[GNC] Re: Ballot Access

[Gil Obler]

No new technicalities were cited here.

A general statement about ballot access issues is certainly fine,
including one sympathetic to Nader's plight.

However, I would want to say more about Ebony's plight, for example,
and the bullshit that Jill and Jamie faced with QCs if we are
commenting on ballot access.

Why do we have to jump for Nader while we sit still on Ebony?

Did the Nader people offer to support Ebony in their 2 page Globe
article / campaign advert?

               Gil Obler
               GRP Alternate (MA), USGP Coordinating Committee
               Middlesex Delegate, Green-Rainbow Party State Committee

                                              
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnc-bounces at green-rainbow.org 
> [mailto:gnc-bounces at green-rainbow.org] On Behalf Of Owen Broadhurst
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 10:47 AM
> To: Green National Convention
> Subject: RE: [GNC] Re: Ballot Access
> 
> 
> 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."
> 
> ==========
> 
> 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
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