Posted on 10/09/2002 8:55:44 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ralph Nader blasts Davis for excluding Green hopeful Nader said Davis' steadfast opposition to letting Camejo even attend, much less take part in, Monday's gubernatorial debate in Los Angeles has pushed the Green Party closer to "critical mass" in California. "I think Mr. Camejo has a good lawsuit against the Davis campaign," Nader said in a news conference at the Commonwealth Club, noting he sued the Commission on Presidential Debates after his own exclusion from the 2000 presidential forums. And Latino outrage over Davis' recent veto of a bill to let undocumented immigrants seek driver's licenses has led voters and lawmakers to withdraw their support from his campaign, a wave of defections that "augurs very poorly for Gov. Davis," Nader said. All this disgust with Davis and GOP challenger Bill Simon means more voters are looking to third parties such as the Greens, Nader said. Like cracks in a failing dam, "you see the strains and pressures on a corrupt political system becoming more and more visible," he said. After the news conference, Nader and Camejo headlined a $100-per-head dinner reception at a Berkeley Marina restaurant. And then Nader and Camejo were the stars of a Green "Super Rally" at the Berkeley Community Theater, emceed by 2000 Green Senate candidate Medea Benjamin. At the news conference, Camejo, 61, of Walnut Creek, noted that Davis is the only statewide incumbent who refused to debate a Green challenger this year. Yet despite a poll showing 69 percent of voters wanted Camejo in Monday's debate, the Los Angeles Times insisted it would host only candidates who are showing at least 15 percent support in polls; Camejo's best poll showing is around 9 percent. Simon's campaign agreed to include Camejo on its guest list for the debate, but the Times refused to let him enter after Davis threatened to cancel his appearance, Camejo charged. Nader said only Camejo and the Greens are interested in taking the money's influence out of politics, and in seriously discussing issues such as living wages, fair taxation of the wealthy and widespread child poverty. Contact Josh Richman at jrichman@angnewspapers.com .
"When cash is king in politics here in California, you don't get an equitable criminal justice system, you don't get protection of old growth forests, you don't get universal health care," Nader said -- only the Greens will stand up for these causes. Nader won 3.9 percent of California's vote in the 2000 presidential election.
He suggests lawsuit against the governor by Peter Camejo
SAN FRANCISCO -- Consumer advocacy icon and former Green presidential candidate Ralph Nader stumped for Green gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo on Tuesday, taking a few shots at Democratic incumbent Gov. Gray Davis.
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In fact, besides Forrester, the only other candidates on the New Jersey ballot should be Ted Glick of the Greens, Elizabeth Macron of the Libertarian Party, Gregory Pason of the Socialist Party and Norman Wahner of the NJ Conservative Party. Because these people received votes in the primaries. Lautenberg didn't receive one!
That's the way it should have worked in NJ. ONLY those people in the primaries get to run in the general election. But that's not the way it happened. What a rip!
I also think that they will hurt the real Socialist known as the Democratic Party.
Let the Nader effect kick out Davis, bump!
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