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By Neil, 12 November 2008

Please read this response to the elections by Ashley Sanders.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

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By Kate, 5 November 2008

As I told the Australian reporter who interviewed me last night, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed. Luckily to surround me in our defeat last night were awesome people like Roger (pictured above) who have been fighting the good fight for longer than I’ve been alive. He has been campaigning for impeachment of Bush & Cheney for years. Every Friday he stands on a street corner with other awesome Americans for what they call “honk to impeach.” He is always carrying a petition for San Diego County to pass a resolution to impeach. He is totally undaunted by naysayers and gave the best quote of the night, “you can doubt the power of one all you want… but, just wait until you spend the night in a room with a mosquito! Then you’ll see what persistence can do.” I think his hat really says it all, “IMPEACH the bloody lying thieves.”

Neil made this fantastic poster of Nader for the party. Unfortunately Neil had to work until 8, so we didn’t get there early enough to see all of the Nader volunteers. After Obama was declared, most hit the road. (To cry themselves to sleep, I’m assuming.)

We were right next to the Obama room in “Election Central.”

I guess we’ve got one consolation prize.

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By Kate, 4 November 2008

We already voted on Sunday after a 3.5 hour wait. I just love freedom sooooo much!

We will post pics of the NADER PARTY we are hosting downtown SD at election central. I’m pretty sure we’ll be the only political party with a live band. It’s going to be awesome.

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By Kate, 2 November 2008

Nothing like seafood & a political debate to really celebrate your 28th birthday in style.

I convinced the Republican & Democrat clubs at my school to let me crash their student Presidential debate. I convinced another Nader fan at USD to participate with me, and we were allowed to answer 2/4 questions (ie, I only got to answer one of the questions). I’m not sure how many swing voters there were in the audience, but it was fun. And I got to wear my “Don’t hate the playa, hate the game” Nader t-shirt that Neil & I made. Worth it.

Neil and I went out to breakfast at a seedy diner to celebrate in the a.m., since I had class until 9:30p.m. the night of. Turns out it is the most popular place in San Diego, based on the crowd. I had a spinach fritatta, unusual fare for a highway-side diner, but delicious indeed.

When I got home from class I was so hungry that Neil took me out for a Birthday Burrito instead of the celebratory ice cream we had planned. It was also quite delicious.

My family came to visit me the week before my birthday & somehow we ended up at a seafood joint down by the San Diego marina. Luckily we started the birthday season out early & they brought me some complimentary birthday dessert.

What could possibly say “Happy Birthday” more than husband & wife matching fleece vests from the 2002 Olympics. Thanks dad! You are one-of-a-kind.

Neil fetched me out some seaweed from Coronado beach for my birthday.

But, luckily he also surprised me with this fantastic cloche.

And, just for a jog down memory lane… for my 27th birthday I made everyone rent costumes & go to a mansion in Salt Lake for a Murder Mystery party. Anyone who says I’m not a good time doesn’t know how to have a good time.

Happy Birthday Season everyone!

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By Kate, 28 September 2008

“Oh, and by the way. You are in charge of getting Mr. Nader lunch. He likes Lebanese food and fruit juice.” This is what we were told two hours before the Nader rally at UCSD that we were in charge of getting peeps in San Diego out to. When we got the call, we were in the middle of silkscreening our custom, “SD heart Nader” shirts. Neil went on an emergency mission for some Tabbouleh and Pita & Hummus, which was successful & well received by the Nader crew.

As you can see below by the standing ovation for Nader, there was a most excellent, to quote Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, turnout at the rally. More than 1/2 of the crowd were hearing Nader speak for the first time.

Nader was well recieved, Matt Gonzalez also spoke and people had fabulous questions. But, let’s face it… the shirts were the real highlight of the day. I gave a shirt to Mr. Nader while he was doing a book signing. Unfortunate timing because, he thought I wanted him to sign it & signed the ill fated gift. Luckily Nader’s “handler” caught it & said he’d give it to him later. Now Nader has the ultimate self-aggrandizing shirt. An “I heart myself” shirt with his own signature. Again, most excellent.

