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| Name: | Uzoagba |
| E-mail address: | Uzoagba@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I LOVE THUIS VERY PAGE SO KEEP IT UP THE GOOD WORK. |
| Name: | CK |
| E-mail address: | TEDKALO@TEDKALO.COM |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | No |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes
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| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | No |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes
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| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I admire ALL of your courage and strength it took to maintain your goals of communicating with your core audience!!! I'm impressed. Parties, opinions, etc. do not stop me from talking to people and letting them know I appreciate their efforts. Atleast YOU ARE OUT THERE letting people know how you feel! The value of the information your site provides to people who need it and feel it's so important to them-is impeccable. I was just surfin' the net and stumbled upon your site on accident. For what you do, I'm sure you must be proud. Websites for me have been quite a pain up until the last few years and I hope to gain confidence and even more knowledge by watching what good people LIKE YOURSELF do to utilize such great tools for their message. I am a voting democrat and what I feel should not distance us human beings. I hope you don't mind my visit. Thanks for inspiring hope!!! I now know that for me, it's never too late to learn about utilizing the internet to communicate more effectively! THANKS AND GOOD LUCK! |
| Name: | Brian Ashley |
| E-mail address: | bashley@skypoint.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes
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| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes
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| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes
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| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes
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| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I will vote for Nader for the same reason as last time. It's imperative that we push this country as far to the ridiculous right as possible in order to show the masses that the "system" just doesn't work.
We need Bush in, wrecking, pillaging, looting, so that people can see the worst excesses of our system of government. If a Democrat gets in, we'll just be delaying the inevitable. The people need to see the worst so that they get angry enough to join in the revolution. |
| Name: | Henry Donaldson |
| E-mail address: | drbeermug@aol.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | We have just come back from the 2002 North Pole Expedition. It was fantastic. We visited Moscow, the Kremlin, Lenin's tomb, Red Square and Star City. We next went< |
| Name: | Frank Stevenson |
| E-mail address: | larrynobel@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Very good webpage you have here, and best greetings to all your visitors. |
| Name: | Sare,Feminist Nader-Raider.... |
| E-mail address: | Winterlionin@Yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I was a year too young to vote for Nader in 2000,but I did campaign for him. I intend to vote for him in 2004,and I will campaign extensively for him until then. For anyone that thinks abortion is the only "feminist issue" and that if a candidate is pro-choice(Gore) than by all means,he or she must support "the right stuff",I disagree. Choice of abortion is a right,not a privlege. It's a given. Actually,equal rights in general should be a given, considering our constitution, but it's a moment-by-moment,small step process. Nader supported the E.R.A . He thinks we should try it again. That alone was enough to sell me. Looking at his further policies and positions, Nader has batted down every question and accusation,no matter how inane or baseless that the skeptical voter has made. The fact that these same people weren't raising the same questions with the "Big Two" was evidence enough of a discrepancy in thought.
We will leave alone for the moment,anyone that actually voted for Bush ON PURPOSE,and not the result of some hideous mistake. Certain Gore supporters,whose mantra became "A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush!" and even had the gall to suggest that Nader overturn any of his votes to Gore! "Feminists" who voted for Gore have a lot to learn about the man,obviously. Gloria Steinem,I had a lot of faith in you. I was really disappointed. To have a intellectual entrepreneur I respect greatly shmear Nader and fall for Gore's silly panderings was a loss I feel in my bones. To those that deflect that the state of the country (collapsed economy,corporate villany taking on a cartoonish effect, the "events of September 11th")is the fault somehow of those that didn't vote for Gore,I wear my button with pride and with the hope of 2004: "Don't Blame Me! I Voted For Nader!" And I will. |
| Name: | Sarah Smith |
| E-mail address: | sasafraz@juno.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Like everyone else, I was disappointed in the results of the 2000 election. I am hoping that 4 years of the Cheney/Bush administration will encourage more people to move to a progressive viewpoint, and we will have a better showing in 2004. Maybe, the Democrats might even learn something something from the 2000 election and give more than empty promises. Anyway, I'm interested finding out what plans, if any, exist for Ralph Nader and/or the green party for 2004. Nice site, by the way! |
| Name: | Ann Marie Finn-Cusick |
| E-mail address: | annmarietom99@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | As a federal government employee with 18 years service time, and feeling very insecure about ever reaching the required 20 years, age 55, (already age 57), recently laid off from a Federal Government Term Appointment, with a NTE - Not-to-exceed-date of 2-Years, (actually lasted with the U.S. Census Bureau, Philadelphia, Penna. 19103-2395, 33 months, and then laid off), so that a younger, female, of color, took my position, and I am still laid-off at age 57, continually seeking and applying for federal employment, with no success, Yes, I am damn scared of the present system of government here in the United States, both Republican as well as Democrat, as there isn't a dimes' worth of difference between either group! I need approximately 19 months of additional federal government employment, as soon as possible, in order to fully qualify for my Civil Service Retirement Benefits/and a small F.E.R.S. - Federal Employees Retirement System benefits as well. Please advise? Thankyou, Ann Marie E. Finn-Cusick |
| Name: | Laura Josephine |
| E-mail address: | Cardinalzgirl26@aol.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | No |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I'm only sixteen so i was unable to vote for nader in this election although i certaintly wanted. He is the canidate for me because he supports not only feminism but he is extremely tolerant important for me because i belong to a goddess-based religion and have several close friends who are gay and lesbian and should have equal rights.And even if people don't agree with that they should consider the workers rights and privacy they would gain with ralph nader. sincerley, Laura Josephine Reilly ps- did anyone else out there go to the northmoor park rally in the st.louis missouri? it was by my house and thats where i got my awakening to nader |
| Name: | Elaine Bennett |
| E-mail address: | ebenn@beattynv.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | This is the first I've heard about Nader/La Duke. I live in a real backwater. The network tv stations are off the air more than on. I don't watch a lot of tv anyway. It's mostly rude, crude and stupid. I just recently got a computer and the internet. I know it's too late now but want to know if you are going to run in 2004. I need more info to start campaining now. Thanks Elaine Bennett BX1122;beatty,Nv.89003 |
| Name: | kerri |
| E-mail address: | http://gurlpages.com/astridia/index.html |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am wondering if Nader is planning to run again in the next election, and what can be done to convince Americans that the Green Party is a viable option |
| Name: | margaretta wa gacheru |
| E-mail address: | margarettag2hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | nader's politics are mine: he's enlightened, informed,
practical and committed to change that is ethical, principled and equitable |
| Name: | DEVA GATICA |
| E-mail address: | DAVAARAIZA@HOYMAIL.COM |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I voted for Nader and recieved quite a bit of angry phone
calls after election. I worked on the campaign in Oregon and personally konw people who had never regestered before, regestered specifically to vote for Nader, and instead voted for Gore because of the pressure from fear-based liberals. They didn't want to waste their vote. My response to that is that I voted for Nader and my vote meant more because of that. I was not a part of the fearful, reactive, poll-watching multitude. I voted for what I believe in. I wake up each morning with my integrity, knowing that my voice was heard. As far as the idea that Nader cost Gore the election, I have a personal story to share. My boyfriend is a quadraplegic. We had been togeather for a little over a year when he broke his neck. He was a tri-athelete and was out riding one of his mountain bikes, it was dark and his dog was with him. As they returned home they crossed through a shchool ground. The dog ran out into the street. My boy friend followed jumping off a four foot high retaining wall. He did not have enough speed and fell head first onto the street. Every one close to him spent alot of time saying things like, "If only there was a fence there...", or, "If he had only been going a little faster..", or, "If only the dog hadn't run out in the street..." and on, and on. If any one of a million and one things had been different he would be walking. The point is that if we had kept blaming the accident on everything none of us would have ever come to terms with it and we would not have made the strides that we have. Life is that way. I am angry with the democrats in my life who blame me for Gore's sorry luck. None of these people would dare tell me that it was the dogs fault for running out in the street. How dare they blame Nader for the election mess. If any of them were coming from a place of empowerment they would have cast aside all the fear messages and voted for the one candidate who has been working for the people and the planet since my mother was a child. Ralph Nader represents our best interests and all these blaming democrats are nothing more than children, afraid and pointing fingers. If they really believe in the liberal ideals of personal choice then they can join us in educating and empowering people, but first they have to empower themselves. |
| Name: | Morgan Rafalski |
| E-mail address: | spunkypunkyb@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | No |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | It's really very simple: Nader is the only one who truly
cares about women's rights-and the rights of anyone. He supports our cause and is sincere in his promises. The plight of the American woman has gotten worse because of Gore/Clinton and other mainstream candidates. Nader really cares. |
| Name: | Kerry Keane |
| E-mail address: | dymaxia@ripco.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I already voted for Nader, as is obvious by the date on my
post. I am pissed at NOW and other feminist organizations for spreading a lot of BS about Nader. In particular, NOW posted this to their web site: ". . . Has Reaped Millions Attacking Corporations: Although Nader positions himself as the ally of everyday working class folks, when he recently disclosed his personal finances, it was revealed that he is worth $3.8 million. When questioned on his fortune, Nader told the media, "The question should almost be, 'Why is it so little?’ If it was in any way comparable to what these corporate executives are getting, we could've done a lot more." (The Business Journal, 7/3/00) " If NOW weren't so out of touch with the working class and poor, they would know that Nader's finances are irrelevant. Ralph Nader *is* the friend of the working class. NOW's sarcasm and disingenuousness on this point displays their insensitivity to class issues. |
| Name: | Sheila Huber |
| E-mail address: | Sheila_Huber@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | The vote is over for 2000, but there is always 2004.
