This election is about choosing the best candidate for President. We think that it's a choice between Bush and Kerry, but there are are a lot more candidates than them to choose from. There's the Prohibition Party, candidate Gene Amondson; the Constitution Party; candidate Gene Peroutski; the Green Party candidate David Cobb; the Libertarian Party candidate David Badnarik; the Peace & Liberty Party candidate Leonard Peltier; the Party of Personal Choice candidate Charles Jay; the Prohibition Party candidate Earl Dodge; the Reform Party candidate Ralph Nader; the Socialist Party candidate Walt Brown; the Socialist Equality Party candidate Walt Auken; the Socialist Workers Party candidate Roger Colero; the Workers World Party candidate John Parker. In addition there are two Independent canditates, Stanford Andress and Thomas Harens. And finally there are the official "write-in" candidates: A.J. Albritton (American Republican Party-Mississippi), Sterling Allan (Providential Party-Utah), Kenneth M. Bonnell (I-Mississippi), Harry Braun (I-Arizona), Fred Cook (I-Georgia), Eric J. Davis (Michigan), Robert DiGiulio (Children's Party-Vermont), Bob Dorn (Washington), Lonnie D. Frank (I-California), Ronald "John Galt Jr." Gascon (I-Pensylvania), Jack Grimes (United Fascist Union-Pennsylvania), Michael Halpin (I-New York), Larry D. Hines (I-Texas), Georgia Hough (I-Georgia), Keith Judd (I-Massachusetts), Darren E. Karr (Party X-Oregon), Samuel Keegan (I-Rhode Island), John Joseph Kennedy (I-Georgia), Joseph Martyniuk Jr. (I-Illinois), David Mevis (I-Mississippi), Muadin (E-Democratic Party-Massachusetts), Jeffrey Peters (We The People Party-New Hampshire), Andrew M. Rotramel (I-Texas), Joseph "Average Joe" Schriner (I-Ohio), Dennis P. Slatton (United America Party-North Carolina), Dan Snow (I-Texas), Brian B. Springfield (I-Virginia), Diane Templin (American Party-California), Lawrence Rey Topham (I-Utah), Lemuel Tucker (I-Michigan), Da Vid (Light Party-California), Tom Wells (Family Values Party-Florida), A.J. Wildman (I-Virginia) In a truly democratic country, this would not be an election between two men, but all of the above. Something's wrong. Mike Geary Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: Geary is testing us... > Andy said: > "Do you really think Democrats are as bad as Republicans in environmental > matters? The Sierra Club supports Kerry." > > Veronica says: Of course not. I am intending to vote for Kerry and > Democratic Congressional representatives and judges. I will vote for one > Republican for regent of one of our universities. > > I am NOT asking anyone to vote for Nader. I think Nader is a zealot as is > willing to sacrifice the rest of us to four more years of this idiocy. > I was only trying to say that if he is a spoiler, which he might very well > turn out to be, he is my enemy. But a lot of what he says is true. > A lot of improvement in American life has been due to people on the > fringes, which is where labor unions, the idea of Medicare and Social > Security benefits were at one time. > > Example: I get a letter from Hillary Clinton asking me to contribute to > the > Democratic Party. This is the same week in which she and other Democrats > are shown being wined and dined and lobbied by corporations of everything > and anything. A few weeks later, Zell Miller is going nuts at the > Republican Convention telling everyone to vote for Bush, even though he is > a Democrat from Georgia. I contribute to individual candidates for every > office that takes a lot of money, but not the party. > > In my fantasies I see or hope Nader throwing his support to Kerry. He > says > he is asking his supporters to only vote for him in those states that are > safe for Bush. Who knows? At this point I don't even believe the polls. > But I am absolutely not voting for Nader and wish no one would. I didn't > vote for him the last time either, and I wish no one had. But it's worth > listening to him. > > Veronica > > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: 10/19/2004 9:58:10 AM >> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: Geary is testing us... >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Veronica Caley <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Oct 19, 2004 1:09 AM >> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: Geary is testing us... >> >> To Andy and Andreas, >> >> I am being charitable and giving Nader the benefit of doubt. I am taking >> him at his word that he really wants the reforms he says he does. I >> agree >> with him that all he wants will not happen with a Democrat or a >> Republican >> president. I give him the benefit of the doubt because of his relentless >> efforts to improve vehicle safety when the car companies and the > government >> were trying to label him as some kind of nut. Also, GM was putting >> detectives on his trail at that time to try to intimidate him. >> >> Veronica >> >> >> >> Do you really think Democrats are as bad as Republicans in environmental > matters? The Sierra Club supports Kerry. >> >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> >> >> > [Original Message] >> > From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > Date: 10/18/2004 7:56:41 PM >> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: Geary is testing us... >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Veronica Caley <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > Sent: Oct 18, 2004 5:55 PM >> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [Spam] Re: Geary is testing us... >> > >> > >> > As the mother and grandmother of a woman and an eight year old girl, I >> > would like to ask people on this list to vote for Kerry rather than > Nader, >> > even though I consider Nader an honorable man who is trying to bring > about >> > reforms that most people on this list would approve of. I >> > >> > >> > A.A. I'm still wondering how someone who takes votes away from the > party >> most capable of giving teeth to his issues and essentially supports those >> opposed to his issues is anything more than a self-serving egomaniac. > What >> is it I'm not getting? >> > >> > >> > Andy >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Yours, >> > Veronica >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >> > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >> digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >> digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html