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...efforts in Fort Worth that concern advocates like Miller; there SBOE District 11 member Pat Hardy, a former schoolteacher, curriculum adviser and moderate Republican, is facing a challenge from fellow Republican Barney Maddox, a urologist and ardent supporter of creationism. With no Democratic candidate on the ballot, Tuesday's winner will take a seat on the contentious 15-member board. Maddox, who declines media interview requests, has posted his writings on the web at sites like the Institute for Creation Research and has called Charles Darwin's work "pre-Civil War fairy tales...
...almost feels as if he’s mainly running because he can. In an interview with The New York Times following his announcement, Nader claimed, “If there was no other reason to run—other than the civil liberties, civil rights issue of ballot access—it’d be worth it.” (He’s a little miffed that Democrats campaigned so hard to keep him off the ballots in 2004, spoiling what otherwise would have been a glorious triumph...
Perhaps it’s difficult to break a habit after 16 years of perennial candidacy, but if Nader truly cares about the future of “ballot access” and third-party presidential bids, he might do well to sit this...
Basic foodstuffs are now so expensive and scarce that people have begun queuing for hours at government stores, where it is cheaper because of subsidies. When those same people lined up to cast their ballot last week, many of them apparently voted against Musharraf's ruling party. "It played a very important role," says Saeed Chaudhry, an economics lecturer at the National University of Modern Languages. "Hungry people are not happy people...
Sounds like you might have a hard time getting on the ballot in some states? Of course... One of the missions of this campaign is to highlight these obstructions, these harassments of petitioners, the arbitrary disqualification of thousands of signatures unlawfully by partisan judges. The small-candidate situation in this country is similar to what minority voting rights 50-60 years ago had to face...