Please include me in for some grassroots work in the Chicago area. You'll get your 5% from Illinois. I want to help, and in NO small way. Let's get another political party in, and get a REAL grassroots operation going. That's what it took to expose Nixon and end the Viet Nam war - we have a new agenda now. Political reform in America through a third political party led by Ralph Nader. Thank you for everything you've done. |
| Name: | Elise Thorburn |
| E-mail address: | verb5@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | No |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Hypothetically, supposing I could vote, I would most
Ralph Nader stands for all that I believe in.
If I had to pick just one reason why I would chose to
I would vote for Ralph Nader simply to end the death
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| Name: | Hillary E. Wallace |
| E-mail address: | hillaryw5@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | It is more than time that we address the real issues. Let
us not be fooled by republicratic rhetoric. We as women need to establish the fact that our issues are issues to us everyday, and not just issues of interest every four years. We need to establish the fact that it is control that we need over our bodies, and the right to choose comes with that control. We need to look to women of color and impoverished women to learn what reproductive rights really are. Finally we need to address the Prison Industrial Complex,which binds and shackles many of our sisters. |
| Name: | Susan S. Barber |
| E-mail address: | vegan@pcumail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I would never vote for Gore because he is a liar. I don't
put my vote behind someone I don't believe in. Period. It's a hard line, I know, but I am an idealist and I make no apologies. Nader discusses all the issues I think are important. He has been the catalyst for an exciting movement that needs to keep up the momentum. To vote for Nader/LaDuke is to stand with all those who want to invest in a better future. I already voted this morning and it was fantastic! It's very empowering, really, when you crawl out from under your fear and doubt and stand up for what you believe in. |
| Name: | Katharina Woodworth |
| E-mail address: | kewoodworth@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I feel betrayed by the many feminists that want to pressure
others into NOT voting out of conscience but voting out of fear. They will often say things like, if you are pro- choice, then you are pro-Gore, or, if you are pro-Nader, how can you possibly be pro-choice? I think I will have a hearty laugh if Gore does get elected and goes back to his earlier pro-life leanings....Nader has been pro-choice all along, and he doesn't do it to cowtow to women voters but because he has believed it genuinely out of his own conscience. When I realized that Clinton/Gore were paying Naomi Wolf $15,000 a month to rescue their image after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, sexual harrassment & rape charges, I wanted to retch. I can't believe Naomi Wolf and Gloria Steinem are bought and paid for by the Democratic Party! Way to go Wolf & Steinem! I have no respect for "feminists" that accept blood-money. Women have many important issues facing them today - pro- choice is just one of many of them. (And none of the white- collar, middle-class feminists I am mentioning above have ANY rebuttal when it is pointed out that poor women STILL can't afford abortions....I guess they think it's ok, so long as their middle-class, medically-insured body is paid for...) Another reason I am voting Nader is because of the discrepancy of the two candidates on the environment. There's really not much to mention here. One is dedicated, always has, and always will be. The other - well - let's just say he should read his own glorified press release, The Earth in Balance. Right now, Clinton/Gore have been involved in secret meetings with the Mexican government to repeal the hard-earned laws that protect dolphins from getting caught in tuna nets....Clinton/Gore have also been selling the old growths (I live in the midst of ancient groves of redwoods and acres are being cleared by greedy timber companies every DAY - there's only 3% of the old growths left of the ENTIRE COUNTRY & they are NOT protected) - the old growths are getting sold for toothpicks....Gore for a greener world? I don't think so. |
| Name: | greg shows |
| E-mail address: | bestbehavior@mindspring.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I just voted for Nader and felt a surge of happiness when I
blacked in that dot. I swore 4 years ago--after Perot was excluded from the debates, that I would never vote democratic or republican in a federal election again. I never will. Neither party represents my beliefs and hopes for this country...an egalitarian, color-blind, gender neutral society that does not seek to exploit the poor and powerless around the globe for our own consumerist desires. |
| Name: | Arielle |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Where has this website been when I needed it!!! I keep
getting all sorts of e-mail from NARAL, NOW and Planned parenthood to vote Gore (to save our right to choose)!! Scare tactics from the democrats, I say!!! Gore needs to EARN my vote, he hasn't...and that isn't Nader's fault by any means. This year I will vote my conscience! :) Like Winona said at one rally, "if you vote for the lesser of 2 evils, you still have evil"! Precisely!! Gore has NOT consistently been pro-choice, and there's NO telling what Bush may or may not do in regards to choice. Many feminists are being just like the anti-choicers this year...ONE ISSUE ONLY! I don't just take one issue to the ballot, I take several such as: poverty, corporate corruption and takeover of this country, UNEQUAL distribution of wealth, lack of adequate health care, etc. etc. Yes, abortion (my right to choose) is a very important issue, but how classist, racist, etc. would it be for me to ignore all other issues outside of this one? Tomorrow, I will vote my conscience, and I will be proud of this vote for a lifetime!! |
| Name: | Kathy J. Traylor |
| E-mail address: | kkathe@jps.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I only want to thank the author for thinking all of this
out and writing this essay. It helps me to gather my thoughts and convictions on Election Eve. I without a doubt know what the right choice for me is. No matter who wins, my vote will make a statement, even though a small one. I will be proud for voting for the most qualified candidate. |
| Name: | Mickey |
| E-mail address: | Venderhofer@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | BEWARE VOTE TRADING SCAM - Dems Want to Kill 3rd Party
Threat! Consider this - No loyal Democrat wants Ralph Nader draining votes from their candidate in the next election. SO WHY WOULD THEY HONOR A VOTE TRADING ARRANGMENT THAT WILL GIVE RALPH NADER THE 5% HE NEEDS? So be careful. Because when you trade your vote for Nader with someone who's voting for Gore, YOU'RE PROBABLY BEING DUPED! Consider this, Gore supporters don't want Ralph Nader to be a threat next year. THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AL GORE WINS IN THE SWING STATES, AND THEY WANT TO PROTECT HIS CHANCES TO GET RE-ELECTED IN 4 YEARS! Which means, they'll get you to vote for Gore, and SAY that they're voting for Nader. But then they'll go ahead and vote for Gore anyway, so that Nader WON'T GET 5% and WON'T BE A THREAT IN THE NEXT ELECTION!! This isn't speculation, this is HAPPENING! So, unless you know and trust who you're dealing with, BEWARE VOTE TRADING! |
| Name: | Bonnie |
| E-mail address: | btealtn@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | The dilemma is very real for me. I agree with the
democratic views, but I can't morally vote for a such a two- faced lier. This paragraph is exactly why I'm voting for Nader. From The Nader Dilemma by D.A. Clarke:
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| Name: | Neilie Johnson |
| E-mail address: | neilie.johnson@medec.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I appreciate this site helping to fortify my resolve to
vote for Nader. I was wavering, because of the type of guilt/fear tactics that are continually being thrust in my face by Gore supporters. I am an artist--and my peer group, "naturally" considering themselves liberal, have been pressuring me to vote Gore, saying both that it's to prevent Bush from winning, and because Nader is not qualified to be president. Well, being president doesn't make a person absolute ruler, and I feel Nader could certainly do just as well, if not infinitely better than the jokers who've been in office up till now--and I'm willing to take that risk. Things aren't so great in this country NOW--why not risk making a change for the better? Thanks again for clarifying the issues for me. |
| Name: | Marita McComiskey |
| E-mail address: | mccomisk@neca.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am voting my hopes, not my fears. My fear drove me to vote
for Clinton in '96 I sickened by the welfare "reform", the death penalty, military spending, corporate welfare, racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, etc. etc. I believe in the key values of the green party as well as in Nader's integrity and long term commitment to making the world a better place for all. In good conscience I can not vote for Gore (I admit Bush/Cheney scare me beyond belief) |
| Name: | anarchofeminist101 |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Gore is an insidious blight on the so-called "Democratic"
