Word: nader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show that had flopped in its last tryout, The Pay-Raise Follies enjoyed a remarkably rapid revival. There was House Speaker Tom Foley last week, a bipartisan cast gathered around him, calling earnestly for more money. Here again came consumer advocate Ralph Nader, stirring up rabid radio talk-show hosts to bash Capitol Hill for insatiable greed. George Bush, once more standing in the wings, sent his best wishes...
...some, that was not enough to justify a nearly 40% salary increase. "We come forward with ethics reform, and we instead sneak in a pay raise," said Democratic Congressman James Traficant of Ohio. "With the huge budget deficit we face, now is not the time." Nader spokesman Bob Dreyfuss pointed out that while Congress was looking after its own interests, it had delayed action on a federal child-care plan and failed to pass a budget -- leaving servicemen, Medicare recipients, farmers and other federal beneficiaries vulnerable to the automatic Gramm-Rudman-Hollings cutbacks. "If the issue were based on merit...
...Without public hearings, without a decent interval of time for the American people to digest it... the House leadership railroaded it through," complained consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who opposes congressional pay increases...
...calling for a boycott. Advocating boycotts is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. As Nat Hentoff, journalistic custodian of the First Amendment, says, "I would hate to see boycotts outlawed. Think what that would do to Cesar Chavez." Or, for that matter, to Ralph Nader. If one disapproves of a social practice, whether it is racist speech or unjust hiring in lettuce fields, one is free to denounce that and to call on others to express their disapproval. Otherwise there would be no form of persuasive speech except passing a law. This would make the law coterminous...
...regions were deprived of the chance to see The Last Temptation of Christ in the theater. Some, no doubt, considered it a loss that they could not buy lettuce or grapes during a Chavez boycott. Perhaps there was even a buyer perverse enough to miss driving the unsafe cars Nader helped pressure off the market. On the other hand, we do not get sports analysis made by racists. These mobilizations of social opprobrium are not examples of repression but of freedom of expression by committed people who censured without censoring, who expressed the kinds of belief the First Amendment guarantees...