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> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:04:37 -0400
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Bob Weir: Nader's an "asshole"
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> New York Daily News [Rush & Molloy] - August 3, 2004
>
> The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir is pleading with Deadheads everywhere
> not to vote for Ralph Nader. Performing on Saturday in Boston, Weir
> told the band's followers to be sure to vote, but the exorted, "Don't
> vote for Nader. I know him. He's an a--hole," our spies tell us. The
> band then broke into "Johnny B. Goode," a theme song of the
> Kerry-Edwards campaign ...
Now this is almost enough to get me to vote for Nader. Gives me bad memories of the report in 2000 of Tipper Gore playing drums on "Queen Jane Approximately" with Weir and friends.