[Sosfbay-discuss] Report from Candidates Forum in Saratoga

[Brian Good]

About 20 people attended.  Anna phoned in from Washington,
the Republican didn't show up.  Tian was there.

Carol was poised, composed, confident, and inspiring.

Anna gave her usual blather--"talk, talk, talk, I did this, I did 
that, it's such a privilege to serve, we have such a great
future... blah blah.... okay, is it safe to stop now, or will you 
notice that I didn't answer the question?"

Anna made claims that she has made significant contributions
to the defense of the Constitution in her committees, and 50 
years from now when the docs are declassified we'll know 
what a hero she was.  

I submitted three questions.  They didn't read one asking Anna
to defend her gutless complicity in Bush's 8-year war on the
values of democracy, and they didn't read one asking Carol 
how (and if) she distances herself from anti-semitism in the
9/11 Truth movement.  

Afterwards, Carol tried to dismiss the antisemitism issue as 
mere semantics.  She needs a better answer than that.  Tian
and I both pointed out that Carol's pitch ended with a her 
self-description as a truth-seeker when it should have ended 
with "Vote for me."  (I'd put it "Vote for me, and here's why.")

In safe races where there's no danger of unseating the liberal, 
voters are free to vote Green without fear of unintended 
consequences, and we should be aggressively going after 
30,000 votes to show the Democrats that smug, hack, gutless 
politics are not acceptable.  



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