[BfB(oG)] B4BorG: Nader is a 'Wealth Traitor'

[Jim Buell]

I spotted this on the B4BorG at topica list and thought it was a neat idea for 
if/when we Billionaires get asked whether Ralph is secretly one of us since 
he's got some significant personal savings. The difference between having 
some wealth and using it for the public good, versus ripping off a world of 
wealth from the poor, is summed up nicely in the notion that we B4BorGers 
consider Ralph a traitor to our kind ;-).

Jim

>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:46:37 -0400
>From: Jennifer Pozner <JPozner at FAIR.org>
>Subject: Nader as "wealth traitor"
>
>Rita & billionaires at large,
>I was talking last night with a friend and we were thinking much the same -
>that Nader's threat to big business, and to the bipartisan Commission on
>Presidential Debates (CPD), could be a great riff for us. I could see
>billionaires talking about Nader as a "wealth traitor" exposing the
>anti-democratic nature of the corporate economy and corporate media; a
>"wealth traitor" for not placing profits over ethics, etc. -- that he could
>and should be "one of us, the few, the powerful, the billionaires" -- but
>instead has been brainwashed by labor nutjobs and long-haired green
>nutscases into pursuing civic reform...
>Also, on the topic of the bipartisan nature of the presidential debates,
>many of you probably know that the CPD is a corporate funded entity that
>exists to elect a Dem or a GOP candidate and to exclude third parties from
>participation in the debates. The 15% threshold of support a candidate needs
>to meet in order to be included in CPD debates is totally arbitrary and, in
>fact, is three times the legal percentage needed for a party to get federal
>matching funds to run a competitive campaign. If Ventura had needed 15% to
>be included in the Minnesota debates, he never would have been elected
>(before the debates, he was at 10% -- but we all know he went from being the
>"unelectable spoiler" to the governor's mansion). FAIR is working on a
>project, called Open Debates 2000, to get third party candidates included -
>more info available at http://www.fair.org/debates.html
>I don't know if the bipartisan nature of the debates interests folks as a
>major topic for billionaires to discuss; I do know it will be part of my own
>shtick.
>Cheers,
>Miya Cash
>(AKA, Jennifer Pozner)
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