party. Bush is a murderous crackpot, but how many more people die in this country from a lack of health insurance than those murdered by the state of texas? How many people around the globe die to put money in rich fatcats' pockets under the guise of "free trade?" Clinton-Gore claims responsibility for the 'prosperity' in this country, but down here on the bottom of the economic food chain in Georgetown, Texas, we aren't feeling too prosperous. Who but Nader and LaDuke are taking responsibility for the real prosperity: the care of every American and true justice for all? Who else is decrying the war on a generation of young black men being called the "war on drugs?" Who takes care of the children when their daddies go to jail? Are we feminists? Or are we rich white women with too much time on our hands, intoxicated with the winks and nods tossed our way by the boys with the real power? Make no mistake, Gore is not going to protect you when the powerful and insanely wealthy men rape you and take away any right to live by your own standards that you think you have now. Don't buy it for a second... |
| Name: | Francesca Rosa |
| E-mail address: | fsrosa@aol.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am voting for Nader for all of the execellrent
reasons outlined in D.A. Clarkes July,00 article. I am sick of the corruption ofthe Democrats, and appalled by their actions in Iraq, the passing of Nafta, the passing of the Welfare "reform' bill and a million other reasons besides. I'm tired of having hysterical Gorenatics shaking caot hangers in my face and screamingthat Nader willsend us all back to the back alleys. Nader and Laduke and the better candidates by fa.r |
| Name: | megan dietz |
| E-mail address: | mdietz@printcafe.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | the only candidate to choose a female (and totally rad!)
running mate ... the only candidate to shun all corporate, soft, and PAC money ... the only candidate to even utter the phrase "living wage" ... the only candidate to point out the need to reduce the need for abortion, an issue on which pro-lifers and pro-choicers both do much disservice with their polarized rhetoric ("it's baby killing!" "it's like having a wart removed!") ... the only candidate to speak about universal health care NOW ... in short ... the only candidate. ps--if al gore loses this election, it's his own whiny, slimy fault. dont blame me, i'm voting for a decent man for a change! |
| Name: | sara davies |
| E-mail address: | sellyndavies@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | voting for nader is for me a frightening decision to
make, as a soon-to-be single mother with two small children, facing who knows what if bush gets elected. why nader? because the only way change can happen in this society is if we are willing to take risks. it may have to get worse before it gets better (i've heard the arguments against that position) because there's no chance, in my opinion, that it can or will get better if gore is president - complacency means fewer people try to make a difference, those who do are ignored and marginalized. is it hot in here, or is it just me? i can see a future with a viable third party. it can only happen if we as REAL people reach for it. |
| Name: | Dawn Reno |
| E-mail address: | dawnreno@isgroup.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I'm voting for Nader because he's the only one who's
speaking about the environment, women's rights, and many other issues the other two won't even address. And I'm voting for Nader because I feel he's honest -- and the other two are so obviously politicians who believe that everyone in the country is only interested in how much prescriptions are going to cost, that I'm about to puke. Bush can't put together a decent sentence and we're thinking of putting him into the White House? Gore started off on the right foot in the Vice President spot -- and I liked what he had to say about the environment, etc., but now he seems to bereniging on his comments . . . I've always liked Nader, and though I really believe he has no chance against the two party system, I'm sick of what's happening in the White House and want to make sure I have another chance someday to cast my vote for someone who will REALLY make a difference. Thus I'm taking a chance this year and voting my conscience rather than taking one of the two idiots being offered up for the top position in this country -- and I hope the Green Party can stay active so I'll have another chance sometime to really make a difference. |
| Name: | Martha Tate |
| E-mail address: | tate-07@bright.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | No |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | My father's name was Ralph, that along make me want to vote
for him. I remember growing up and learning about "Unsafe at any Speed" through my own father's thoughts and reactions. Ralph Nader is a good man. Bush and Gore - I'm not so sure of so Ralph will have my vote. |
| Name: | Betty Nichol |
| E-mail address: | bnichol@angelfire.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Like Nader, I believe there is very little difference
between Bush and Gore. Why, because both are bought! Money is the great leveler, the equalizer. I am voting, with great enthusiasm, for Nader out of both indignation--the state of our so-called two party politics--and self- respect. Shakespeare said it best, "To thy own self be true." |
| Name: | juliette cutler page |
| E-mail address: | editor@feminista.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I voted for Nader last time and I'm voting for Nader
again. |
| Name: | Ran Foster |
| E-mail address: | shelbyco@greentn.org |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I think LaDuke makes the Green Party ticket the most
feminist of all the tickets, that's why I can't understand the onslaught of negative publicity that is being produced by NOW. I reason that NOW must simply be another org that tries to profit off of stirring up trouble somewhat like the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Ireland needs to be kicked out of her NOW position and she should be replaced by Winona LaDuke. Peace and happy voting! |
| Name: | Shanda McAndrews |
| E-mail address: | parallax@baylinks.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am voting for Nader/LaDuke because they have demonstrated
through their actions the direction I feel our country needs to move in. We need a third force and we need it now!!! No more band-aids! We need a cure...and the Nader/LaDuke Green Party ticket offers it!!!! |
| Name: | Lauren Pilar Cliggitt |
| E-mail address: | lcliggitt@mindspring.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Although I don't feel like Nader is perfect or represents
every progressive issue, I do feel that he is a far better candidate that the other two major candidates that we've been given. Al Gore and the Democrats could very possibly have thier heart in the right place but they will be forever be indebted to the corporations which have put them in thier positions of power. Moreover, I feel that a section of the feminist movement has reverted back to the stereotype of being a white, middle-class movement, by it supporting Gore. Gore may be pro-choice (although I even think that's debatable, I mean look what Clinton/Gore let the anti-choice terroists get away with) but Gore and Bush are the same on labor, globalization and their pro- corporate agenda and although this isn't a traditional feminist issue, these issues seriously affect the lives of women, poor and women of color in this country and women in "third world" nations. We must get passed this or liberation will only be available for a very small population. To me, the definition of feminism is to fight for liberation of all oppressed groups of people. I think this Nader/Gore argument would be understandable if Nader were anti-choice but he is not and if all of the groups that are now begging me to vote for Gore, for fear of Bush, would put that energy behind Nader, than it would be no contest. I do not see Nader as the next coming of Christ or as some progressive savior, in fact he's a reformer not a revolutionary, but I do think we can build a movement around what his candidacy represents, especially for disenfranchised voters, young people, etc. Lastly, I cannot forget Winona LaDuke. I'm sure any feminist could agree that she is just a fantastic women/activist and where Nader is weak, she makes up for it. So, for these reasons plus the desire to live in a true democracy where social movements are seen as an integral part of our society, is why I am voting for Nader. Thanks! |
| Name: | Jason O'Donnell |
| E-mail address: | jasonbisque@cs.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am voting for Nader/Laduke simply because they are
addresssing the issues that are important to me. Laduke speaks about the need to reconcile our relationships with the earth and with each other - which means a paradigmatic shift in our approach to business and goverment. This is very impoertant to me. Nader talks about a vision of goverment that promotes the good of "ALL", in many many wats from spending priorities, social jusdtice and equity, and responsibility. I could go on and on, I am excited to be a part of a movement for real progressive change. |
| Name: | P.E. Doty-Curry |
| E-mail address: | beledimagic@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I respect Ralph Nader's deep committment to our country.
