Vice. Pres. Al Gore Addresses Supporters in Tampa, Florida
LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR: Democrat Al Gore and his running mate, Joe Lieberman, are in Tampa, Florida for an early-morning campaign event. We want to let you listen in live to Al Gore.</s>VICE PRES. AL GORE (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We want to honor you, we want to listen carefully, and we want to tell you what we believe is the right thing to do to get our country moving in the right direction. We've got a big choice to make this November, and the choice is one that will have big, fateful consequences for the direction our country goes in the future. The Supreme Court's going to be picked, we're going to have decisions on the minimum wage, on the budget, on health care, the environment, education, all across the board. Now, to start with the economy, the other side has been saying that the way they look at it we are worse off today than we were eight years ago, but I don't think so. I don't think so because, back then, after they tried their approach, we had the biggest deficits ever in history and the debt had been multiplied by four times and we had high unemployment and it was a time of great stress. And you gave us a chance to bring some change. And since that change came in, we turn the biggest...</s>STOUFFER: You've been listening to Al Gore speaking at a firehouse in Tampa, Florida at a campaign event on this Labor Day, speaking in part about the important decisions the next president will have to make as voters choose just who they will vote for in the presidential election. Well, of course, Labor Day is the traditional time when the presidential campaign hits high gear. Both candidates today have several events. We plan to take you live to more Gore events as the day continues. And, of course, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, has several campaign events today, too. We will take you live to those throughout the day here on CNN as well.