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Title: ASGP News Circulator 2/5/01 pt 2
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:05:30 -0500
- From: Greg Gerritt <gerritt@edgenet.net>
- Subject: ASGP-COO ASGP News Circulator 2/5/01 pt 2
Copyright 2001 Star Tribune
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
February 2, 2001, Friday, Metro Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 12A
LENGTH: 349 words
HEADLINE: Addressing Twin Cities faithful, Green Party's Nader doesn't
talk like the loser
BYLINE: Bob von Sternberg; Staff Writer
BODY:
If consumer advocate Ralph Nader has any second thoughts about his
failed presidential bid, he's
keeping them to himself.
"Seen all the post-election recrimination?" the Green Party's
nominee told about 150 supporters in
the basement of a north Minneapolis church Thursday morning.
They answered him with a loud hiss.
Instead of blaming him for President Bush's victory, Nader said,
Democrats should be blaming
county election officials of their own party in south Florida.
As for reports that progressive Democrats have vowed never to work
with him again, Nader said,
"The door's been closed for years. They just put the sign out."
He also was contemptuous of Senate Democrats who have approved
Bush's Cabinet choices
unanimously or by lopsided margins. "There you are _ there's no fight in
them even at this early
juncture."
Nader received 2.7 million votes nationwide, about 3 percent of the
total. Many analysts believe he
drained enough votes from former Vice President Al Gore in Florida to
swing that state _ and the
presidency _ to Bush. His showing was stronger in Minnesota: 5 percent,
enough to gain major-party
status for the Green Party. That gets it automatic statewide ballot
access in 2002 and public campaign
financing.
Ken Pentel, one of the organizers of Nader's Minnesota campaign,
said Nader's two-day swing
through the state was his first outside the East Coast. He gave two
speeches in St. Cloud on
Wednesday. "He offered to do a fund-raiser for us, kind of a test run to
see how much support there is,"
Pentel said.
The Green Party faithful certainly didn't act as if their guy lost.
They waved campaign signs, grabbed
party literature and watched a videotape of Nader's two campaign
commercials. Bill Hillsman, the
Minneapolis adman who produced those ads, told them: "I've seen third
parties disintegrate. This is the
leading alternative party now."
The party's goal is to field 1,000 candidates nationwide in 2002.
Copyright 2001 British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts
January 31, 2001, Wednesday
SECTION: Part 3 Asia-Pacific; NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA; INTER-KOREAN
RELATIONS; FE/D4058/S1
LENGTH: 151 words
HEADLINE: Ex-chief minister launches Green Party
SOURCE: Source: Radio New Zealand International, Wellington, in English
0800 gmt 30 Jan 01
BODY:
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Text of report by Radio New Zealand International on 30 January
A former priest and former [pre-independence] chief minister of Vanuatu,
Fr Gerard Leymang, has
announced that he has formed a new political party called the Green
Party. Fr Leymang says his party
was launched as a result of dissatisfaction among members of the Union
of Moderate Parties, which has
been the dominant force in Vanuatu politics in the 1990s. He says he has
had enough of the UMP
people interested in his new group to join him [as heard].
The Green Party brings to 10 the number of parties in Vanuatu. The
country has seen a series of
coalition governments and former Deputy Prime Minister and UMP
politician Willie Jimmy says there is
no chance that any party can win a national election on its own.
By-elections are to be held next week,
amid speculation that they could lead to a hung parliament.
FOX NEWS NETWORK
SHOW: FOX HANNITY & COLMES (21:45 ET)
January 31, 2001, Wednesday
Transcript # 013104cb.253
SECTION: News; Domestic
LENGTH: 2094 words
HEADLINE: Phil Donahue Opines on Ralph Nader and John Ashcroft
GUESTS: Phil Donahue
BYLINE: Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes
BODY:
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND
MAY
BE UPDATED.
COLMES: ... Alan Colmes.
Recently we sat down with former television talk show host Phil Donahue
to talk about his support for
Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader and the ongoing
controversy surrounding John
Ashcroft's nomination for attorney general.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
COLMES: See what you went and did, Phil?
PHIL DONAHUE, FORMER TV TALK SHOW HOST: Well...
COLMES: All these media appearances...
DONAHUE: Proud to say I did.
COLMES: ... look what you helped do...
DONAHUE: And I would do it again...
COLMES: ... elect George W. Bush.
DONAHUE: I would do it again. It was fun. I was (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- I
was exercising a
fundamental American right. I was supporting a man who was running for
president who obeyed all the
laws, took in only money pres -- that the law allowed...
COLMES: Right. Well, let me tell you something. I disagree with
(UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
DONAHUE: ... and everybody -- and incidentally, incidentally, comes on
your show, and others, I see
Buchanan comes on, Hey, Pat, what's up, Pat? How you doing? How you
doing? Lock-and-load Pat...
COLMES: Yes, that's it...
(CROSSTALK)
COLMES: ... I didn't say that, but Pat Buchanan...
DONAHUE: He did. You know, Hi, Cokie, hi, Tim.
COLMES: Hi, Alan.
DONAHUE: Here comes Ralph Nader, whaaaa!
HANNITY: Not from me.
COLMES: No, I didn't do that...
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: I encouraged him.
(CROSSTALK)
COLMES: ... that's not -- but...
DONAHUE: ... comes this -- where did this fear and loathing come -- and
everybody saying, Shut up,
shut up, don't run, don't run. I never in my life thought I'd live to
see the day that in the freest nation on
earth, the democracy we brag about, everybody's telling Ralph Nader to
shut up.
COLMES: Well, let me tell you something. I disagree with many of my
fellow liberals, who are angry,
furious at Nader for taking the election away from Gore. I applaud a
democracy where there could be
many voices. I don't agree with many liberals, many people on the left
who have said that. I -- I'm
glad...
