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Breaking Events in the 2004 Progressive Campaign to Beat Bush
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Michigan GOP Openly Launches Nader Petition Drive
Bush Forces Now Driving Nader Ballot Efforts in At Least Five
Battleground States: Oregon, Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania & Michigan
The American Right has now openly launched a full-scale campaign in
support of getting Nader on battleground state ballots. While in 2000
such support was covert or provided so late that disclosure was only
required after the election, in 2004 there is now an open alliance: It's
the GOP, Bush, Dick Armey... & Ralph Nader.
The "support" from right-wing Bush groups now seems to dwarf Nader's own
campaign organization. In Pennsylvania alone, and fresh from its Nader
work in Oregon, Dick Armey's right-wing "think-tank" Citizens for a
Sound Economy (CSE) boasts an organization of 10,000 volunteers to get
Nader on the ballot[1]. In Michigan, meanwhile, the state GOP has
announced the Party will actively circulate petitions for Nader's ballot
campaign[2]. Such massive reactionary forces backing Nader's campaign
calls into question whether Nader needs any campaign allies or
organization at all -- it hardly matters if the Green Party refuses
Nader ballot access, or if the Reform Party grants it. Nader's campaign
is now the golden child of America's most powerful political machine --
the Corporate and Religious Right.
And there's no question about why this is taking place. Bush forces are
quite explicit. As CSE put it in the phone script for their Oregon
campaign for Nader:
"�Ralph Nader is undoubtedly going to pull some very crucial
votes from John Kerry, and that could mean the difference in a
razor-thin presidential election. Can we count on you to come out on
Saturday night and sign the petition to nominate Ralph Nader?"[3]
Perhaps Nader has been correct all along: he's been saying he'd get lots
of conservative support. But please, Mr. Nader, let's not confuse the
Pro-Bush Right putting you on the ballot with them actually voting for
you. They know how much harm your campaign can do to progressive causes.
We only wish you could face the same reality.
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[1] http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/9074661.htm
[2]
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-16/10893035
8925780.xml
[3]
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1088
16503613780.xml
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