[sixties-l] Fwd: 9 Reasons I Didn't Vote for an Independent Presidential Candidate

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Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 08:17:46 CUT

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    > From: Matthew Lasar <matthew@lasarletter.com
    > Subject: My nine reasons
    >
    > Nine Reasons Why I Didn't Vote for an Independent Presidential Candidate
    > Twelve Years Ago.
    >
    > Matthew Lasar
    >
    > 1. A Republican might win and someone who supports the death penalty will
    > sit in the White House.
    >
    > 2. A Republican might win and public broadcasting will become increasingly
    > commercialized.
    >
    > 3. A Republican might win and the President will sign a bill gutting
    > welfare.
    >
    > 4. A Republican might win and initiate a series of bloody bombing
    > campaigns in the developing world.
    >
    > 5. A Republican might win and the number of people without health
    > insurance
    > will continue to rise.
    >
    > 6. A Republican might win and appoint another shoot first/think later
    > Attorney General.
    >
    > 7. A Republican might win and sign a bill allowing corporations to buy an
    > unlimited number of radio stations.
    >
    > 8. A Republican might win and preside over a skyrocketing U.S. prison
    > population.
    >
    > 9. A Republican might win and elections will become almost completely
    > decided by corporate money.
    >
    > Oh well. In my defense let me say this: I didn't get to ten and I never
    > will.
    >
    > http://www.votenader.com/
    >
    > Matthew Lasar
    >
    > *.*
    >
    > "The absent are always wrong."
    > --French proverb



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