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Go Nader Go !!!!
Actually, the only long-term hope for the United States is for 3rd parties to break the two party duopoly.
The Senate and House will continue to be split fairly evenly among party lines. Neither of the two parties will have enough strength to do much harm. Bush cannot create a law, he can only sign or veto laws passed by congress. Since the president doesn't have a line-item veto, and since many, if not most bills have numerous clauses added on to get other members of congress to sign on, neither Gore nor Bush, nor Nader or Buchanan or Browne, will be able to cause insufferable or irreparable damage.
As far as the Supreme Court goes, both the left and right trample on individual rights. The pox on both their houses. Right now with the left pushing Hate Crime Legislation I think the left has caught up with the right.
Go Nader Go.
Go Browne Go.
even, gulp, go Buchanan go.
Gilbert Midonnet
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(from a politically attentive friend of mine in New
York)... something to think about.
Dear Friend of MoveOn,
It now looks like Nader will cost Gore the presidency.
In key swing
states
-- Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Maine, New Mexico --
Nader has
garnered
enough support to throw the electoral votes to Bush.
And those votes
could
very likely make the difference. Even in key
battleground states where
Nader
support is thin, like Florida, Michigan, Nevada and
Pennsylvania, he
could
take enough votes from Gore to swing the electoral
votes to Bush.
Latest
polls even show Gore at risk of losing California with
Nader pulling
away 6%
of the vote. With the election tightening in every
state of the union,
no
state is safe.
We've been flooded by emails asking what we can do.
The Nader camp is
deeply
divided over whether they should endorse Gore -- at
least in swing
states.
Many say they never got into the race to play the
spoiler. What was
positioned as a safe protest vote has now become a
kind of kamikaze
vote.
The specter of a Bush presidency looms large.
Let Ralph Nader hear your feelings. His contact
information:
[email protected]
fax: 202-265-0183
phone: 202-265-4000
Nader has a lot of power in this situation? What
should he do?
Please carbon copy us on your email to Ralph Nader at
[email protected]. We want to know what you
think.
As a sample, we've attached below an open letter that
has been floating
around the net. However, a personalized message is
always better.
Sincerely,
- Wes Boyd
MoveOn.org
P.S. Here's are some of the latest state level poll
results, so you
can see
how close it is in these key races:
Gore Bush Nader Undecided Source
Washington 45% 43% 5% 7% 10/16
American Research
Group
Oregon 40% 44% 7% 9% 10/12
KPAM-Radio
Minnesota 41% 44% 8% 6% 10/18
Minneapolis Star
Tribune
New Mexico 42% 42% 5% 10% 9/28 NM
State Univ.
Michigan 43% 43% 4% 9% 10/19
EPIC/MRA Poll
Florida 43% 44% 3% 9% 10/18 John
McLaughlin and
Assoc
Nevada 44% 43% 3% 9% 9/21
Public Opinion
Strategies
Pennsylvania 43% 45% 3% 9% 10/19
Public Opinion
Strategies
AN OPEN LETTER TO RALPH NADER
[Please sign this email with your own name and send it
to Ralph Nader
at
[email protected]. Then forward it to every
person in your email
address book, to the newspapers and broadcasters in
your area, and
anyone
else you can think of. With the race so close and
such a short time
until
the election, it's time for action.]
Dear Mr. Nader:
Over the years you have done a great deal for the
American people.
Now you
are about to do great harm. Your candidacy in this
election has been
important. You have raised serious issues that need
to be addressed.
But
now your message is out and it's time to set aside
ideology and step
aside.
If you don't you will ensure that George W. Bush is
our next president.
And
if he is elected with a Republican majority in
Congress, the American
people
stand to lose most of the social, economic and
environmental progress
we
have
made in the last thirty years. If there is any
question in your mind
of
this, consider the following:
THE SUPREME COURT
Bush will appoint activist conservative judges who
will actively seek
to
take
away a woman's right to choose.
