> 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.
Yes, but that wasn't the assertion, which was "the Democratic Party establishment did much more to defeat Green Matt Gonzalez...in the SF mayoral election than Republican candidates in other local elections."
> 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.
Probably true.
John A