<DIV>[useful corrective to the view that Greens have any urban presence. Sheff has no contact at all with the local white Green Party knuckleheads.]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Nader Takes A Beating From Hartford Green<BR><FONT id=time-stamp>Hartford Courant, January 7, 2004</FONT> <FONT id=spacer><BR><BR></FONT><FONT id=text>Conservative columnist and television host Robert Novak used a quote from Councilwoman Elizabeth Horton Sheff to bludgeon Ralph Nader on an episode of CNN's Crossfire on Monday.<BR><BR>Nader was discussing another presidential run as a member of the Green Party, the political home of Horton Sheff. Arguing that Nader was out of touch, Novak bolstered his point with a comment Horton Sheff made to The Nation.<BR><BR>"His appeal is not broad enough to reach my community," said Horton Sheff, who is black.<BR><BR>"Isn't that your problem as the leader of the left," Novak asked Nader, "that the blacks just don't like you?"<BR><BR>Nader was stunned. After all, he said, he had endorsed Horton Sheff at a press conference in Hartford years ago. <BR><BR>"What do you do with this?" Nader said. "I mean, when she was in short pants, I was fighting for civil rights. I was against the kind of standardized testing that was racial in impact, fighting against redlining, fighting against predatory lending, fighting against these rip-offs in the inner city, against asbestos contamination, asthma. What are you talking about?"<BR><BR>Horton Sheff was unapologetic Tuesday. She conceded that Nader did endorse her - in 1999.<BR><BR>"Where has he been since then?" Horton Sheff said. "He doesn't come to help with my campaigns."</FONT></DIV> <P><FONT><A href="http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hr/hc-cityline0107.artjan07,1,6229585.story">http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hr/hc-cityline0107.artjan07,1,6229585.story</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT> </P> <DIV><BR></DIV></FONT><p><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<br> Yahoo! Hotjobs: <a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/hotjobs/mail_footer_email/evt=21482/*http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus">Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes</a>