Barney Frank's letter to Nader is cogent, well-reasoned, and factual to the best of my knowledge. I am voting for Nader, although I have been most actively engaged in the struggle for African-American rights since I was seventeen (see Black Scholar review of my "Saying No To Power"), and literally a founding member of the women's liberation movement. I have supported the struggle on behalf of gays and lesbians since it began, although not active in it. Nader is not perfect. He arrived at understanding the need for a people's party after decades of working for his goals through the existing machinery of government, supplementing his remarkable and successful appeals to public opinion. He is learning about other issues and growing, right in this election campaign. The fact that polls show him with eleven per cent of the gay vote, substantially higher than his share of the total vote, indicates that a considerable number of GLBT people understand the issue of overall progressivism and building a party that will ALWAYS be on their side better than Barney Frank does. That is the issue. Bill Mandel
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