It's genuine--not invented for the election. He's sincere. When I heard him speak in April 1999, he didn't speak from his ego, didn't posture, just spoke about what we can do for our country for the future. He supports women's rights--and it's genuine too, not just created for the election. If you are undecided, voting for Mr. Nader will make a difference. |
| Name: | J.A. Meyer |
| E-mail address: | jameyer@opgreens.org |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I'm voting for Nader/LaDuke because I am a liberal. |
| Name: | seth bradford |
| E-mail address: | unknownpoet2002@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | It is hard for me to decide who to vote for in the
upcomiong election. I find myself watching Jesse Ventura being interviewed by Katie Couric and feeling that she is rude because of his views and how he puts them forth. I watch David Letterman and he trashes both Gore and Bush Jr., making them both out to be idiots. Why would you just accept the fact that our next president is unable and in no way capable of running this country that, no matter how you look at it, is in a horrible condition when it comes to its citizens and the ways in which they treat eachother. Letterman will bash Gore and when he is a guest on his show, he acts as if he respects his views and him as a person. Many months ago, Mr. Letterman predicted that Bush would win, but he does not act as if he supports either of them. I am scared that my next president will be resented by most and the bumper stickers will be all over the country saying, "Don't blame me, I voted for------". When I see someone with one of these signs on their car I feel as if they are shying away from any problems that we face, saying that they did the "right thing" in November, but nobody listened to them. I am a college student in Indiana and am very concerned with my country's politicians, especially those running for the presidency. I do not know much about Mr. Buchanan or his issues, so I cannot add him into this. My biggest concern is the environment. Mr. Bush sees that tapping into the strategic oil reserves, in one of our last remeining truly beautiful places in the country that should be protected at any cost, is a good thing to do. I will ride my bicycle everywhere before I will pump one drop of gasoline that came from the destruction of Alaska. Our world is in such worrible shape, look at the tropical rainforest. If America is supposed to set the stage as the "best country in the free world", then why are we allowing our home, EARTH, to be robbed of its beauty every second. When all the trees are gone, where are we going to get our precious oxygen from? Is everyone going to carry around an oxygen mask? Eventually the price of it would go through the roof, just like gasoline? From this point of view, Nader is the only one of the candidates who feels the way I do. Al Gore doesn't want to pollute our water and is more an environmentalist than Bush, but on this issue, I feel you must be an extremist to get my vote. I caught Mr. Nader's appearance on Mr. Letterman's show and I felt that Dave was very doubtful that anything could be done to save Mother Earth. Mr. Nader has my support! I will not vote for either Gore or Bush because if I were to meet them, I probably would not enjoy either of their company. Both are too selfish and can not possibly care as much for the American People as they say. Bush executes them and Gore lies to them just like his boss. I will never vote for a party because, "my family is conservative republican and so am I". We should be given more than just the two choices who can spend the massive amounts of money to buy our votes. When I think of how much money our country spends on frivilous, material things it upsets me, but when I think about how our culture feels it is okay, it makes me ill. Professional atheletes and Hollywood stars are over paid. Bill Gates is the anti- Christ. Anyone who needs billions of dollars to be happy, should live in a thrid world counrty for a while and come down to reality. There are millions of people in this country who need help. Kids are dying and little is done, or atleast seen done. I don't see how anyone could sleep at night knowing that they have more than they will ever need and yet so many people need help. Our culture is so incredibly self-centered that I am ashamed to live here. I am a college student below the poverty level, but I am happy and feel very lucky. I have nice clothes, drive a nice car, and live in a nice appartment, but I have a loving and supportive family that helps me when I need them. Why can't America and all Americans have a little compassion for their fellow man and just help those who need it? Oh my God, you mean to tell me that you think I should give my money, that I have worked for, to someone else? Heck no, I need to buy something for myself, possibly a new Mercedes. Where is the love? |
| Name: | Dave Weatherwax |
| E-mail address: | dwax@wpi.edu |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nice Site, Thanks for the great articles! |
| Name: | Keith Keydel |
| E-mail address: | klkeydel@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Frankly I belive that Nadar's veiws are the best. I have
heard all the arguements that a vote for Nadar is a wasted vote. However, when the alternatives are considered I belive that not voting for Nadar is wasting a vote. The Democrates have sold out to large corporations. After watching the debates I was almost as disgusted with Gore as I was with Bush. Perhaps if Gore loses because of Nadar the Democrates will get their act back together. |
| Name: | Mary Chesnut |
| E-mail address: | marychesnut@earthlink.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader's a respectable political figure, and he raises
extremely important issues, but the real reason I'm voting for him and LaDuke is to help build the Green Party in this country. We are sorely in need of the 10 Principles and a grassroots, populist party that will promote them. The most important votes come later (once we have much-needed federal campaign funds), when we have a chance to vote for and elect local Green representatives to Congress and to city, county, and state offices. |
| Name: | John Gingerich |
| E-mail address: | lazydog2@earthlink.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Oh Gosh ... so many reasons... it is far past time that the
powers that be must be awakened to the need for radical change. Respect for all life. I think that is a good enough reason fo a short space and time such as this. |
| Name: | Margaret GOMEZ |
| E-mail address: | megomez@teacher.esc4.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | All I have to say is that I love you all!!! I think you
have all said it very well here. You give me hope. You are hope, and I thank you for it. There are beautiful things ahead. I believe it. Just believe it. As they say, it all starts with a dream..envision it...stay faithful to your vision..give it yourself, your energies, devote yourself..and then comes ther harvest, the fruits, the paradise sought and strived for. GOD BLESS YOU. You give me reason to believe. |
| Name: | Joseph Floyd |
| E-mail address: | jfloyd@marlboro.edu |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Although a male, I do consider myself a feminist. I am the
only male to attend the Feminist Majority meetings at my school and I was one of only a handful of men to participate in the World March of Women in New York this month. This will be my first time voting, and I plan to vote for Ralph Nader. I respect Gloria Steinem, Patricia Ireland, and the National Organization of Women very much and agree that a Bush Presidency will be terrible, which is why I'm glad I live in Vermont (a solid Gore state). But I cannot vote out of fear. We progressives must look beyond the question of who will win this election. Nader will not win the election, but he is being propelled by a movement for change that will continue after November 7th. Bush and Gore are, as one person said, 'two peas in a corrupt pod,' there are some differences but they are slim. Neither will adress the fundamental problem of the corporate domination of our society and the excessive concentration of power in the hands of the few, the primary issue of the Nader campaign. Ralph Nader himself said that he is not the solution for all America's problems, the idea is to get the American people to excersize their rights as citizens to reclaim our democracy and uild a just society, and that is something you will have to do no matter who is in the White House. That is what makes this campaign philisophically different from those of Bush and Gore. Clinton has provided eight years of betrayal and I have no reason to believe Gore will be any different. Some people say that Ralph Nader does not address womens issues. There is more to womens issues that reporuductive rights, which are fast eroding anyway. What about the women physically (sometimes sexually) abused in the sweatshops of Asia and Latin America, abuse for which they have the multinational corporations and their corporate-managed neoliberal trade policies our government has adapted to thank. What about the pregnant women who give birth to children with birth defects because of pollution? Surely these are women's issues which Nader adresses sufficiently. |
