[Marxism] Another break from Democrats, another Green candidacy

Thu Nov 22 21:13:26 MST 2007

I may have conveyed the wrong impression to my friend and comrade Fred
Feldman. While I think it is safe to say that Nader supporters are
worried about a repeat of 2004, this time with a stacked deck for
McKinney, there is also a lot of good will on both sides. So rumors
are just rumors at this point.

It is also too soon, I think, to call the rupture in the Green Party a
state of permanent factionalism. For one thing, the issue that divided
the two sides (whether the DP should win in 2004) is not operable
since a) the DP is pretty much a shoo-in in 2008; and b) GP members
are no different than Sheehan supporters and others who are so fed up
and disgusted with the DP that they want to punish them hard in the
polls.

I agree with Fred that a meeting and ongoing contact between the two
of them would be wonderful and should be encouraged. Several Greens
who know both McKinney and Nader have been pressing for them to talk
with each other. A petition with 100 names or so was delivered to each
of them asking that they consider the other as a running mate if they
get the presidential nomination.

Steffie Brooks

On 11/22/07, Fred Feldman <ffeldman at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> My dear friend Steffie Brooks tells me that friends of hers in San Francisco
> say that Cobb supporters, who support McKinney (a big improvement over Cobb
> in class, national, and broader political terms) are showing tendencies to
> stack the state convention against Nader the way they did with the state and
> national conventions in 2004.  This is a reflection of permanent
> factionalism in the Green Party.....
> Fred Feldman
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> From: carol wolman [mailto:cwolman at mcn.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 4:01 PM
> To: lhi; Longhouse_Coalition at yahoogroups.com;
> eastbayimpeach at yahoogroups.comWhy
> Subject: Why I am running for Congress by Carol Wolman, MD
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> I am running for Congress, as a Green, because I want to offer the voters an
> alternative to the Democrat/Republican cabal that is ruining our great
> nation, driving us into bankruptcy, destroying our international reputation,
> and dismantling our Republic.
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> I believe in the US Constitution and the rule of law.  I believe in  the
> sovereignty, the governing authority, of We the People.  I believe that Bush
> and Cheney have violated the US Constitution many times over, and should be
> impeached.  It was the clear intention of the Founding Fathers that any
> president and/or vice president who tried to consolidate power in a "unitary
> executive" should be impeached.
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> California District 1 is currently represented by Congressman Mike Thompson,
> a party-line Democrat.  Like every other public official, he has sworn an
> oath to uphold and defend the US Constitution from all enemies, foreign and
> domestic.  Yet he has refused to sign cosponsor the several bills of
> impeachment that have been brought before the House since 2004- H Res 635 in
> the 109th Congress, and 333 and 799 in the present Congress.
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> He stands with Nancy Pelosi in keeping impeachment off the table.  By not
> working to impeach the greatest enemies the Constitution has ever had, Mike
> Thompson is violating his oath of office, and betraying his constituents.
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> The need for impeachment is my original motivation in running for Congress.
> As I study Mike Thompson's record, however, I find that he is hypocritical
> in a number of areas.  He has stated publicly that he is for impeachment,
> but refuses to act on this belief.  He says he is for pulling us out of the
> Iraq occupation, but consistently votes for more funding for Bush's illegal
> military adventure.  He is against a national health insurance plan which
> would cover the poor, but was one of the Democrats who voted for George W.
> Bush's tax cuts for the rich.
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> As a parent and a senior, I worry about the future.  I am watching the
> economy, the environment, the public sector, the quality of life deteriorate
> rapidly since Bush took office.  Meanwhile, the US government, Bush and
> Cheney with the collusion of Congress, spends billions of our tax dollars
> daily on illegal, immoral attacks on other countries.  Mike Thompson, by
> refusing to vote for impeachment and by consistently voting for military
> spending bills, is part of the problem.
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> As a psychiatrist, I am watching the country being hypnotized by madmen who
> believe that they, and some of us, can survive a nuclear war.  By
> threatening to nuke Iran, they have turned Iran's military allies, Russia
> and China, against us.  Bush and Cheney have openly threatened us with World
> War III.  This is insane and suicidal.
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> As a patriotic American, I am watching in horror as our precious freedoms
> and civil liberties are trampled.  Mike Thompson has done nothing to repeal
> or amend the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, the Military
> Commissions Act, which render any opponents of Bush and Cheney vulnerable to
> being labeled "enemy combatants" and to being "disappeared", without even
> the protection of habeas corpus.  The legislation for fascism is all in
> place, and Mike Thompson has allowed it to happen.
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> We need a clean sweep of Congress.  I am not a politician, and never ran for
> public office until my independent write-in candidacy for the District 1
> seat in '06.   As a concerned, informed citizen, I want to offer the voters
> an alternative to Mike Thompson's complicity with the high crimes and
> atrocities of the Bush administration.
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> Donations to my campaign can be sent to:
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> Carol  Wolman for Congress
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> c/o Hannah Clapsadle
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> 1930    A St.
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> Eureka, CA 95501
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> If you live in CA District 1, and would like to help with the campaign,
> please email me at cwolman at mcn.org   I especially need volunteers in
> Davis/West Sac/Woodland, also in Lake County, Del Norte, Sonoma and Napa.
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> Peace, Carol Wolman, MD
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> Green Candidate for Congress, CA District 1
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTowK03sr7Q
> Founder, New Broom Coalition
> http://sances.info/newbroom
> Cochair, Impeach Bush-Cheney
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> http://www.opednews.com/author/author20.html
>  http://www.paracove.com/HighCrimes.html
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