DONAHUE: Not only that, Alan...
COLMES: ... he ran. But why did he get only, what, 2, 3 percent? Why
didn't he
(UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
DONAHUE: Because I think America appreciated what a strange and -- race
this was going to be and
how tight it was going to be. But the fear and loathing generated by
him, I can't tell you, I'm stunned.
It -- you know, it's sort of a testament to the nobleness of our
purpose, really. And it tells us -- the -- it
reminds us of the power that we have. We can, we can come at the
centrist corporate Democratic Party
from the left and scare the life out of them. I can't wait till the next
election.
COLMES: But didn't he -- shouldn't he have done better than 2 percent, 3
percent? Shouldn't he have
gained that 5 percent to get the funding for the next election?
DONAHUE: Oh, I wish he had. You say should. By what -- you know, I don't
know, should, the nuns
kept saying should.
COLMES: I mean, he had two weak candidates in the major parties. I'm
surprised Ralph Nader didn't
do better.
DONAHUE: I wish he had, and when you consider that he wasn't on the
debates and that we had all
kinds of dismissal of the Nader candidacy by the talking heads, you
know, when you're marginalized
like that, when you're -- when you -- you know, if you're, if you're a
conservative, you're a patriot, if
you're a liberal, you're a moonbeam.
HANNITY: You got...
DONAHUE: As long as, as long as that's out there, this is going to be a
long, long, slippery winding
road.
COLMES: Right. You can say the left does get demonized. You can go as
far to the right and not be as
demonized as you are if you go to the part of the spectrum where Ralph
Nader -- or even where Al
Gore is (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
DONAHUE: Everybody grew up in a conservative town, proudly. My town was
very conservative.
You never hear anybody saying, I grew up in a liberal town. I'm not sure
how we got the bad rap.
Certainly corporate America hasn't helped, and they own most of the...
HANNITY: Hey...
DONAHUE: ... image-making apparatus in our country anyway. You want to
say -- Sean, are we
going to...
HANNITY: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
DONAHUE: ... take a break here?
HANNITY: ... welcome you back. No, we don't have to take a break.
DONAHUE: Oh, OK, all right, good.
HANNITY: Let's look at the numbers in Florida, by the way. Here you have
2,912,790 for Bush, 253,
as you see there, for Gore, 97,488 for Nader, strong -- you were the
strongest high-profile celebrity out
there for him. Most people say they didn't (UNINTELLIGIBLE) vote for
Nader, they were going to
vote for Gore.
DONAHUE: Yes.
HANNITY: People think you were responsible, Nader responsible
(UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
DONAHUE: Well, I'm responsible. Well, you flatter me.
DONAHUE: Yes. Well, I suppose you'll probably want to...
HANNITY: No, I'm applauding what you did, I'm very happy.
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- all right.
DONAHUE: I'm only a little uncomfortable with your...
HANNITY: What we -- what -- let, let -- little later on, when I was on
your show in '95, you went after
me a little bit on abortion.
DONAHUE: I can't believe that.
HANNITY: No, you did. We'll show a little bit of it.
DONAHUE: All right.
HANNITY: In a minute. Here you have John Ashcroft, we'll have some
Supreme Court nominees by
Bush, maybe two, maybe three, maybe more. Probably will agree more with
me than with you and
Alan. When you tip -- put it in that context, does it mean more to you?
Because you said to me on your
show, you want the brown shirts? Do you want the going into a woman's
womb like that?
DONAHUE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE), yes.
HANNITY: Oh, my God, and you call yourself a conservative, you said to
me.
DONAHUE: You know, I said, You're going to have to triple your uniformed
police force is all -- if
abortion becomes illegal, you're going to have informers, you're going
to have -- they're in there, and
they're performing an abortion. And you're going to have 28-,
30-year-old cops knocking down those
motel doors, entering the sterile field, and they're
HANNITY: Listen, you be...
DONAHUE: Their aunts. Their baby sister. Their mothers. You don't have
enough money to supp -- to
pay for the constabulary that it's going to take to enforce John
Ashcroft's idea, which is that all women
who are pregnant shall remain pregnant by order of the state.
HANNITY: But John Ashcroft...
DONAHUE: You're a conservative, and you sign off on that?
HANNITY: John Ashcroft -- John Ashcroft -- Yes, I think, I think
abortion is (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
DONAHUE: You want the government off our back, but it's OK to have the
government...
HANNITY: I believe...
DONAHUE: ... in the womb of a woman?
HANNITY: I believe human -- I believe human life is precious, and I
believe individuals that make
choices that ought to be responsible for what choice they make. I make
exceptions for rape, incest,
mother's life.
DONAHUE: Why is a child who is the product of a rape any less valuable
than a child...
HANNITY: Because...
DONAHUE: ... who is born out of a loving, passionate relationship?
HANNITY: ... there's no greater violation of a woman than a rape, and
she did not choose to be in that
situation, and there is a distinction between a woman who chooses...
DONAHUE: So but that baby's life is not...
HANNITY: ... and a woman who does not.
DONAHUE: ... as valuable as the life that you're going to take in other
circumstances.
HANNITY: Well, a lot of some conservatives will disagree on that with
me. I'm trying to be as fair and
as reasonable on a tough decision...
DONAHUE: Well, once again, we...
HANNITY: ... as possible.
DONAHUE: ... have abortion being argued on television by white guys.
HANNITY: What does that have to do with anything?
DONAHUE: Oh, let's say males. Men -- abortion is an issue about which
men sit around on television
pontificating. This is ridiculous.
COLMES: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
And when we get back, we'll get the results of our Viewer Vote, and Sean
and I will battle it out. That's
straight ahead on HANNITY & COLMES.
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