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...Access Rights,” remains one of the most important and oft-cited pieces of legal scholarship supporting the rights of third parties. I am almost certainly the biggest supporter of third parties on the commission. In the fall of 2000, during the dispute over which candidate, John Hagelin or Pat Buchanan, was entitled to government funds owed the Reform Party’s nominee, I was the strongest voice on the FEC for a quick resolution that would get the funds to the party’s nominee in time to be of use in the general election...
...Hagelin sees Ralph Nader as a partner in the quest to take votes from Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore '69, but complains Nader's campaign fails to create the "broad-based independent political movement" that is the goal of his Reform Natural Law Coalition...
...sticking to his core, narrowly liberal campaign with his upper middle class white support base, and he'll get five percent of the vote that way, but we've got to have a voice for the ... Americans who have no voice in our government," Hagelin says...
...While Hagelin's efforts are not fruitless, his political capital does not seem like it will place him anywhere in the headlines the morning after the Nov. 7 election...
Ultimately, the same reasons which brought Hagelin into the political arena--the lack of a viable third party--could potentially dash his political hopes...