If Aaron has any familiarity with Green Party meetings, he knows that we
have often tied ourselves in knots for a half hour or more debating whether to
even give a DFL'er time on the agenda, let alone endorsing them. The DFL is
similarly reluctant to endore candidates from other parties. After the DFL's
naked power play in trying to dispose of what they consider "these upstart
Greens" who took two of THEIR Council seats away, do you really think they're
likely to make a "friendly exception" to their usual policy of endorsing only
their own candidates for us? If you remember the gerrymandering, you remember
that one day the STAR TRIBUNE reported an agreement on ward boundaries that
were acceptable to Greens. The VERY NEXT DAY, the STAR TRIBUNE reported the
new gerrymandered boundaries! In a maneuver worthy of the most corrupt, ward
healing political bosses, the DFL had moved OVERNIGHT to crush the upstart
Greens. They certainly weren't going to let the peon voters kic
k over the traces and start electing NEW PARTIES! AND DEMOCRACY BE DAMNED!!
After I have watched the Democrats nationally drain off the energy of the
antiwar movement on a candidate who promised to send even more troops to Iraq
if the generals asked for them, and after I watched them deliver a possibly
fatal blow to the Green Party by packing our convention and causing us to
abandon the promise embodied by the Nader 2000 campaign for a candidate who
only ran in states where he would not be a threat to the more antiwar than Bush
candidae, I don't want the Green Party having ANYTHING to do with the Democrats.
Robert Halfhill Loring Park
http://halfhillviews.greatnow.com
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