get their lives, and their homes, and their businesses back together. |