They will also support the corporate interests you
have been so
gallantly
fighting against by promoting "tort reform" which, as
you know, is
another
way to disempower the average citizen and take away
his or her right to
sue
corporations who damage them or cause death.
And the Bush Supreme Court will be anti-environment
and side with the
exploiters and polluters who so willingly sacrifice
the public health
and
safety on the alter of short term profit.
THE DEFICIT AND THE MIDDLE CLASS
While Gore intends to use the surplus to pay down the
deficit, Bush
plans to
refund a large part of it to the wealthy. He says
it's their money and
they
should get it back. Well, it's their deficit as well
and they should
help
pay it off.
At this time the nation is almost five trillion six
hundred billion
dollars
in the red. That's $5,600,000,000,000. Over the
past ten years we
have
paid over three trillion dollars in interest. This
year we will pay an
estimated three hundred and sixty-two billion dollars
in interest.
That's
$362,000,000,000, Mr. Nader. About $1,400 for every
man woman and
child in
this country. Do you have any idea what that amount
of money could do
for
the environment and health care and education if it
was not being
wasted on
interest?
Next year we will pay even more. And the years after
that still more.
And
instead of paying down the deficit it will grow
larger. Why? So Bill
Gates
and Paul Allen and all the other multimillionaires can
have their much
needed
tax brakes. And if Bush is elected and then
inheritance tax is
eliminated,
the middle class will be asked to make up the hundreds
of billions of
dollars
in those lost revenues as well.
THE ENVIRONMENT
As governor of Texas Bush has put the polluters in
charge of the
state's
environmental program with the result that Texas is
now an
environmental
disaster. Although he doesn't dare articulate it
during the campaign,
the
Republican agenda includes doing away with the
Environmental Protection
Agency. If it's not eliminated completely it will be
emasculated to
the
point where it exists in name only.
And in service of his major contributors, the Oil and
Coal
conglomerates,
Bush and the Republicans will encourage oil
exploration in
environmentally
sensitive areas and the burning of fossil fuels to
produce electricity
etc.
If you think global warming is bad now, just give a
Bush administration
a
few
years to pay of its debt to these special interests.
And whether you want to admit it or not, Mr. Nader, Al
Gore has been
one of
the strongest advocates for environmental protection.
He recognized
the
danger of global warming before most people had heard
the term. And he
almost single handedly, and against the advice of all
his political
advisors,
saved the Kyoto Accords. But a rabid Republican
Congress has blocked
their
implementation along with almost every other
environmental effort put
forth
by the Clinton Administration. You're correct.
Clinton/Gore haven't
got a
lot done. But if you'd been president these past
eight years, neither
would
you.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
You warn us of the growing power and influence of the
corporations on
our
lives and our democracy yet you threaten to help
defeat the only
candidate
with any chance of doing the one thing that will help
solve this
problem.
You know Bush and the Republicans will not support
Campaign Finance
Reform.
But Gore has promised that he will work with John
McCain in his mission
to
bring about the reform we need. Why on earth would
you actively work
to
keep
this from happening?
SOCIAL SECURITY
You know Bush plans to divert hundreds of billions of
dollars to Wall
Street.
It seems like a great scheme while the market is
going up as it has
been
for
the past several years. But what goes up also comes
down. While this
risky
scheme may put a few billion in the pockets of the
brokers and
underwriters,
it will turn Social Security into Social Insecurity
and endanger the
retirement of many people who unfortunately don't have
as much money as
you
do.
Mr. Nader, you have stated publicly that you would
rather see Bush win
than
Gore. You seem to believe that Bush will make things
so bad that the
country
will rise up. This reminds me of the days when
doctors bled patients
in
order to cure them. The problem was the patients
often died from the
treatment rather than the disease.
As someone who agrees with you on so many things and
would love to see
you
continue your campaign to educate and enlighten us
about the things for
which
you care so much, I ask you to do the right thing.
The election is too
close
and now is the time for you to throw your support
behind Gore. If you
help
Bush win you will have single handedly done more
damage than any well
meaning
person could possible conceive of. Please don't let
this happen.
Sincerely,
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