Fader With Nader: Paying For Ralph
RALPH Nader. Who he? He your man, that’s who:
Ralph Nader’s received a fraction of the attention he craved from this, his fifth presidential bid. The most coverage he’s gotten since announcing came at the Ron Paul third party presser. But he’s hitting swing states like New Hampshire with a stirring message worthy of Eugene V. Debs:
Nader noted that fewer than 10 of the approximately 40 audience members appeared to be Dartmouth students. He criticized the “sterile political debate at Dartmouth,” adding that the College is known as the most conservative school in the Ivy League.
Who’s paying for this? Well, you are. In July Nader hauled $411,187.85 in matching funds, paid for by voluntary donations to the public financing fund, distributed by the FEC. That’s roughly a quarter of Nader’s overall fundraising. No matter what damage Barack Obama wreaks, if he actually succeeds in blowing up the public finance system, he’ll have done us all a favor.Five years ago Radley Balko had some more examples of Nader living off of political welfare.
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Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Politicians, Race For The White House, Ralph Nader, Twitterings Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Why write this incorrect article? Why waste anyone’s time? I haven’t supported Nader in the past, but he is aware and fighting many of the problems in this country and should not be bashed.
October 15th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
The article would also be currently inaccurate, the matching funds are less than 13% of the total raised. I’m pretty sure the total is around 3.25 million for the Nader campaign to date.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Obama went back on his word to take only public funding capped at I forgot how many millions. This has enabled him to raise obscene amounts of money.
Another flip-flop, what’s new?
October 15th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Yeah, compare Nader’s smaller contribution dollars to Obama’s. And then you will see the effect of corporate lobbyist funding.
Nader/Gonzalez takes no corporate money, instead asking for as little as $2, $6, and $10 from its supporters.
We’ll gladly have the smaller figure. We take pride in not being corporate sellouts.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Well check this. When you register to vote you have the option of having $3 taken out of your taxes to go to the public campaign fund. What they don’t tell you is that it actually pays for the Democratic and Republican convention parties.
And that EVEN IF YOU CONTRIBUTE, YOUR CANDIDATE WILL NOT GET A CHANCE TO DEBATE!!!
October 15th, 2008 at 1:50 am
I don’t happen to be supporting Nader, but what a stupid sentiment propounded by this article. Public funding is the only assurance we have that public office will not always go to the wealthiest contender.