Re: Kucinich: "my intention is to establish a second party"

"jrd100" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > I was a Nader voter in 2000 but I am backing Kucinich through the
> > primaries simply because he is a Democrat in favor of fixing the
> > problems with elections, supporting public funding of same and
> > supporting IRV, which is our best hope of moving the Greens ahead
in
> > time to prevent environmental global catastrophes - if it is not
> > already too late.  He is taking the right stands on the WTO and
NAFTA.
> > I will continue support of Greens and green independents at the
local
> > and state levels, and should Kucinich not win the primaries, that
is
> > the work I will return to.
>
> Support the Greens by staying a registered Green Party voter.

It is a quandry - but I think Kucinich has a chance and I think it
would be beneficial to the Greens to have someone supportive of IRV in
the White House.

At the very least, his running - along with Sharpton, are causing the
other candidates to reevaluate and change some positions.  Shoot, even
Clark, who I trust not at all - has a book out in which he calls for
an expansion in U.S. foreign assistance programs and establishment of
a Department of International Assistance to manage the initiative.

"Focusing our humanitarian and developmental efforts through a
single, responsible department will help us bring the same kind of
sustained attention to alleviating deprivation, misery, ethnic
conflict and poverty that we have brought to the problem of warfare,"
Clark writes."

Sounds a bit like Kucinich's Dept. of Peace...


> > He is hated by DLC for being a progressive who stood against
Clinton
> > and most of the Dems for being too far to the left - everything I
have
> > read and researched indicates he is a moral, ethical man.  He
oughta
> > be a Green.  But he isn't.  He believes he can do more by staying
> > within the Democrat party and trying to move progressive issues
> > forward so that Greens and other parties can have a place at the
> > table.  Right now, today, getting the US onto Kyoto and the other
> > issues Dennis Kucinich is fighting for - against all odds, are
enough
> > for me to put Green Party pride aside to try to save something for
my
> > grandkids.
>
> That is more reason not to register Democrat and vote for him. He
made
> his political career in the Democratic party but now is "hated" by
> them. If Dennis Kucinich is hated by the last Democratic President
> then I think there will be few, if any, Greens who will want to
> register Democrat to vote for him.

Not all Dems hate him - and even a good number of Republican
congressmen like him - it is just the corporate DLC that fears him.


> > I can't figure out what we have to loose.  Register as a Dem -
work
> > your butts off for Kucinich through the primaries and do our
durnest
> > to get him nominated.  Whether he wins or looses, we can go back
and
> > reregister as Greens and get back to the work of our party and
putting
> > as many progressives into the Senate and Congress and in state and
> > local positions as we can..
>
> Why leave? Study the Green experience in Portland, Maine and see how
> friendly the Democrats are.

I don't trust the Democrat party - but I do trust Kucinich.  As I
said - I am with him through the primaries and the nomination process.
Once he is in I can go back to Green registration and still vote for
him for President.