| Name: | Carole Kennedy |
| E-mail address: | ckennedy@mail.ssu.edu |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: |
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" Mario Savio |
| Name: | Maureen Kelleher |
| E-mail address: | mekelleher67@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I can't say I felt betrayed by Clinton in any way. I knew
the man was "a big skirt chaser" from the primaries in 1991. I voted for him the first time because I was sick of 12 years of Republican b.s. But it was the welfare reform debacle, not the sex stuff, that turned me away. I voted for Nader in 1996 and will do so again cheerfully. Welfare "reform" is an important feminist issue and Gore blew it. Nader is the man, and if enough of us vote for him, progressive politics in this country might come to life. |
| Name: | Danielle Smith |
| E-mail address: | danielle.l.smith@usa.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I don't agree with all of Nader's positions; but I believe
he is truly the only candidate who is not a tool of big corporations. If he were elected, he would owe his victory to the voters, not to corporate sponsorship. In an election where any mainstream candidates who had prinicpals were forced out early on (e.g., Bradley and McCain), Ralph Nader is the only candidate left with principles that don't spring from his pockets. That said, I'm a lawyer, and I follow the Supreme Court with great interest. The prospect of Bush appointing 2-3 Supreme Court Justices, on a court that already contains Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and William Rehnquist, is frightening. Abortion rights are not the only rights that may be lost because of an increasingly conservative Supreme Court. Fortunately, or unfortunately, for me, I don't face the dilemma that other progressive voters face. I live in Virginia, a state that is likely to vote overwhelmingly for Bush. Thanks to the electoral college system, my vote for Gore wouldn't really count, since Bush is likely to take Virginia by a huge majority anyway. I can vote for Ralph Nader with the knowledge that it will be less of a wasted vote than a vote for Gore; at least my vote may help Nader and the Green Party get federal funding in the next election. I have an easy escape from the Gore/Nader dilemma; those who live in less conservative states have my sympathy, and hopes that they will vote their consciences. |
| Name: | Caron Cadle |
| E-mail address: | ccadle57@cs.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Dear Feminist Sisters and Brothers, yes, this is a tough
one. There is a lot at stake. But we should remember what Clinton/Gore did to poor mothers and children with their welfare "deform," throwing women into the lowest-wage labor market and depriving them of education and training We must stand up for the candidates who embody a real change, Nader and LaDuke, if we are ever to break the cycle of "lesser of two evils" choices. We need a viable, unbought, people's party, the Greens: and if enough of us vote, who knows what may happen? And as we vote, we must pledge that, if Bush or Gore is elected, we will engage in four years of activism to prevent the worst, and to elect the best next time. If we do this, we can really stand behind and be proud of our vote, for the first time in decades. |
| Name: | Johanna Maches |
| E-mail address: | hellcat_420@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am voting for Nader because this election I have decided
NOT to select the lesser of two evils. I am not reluctantly going to pull that lever, as I have in the past, just to keep someone's opponent from winning. I am voting for someone I would be proud to have in office. (WHAT a concept!) |
| Name: | Steven Biel |
| E-mail address: | stevenjbiel@aol.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | The feminist establishment is engaged in a shameful attack
on Ralph Nader. It's the feminists who should be taken to task for glossing over issues of economic inequality and corporate power and, worse yet, playing the apologist for the anti-woman Clinton-Gore Administration. Clinton and Gore are generals in the war on poor women. Clinton’s welfare reform bill, in the words of Michele A. Tingling-Clemmons, of the National Welfare Rights Union was "the most brutal abdication of U.S. government responsibility for the poor in our nation's history.” Indeed, in a country where an estimated eighty percent of the poor are families headed by women and women are more than 50% more likely to live in poverty than men, the welfare reform bill was a brutally anti-woman piece of legislation as well. NARAL's Kate Michelman would have done well to remember that at the Democratic National Convention. Clinton and Gore have been globalization's greatest boosters, even as transnational corporations declare war on working women by depressing wages, downsizing workers, and busting unions. Meanwhile, the austerity measures imposed on developing nations by the World Bank and IMF have forced severe cuts in women's health, poverty relief, and education programs. The feminist establishment pays lip service to economic empowerment, but offers no critique of global capital whatsoever. Meanwhile, Nader fights for universal health care, a living wage for all workers, the right to organize, and strengthened democratic institutions to put people over profit. Nader is America's leading critic of corporate power. These are women's issues. So here's my challenge to NOW, NARAL, and the rest of the anti-Nader feminists: speak for all women, including the poor and economically dislocated, not just the educated and wealthy who send you checks. Examine the impacts of NAFTA on working class women in the Midwest, the utter disrespect of women displayed by the hyper-centralized corporate news media, the working conditions that companies like Nike impose on women in developing countries. This is what Clinton has wrought. And in November, vote Ralph. |
| Name: | Patricia Davidson |
| E-mail address: | rvdavidson@home.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader is the first candidate I've had any enthusiasm about
since John Anderson! He is someone I can support and trust. I cannot with any integrity endorse Gore's political cowardice and betrayals. That would imply that it is all right with me and I support business as usual. As for Bush, I feel that he is too incorrigably self- interested to do anything for the people of this country or the world. This leaves me with no decision at all. To be true to myself and what I want for myself and the generations to follow, I can consider voting only for Nader- the hope for our future! |
| Name: | Mary Stevenson |
| E-mail address: | gbursh@sbtek.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: |
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| Name: | Michael Bluejay |
| E-mail address: | http://MichaelBluejay.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | No |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: |
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| Name: | Michelle LeBeau |
| E-mail address: | WTHC2@aol.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am a feminist and activist. For the past twenty-five
years I have been working on ending violence against women and children. I will vote for Nader/LaDuke because they speak to the issues that I am most concerned about - the Democrats and Republicans on the other hand represent only the Corporations, the rich and the priveleged. We are at a point when whether this planet survives depends on who our leaders are and whether they have the courage to deal with the issues that threaten our existance. We need to stop the hatred that causes war, racial violence, violence against women and children, violence against gays and lesbians, the violence of poverty and homelessness. We need to take drastic measures to deal with enviornmental issues. We need a new social structure, a revolution that will create an egalitarian society. I do not think this is impossible, I do think it is our only hope. I am tired of politics as usual, I want honesty - I want the truth told. |
| Name: | Debbie Richards |
| E-mail address: | d7ar@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I simply want to thank you from the bottom of my heart
(cheesy I know but TRUE) because I am thrilled that this site exists. The article by D.A. Clarke is wonderful and I've been sending the URL far and wide. Go Nader/LaDuke! |
| Name: | Julie Van Orden |
| E-mail address: | julievo@home.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader has a proven track-record of getting things done for
the American consumer. Neither Bush nor Gore can make that claim. |
| Name: | Penny Giforos |
| E-mail address: | Thimase1@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader is not a corporate interest puppet. He has spent a great part of his life fighting for consumer rights; he's a man for the people. I don't feel Nader is a lesser evil. He has the integrity and vision that I would want in a President. Our democracy is being taken over by big business, and Nader is courageous enough to take them on.
