Nader behind in fund-raising
Ralph Nader's independent presidential bid is off to a slow start filling its campaign coffers.
The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported this afternoon that he had raised $321,700 by the end of February, including $40,200 from his own pocket and a quarter of his total take from California residents.
Nader, a longtime consumer advocate who is far behind the tens of millions raised and spent by the major-party candidates, has reported spending a paltry $43,700.
In 2000, Nader raised $8.4 million as the Green Party's candidate and received nearly 3 percent of the vote.
In 2004, also running as an independent, he collected $4.6 million, with nearly $800,000 from public financing, and won only 0.3 percent of the vote as an independent.
uh, excuse me -- nader announced his candidacy on february 24.
give the guy a break
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Exactly if he can keep this fund raising momentum he would easily surpass 2004 and probably reach his 2000 level in terms of funds.
Ralph, More power to your ideas. Keep working to end this insane war and bring our people home. You've been out there making speeches, doing interviews and writing articles and have written at least three books in the last 6 years. And you've been writing weekly commentary on the things that really matter, at http://www.nader.org .The question is where has the Press been on these important matters you discuss? where have the "Talking Heads" been on corporate crime and the profiteers of this war? The population is too busy being entertained and watching Sporting events to get involved, they take the easy route and don't bother to look deeply into matters, settling instead for snippets and quick slogans.Imagine looking at these issues the way we follow sports satistics. Knowing what's going on in a Corporate controlled State takes work. Thank you Ralph, for all the good things you've done to protect the PEOPLE of this Country. Amazing how quickly they forget, or perhaps they just don't know. Almost everyone's lives, or that of friends and relatives of theirs, have been improved and made safer because of you, Some wouldn't be alive today, if not for Ralph Nader! Their minds have been intentionally bombarded with with Corporate propaganda and the Democrat Party scapegoating machine. That phony Terry McAuliffe should be ashamed of his comments. They continue the DNC scapegoating myth. thank you Ralph for your great service to this Country. More power to your ideas. http://www.votenader.org....All the rest of you out there, buckle-up! ....
Ralph, More power to your ideas. Keep working to end this insane war and bring our people home. You've been out there making speeches, doing interviews and writing articles and have written at least three books in the last 6 years. And you've been writing weekly commentary on the things that really matter, at http://www.nader.org .The question is where has the Press been on these important matters you discuss? where have the "Talking Heads" been on corporate crime and the profiteers of this war? The population is too busy being entertained and watching Sporting events to get involved, they take the easy route and don't bother to look deeply into matters, settling instead for snippets and quick slogans.Imagine looking at these issues the way we follow sports satistics. Knowing what's going on in a Corporate controlled State takes work. Thank you Ralph, for all the good things you've done to protect the PEOPLE of this Country. Amazing how quickly they forget, or perhaps they just don't know. Almost everyone's lives, or that of friends and relatives of theirs, have been improved and made safer because of you, Some wouldn't be alive today, if not for Ralph Nader! Their minds have been intentionally bombarded with with Corporate propaganda and the Democrat Party scapegoating machine. That phony Terry McAuliffe should be ashamed of his comments. They continue the DNC scapegoating myth. thank you Ralph for your great service to this Country. More power to your ideas. http://www.votenader.org....All the rest of you out there, buckle-up! ....
Finally! It's actually nice to see posters NOT bashing Nader. Thank you.
Seems like prudent planning to me as the real fight isn't likely to get under way for a few months, and a useful statement that speaks to the OUTRAGEOUS amounts of money being spent by the R & D parties at a time when we are all looking to tighten our belts if not being forced to do so. One shouldn't need to spend that kind of money to be a part of the process. Speaking of that, one certainly shouldn't be required to prove voter support based on dollars raised. The fact that the word democracy has become somehow interchangeable with capitalism is perverse. How is it that people who can't afford to send money to a campaign no longer have the right to support a candidate and have it count? (speaking of minimum donations per state to qualify for matching funds)
How wonderful tit is o read such expressive endorsements in favor of Mr. Ralph Nader, a man whom, in my opinion, has done more for this country than most presidents in regards to protecting citizen's rights and advancing the cause of progressive activism from the shadows of ridicule to the current mainstream arena in which anyone with a shred of political ambition must now embrace if they are to remain a player in the system.
I only wish that more Americans would take the time to investigate the overwhelming obstacles Mr. Nader has assailed in order to make these issues which affect us all to be more prominent in the world even though it's taken nearly his entire life to make this occur. What a wonderful testament to all his hard work that ideas such as his are now being championed and given such a glorious day in the sun!
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