WP: Reform Party Reaffirms Nader is Nominee(5 ballot slots, incl. FL & MI)

[DeepModem Mom]

Reform Party Reaffirms Nader Is Nominee
Some Question Alliance as Marriage of Convenience, Group's Political Viability

By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 29, 2004; Page A05

At a hastily arranged convention in an Irving, Tex., hotel, Ralph Nader yesterday accepted the Reform Party's nomination for president, and the ballot lines in seven states, including Florida and Michigan, that come with it.

The event is something of a formality. Nader was nominated by national chairman Shawn O'Hara in a telephone conference call in May and is only being reaffirmed to satisfy a Florida election law that requires nominees to be selected in person.

"This is just to prevent any more court litigation with our brothers and sisters in the Democratic Party," O'Hara said, alluding to legal squabbles in several states where Democrats fear Nader will siphon votes from their nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).

To many longtime Nader backers, the alliance with a party that has struggled since the withdrawal from public life of its founder, Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, is an unlikely, and some say unfortunate, marriage of convenience....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42629-2004Aug28.html

[Vladimir]

1. Ralphie, Ralphie, Ralphie...

get over it sunshine, it ain't about you any more.

[sistersofmercy]

4. Hehe! Vladimir...That is just too funny!

Thanks for the morning chuckle! :hi:

[BeatleBoot]

2. He's irrelevant in Michigan

Kerry's gonna take Michigan with or without the egomaniac.

Later Nader.

[Downtown Hound]

3. Hmmm...

Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader...

Well I guess it's really time to start taking the Reform Party seriously with such a consistent message that they've been putting out to people.

[salin]

5. Can things get more Bizarre? Corporate Perot's party... headed

by anti-corporate crusader?