[lbo-talk] Paul Felton: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com, Tue Apr 6 05:25:23 PDT 2004:
>>The point is not that the Democrats are "in collusion with the 
>>Republicans" but that the Democratic Party establishment's chief 
>>concern is that "a third party in conjunction with a strong mass 
>>movement would challenge the two-party duopoly," shown by the fact 
>>that the Democratic Party establishment did much more to defeat 
>>Green Matt Gonzalez (who was supported by a large number of 
>>progressive rank-and-file Democratic voters and even progressive 
>>local Democratic officials like District 9 Supervisor Tom Ammiano) 
>>in the SF mayoral election than Republican candidates in other 
>>local elections.
>
>Oh, my goodness--they ran harder in a bigger election than a smaller 
>election? Those fucking Democrats--what will they think of next?

The San Francisco mayoral election is hardly the biggest or most 
significant mayoral election in the nation.  As a matter of fact, the 
Democratic Party establishment did more to defeat Green Matt Gonzalez 
than Republican candidates in most elections for governors, 
congressional representatives, etc.
-- 
Yoshie

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