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

Fri Feb 1 15:32:45 EST 2008

Grace,
Thank you for the reminder.  But I readily admit that, had I been  
concerned about the reality of the candidacies of any of the people who  
expressed interest, from the time that I, acting for the non-functional  
CDLC (Mike Heichman's idea, because he did not want to do it any more,  
and there was no one else willing) began to try to determine who would  
follow through on the GRP's requirements, I would have given up very  
quickly.  Not a single one of the people who put forth their potential  
candidacies, had done all of the needed work.  (E.g., a campaign plan,  
a campaign manager, literature, full self-presentation) were missing,  
but most glaringly contact information.  I quickly found out that in  
two cases; McKinney and Nader, there were potential candidates, but  
real organized work from Green Party members with whose work I became  
familiar through the NC.  Among them, Hawkins, Rensenbrink, Esco,  
Garrett; who did understand what is involved in a presidential  
campaign.  So in both those cases, I have had no direct personal with  
the proposed candidates.  In the case of the other four candidates,  
Jared Ball had no one involved other than himself.  This was true of  
the others as well.  The question immediately arose when is a  
candidate, a candidate for herself, and when is she the candidate of a  
group of dedicated 'Greens?'  That this could be a question became  
painfully clear in the case of Elaine Brown.  I did not make use of my  
contact with her to do anything other than to submit her name, and am  
happy that I did so. No matter what little relationship it had a great  
deal to do with ours, that of the GPUS and the GRP.  The same is true  
of the Nader candidacy.

All of this a bit of background on why, unlike some other members of  
the party, I have not been waiting to find out what Nader intends to  
do.  I never did.  I frankly never cared.  But I am a member of the  
GRP.  If Rensenbrink, can assume responsibility for past errors, and  
disappointments, what right have I do be in the party if I cannot do  
the same and try to heal the very wounds that resulted from the false  
ambition of attaining national prominence though the agency of a  
leader, who could not possibly be one.  While I like McKinney far more  
than Nader as a candidate, I am not about to repeat the earlier mistake  
of believing that we have found ourselves a leader.  She is a  
sympathizer and willing to help us.  I accept, but with full knowledge  
that this is what Nader once said.

The people who wish Nader to be a Green Party (GPUS) candidate will  
name him as such at the Nominating Convention.  I have the assurance of  
his draft campaign that they have no other intention.
Peace,
Elie Yarden
MRGRA

On Friday, February 1, 2008, at 02:54  PM, Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com wrote:

> 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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