[lbo-talk] Re: perot vs nader (or, naderphobia continued?)

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 30 08:20:55 PDT 2004


Nader in '96 in Oregon, just under 50K votes. In 2000, a little over 77K. http://www.eugeneweekly.com/special/pielc/05.html

>...Patterson offered some upbeat numbers: 8,500 Greens are now registered in Oregon compared to 1,000 at the beginning of the 2000 campaign. He estimates non-registered participants would bring the total number of Greens to 12,000 to 14,000. The Pacific Greens are the third largest party in Oregon, active now in 17 counties, compared to sixcounties before the campaign. In 1996, Nader raised $18,000 in Oregon; in 2000, he raised $150,000. -- Anita Johnson

And yet, Nader organizers were not able to get a thousand (about 750 showed up) to show up a month ago in Portland to an auditorium to get past the threshold top get him on the ballot. http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=65845
> ..,All the citizen activist needs in Oregon is one thousand registered
> voters to gather in one place, and sign their names on a petition.

Nader probably will have no problem getting those signatures when he shows up at a Portland theater on April 5.

He hopes to qualify under an unusual provision of the state's election code called the Assembly of Electors law.

portland imc - 2004.04.05 - Nader gathers only 70% supporters ... ... Even the best basketball player doesn't get a slam-dunk every time," Nader told the Portland crowd, acknowledging the numbers fell short. ... http://www.portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/04/285114.shtml



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