Break the cycle of dependency - Just Say No

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Fri Feb 23 11:39:20 PST 2001


----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Mayer" <bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com>


>. That will mean, on occasion, running against progressive
>Democrats. So what, that is not our problem! ...The we
>can talk - _across these boundaries_ - in order only to
>invite them to cross, and that will require them to _change their minds_
>and _change their political line_.
>-Brad Mayer
>PS: And if the Naderite tops split on this, then give them the bird, too!

Yep, let's have more splits and more divisions- that's the route to power. But then the Oakland Greens are the only Green party to elect a state representative in the country and they couldn't even keep Audie Bock from defecting away from the party once she got elected.

And when Mark Friedman ran for the other assembly seat in the primary as a progressive Democrat, Greens like City Councilwoman Donna Spring supported him along with others in a "Greens for Friedman" organization.

So even the "closet socialist" Greens in Oakland will not unite on your strategy Brad, so you have another split to have fun with there.

-- Nathan Newman



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