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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-08 10:26 AM
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Question-Is it ok to talk about a Green Party candidate if a Democrat isn't running in the race?
In AR-3, our repuke con-man is running without a Democratic opponent. (But then our Democratic Senator, Mark Pryor, is running without a Republican opponent.) There is a Green Party candidate running against our con-man, and he's come out with some very interesting statements about our incumbent. I'd like to post them here and let folks in northwest Arkansas know there is a choice to be made at the polls, but I didn't know if this would be proper. Could anyone let me know? Thanks in advance.
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Phred42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-08 10:28 AM
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1. Depends. There are a number of Republicans reportedly
Edited on Sun Oct-12-08 10:40 AM by Phred42
running as Green this time.

Search DU - the post on this was within the past few days


edited to add DU post I referred to - for the lazy

My point was, you need to be careful.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3540071
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-08 10:30 AM
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2. LOL
Where?
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Phred42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-08 10:37 AM
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4. Here ya go ass-chaps
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-08 11:38 AM
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5. The article states that the Green party opposes the two candidates
Makes you wonder how they got onto the ballot in Arizona.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-08 10:30 AM
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3. sounds ok if there is NO real dem & the "green" is not really a repub in disguise....
the post referenced mentioned repubs running phony "greens" (actually repubs) who were running to deceive people and draw votes from a real dem candidate.


Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-08 06:43 PM
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6. Since the local liberal activist group is passing along the word,
I think we can be sure that the fellow is a liberal and not a repuke in disguise. Besides, in the Third District of Arkansas, there would be no point in a Republican disguising themselves as something else. Even Bill Clinton lost to the repuke candidate. Here's what I got in an email:

Green Party's Abel Tomlinson Challenging Incumbent John Boozman

POSTED: 8:14 pm CDT October 9, 2008
UPDATED: 11:41 pm CDT October 9, 2008

FORT SMITH, Ark. -- The economy is on the minds of many Americans. Rep. John Boozman voted for the $850 billion Wall Street bailout. Abel Tomlinson, who's seeking to replace Boozman in the U.S. House, said he doesn't think the bailout will solve the current economic crisis.

"It's essentially going to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers to the top 1 percent shareholders and executives of these banking institutions," said Tomlinson. "It's essentially corporate socialism."

"We had two choices: We could do nothing, or we could try and intervene and shore things up so the situation wouldn't be as difficult," said Boozman. "I think intervening was the right thing to do."

Both men also disagree on the role of government in health care.

"I believe in single-payer universal health care," said Tomlinson. "Right now we're spending $2 trillion on health care a year, and it's estimated that $350 billion is pure waste to private insurance corporations."

"I'm a guy that believes really strongly that we need to do this within the private sector," said Boozman. "I don't want government nationalized health care."

Boozman currently sits on the veterans affairs, foreign affairs and transportation committees.
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