Yes, there's no chance he will win in this election. But if there's enough votes in this election (15%), the Green Party will receive Federal money in 2004. People don't believe it's possible to take back this country from corporate corruption, but look at the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela as South Africa's President. None of us in our wildest dreams would have thought that possible before. A vote for Nader is a vote for our future. |
| Name: | sheila |
| E-mail address: | sheila.johnson@chickmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I love Nader. I went to the Boston rally and I found myself
nodding my head to EVERYTHING he said- as well as the fabulous Winona LaDuke. I am a feminist, marxists, i am concerned with poverty, education, labor... Nader is a true radical! |
| Name: | Sarah Langford |
| E-mail address: | oolangford@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | i am trying to start a ws chapter of feminists for
nader/laduke because i feel that it is an essential alliance and group to have in the election. i see no other canidate who runs with feminism as part of their platform. i would love some suggestions ideas on how to make these next four weeks blossom as far as feminists for nader/laduke and to hear what you have done thus far thanks a lot sarah langford |
| Name: | John Atkeison |
| E-mail address: | john@atkeison.org |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I remember hoping for the best when voting for Clinton eight
years ago. He seemed like he had real potential as an individual, especially around issues of race and GLBT rights. Then came the excuses, and "wait until his second term when he doesn't have to get re-elected." Gore is the best the mainstream Democratic Party and the political system can produce. And he is not close to being good enough. I will not waste another vote on Gore! Supreme Court? BORK 'EM!!! |
| Name: | Tula Jaffe |
| E-mail address: | Tulaabu |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | As a feminist, I believe Nader is the only candidate who
will challenge corporate power as he has done throughout his entire career. Without this challenge all that women, men, animals, and children hold dear is at risk. Only Nader will protect the environment, narrow the gap between rich and poor, and work toward world peace. While Gore maybe better on some issues than Bush, he still is mainly a tool of the corporation who have donated generously to his campaign. |
| Name: | Helen Bobash Desmith |
| E-mail address: | msmistee21@kitcarson.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am waffling, but again leaning toward Nader aftervisiting
your web site. What is written is how I feel. You have given me more strength to trust that even if Bush gets in, after 4 years of his ..... we can get Nader elected in 04! Thank you |
| Name: | Summer |
| E-mail address: | feyler@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | No |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader is for the labeling of Genetically Altered Food as
well as very controlled studies of GE foods, and that is a great concern of mine that the other candidates haven't even mentioned. |
| Name: | Lou Novak |
| E-mail address: | lmn@lppals.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | A vote for Nader and the Green Party is a vote of
conscience. A vote for a principled individual and a social movement that will act on those principles.
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| Name: | Judy Houser |
| E-mail address: | jkhouser@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I would vote for Nader in a heartbeat. I have helped gather
signatures to try and get Nader on the ballot in the state of OK. I have volunteered by calling supporters of Nader to get out there and collect petition signatures, and I have donated money for the Nader campaign. Unfortunately, I am forced not to be able to vote this election, because OK along with only one other state, South Dakota, failed to get Nader/LaDuke on our ballot. Nor do we have the option of a write in vote. My only hope is that those of you who have a real option to vote your conscience and courage must do so for your sisters who don't have the choice forced down upon us by the courts of our states. VOTE NADER/LADUKE THIS NOV. judy houser |
| Name: | Vickie Taylor |
| E-mail address: | Vickie_Taylor@juno.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I have been waiting and hoping for 25 years for another
progressive grassroots movement to continue the changes begun in the sixties and early seventies. The Green Party is that movement. One of the original founders of the Green Party in the U.S. was feminist Charlene Spretnak. The Green Party is the party of feminists. This is our chance. For the Goddess's sake, let's go for it!!! |
| Name: | Vickie Taylor |
| E-mail address: | Vickie_Taylor@juno.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I have been waiting and hoping for 25 years for another
progressive grassroots movement to continue the changes begun in the sixties and early seventies. The Green Party is that movement. One of the original founders of the Green Party in the U.S. was feminist Charlene Spretnak. The Green Party is the party of feminists. This is our chance. For the Goddess's sake, let's go for it!!! |
| Name: | Ampersand |
| E-mail address: | ennead@teleport.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | The lesser of two evils can be described in more ways than
one. Gore supporters say Gore is a lesser evil than Bush, and I agree; but that's not the only lesser evil I see.
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| Name: | Ellen Johnson |
| E-mail address: | ellen.johnson@asu.edu |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | For years I was a half-hearted democrat--standing up for
Clinton (et.al.) because he was the "lesser of two evils." About a year ago, I read the ten key values promoted by the Green Party and said "I've found my home." I am a progressive feminist who has become increasingly disturbed by single issue feminism--Roe vs. Wade. Nader doesn't believe in "gonadal politics" because he wants what feminists have always only dreamed of--a world where gender (race and class too) make no difference when discussing human rights. Thank you for your website! Ellen Johnson |
| Name: | margaret |
| E-mail address: | maite@crazedartist.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | "the lesser of two evils" is still evil.
why live in a compromised, halfway world without integrity? we don't stand for it in our personal lives so why on earth will we put up with it in our public lives, our own country? "never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - margaret meade |
| Name: | Michael R. Van Handel |
| E-mail address: | mikevanh@proaxis.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Glad to see this web site is up. Progressives of all kinds
need to recall validity of that tired phrase, "No guts, no glory." Voting for Gore out of fear is a good way to render oneself irrelevant. Because the media are doing such a fine job of converting Ralph Nader into the incredible disappearing candidate, it is incumbent on us to use the 'net and other means at our disposal to keep information and ideas circulating. Best wishes! |
| Name: | Christopher W. Hall |
| E-mail address: | hallc@btol.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I do not feel betrayed by Clinton because I have never
voted for him. In 1992 I supported Fulani and in 1996 I voted for Nader. Certainly, Nader is far from the perfect candidate. There are some valid criticisms of his Public Interest Research Group and its exploitative practices concerning the people that work for it. But, compared to the two right-wing, major party candidates, Gush and Bore, Nader is the only choice for people that consider themselves to be progressive, unless you happen to live in one of the few states in which David McReynolds is on the ballot (Socialist Party). Now, THAT would be a true vote of conscience! |
| Name: | Joseph D Lance Jr |
| E-mail address: | j0eschm0e@mindspring.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | My primary reason for voting for Nader in the 2000 election
is to assist the Greens in obtaining 5% of the electoral vote and therefore over $12 million in Federal funds. Even though I have "joined" the Green Party of Tennessee, I usually do not align myself with political parties, but perhaps that has always been because the 2 major parties rarely have much to offer me as a voter. Americans need viable alternatives to the 2-party system. Period. The principle involved is larger than just my pushing a Green agenda -- it is to establish a visible trend for other voters to take notice of, and have hope in, in the future. Ralph Nader has almost no chance of winning this
Finally, vote for alternative-party candidates and/or
Thank you kindly
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| Name: | Mary Pack |
| E-mail address: | mpack@aol.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | In 1992, I voted for Clinton. By 1996, I was so very
disheartened that I didn't vote at all. To me, the ability to vote freely is one of the best things about living in the U.S.--and yet I didn't vote. As a progressive, I couldn't rationalize casting my (somewhat sacred to me) vote for four more years of what is basically a continuation of the Reagan area. "Hey! Washington! there are PEOPLE out here!" Most of the time, I don't know who politicians are talking about. They are certainly not talking about me, or most of the people I know. It's like they've lost touch. Ralph Nader, Winona LaDuke and the Green Party know that there are real people out here with real problems. That's so refreshing that I'm actually itching to go to the polls on Nov 7. Probably get up around 3 a.m. and start calling people. strategic game (though I know that it is--kinda). I look at it as something that has a very real impact on my life and the life of future generations; and therefore it is vital that I vote the way my conscience tells me, and not the way I'm told. Regarding Roe v. Wade--we've faced this crisis before, and we've come up with solutions. Not always good ones, but then we have more resources today than we did 30 years ago (like the internet). I would definitely consider breaking the law in this manner (like abortion workshops where women are taught how to do abortions safely or smuggling in RU486) because, to me, it would be an act of civil disobedience--a personal protest against the government interfering in a way it should not interfere. I'm definitely not advocating breaking the law. I hope noone has to. Would I be willing to pay for a woman to have an illegal, safe, voluntary abortion if I had the means? You betcha. Would I be willing to learn how to perform such an abortion if abortion were outlawed? Yep. Go ahead and open the FBI file now. If Dubya is the price I have to pay to help pave the way for a progressive future, then I'm willing to do a lot of things--including biting the bullet for four years (I don't think Dubya will get a second four). |
| Name: | Elizabeth Anthony |
| E-mail address: | lilibetanthony@hotmail.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | He is a person who has actually DONE SOMETHING in support of
the environment. |
| Name: | Jane W. Elioseff |
| E-mail address: | jane@hypercon.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am 60 years old and a member of Veteran Feminists of
America -- which means that I was active before 1973 in the second wave of the American women's movement and served for a time on the board of the former Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of NOW (today called Boston NOW).
