"Progressives are coming together around the ticket. In an open letter to Kerry on June 22nd, consumer champion Ralph Nader urged Kerry to pick Edwards as his running mate, writing that 'One of the pillars (the other two being civil rights and civil liberties) of our democracy – the civil justice system – is under severe attack by the corporate supremacists who wish to deny wrongfully injured or defrauded people from having their full day in court or even a partial day in court. Senator Edwards can stand up for the millions of Americans who suffer these harms and costs every year.' "
It's true that Nader did write such an open letter to Kerry, if I remember correctly. But Pariser's way of describing it in the passage I quoted makes it sound as though Nader (identified in a very out-of-date way as a "consumer champion") is joining the Kerry-Edwards camp. Bizarre!
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