“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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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:
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!
This is my friend Ashley talking about why she is voting for Nader. She is brilliant & thoughtful (no those are not necessarily synonymous).
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.
This afternoon Kate and I went to see An Unreasonable Man, a documentary about the rise, and rise, and fall and rise of Nader. Even though it was a little long and boring, the documentary was great. It did a wonderful portrayal of Nader’s history, advocacy, and the controversies surrounding his presidential runs in 2000 & 2004. leaving the theater I was once again convinced Nader is the answer to America’s political problems. He is honest, unsympathetic to corruption, care little of his personal situation or legacy, and want more than anything to fix the injustices in the US and the world. Some of you might not know, but I campaigned for him with some close friends for the 2004 elections. He was the right person to vote for because, like they mention in the film, wasn’t in the pocket of the mega corporations. He turned down millions of bribe dollars and threats to no run, because he knew our two parties are corrupt and heavily manipulated by large corporations, and he wanted to fight it. Even though he did not get elected, he made a strong stand against government corruption, two party politics, and the failure of the democrats to address social issues because they too have sold out to the corporate world and to conservative rhetoric. Next elections unless the democrats start being more liberal they are going to end up disenchanting their voter base that will, if we are lucky, vote Nader or someone like him into office.
Nader you have my support, even though you come off crazy.
