[statecom-discuss] [candidate-development] [adcom] Nader seeks Green Party nomination

[Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com]

Interesting - I saw the same interview and remembered that four years ago he 
asked for our ballot lines by seeking the national party's endorsement and 
said he did not seek the nomination because he was to get the ballot lines of 
other parties in state wherer the Greens did not have a ballot line.

He may well be seeking our nomination.   Four years ago the same words meant 
he was not seeking our nomination...

Time is going to make his meaning clear...   patience, Grace
In a message dated 2/1/08 2:50:00 PM, yen.yarden at verizon.net writes:


> Merelice,
> 
> I know of no way to cure us of addiction to conspiratorial thinking --
> theory, behavior and convictions -- but had hoped to reduce its
> destructive effects on the GPUS, as well as in the GRP. I am quite
> familiar with the reality of conspiracies and their destructiveness to
> the development of an ecological politics. The 'old left,' dedicated
> to the efficacy of the "Correct Analysis," was always ready to engage
> in conspiracies, mostly forgotten, against those whose analysis was
> flawed. They had a great deal of leisure. The 'new left' was
> dedicated to action, and did undertake a variety of actions requiring
> secret plotting. But the yet to be realized effectiveness of the civil
> rights movement, lay in the fact that the brilliance of its strategies,
> and strategists, succeeded because of their design for open
> confrontation with the opposition, readiness to work with that
> opposition, and resist the temptation to demonize that opposition even
> at the moments when the opposition sought ways to effectively destroy
> and undermine the influence of King and his cohorts.
> 
> At this moment, I have doubts that we will succeed. But we could
> easily take the risk to do so in Massachusetts. I cannot convince
> people who are afraid, who have little or no idea of the place of
> inclusiveness in ecological politics, who preach populism, and use
> their presence in the party to promote highly personal agendas.
> 
> Good luck! I know why I am a member of the GRP, and apologize for the
> ignorance of its would be protectors. I will be working in my precinct
> to talk to voters. And the guardians of the integrity of the party
> against the demonic agents of any outside force will do their best to
> demonstrate our failings.
> Elie Yarden
> MRGRA
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, February 1, 2008, at 01:44 PM, Merelice wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Wanda sent the following yesterday, January 31:
> >
> > According to Democracy Now!, Mr. Nader has today publicly stated his
> > desire for the Green Party nomination as an independent candidate:
> >
> > "I would certainly go for the ballot lines with the Green
> > Party...we〓ll go independent in states where there aren〓t any [Green]
> > parties. We〓ll look for progressive small parties at the state level.
> > You have to do that just to get on state ballots."
> >
> > It appears this now lays the issue to rest. Most of us at the StateCom
> > meeting last Sunday felt that all our ballot candidates should get
> > equal treatment and that voter wishes expressed this Tuesday should be
> > respected. Is there now any reason to disagree?
> >
> > Merelice
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