Good morning.
It's Nader/Gonzalez.
Yesterday, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Ralph Nader announced that Matt Gonzalez, the former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, will be his VP running mate. Check out the video of the press conference.
This morning, Ralph will appear on C-Span's Washington Journal from 8:00 to 8:30 EST.
Matt and Ralph will be interviewed on KQED radio from 12 noon to 1 p.m. EST.
And Ralph will appear Monday on the Lou Dobbs Radio Show from 3:10 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST
Last night, Ralph and Matt appeared before a young and energetic crowd at George Washington University. C-Span taped that event and it will air on C-Span sometime soon.
It's been a hectic week.
And people are paying attention.
What the inside the beltway partisans just don't understand is that we are on the opposite side of the fence from the corporate Republicans and Democrats.
And we are determined to build a nationwide movement to challenge their corporate policies.
To do this effectively, we first need to get Nader/Gonzalez on the ballot all across the country.
So, to give a big collective thank you to Matt Gonzalez for standing up to the political bigots and joining our campaign, please donate now whatever you can.
And spread the word.
Onward.
The Nader Team
I believe it's important in 2008 (just as it was in the 1920s and 1930s) that we instill the ballot in each state with people like Nader, Bloomfield and Paul. More voices, more choices. It's not naive to think that this is a democracy and they're playing spoiler. I truly believe that if everyone asked themselves whether we want this system to be more lower-case d, democratic, we could make some serious change. For example, we could petition the news organizations to allow third party candidates to be on the stage with the breadwinners (corporate candidates). This is why third party candidates run their candidacy! -- And it's not to be present in the YouTube debates; it's for the big shabang in the months leading up to the general.
I'm curious what people think is more democratic in a year where 'change' is the hot-topic: a system that disenfranchises the voting public from candidates on the fringe who offer serious reform, or a system that allows for public discourse to eliminate candidates from the voting blocks and allows each candidate to vie for each vote. I'm not asking for proportional voting or European-style districts.
What I request with as much gusto and sincerity is a system that will, in the future, present the public with an opportunity to leave behind comments like, "Oh, you voted for Ralph Nader because he represents you more. Obviously you wasted your vote because you didn't treat this democracy like a betting match and vote for the electable candidate. Shame."
I'm sure there will always be shouts of "spoiler" and "commie" and threats, but as long as we ensure that this democracy represents everyone, it will be a more efficient democracy in the respect that the majority gets the last say, but the minority is still represented.
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