[GPSCC-chat] Marsha Feinland for US Senate?

[Jim Stauffer]

Also, Marsha runs in every election, so there's nothing unique or special 
about this one. Is she really going to run a serious campaign this time? Do we 
want to support a socialist?

Jim



On 1/6/2012 3:54 PM, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
>
> The P&F Party strategy is to fill the ballot with names
> as much as possible.  In years past, when I was more active,
> I sometimes contacted local P&F candidates.  I never found
> one who was running a serious campaign, even by Green Party
> standards.  In most cases, they'd been recruited by the
> perennial Party leadership, and agreed to passively let
> their names be used.  (That's the deal we had with Nader
> in '96.  Did you even know Ralph Nader "ran" for President
> in '96?  Passive candidacy doesn't work.)  Two of them told
> me they'd reconsidered, but couldn't figure out how to withdraw.
>
> Volunteer if you like, but be aware that P&F "candidacy"
> means something different than you might expect.
>
> -Cameron
>
>
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