{"id":1008,"date":"2004-07-09T01:20:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T05:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/ballot_access\/"},"modified":"2004-07-09T01:20:58","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T05:20:58","slug":"ballot_access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/ballot_access\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballot Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another Republican group, fearful of Bush’s chances straight up against Kerry, is working to get Ralph Nader on the Michigan ballot<\/a>.
\nToo bad there’s not a way to require ballot petition signers to vote for Nader in November.
\nUPDATE: More<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Nearly one in 10 of Nader’s major donors — those writing checks of $1,000 or more — have given in recent months to the Bush-Cheney campaign, the latest documents show. GOP fund-raisers also have “bundled” contributions — gathering hefty donations for maximum effect to help Nader, who has criticized the practice in the past.
\n. . .
\nBut the financial records show that $23,000 in checks of $1,000 or more have come from loyal Republicans. Among those who have given recently to Nader are Houston businessman Najid I. Fares, who donated $200,000 to President Bush’s 2000 inaugural committee; Richard J. Egan, the former ambassador to Ireland, and his wife, Pamela, who have raised more than $300,000 for Bush; Michigan developer Ghassan Saab, who has given $30,000 to the RNC since 2001; and frozen food magnate Jeno Paulucci, and his wife, Lois, who have donated $150,000 to GOP causes since 2000 alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny how all these Republicans are giving to Nader, since he’s going to draw from both Democratic and Republican voters, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another Republican group, fearful of Bush’s chances straight up against Kerry, is working to get Ralph Nader on the Michigan ballot. Too bad there’s not a way to require ballot petition signers to vote for Nader in November. UPDATE: More: Nearly one in 10 of Nader’s major donors — those writing checks of $1,000 […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}