-Caveat Lector- Source at end of article }}>Begin American Nazi Party Leader To Seek Election With Buchanan-Reform Ralph Forbes To Make Second Run For Office In Arkansas 8/27/01 1:51:05 PM Discuss this story in the forum LSN Staff Little Rock, Arkansas -- Former American Nazi Party leader Ralph Forbes will seek election to Congress on the Buchanan-Reform Party ticket in a special election to replace Congressman Asa Hutchinson, who has resigned to take a seat in the Bush Cabinet as header of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Forbes is known for a precedent setting lawsuit that came from his 1992 run for office, in which the US Supreme Court ruled that candidates for office that "do not have significant financial backing" or "whom the public does not have signicant interest in" can be forcibly excluded from debates being held on public television. The case also says that candidates in whom the public has significant interest, or who have significant financial backing, must be included in such debates. The ruling has been attacked by both mainstream third parties and the radical socialist left ( http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/may1998/deb-m20.shtml ). Forbes won 2.5% of the vote in his 1992 run for the same seat. In 1998, the World Socialist Web Site had the following comment on the Forbes case: "The criterion of electability also reveals an extremely constricted and ultimately false conception of democracy. It assumes that the only purpose of elections is to choose office holders, not to air political issues and educate the public through open debate. "This conception of democracy reflects the outlook of a definite social group: the ruling class of bankers and corporate bosses which controls the American political system, selecting the candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties and then manipulating the "choice" of the voters on election day. For the bourgeoisie, democracy is simply a mechanism for selecting its political agents while giving the mass of working people the illusion that they have a say. The Supreme Court decision underscores the basically fraudulent character of this pretense of democracy." Libertarian Socialist News Post Office Box 12244 Silver Spring, MD 20908 http://www.overthrow.com (check out our messageboards -- discuss this story on-line!) 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