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Ralph Nader was pushing Americans Elect (updated)
Video: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/jansing-and-co/46572542/#46572542
Transcript:
>> well, it depends who the candidate is, but they could bring to the table stronger law enforcement on the wall street type crime, fraud and abuse. change the tax code to tax pollution and speculation on wall street before it taxes workers. it could increase the living wage. it could move for electoral reform so that the voters have more choice, and they get the expectation levels raised. without higher voter expectation levels, you don't get higher performance from the politicians, and what americans elect us doing works this way. if you happen to like the candidate whose record stands for the well-being of workers and consumers and small taxpayers and peace abroad and bringing the soldiers back home go to americans elect.org and vote for me for example, and this is what is go on right now. there are internet voting for candidates, and sometime by may or june, that's the winner is going to be selected and they are going to have 50 states. the ballot access, chris.
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>> no, first of all, spoil ser is a politically bigoted word to use since both of to parties have spoiled our electoral and political system. i think it is competition and new ad jen das and ideas supported by a larger number of the american people like full medicare for all, and above all, it respects the voters by raising their expectation level, and that is the history of the small parties when they came on board in 19th century when they came on board for slavery and women's right to vote, and labor and improvement, and they never won an election, but they pushed the american people's party to respect the american people. and watch that website americans elect.org.
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>> no, first of all, spoil ser is a politically bigoted word to use since both of to parties have spoiled our electoral and political system. i think it is competition and new ad jen das and ideas supported by a larger number of the american people like full medicare for all, and above all, it respects the voters by raising their expectation level, and that is the history of the small parties when they came on board in 19th century when they came on board for slavery and women's right to vote, and labor and improvement, and they never won an election, but they pushed the american people's party to respect the american people. and watch that website americans elect.org.
Americans Elect is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is not affiliated with any political party, ideology or candidate. It is funded exclusively by individual contributions—and not from corporate, labor, special interest, foreign, or lobbyist sources. And we intend to repay our initial financing so that no single individual will have contributed more than $10K.
Ultimately, Americans Elect is the first nominating process that will be led directly by voters like YOU.
http://www.americanselect.org/who-we-are
Ultimately, Americans Elect is the first nominating process that will be led directly by voters like YOU.
http://www.americanselect.org/who-we-are
Leadership (partial list)
Lynn Forester
de Rothschild
CEO, E.L. Rothschild
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Mark McKinnon
President, Maverick Media; former Advisor to President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain
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Douglas Schoen
Douglas E Schoen LLC; Author and Commentator
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Edward L. Weidenfeld
The Weidenfeld Law Firm, PC; former counsel to the Reagan Bush Campaign
Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld
President, DC Productions Ltd; Press Secretary to former First Lady Betty Ford
The Honorable
Christine Todd Whitman
Former Governor, New Jersey; President, The Whitman Strategy Group
Updtaed to add: Also note the two names names Nader mentions in the clip:
Buddy Romer:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/73226294/2012-Presidential-Candidate-Comparison-Chart
David Walker:
David M. Walker (born October 2, 1951) served as United States Comptroller General from 1998 to 2008, and is Founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative. He was considered a potential contender for the Connecticut U.S. Senate seat that Joe Lieberman is leaving in 2012, but chose not to run, and said he would maintain his status as an independent. Similarly, he has been promoted as a potential candidate for President, through Americans Elect.
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Walker served as Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, his tenure as the federal government's chief auditor spanned both Democratic and Republican administrations. While at the GAO, Walker embarked on a Fiscal Wake-up Tour,[1] partnering with the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition, and the Heritage Foundation to alert Americans to wasteful government spending.[2] Walker left the GAO to head the Peterson Foundation on March 12, 2008.[3] Labor-management relations became fractious during Walker's nine-year tenure as comptroller general. On September 19, 2007, GAO analysts voted by a margin of two to one (897–445), in a 75% turnout, to establish the first union in GAO's 86-year history.
