Former Vice President Al Gore's comments about one Democratic candidate don't come up.
By ANITA KUMAR, Times Staff Writer
Published June 9, 2004
NAPLES - Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas came to Tuesday night's U.S. Senate debate ready to go on the offensive.
He brought four busloads of supporters, clad in matching white-and-blue Penelas shirts. He passed out information on one opponent's "ineffective and anti-consumer" record in Congress. And he took subtle jabs at U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch without uttering his name.
But the issue that Penelas and hundreds of audience members expected to be a central theme of the debate never came up.
No one mentioned recent comments by former Vice President Al Gore, who criticized Penelas as "the single most treacherous and dishonest person" he encountered during the bitter 2000 election.
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