--- Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> And this from the Anti-Bush camp.
>
> -Gel
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> Breaking Events in the 2004 Progressive Campaign to
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> Michigan GOP Openly Launches Nader Petition Drive
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> 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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