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In 2008, Walker was personally recruited by Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group, and former Secretary of Commerce under Richard Nixon, to lead his new foundation. The Foundation distributed the documentary film, I.O.U.S.A.,[4] which follows Walker and Robert Bixby, director of the Concord Coalition, around the nation, as they engage Americans in town-hall style meetings, along with luminaries such as Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker and Robert Rubin.
Peterson was cited by the New York Times as one of the foremost "philanthropists whose foundations are spending increasing amounts and raising their voices to influence public policy."[5] In philanthropy, Walker has advocated a more action-based approach to the traditional foundation: “I do believe, however, that foundations have been very cautious and somewhat conservative about whether and to what extent they want to get involved in advocacy.”[6] David Walker stepped down as President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on October 15, 2010 to establish his own venture, the Comeback America Initiative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Walker_(U.S._Comptroller_General)
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Walker served as Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, his tenure as the federal government's chief auditor spanned both Democratic and Republican administrations. While at the GAO, Walker embarked on a Fiscal Wake-up Tour,[1] partnering with the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition, and the Heritage Foundation to alert Americans to wasteful government spending.[2] Walker left the GAO to head the Peterson Foundation on March 12, 2008.[3] Labor-management relations became fractious during Walker's nine-year tenure as comptroller general. On September 19, 2007, GAO analysts voted by a margin of two to one (897–445), in a 75% turnout, to establish the first union in GAO's 86-year history.
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In 2008, Walker was personally recruited by Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group, and former Secretary of Commerce under Richard Nixon, to lead his new foundation. The Foundation distributed the documentary film, I.O.U.S.A.,[4] which follows Walker and Robert Bixby, director of the Concord Coalition, around the nation, as they engage Americans in town-hall style meetings, along with luminaries such as Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker and Robert Rubin.
Peterson was cited by the New York Times as one of the foremost "philanthropists whose foundations are spending increasing amounts and raising their voices to influence public policy."[5] In philanthropy, Walker has advocated a more action-based approach to the traditional foundation: “I do believe, however, that foundations have been very cautious and somewhat conservative about whether and to what extent they want to get involved in advocacy.”[6] David Walker stepped down as President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on October 15, 2010 to establish his own venture, the Comeback America Initiative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Walker_(U.S._Comptroller_General)
Reminds me of when Nader threw out Bloomberg's name: http://www.politickerny.com/2011/10/11/ralph-nader-wants-mike-bloomberg-to-run-for-president/
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I'm not arguing their purpose of promoting moderates.
So what?
So do the Republican and Democratic parties when they're running moderates. Obama is a moderate and is being promoted by the Democratic Party.
Hell, IIRC from my viewing of the clip, Nader said that the group was aimed at moderates. It seems to me, if he was promoting anything, he was promoting political diversity rather than the entrenched 2 party system that now controls the country.
So what?
So do the Republican and Democratic parties when they're running moderates. Obama is a moderate and is being promoted by the Democratic Party.
Hell, IIRC from my viewing of the clip, Nader said that the group was aimed at moderates. It seems to me, if he was promoting anything, he was promoting political diversity rather than the entrenched 2 party system that now controls the country.
...it took a few tries, but I knew eventually the "so what?" excuse would pop up. I mean, everyone can see the similarities between "moderate" Obama and "moderate" Buddy Roemer, right?
Oh brother!
Nader is a tool!
playing spoiler for the Repukes, he'd be drafting and running true progressives to take over local and state legislatures, grooming them to run for national office. He's a fraud who can be counted on to pop up every four years to create a little havoc for his Republican benefactors. Fuck him and his supporters.
The good news is that we don't have to walk on eggshells around him or his supporters, because he is every bit as much a political opponent as Ron Paul and the other GOP clowns. We can cuss 'em the hell out, and keep moving. 
a stealth Republican? 
At this point, nothing else makes sense to me. He has particular disdain for Democrats, which reminds me of a certain website which is home to a certain pedigree of "democrat". I'm sure you know the one I mean.
I think, at some point, he decided that if the Democratic Party wouldn't make him their nominee, he'd do everything in his power to destroy it. He has some really strange affiliations to say the least.
Very interesting, indeed!
