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43259 Woodward Ave
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302
(Just N. of Square Lake - west side)
Dine-In, Carry-Out, Catering, Meeting Area
248.253.9300
864950
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Nader Works
The Street Corners
opposite sex to sign petitions for
Nader.
GOP "support" for Nader is hap-
pening
in other tightly contested
of a man?
states
around
the country and gar-
How do you
nering
the
typical
Democratic and
define "princi-
Republican
responses.
pled?"
"Dirty politics," scream the Dems.
These are ques-
"Just trying to be inclusive, "
tions all voters
snicker
the Republicans.
should ask them-
HARRY
The
contentiousness
between
KIRSBAUM selves — especially
Democrats and Republicans borders
the
Michigan
voters
Columnist
who signed petitions on hatred, and Ralph Nader is using
that hatred to get on the national
that would put
stage.
Ralph Nader on the Nov. 2 ballot.
He rails against Ken Lay, Enron
According to the Detroit Free Press,
and
Halliburton, yet receives sup-
Ralphie Boy only managed to get
port from the party accused of being
5;000 signatures of the 30,000 he
the most tied to corporate interests.
needed, but help came from another
When Nader
source, the Michigan GOP.
allows
the petitions
The adage: The enemy of
signed
with
my enemy is my friend, may
Republican help to
not work in the real world,
get him on the
but the terms "politics" and
November
ballot,
the "real world" don't often
he
is
prostituting
collide in the same sentence.
himself to the party
The motive is clear: Every
he so hates to keep
vote for Nader is another
the media gravy
vote not going to John
train going.
Kerry.
He's not so much
I just have to wonder how
running
for presi-
the Republican Party man-
dent
as
he
is climb-
aged to get 43,000 signa-
ing
into
the
spot-
tures on its own.
Ralph Nader
light.
And
he
isn't a
Did they identify them-
viable
candidate.
selves as Republicans and get
In the 1992 presidential election,
other Republicans and the occasion-
third-party
candidate Ross Perot
al stoner to sign the petition?
- Or did they disguise themselves in used his pie charts and simple mes-
sage to place third with 18.9 percent
Bob Marley T-shirts and
of the popular vote to Bill Clinton,
Birkenstocks, head to college and
who
won with only 43' percent.
park themselves in front of coffee-
Now
that's a viable candidate.
houses and student centers?
Nader's
supporters claim that he
photographer
Angie
Jewish News
won't
steal
Democratic votes; he will
Baan noticed something unusual in
engage
new
voters.
Royal Oak during the past couple of
I
think
he
will steal votes not just
Friday nights.
from
the
Democrats,
but from those
One dreadlocked male in grunge
who
vote
for
write-in
candidates like
looked
the
part,
clothes may have
Lyndon
LaRouche
and
Zork from
getting Nader signatures on a street
the
planet
Neptune.
corner, but he wasn't alone.
Nader has no hope of getting
Baan also noticed a few good-
elected
or of being a viable candi-
looking blonde girls wearing tight,
date.
Why
vote for Candidate A if
revealing clothes and a few more
your vote elects Candidate B?
hunky-looking guys in muscle shirts
Vote for Ralph, and you've wasted
working other corners — getting the
your vote.
Run with the help of your ene-
Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
mies, Ralph, and you've lost your
hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.com
principles. ❑
W
,
hat is the
true
measure