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*Introduction. 2008 Presidential election, too.

*Kerry. Google shortcuts. Specific topics.
*Kerry-Nader negotiations. Voter options.
*Marijuana Policy Project grades Kerry an A-, Bush an F.
*NORML candidates Report Card. Thumbs down on Bush.
*JohnKerry.com forums.
*Ralph Nader, Greens, drug reform, links.

*Drug War charts, and more.

 

2008 Presidential election too. [TopLink]

This page was written before the 2004 U.S. Presidential election. But it applies to any U.S. Presidential election.


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Kerry. Google shortcuts. [TopLink]

For those who need more info before voting:

I think the JohnKerry.com website needs to be organized by very specific topics. Otherwise, last-minute voters can't find out anything.

For example:

1. Minimum wage. 
2. Middle class tax cuts. 
3. Runoff elections.

Google shortcuts that search only the johnkerry.com site are quick tools for info on very specific topics. Click:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.johnkerry.com+minimum+wage

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.johnkerry.com+middle+class+tax+cuts

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.johnkerry.com+runoff+elections

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Kerry-Nader negotiations. Voter options. [TopLink]

These messages have been posted in dozens of email lists and their public and private archives. For example; see these 2 messages:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1070 and
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1069

Date: Mon Oct 4, 2004 4:53 am
Subject: Nader negotiate with Kerry? On runoff elections, etc..

Open letter to Ralph Nader, independent voters, and fellow Nader 2000 voters,

A crazy idea I have:

If the Reform Party can endorse Ralph Nader than maybe Nader can endorse John Kerry.

After negotiations with Kerry on key issues of course. :)

If negotiations are successful, then Nader can openly endorse Kerry at some kind of media press conference where Nader and Kerry shake hands.

Nader can then recommend that people vote for Kerry. But Nader stays in the race.

That way people who just can't vote for Kerry can still vote for Nader. And Nader doesn't break his promise not to withdraw.

Some possible issues that Kerry and Nader might agree on:

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Support for runoff elections in future presidential elections.

Support for runoff elections in all elections.

Support for easy uniform ballot access across the USA.

A constitutional amendment to block corporate money in elections.

A constitutional amendment to require media coverage of most candidates meeting certain thresholds.

Support for proportional representation.

Support for a voting age of 17.

A constitutional amendment requiring more specific Congressional declaration of wars against specific countries, groups, etc..

A constitutional amendment requiring Congressional approval each year to renew declarations of war, occupations, etc..

Support for study of why the USA has over 2.2 million of the world's 9 million prisoners.

Etc., etc..

eco man

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Date: Thu Oct 7, 2004 12:54 am
Subject: More on Kerry-Nader negotiations. Voter options.

Please forward widely. Especially to staff of Kerry and Nader. Please forward up the chain of command!

I have gotten some heated replies to my first message on this topic. See:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1069

We need some discussion nationwide of this. What else is more important than this election anyway? A Kerry-Nader deal on some issues, and a Nader endorsement of Kerry, would get Kerry elected, and would make progress on the negotiated issues. I doubt Bush would endorse any of the issues. :)

If someone can show me somewhere online where Nader previously promised to endorse Gore or Kerry if they made a deal, then I will broadcast that far and wide. If not, then this has not been tried before (at least not publicly), and so I will keep promoting this idea of issue negotiation. See the list of non-partisan issues here:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1069

In any case I don't think Nader should drop out. The voters who refused to vote for Kerry (even after Nader's endorsement of Kerry) would still go to the polls and vote for Nader. Those same progressive voters would also probably help vote in a more progressive Congress. Otherwise they may not go to the polls without Nader on the ballot. And Nader on the ballot keeps the Democrats honest and from becoming totally corporatist.

At the same time no matter what Nader does I will keep encouraging people to vote for Kerry if he endorses runoff elections. Which many people have requested Kerry do. He hasn't done it. I, and others, have requested it many times at the JohnKerry.com forums. I also explained that this would lock in hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of votes for Kerry.

It is a non-partisan idea, and I just don't understand why Kerry will not endorse runoff elections. Unless the Democrat Party is so against 3rd parties that they are willing to lose the election.

Nader's issues are not irrelevant. In fact he is dead on correct. The problem is how to get some progress on those issues.

Unless either Nader or Kerry make the first step, then the Democrats may lose another election, and many people will be even angrier with Nader, and progress will not really be made on Nader's critical issues.

I think it is Kerry who has the most to lose and should be endorsing some of the non-partisan ideas I listed at the beginning of this thread.

The bottom line is that the Nader voters could determine this election. And they need REASONS to vote for Kerry beyond the "anyone but Bush" logic. I know that this is not enough of a reason for many Nader voters. Why do I know? Because I voted for Nader in 2000.

I will probably vote for Kerry this election. Because of his non-typical-Democrat view on cutting middle-class taxes, and spending. And because of NORML's and MPP's flunking of Bush. But to many Nader voters these are not good enough reasons. They are only barely enough of a reason for me to vote for Kerry.

Independent and Nader voters need more reasons to vote for Kerry.

My webpage on some of this:
http://corporatism.tripod.com/kerry.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/kerry.htm

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MPP.org [TopLink]

Some of the following has been posted in these forum and email list messages too:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1062 and
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=936252

Click for drug war charts!*Marijuana Policy Project. MPP.org grades all candidates. Gives Kerry an A- and Bush an F:
http://www.mpp.org/candidates/guide

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NORML. [TopLink]



NORML on all 2004 presidential candidates. With thumbs down on Bush:
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5895

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JohnKerry.com forums. [TopLink]

*My profile and my posts at JohnKerry.com forums:
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showuser=35143 and
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?act=Search&CODE=getalluser&mid=35143

*JohnKerry.com forum with busy marijuana decriminalization threads:
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showforum=11 ~
A thread message with Administrator1 summary comparing the cannabis views of Kerry and Bush:
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=61002&view=findpost&p=444628

*Links for copying and pasting into forum discussions: 
NORML on all 2004 presidential candidates. With thumbs down on Bush:
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5895 ~
Marijuana Policy Project. MPP.org grades Kerry an A-, Bush an F:
http://www.mpp.org/candidates/guide ~
San Francisco Chronicle article comparing medical marijuana views of Kerry and Bush:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/10/MNG0996S2L1.DTL and
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/kerry.htm and
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19621.shtml

My signature block attached to some JohnKerry.com forum messages:

Bush, it's the taxes, stupid. 

"Cut Middle-Class Taxes To Raise Middle-Class Incomes. 
When John Kerry is president, middle-class taxes will go down. Ninety-eight percent of all Americans and 99 percent of American businesses will get a tax cut under the Kerry-Edwards plan."
-- The above quote (emphasis added) comes from this page:
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy
To make it happen Kerry will roll back the Bush tax cut for the wealthy, and will prioritize and cut spending:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0407b.html
Bushwhacked economy:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-08-16-income-disparity_x.htm

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Ralph Nader, Greens, drug reform. [TopLink]

*My webpage on Ralph Nader and drug reform. From Greens to today. Many links compiled:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/greens.htm and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/greens.htm

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Drug War charts, and more. [TopLink]