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<div class=""> I would never support a candidate like Rob Ryerse, for obvious reasons. </div>
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<div class="">The platform of: “Medicare for All,” “End Mass Incarceration,” and “Stop Fighting Reckless Wars.” as you suggest, is already the platform of the Green Party, so why start a new Party? </div>
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<div class="">Oh, yes thats right. To water down dissent and create the illusion that elections are the only way to achieve progress, putting everything on hold for four years.
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<div class="">There's an organization called "Brand New Congress" that was started by former Bernie Sanders staffers. They're supporting Republicans as well as Democrats. </div>
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<div class="">The idea is that they're recruiting candidates across the country to run on a common platform, and they're providing national resources, including staff, to help the candidates. </div>
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<div class="">Here is the platform:</div>
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<div class="">Note that the platform includes "Medicare for All," "End Mass Incarceration," and "Stop Fighting Reckless Wars." </div>
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<div class="">Here's an example of a Republican that they are supporting:</div>
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<div class="">Here's the form for nominating candidates: </div>
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<div class="">So: right now, this idea costs nothing to pursue. It just requires filling out a form. </div>
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<div class="">So, I propose: anyone who likes this idea, help gather all the information we need to fill out the form and share it here. Then, let's fill out the nomination form. Costs us nothing. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I propose that we start collecting pledges of assistance, to encourage Carl to run and to show him he won't be "walking alone." </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- Money: I pledge $100. What can you pledge?</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">- Recruits: it would be very useful to have some politically plausible public helpers, a campaign manager, etc. Ideally these people would have some Republican credentials. Who are some Libertarian-flavored Republicans or Republican-flavored
Libertarians around here whom we might recruit to this project? </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">On the gender question, you'd be running in the Republican primary, and Republicans care much less about that in general. Look at the Republican Caucus in the House - it's overwhelmingly male.
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<div class="">On the age question, I think people would excuse you if you didn't run all over the district. You'd get a bunch of free media just by being a candidate with which to challenge Rodney on war and peace issues, and civil liberties issues; you wouldn't
need to run back and forth to Taylorville. Basically all you have to do is gather the petitions, which as we know is a low bar for a major political party, and file the papers. Then you get free media. </div>
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<div class="">i.e., the candidate should be a woman, and I’m too old...</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">OK, Carl, what do you say? Why don't you primary Rodney? What's the downside?
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<div class="">"Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008 as a peace candidate. He signaled that he would fundamentally change America’s course after the reckless carnage unleashed by the George W. Bush administration. However, by the end of Obama’s
presidency, the United States was bombing seven different foreign nations…”</div>
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<div class="">"Clinton lost because war-ravaged communities in PA, WI, and MI saw her as pro-war, study says…”</div>
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<div class="">Hey, good idea! We have frequently been told that there are multitudes of peace-loving voters out there — especially Republicans — who were deceived & betrayed by the vicious, disingenuous warmonger Obama, who endlessly lied to them about his
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