[GNC] Re: Ballot Access

[Owen Broadhurst]

Gil Obler wrote:

"1) The Naderites - The Nader folks already offered us a deal where we
	help them get ballot access. We told them the price was accepting
	the USGP nomination. They refused. Now we want to help them get
	ballot access anyway, or worse offer empty support after the
	fact? This would either make us seem like poor negotiators or
	like duplicitous posers. I have a taste for neither."

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This isn't a question of helping or refusing to help the Nader campaign, but a question of
our facilitating easier ballot access for all. Cutting off our nose to spite our face is not a strategy that seems to make it easier for GRP candidates to get on the ballot. 

Whatever technicalities are cited to bar ballot access for Nader remain technicalities that may be cited against us. To take action against such can only help us. To refuse to do this can only hurt us. Our disputes with Nader do not excuse suicidal inclinations.

OB