Thursday, May 28, 2009

Nader Not Dead

...though I have wondered. I can't ever remember Nader being so long out of the public eye.

Nader Accuses McAuliffe of Suppressing Votes - Virginia Politics -: "Consumer activist Ralph Nader accused Terry McAuliffe Thursday of orchestrating an effort to remove him from the presidential ballot in 2004 when McAuliffe was chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Nader said that McAuliffe offered him an unspecified amount of money to campaign in 31 states if Nader would agree to pull his campaign in 19 battleground states.

'When you get a call like that, first of all it's inappropriate,'' Nader said in an interview. 'The other thing is if you don't immediately say no, it's like taffy, you get stuck with it...'"

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