(HT – Stop Me Before I Vote Again ) This was left as a comment on one of Michael’s recent posts. Wonderful poem and so on target. I love the last lines, this seems an ordeal like staying after school for bad boys only
mother clinton
is still timber tall and ready for a topple
only adjustment the party core has no need of a winner the repugs are such losers
so she’s looking more like a nixon 68 avatar then a musky 72
but those long long ears and squalid hack-ass bray means one thing and one thing only fuckin 40 mule team wall street is roundin the bend toward the white house home stretch way way earlier then sanity admits and at this rate it’ll be a slowmotion spine bending spectacle like waiting for the private parts of an obscene ice sculpture to melt ……in a freezer
taking the ride with hillary ….
yikes
imagine its to be the blouse and louse legion all the way to next november
Here are some highlights of voter suppression by the Demopublican Party in 2004.
In Ohio, for example, lawyers were hired to call up petitioners and tell them that if they didn’t verify the signatures on the petition, they would be guilty of a felony.
The (in Oregon) Nader campaign went about doing that, and during the course of that there was further harassment and intimidation of petitioners by law firms, private investigators, calling up and threatening petitioners that they would be called before a court if they did not certify all the petitions.
SEIU came up with the strategy of getting its members to go and write signatures in the wrong place on a petition, on Nader’s petitions, which would then invalidate the entire petition.
In fact, the center of this effort was something called the Ballot Project, which was started by Robert Brandon, who’s one of the defendants, and he’s a consultant to the Democratic Party. And he held a meeting at the Democratic Convention in 2004 with Moffett, Holtzman and a group of other high-ranking Democrats, and they said, our purpose is to keep Nader off the ballot. And they went, and they proceeded to do it, spending millions of dollars.
There is a certain irony with all of the Demopublican voter supression tactics. While various organization including the Ballot Project and SEIU worked endlessly to keep Nader off the ballot, it was the Green Party and the Libertarian Party who fought to the very end in Ohio to make sure every last vote was counted. Certainly what this speaks to is Nader, and the Green Party are even bigger enemies to the Demopublican Party than even George Bush himself.
These types of tactics are not forign to Wisconsin. After the Democratic Danes voted for no endorsement in last spring’s election, Democratic operatives worked behind the scenes to elect a libertarian to the city council. There does appear to be light on the horizen for a less antogonistic approach toward third parties.
There is no reason why we can’t have multi-party diversity within a unified left. This can easily be accomplished in most local and state elections through IRV. One specific reform we could do in Wisconsin is allocating presidential electoral votes proportionally through STV.
