[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: Civic Arousal

Sun Nov 21 02:18:46 PST 2004

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>Dear Paul,
>
>We're looking for 5,000 'Angels'
>who will give $100 each.
><http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M6558038571521889980655>
><http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M6621079571521889980655>Click Here 
>to also receive a signed copy of Civic Arousal.
>
>One of the first calls we took after the election was from a friend 
>in West Virginia, who was a Kerry supporter. George W. Bush had been 
>unofficially re-elected.
>
>He was despondent. Do you want to know the first thing he said? 
>"Kerry is going to be the new Nader."
>
>Among Democrats, 'Nader' apparently has come to mean: the person to 
>blame when the Democrats lose.
>
>In 2000, Democrats blamed me for costing Gore the election-not Gore, 
>who lost his own state, nor the 250,000 Democrats in Florida who 
>voted for Bush.
>
>Is there any question now who is responsible for the 2004 debacle?
>
>Senator Kerry waffled his way to defeat.
>
>Instead of standing with us for a Medicare-for-all plan that is the 
>model for most western countries in the world, he proposed another 
>cockamamie, step-by-step complexity that will dig us deeper into the 
>health care quagmire.
>
>Instead of standing with us for a living wage, he proposed a 
>microscopic minimum wage increase to $7-an-hour by 2007. (In 
>Florida, while the Bush boys were bashing a one dollar an hour 
>increase in the minimum wage that was on the ballot, Kerry said 
>nothing. The initiative won on November 2, by 72-28, while Bush beat 
>Kerry in Florida 51% to 47%.)
>
>Instead of saying we need to reexamine corporate-controlled trade 
>agreements while blue and white collar jobs and industries are 
>outsourced daily, Kerry stood by his votes for the job-wasting NAFTA 
>and WTO.
>
>Instead of standing with us against the war in Iraq, he out-hawked 
>George W. Bush in the first debate.
>
>Instead of standing with us against the invasive Patriot Act, he 
>stood by his vote for it.
>
>Compare Kerry's spinelessness to his colleague Russ Feingold in the 
>Senate. Feingold stood against the war in Iraq, against the Patriot 
>Act, against the major free trade agreements, and for a universal 
>health care system. Feingold's supporters wore a backbone on their 
>t-shirts.
>
>As Ruth Coniff pointed out recently in the Progressive, Wisconsin 
>voters-even Republicans-re-elected Feingold by a much larger margin 
>than they gave to Kerry.
>
>Instead of standing with the American people on issues that would 
>win a majority of the voters, Kerry condoned attack-dogs against our 
>campaign around the country who sought to intimidate our volunteers 
>and our supporters and to lie to reporters covering our campaign.
>
>The Democrats spent millions on lawyers who successfully knocked us 
>off the ballot in key states like Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, 
>and Pennsylvania.
>
>While our committed staff fought back-winning in eight of 11 state 
>Supreme Courts-the Democrats managed to divert our limited resources 
>into the legal arena and away from issues that matter.
>
>Ours was a model, clean campaign. We fought the good fight. We feel 
>great about keeping the progressive agenda alive.
>
>People keep asking-how are we doing?-as if the corrupt parties and 
>their corporate paymasters would ever discourage us. They have not 
>and they will not.
>
>I predicted before the campaign that liberal Democrats who supported 
>us in 2000 would abandon us in droves this year; sadly, they did.
>
>But in our travels to all 50 states, we have met thousands of active 
>citizens, young and old alike, who don't give a hoot for corporate 
>politics and are working with us in the ongoing campaign to break up 
>the corporate-controlled two-party duopoly.
>
>
>The picture you see here is me with one of the many Nader/Camejo 
>supporters we met in Minneapolis. She represents the new young 
>generation that will carry us forward into a brighter and more 
>confident future.
>
>So, I'm ready to join with you to go after Bush on his illegal war 
>in Iraq-that Kerry voted for-which has, according to the Johns 
>Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, claimed 100,000 Iraqi 
>lives through October and thousands of US casualties.
>
>Bush's war is an illegal war, each one of those deaths is a crime. 
>This should be the number-one issue in the upcoming year.
>
>Here's the rub: In 2004, because of the Democratic Party's 
>multimillion dollar counterattack, and despite our frugal ways, we 
>were driven into debt.
>
>We have to make up our shortfall quickly-about $500,000 for both 
>debts and winding down the campaign.
>
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>So, let's make a deal: to the first 5,000 "Angels" 
>who <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M6621043571521889980655>send 
>in $100 or more to Nader for President 2004, I will personally sign 
>my new little 
>paperback, <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M6621045571521889980655>Civic 
>Arousal, addressed to the younger generation, and get it in the 
>mail to you promptly.
>
>We are looking for 5,000 donors to help us wrap up this campaign on 
>a happy fiscal note.
>
>Please go to our web site, 
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>button, and give as generously as you can.  If you want to give $100 
>or more and receive a signed copy 
>of <http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M6621092571521889980655>Civic 
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>
>Thank you for your ongoing support and bright horizons.
>
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-- 
Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand
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