As for Mayor, not sure April, maybe this election cycle…if I run I’m running on a platform of taking power away from the Mayor. I’d appoint (after meeting with each community) mini-mayors for each section of the city and basically delegate to them and allow for more citizen and community power. If Kerry takes a place in Obama’s cabinet and Lynch takes over as senator I might just run for Lynch’s spot though.

In either case, I’d pay myself a minimum wage salary and only work 3-4 days out of the week as an example that we can all work less but work better.

But, I’ve got about a million things I want to do so it’s not likely that I’ll run. Would be a great experience though.

It amy bring attention but its also a massive waste of money in my view. start small build up.

also mayor huh? when.

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Blame me too when I run for Mayor of Boston please!

I truly believe Nader is one of the greatest citizens we’ve ever seen. Key emphasis here is on citizen, he’s enacted more positive legislation than many career politicians.

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understand my blaming nadar does not mean i do not also blame the democrats more. i blame everyone. (Also greatest citizen? spin me another one)

i am an angry person.

be a campaign manager. When you start a business you don’t open a location in every town of every state – you start local, build a big base and move forward. it takes patience. who forgot to clue in the 3rd parties?

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Also, multiple other third parties received more than 600 votes in Florida (the margin of victory for Bush over Gore) so why not blame them? Gore himself blames himself and rightfully so. He ran a shitty campaign and thus lost, Gore is a loser, stop blaming one of the greatest American citizens of our time because one corporate candidate did not beat out another.

The poor planning of third parties (which I agree with you on 100% — actually thinking about applying to be a campaign manager for a certain third party –) is the reason the third parties lose, not the reason the major parties lose.

You can’t blame someone for someone else losing. It’s not fair to anyone. Nader lost, Gore lost, Bush stole an election. Those are the simple facts. Blaming Nader is easy but wrong.

A viable 3rd party is necessary but lets not pretend that it does not exist. Gore would not have received the entire 3%. Some people jsut don’t like him, but the truth is a vote for Nadar, at least in 2000 was a vote for the environment and a vote for Gore was also a vote for the environment. Nadar, in my opinion, was like a less moderate Gore. In an election that close… 1.5% could have helped.

I think third parties need to make MORE of a showing on the state level before taking on the presidential level. If your mayor and State Senator were Green then an average citizen might vote in a Green President. But they aren’t, they wont, and they take more liberal votes. Im not anti-3rd party, i think the price being paid is to high because of poor planning.

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In other words, you can’t blame Bush on Nader. It’s just not a solid argument. The Democrats have had eight years to fight back and impeach Bush but instead they support him. The Democrats and Al Gore are directly responsible and actively supportive of George W. Bush.

To blame Nader for Gore’s loss is like blaming the Green Bay Packers for the Pats losing the Super Bowl to the Giants! It passes the buck from the true loser to someone who wasn’t even there!

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Many polls have actually shown that many Nader supporters are Republicans who have become disenchanted with McCain and Bush. Also, Nader actually has a pretty good chance of gaining 5% of the vote this time around, polls put him at 3-4% and with a big enough push he could surpass the 5% mark, but that only gives him access to federal funding. Access to the debates requires polling at 15% and is an arbitrary figure set by a private corporation owned by the Republicans and Democrats. If Nader were to poll at 15%, they’d likely up the requirement to 20%.

I am not an Obama supporter. We’re far apart on too many issues, my post is a simple statement that if only looking at the two mainstream candidates, then Obama is slightly better because he won’t be catastrophically bad for the country.

If you’re truly worried about the state of American politics, and especially our economy, voting third party is the best way to begin fixing our problems. The Democrats and Republicans propose band-aids when casts and possibly surgery is needed.