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| Name: | Damon Haley |
| E-mail address: | dhaley@greens.org |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader needs to get a lot of votes this time if we want to
see any improvement in this country with regards to democracy and social justice. If you give your vote to Gore or Bush you're helping to move our government further to the right and helping to let corporations take control of our country. Go Nader! Damon Haley |
| Name: | Judy Loy |
| E-mail address: | jcloy@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | First, I would like to thank you for the article. Knowledge of the choices is the reason I will be voting for Nader/LaDuke. Simple isn't it really. I do not see it as a difficult choice. I use to write in candidates, before the Supreme Court decided we did not have the right to vote for whom we wish to. I will really enjoy casting this vote. As a side issue, I regretfully confess to having voted for Clinton. My only excuse is, I live in Arkansas and we really could have used some Presidental "pork". |
| Name: | Marjorie Perloff |
| E-mail address: | MPerloff@earthlink.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader is the ONLY choice this year. Beware of the argument that we must
vote for Gore so as to keep abortion rights. These are scare tactics. Supreme Court Judges usually end up doing surprising things since they are beholden to no one. And there may not even be an opening on the Court in the next four years! Being pro-Choice is not enough, given Gore's total disregard for working women, his fund raising scandals, his lies, his promises promises. Nader has a program; he doesn't just talk; he acts! The Replublocrats are Unsafe at Any Speed. Marjorie Perloff |
| Name: | Deborah Glenn-Rogers |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | You didn't provide a "button" for "Undecided" on who I'm
going to vote for, and I am undecided. Not only am I a proud and outspoken Feminist, but I hold local and national Board positions for the National Organization for Women. I will continue to speak out in that forum against the outright assimilation of the org. I'm very concerned about the Supreme Court question (the ONLY point stopping me from outright Nader campaigning.) On the other hand, I DO feel that the Demo Party is attempting to hold women hostage, and I've always admired the Israeli response to hostage situations: One assumes that hostages are already dead so that they cannot be used as weapons against their people, and one doesn't even consider negotiating with hostage takers. It's time for Feminists to reclaim their rage and their courage. |
| Name: | Nancy Allen |
| E-mail address: | nallen@acadia.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | It is essential for the health of the planet and the rights
of women and their children that a new politics emerge in the USA. A Green politics. With federal matching funds in 2004 the Green Party will be able to enlist young women, poor women and marginalized women, which in this Republicrat society means ALL women. I work with media for the Green Party. The mainstream media is almost exclusively men except for the poorly paid young women in the "new media" - cable, internet, satellite.....This election is about changing politics and society so we can hear more women's voices - VOTE NADER VOTE GREEN |
| Name: | Scott Shuster |
| E-mail address: | scottshuster@msn.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | If not us, who? If not now, wWhen? |
| Name: | Sandra Hunnicutt |
| E-mail address: | hdbh@earthlink.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Thank heaven people are waking up to the fact that we don't
have to buy the same old party lines anymore. I've been a lifelong Dem until now. I voted for Clinton the first time with hope, the second only because of the Supreme Court. The last eight years have done it for me.
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| Name: | Jeremy Koch |
| E-mail address: | orpheus@penguinea.cx |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | LaDuke and Nader are the only ones out there who give a
Then we have the Libertarians, who, if elected, will
So who's left? Yes, Ralph Nader, a consumer activist who
Go Ralph and Winona! Down with Republicrat hegemony! |
| Name: | Janice Knowlton |
| E-mail address: | jgk14@juno.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I've long been impressed by Ralph Nader's courage exposing
dishonesty at many levels. As a survivor of various betrayals, from incest, to political/law enforcement coverups*, I've gradually become more conscious and realistic, though hopeful. Clinton is a rapist, liar, and as skilled a speaker as Adolph Hitler. Hilary's refusal to confront his criminal and immoral acts mimic the betrayals of my youthful innocence when I was raped and sold to rapists by my male parent, and I see her as "adaptable" as her hubby when it comes to poltics. Thank you for sending me this information. Janice Knowlton, co-author with Michael Newton, of autobiographical book about the coverup of a 1947 murder, "Daddy Was The Black Dahlia Killer," Pocket Books, 1995, Simon & Schuster. |
| Name: | Beth Chamblin |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader has the reputation for having the courage of his
convictions, unlike Gore and Bush. I have become progressively more disgusted with the Democratic Party, but have always voted Democrat, feeling that the Party is the lesser of the two evils. In order to have the courage of my convictions, I feel that voting Green this year is my only option. |
| Name: | emily dahmen |
| E-mail address: | e_dahmen |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am voting for Nader/LaDuke becuase I respect their views as well as their actions. At some point, we have to take responsibility for those we elect to office. If we continue to pick the "lesser of two evils," we will have to take the blame for all the violence the US does to its own and foreign people and enviroments. I feel morally compelled to vote my conscience and also to donate my time to the Nader/Laduke campaign.
If white feminists are on the fence about the abortion issue, I suggest you read the book "Killing the Black Body," which puts a different light reproductive rights, both the right to have an abortion as well as the right to keep a child and have access to healthcare. When you look at the issue of reproductive rights from the perspective of ALL women and their kids, not just middle to upperclass white women, you see how unsupportive the mainstream parties have been... But, ultimately, each person must vote their own conscience. I wish everyone clear headedness in doing so. |
| Name: | Louise M.G. Howard |
| E-mail address: | JOHOWA@aol.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I don't ALLOW white rich guys to disappoint me anymore. As for betrayal, are there really people who believe powerful, rich men don't have extra-martital affairs. Please get off your naive horse and step in the reality manure like the rest of us have. I will vote for Mr. Nadr and Ms. LaDuke because I want to begin the process of a third party.Hell I don't care if we have ten parties, but let's get someone out there with whom I can relate. As for Nadar's running mate,I can't think of anyone better than Ms.LaDuke.I might have been remotely,and I say remotely, persuaded to vote for Gore but never after he chose his VP. Please, I am thrilled new turf was finally broken. A VP not coming from the usual ethnicities. But NEVER forget what Jewish Orthodoxy holds as GOD'S truths about Women and Homosexuality. Putting an Orthodox Jew on the ballot scares me as much as putting on someone from the Christian Right. My God tells me both groups are FUNDAMENTALLY (triple pun intended) out to lunch. So that's where I stand and I have no qualms telling people who I am voting for 'cuz GUESS WHAT? MOST PEOPLE DON'T EVEN WANT TO VOTE. I have lived under the repsression of dictators and I will never stop working to make my country as wonderful as it can be. So I'll stop waving my flag and start to work really hard telling everyone why voting for NADAR/LADUKE IS JUST THE TICKET. Thanks. LMGH |
| Name: | john burke |
| E-mail address: | john.burke@mindspring.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | In an article in the July 31 New York Review of Books,
Lars-Erik Nelson observes that the "spoiler" effect of Nader or Buchanan is negligible, because the states in which either of them has significant support are safely leaning toward the candidates they might hurt. That is, Gore wins California and New York even if Nader's numbers there are good; Bush wins Texas and Utah even if Buchanan does well there. And in the states where Gore-Bush is close, neither Nader nor Buchanan has enough support to make the difference. Also, I note that Lieberman has supported parental notification requirements for under-18 women to get abortions. Of course that doesn't directly address the Supreme Court issue, but at least it indicates that Gore doesn't put women's rights anywhere near the top of his agenda. |
| Name: | Dave Stewart |
| E-mail address: | dstewart13@juno.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I share much of the thngs you said in your web site. Great
Job, go Ralph / Winona! Dave Stewart |
| Name: | Mikey Rosario |
| E-mail address: | socialist1@mindspring.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | The Clinton-Gore fiasco just completely ruined for me even
one small shred of residual confidence in the two-party system.
