John Tierney: “I have been watching this scenario unfold for some period of time. Let me not go away permanently from the issue of…”

“I have been watching this scenario unfold for some period of time. Let me not go away permanently from the issue of civil rights, which I think is important. I come from the Irish minority, which is not much of a minority around here, but we had our history and we had our difficult times getting into the electoral process. I am proud of the fact that we are very much engaged in it now and that we contribute so much. Let me take it to a political level. I think that is something that we have to be mindful of here. This is not only a recount that is going on out in California. I was the subject of a recount in my district. I know from past experience, working on other people's recounts over the years, that when those votes are counted, one by one, you have got a real definite idea of how the vote resulted. At the end of that recount, Ms. Sanchez was declared the winner by almost 1,000 votes. That is a significant margin of victory in a recount situation. Now I think we take it to the political level. This is not about just civil rights. It is about politics.”