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By Kate, 20 September 2008

Yesterday Neil & I went knocking to get people out to see Ralph Nader at his upcoming rally in San Diego next Saturday. We went with (the) two other Nader supporters in San Diego. One was our new friend Dennis. He is the head of the gay bowling league in San Diego, among other things. He is really fearless. He showed us the ropes & hit the streets.

While the experience was intimidating, it made me take a deep breath & remember that most people are just really nice people. They just want to have nice lives, nice kids, nice neighbors. They don’t hate. They are just nice. Even the Obama peeps were really nice & took our fliers etc. We also had some people that were really enthusiastic about Nader & it was great to get out the information to them.

I found an article that explains all the frustration I feel about the two party system. Please read it:

“…Yet most folks, it seems, have confused the occasional weekend parade, I mean, protest with a full-blown movement.

Here’s a news flash: Anti-Bush bumper stickers and a heartfelt commitment to recycled toilet paper don’t constitute a movement. Neither do candlelight vigils, vegan diets, petitions, voting drives, letters to Congress, monthly donations to Greenpeace, yellow ribbons, red ribbons, pink ribbons, or becoming the change you wish to see in the world.

All you need is love? Yeah…that and a million dollars a minute.

This is not meant to denigrate or mock but rather to point out that there is a huge difference between having a sincere minority of Americans partaking in such gestures and having a tangible, functional, effective movement capable of inciting, inspiring, demanding social change. The rest of the world knows this…why don’t we?”

Please find the rest of this article at Dissident Voice. It’s everything I want to say to everyone about the election and the state of our nation. Lucky for me, someone else wrote it all out.

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By Neil, 17 September 2008

So Kate and I met a Nader friend today who is campaigning with us. After we had a nice lunch he took me to the District Voter Registration Office to get voter registration forms and other information about San Diego’s voter precincts. One of the sheets we got listed all the political parties recognized in the county. A few of my favorites are listed below:

• U.S. Taxpayers Party
• Pragmatic Party 
• Prohibition Party 
• Neuroscience Party (Blog) 
• Natural Law Party 
• Puritan Party 
• Rock and Roll Party 
• Pot Party 
• Scientific Evolving Party 
• God, Truth & Love Party

These are in additional to old favorites like the Anarchist Party, Communist Party, Middle Class Party, Poor Peoples Party, La Raza Unida Party and so forth. To date San Diego County has 76 registered political parties. Nearly 30% of voters in San Diego are unaffiliated or registered as a 3rd party member. I just want to close with a quote from the Neuroscience Party’s constitution, “We want every woman to live like a princess with robotic servants and we want everyone to live like wealthy billionaires, wealthy members of royalty, and wealthy slavemasters with robotic servants and robotic slaves that will do all of the work for them.”

You can’t wish for a better world then that…vote 3rd Party!

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By Kate, 12 September 2008

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbJY2rs0QI[/youtube]

This is my friend Ashley talking about why she is voting for Nader. She is brilliant & thoughtful (no those are not necessarily synonymous).

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By Kate, 9 September 2008

Yep. Neil and I are now the official San Diego Volunteer Coordinators for the Nader campaign.

That’s what I get for asking for some bumper stickers!

Nader may be coming to San Diego soon, so they really needed some help. I figure, hey, I’ve got nothing else going on right?

This is Neil and I just wanted to update the post with this card I found in my car window after work. Someone had seen our “Nader 2008″ bumper sticker on our car and had written “Go Greens” on this card and put it into my window.

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By Kate, 23 July 2008

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt_pvi-ij1g[/youtube]

Neil & are stoked that we will be here for Nader’s visit to SL this time. Neil made up this flyer & others for the event. If you are in Utah… COME!