Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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>http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2004/10/last-nader-article.html
>>...Read about Ralph Nader's supporters. The people he thinks he's
>>using to force the Democrats to change.
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>* The ultra-conservative Arno Political Consultants firm that has
>directed ballot-qualification efforts for GOP icons Ronald Reagan,
>George Bush Sr, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, and Bob Dornan and whose
>client list features a virtual Who's Who of the corporate cartels
>and anti-progressive groups Nader routinely claims to oppose
>(including the National Rifle Association, U.S. English, the
>California Timber Association, Mobil Oil, Occidental Petroleum,
>Phillip Morris, Wal-Mart, and numerous Republican Party committees).
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>* Arno's Florida-based subcontractors JSM Inc. that directed
>illegal, deadbeat petition drives on behalf of Ralphie in numerous
>states, including West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Criminal
>charges are now pending against their shady solicitors in several
>states.
>
>* The ultra-conservative former executive director of the Arizona
>Republican Party Nathan Sproul, a major GOP fundraiser, along with
>former Republican AZ Governor Fife Symington's attorney Lisa
>Hauser, associated with numerous other rightwing causes. Nathan
>Sproul has now been implicated in Republican voter registration
>fraud in Nevada, Oregon, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
>
>* George Bush Sr's White House political director Dave Carney, owner
>of the ultra-conservative Norway Hill Associates consultant firm -
>that provided illegal, in-kind contributions to St. Ralph's ballot
>campaigns.
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>* The shady Choices for America rightwing nonprofit, founded by
>Nevada-based GOP apparatchik Steve Wark, scheming to prop up
>Ralphie's ballot drives and funnel donations from other
>conservatives.
>
>* The Michigan Republican Party that collected 45,000 signatures to
>qualify St. Ralph for that ballot, then cast aside all pretense to
>intervene with a lawsuit on behalf of their proxy. The Wisconsin
>Republican Party, that orchestrated an underground petition drive
>masquerading as 'progressive' Naderites.
>
>* Former GOP Arkansas state senator Doyle Webb II, chief of staff to
>state Republican Party chairman Win Rockefeller, the state's
>lieutenant governor; GOP state Rep. Michael Lamoureaux; Little Rock
>GOP chairwoman Martha McCaskill; five minions of the Republican
>Party's coordinated campaign; and former state GOP chairwoman
>Phyllis Kincannon - just a snippet of Nader petitioners in one
>state.
>
>* The radical-right Oregon Family Council along with chapters of the
>reactionary Citizens for a Sound Economy both in that state and
>various others across the nation.
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>* George W. Bush 2000 Florida recount lawyer Ken Sukhia who along
>with the chairman of the Florida Republican Party maneuvered
>Ralphie onto that ballot.
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>* Buchananite Reform Party Chairman Shawn O'Hara, outspoken,
>revisionist defender of Samuel Bowers, former Imperial Wizard of
>the KKK in Mississippi.
>
>* Innumerable Republican Party lackeys and minions (such as Colorado
>Republican Party Treasurer Richard Westfall and former Virginia
>Republican Party offical Jim Polk) who have orchestrated St.
>Ralph's campaigns in various states or otherwise twisted the law on
>his behalf (e.g., hyperpartisan Jeb! elections whore Glenda Hood).
>
>* And, finally, we can add the insidious backers of the Swift Boat
>Veterans for 'Truth' malevolent smear campaign against John Kerry's
>heroic service in Vietnam, who are also fundraising for their
>sketchy bedfellow Ralph Nader...
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>Michael Pugliese
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