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| Name: | Lesly Van Dame |
| E-mail address: | vandame@pdq.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | No |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am finally beginning to see why so many characterize the
Republicans and Democrats as minor variations of the same thing. Both parties are so controlled by big money that there really is very little difference. I belive Ralph Nader may be one of the only people who, if elected, would and could make some real changes. However, I even am skeptical about whether anyone elected, no matter how principled, could resist the corruptible influence of power and money and if they could, could they effect change no matter how hard they try? However, I would like to try. So vote Nader |
| Name: | bernice lott |
| E-mail address: | blott@uri.edu |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | On the issues of greatest importance to me, eliminating
poverty, a single-payer universal health care system, a universal early child-education system, fighting racism and sexism, and establishing social justice for homosexuals and other minorities, the two Clinton administrations and most Democrats in Congress have been horrifyingly reactionary or silent. I am hoping that Nader and LaDuke will make clear and powerful statements on these issues and propose relevant legislation and policies. |
| Name: | Lucy Colvin |
| E-mail address: | lucycolvin@juno.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Ralph Nader gets my vote because he is in favor or more
democracy, particularly as a counter-balance to the corporitization and globalization of our world. Mr. Nader is talking about ways to open up our democracy and make it more inclusive of all of us, instead of just a few of us. His "tools of democracy" included things like proportional representation, instant runoff voting, public financing of elections, and ballot access. |
| Name: | Steven Hill |
| E-mail address: | shill@igc.org |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Ralph Nader is the only candidate interested in changing
the rules of the game to open up our democracy and make it more representative and inclusive. Nader is supportive of public financing of elections, fair ballot access laws, proportional representation, instant runoff voting and other vital upgrades for our democracy. |
| Name: | Elizabeth Matz |
| E-mail address: | ematz@execpc.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: |
With this resevation in mind, I still wonder if its not
I think it makes sense to vote for them as opposed to
Watching the organizing, planning, workshops and protests
Ofcourse I would like to see some concern expressed
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| Name: | Steve Grubman-Black |
| E-mail address: | shalom@uri.edu |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I believe that Ralph Nader's presidency is the best
opportunity for all Americans to have a leader committed to equality and fredom for all. Without his presence on the ballot, there really is no choice for the majority of people in this country. The rich and powerful majority (really a numeric minority) will vote for either Gore or Bush, and the majority of people will have no power or influence. He cares about equality, the environment, fairness, and the welfare of the country and of the world. Ralph Nader is honest and sincere. Steve |
| Name: | Jozseph Schultz |
| E-mail address: | mwatch@cruzio.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Bored by Bush leaguers. |
| Name: | Ann Simonton |
| E-mail address: | mwatch@cruzio.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Nader is the only one who has chosen a woman running mate
and is the only candidate who will really work for a stronger democracy. I have admired his convictions and his work for consumer rights for yea |
| Name: | Kathleen Trigiani |
| E-mail address: | ktrig246@airmail.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | In a previous post, I told why I was planning
to vote "for" Nader and LaDuke. However, in this post, I want to share my views on Hill and Bill. The limitations of liberal feminism, represented so "well" by Hillary Clinton, NOW, NWPC and AAUW, have become so painfully obvious that we may as well start asking if mainstream feminism REALLY is feminism. Didn't Kitty MacKinnon say that "liberal feminism is liberalism applied to women?" Need I say once again that liberalism is a code word for the "rights" of white, middle class male "individuals"? It just so happens that the Demogrogs and Repulsicans have the Coke and Pepsi versions of the myth of "individualism". How I wish Pat Buchanan was right when he "accused" Hillary Clinton of being a radical feminist! However, her life would have turned out very differently. She would have dumped Slick Willie (even after becoming First Lady) and she would have realized long ago that patriarchal consolation prizes are not worth it. If a woman has to compromise her feminist principles to get a Senate Seat, we've made no REAL progress. |
| Name: | Kathleen Trigiani |
| E-mail address: | ktrig246@airmail.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I have lots of respect for Winona LaDuke as an ecofeminist
and Nader as a consumer rights advocate. LaDuke is a powerful speaker and is so refreshingly real in comparison to all our blow-dried, bubble-headed candidates from both the Repulsican and Demogrog parties. I think most of us can feel fairly sure that Nader hasn't sexually exploited woman. He certainly hasn't used their unpaid labor to advance his career. My mother told me several years ago that when Nader was on Phil Donahue, someone asked him why he never got married. Nader joked that he's married to General Motors but later got serious and said, "Because I'm very dedicated to my vocation and it wouldn't be fair to dump the child care on someone else." Nader then got a standing ovation. However, I just can't bring myself yet to vote for Nader and LaDuke because of all the cheap little shenanigans that have been happening in the Green Party since 1995. I've had horrible experiences with misogyny in a local Green Party and Greta Gaard's excellent "Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens" provides strong evidence of deep sexism in this "progressive" political group. Also, has Nader ever apologized for his nasty remark about "gonadal politics"? Hey, I know we feminists have to practice realpolitik. And I will probably end up voting against both Clinton, Gore, the reigning Libertarian candidate, the reigning ultra right wing candidate, ad nauseum. So I will ultimately end up voting "for" Nader/LaDuke. But after seeing the Greens repeatedly fail to walk their talk on feminism, well, I wouldn't be surprised if all of us came back in 2004 and said, "Damn it! I've been betrayed again." However, I doubt that Nader and LaDuke would betray us in the same way as Slick Willie and his sidekicks. P.S. I give more detail about my experiences in the Green Party in my essay, Those Martian Women!: http://web2.airmail.net/ktrig246/out_of_cave/martian.html Go to the section on ecofeminism. |
| Name: | John Glass |
| E-mail address: | texglass@earthlink.net |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I believe in the Green Party and the principles and ideals
that they stand for. Their platform (http://www.gp.org) gives me a sense of hope. In voting for Ralph and Winona I feel like I am doing what I can to create an incredible future. In thinking about this now, I realize that this will be the first time I have ever voted from my heart and it feels "righter" than any other vote I have ever cast. With belief in a better world, John |
| Name: | Dominic Fox |
| E-mail address: | domfox@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | No |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | No |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Real alternatives are few and far between, and real good
alternatives are even rarer. I'd like to live in a world in which the biggest economic superpower with the mostest helicopter gunships had Nader as a president. I think that'd be a safer, cleaner, nicer, fairer world to live in. Plus, you know that anything the US does the Brits get round to slavishly imitating a few years later...we're still catching up with Reaganomics...please god let there be something better for us some time soon... |
| Name: | Yvonne Rasor |
| E-mail address: | ynr2@yahoo.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | I am glad to see this site up on the net! It is such a
relief to see an organized group of feminists supporting another party besides the Democratic party. While there are some good Democrats with progressive policies and ideas, too many Democrats support the same oppressive system that Republicans do.
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| Name: | Adriene Sere |
| E-mail address: | http://www.saidit.org |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Okay, I admitted in these registration questions to
After I voted for Clinton under the influence of Steinem
It is significant to me that the woman who convinced me
But this post is suppose to be about Ralph Nader. My
And I will be voting for Nader/La Duke because I want
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| Name: | Michelle Anderson |
| E-mail address: | anderson@law.vill.edu |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | Already Registered |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | Yes |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Ralph Nader is not a politician; he is an activist for
positive social change. He has not been bought off by big money or special interest groups. He is compassionate and fiercely hard working. He is a man of integrity who believes in women's rights and the rights of working class people. Al Gore is a democrat, and that is the most one can say about that automaton. Please consider voting your conscience. Vote the Green Party. |
| Name: | john burke |
| E-mail address: | john.burke@mindspring.com |
| Do you define yourself as a feminist?: | Yes |
| Are you registered to vote?: | Yes |
| If not, do you intend to register?: | No |
| Planning to vote Nader/LaDuke?: | Yes |
| Did you vote for Clinton last election?: | No |
| Disappointed? Feel betrayed?: | Yes |
| Please share your views about why you plan to vote for Nader and/or why you believe others would want to consider voting for him: | Here's why I'm voting for Nader/LaDuke:
Opinion polls show most Americans favor abortion rights, gun control, and nuclear arms reduction. Yet anti-abortion, pro-gun, pro-nuke officials keep getting elected. I think the reason is that the right wing has demonstrated that they will stay away from the polls unless their issues are addressed. The Left--organized labor, people of color, feminists--keep getting sucked in by lesser-evilism, with the perfectly reasonable result that the Demos take us for granted and spend their time pandering to the other side. I don't have a lot of hope, but I'm fairly sure we'll keep getting betrayed until we show enough backbone to vote our real views and make the Dems pander to *us* for a change. |