Brother Thanks NRA for Helping Make Bush President

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush thanked the National Rifle Association on Saturday for helping elect his brother president of the United States in 2000.
Bush, the keynote speaker at the gun lobby’s annual convention, noted that 48 percent of the voters in the 2000 presidential race were gun owners, based on exit polls.

NRA support played a key role in several states, including Florida, where the vote was so close that the U.S. Supreme Court eventually had to settle the matter of disputed ballots, and in Tennessee, home state of George W. Bush’s Democratic opponent, Al Gore.

“Were it not for your active involvement, it’s safe to say my brother would not be president of the United States,” the younger Bush said…{{link http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=AIYNRDD5YTXWECRBAEOCFEY?type=politicsNews&storyID=2636240/ MORE}}

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