Re: Ralphwatch: Ralph screws the homeless in Philly

[david witch <doorlux>]

You waste your time.  Why not focus on crimes
committed by our White House.  Because you fear and
are controlled by fear.  If the Inquirer story is
true, surely there are more details than an obviously
Nader bashing writer is interested in revealing or
researching.

"as Ralphie-boy had already committed so 
many crimes against decency. "   

Give me a break.  You are just like the Bush White
House hypocrites who twist everything to mean its
opposite.

I waste my time responding to your obsession, which,
in my opinion, you can go shove up your ass-- and I
know that is something you'd probably enjoy.

sincerely against my better judgement,

doorlux




--- weapons of mass destruction-related program
activities <spamtony> wrote:

> You know, I actually showed some restraint and mercy
> on this story (i.e., Homeless Philadelphians getting
> paid to round up petition signatures for Ralph, a 
> story originally discovered in Eric Alterman's 
> MSNBC.com blog) because it all just seemed too 
> surreal, a little beyond credibility, and way over 
> the top as Ralphie-boy had already committed so 
> many crimes against decency. 
> 
> But guess what? Ralph again exceeds all
> expectations! 
> His campaign is actually screwing the homeless. 
> 
> I'm going to reproduce the article below in toto
> because 
> the lame-ass Philadelphia Inquirer website is such a
> 
> suck-ass piece of crap: 
> 
>     Sat., Jul 31, 2004 
>     Philly.com 
>     By Michael Currie Schaffer
>     Inquirer Staff Writer
> 
>     
>     Nader office shuts down as workers seek pay
> 
>     Petition circulators demanded payment for
> signatures collected. 
>     A campaign employee said the scene smacked of
> dirty politics.
>     
>     
> 
>     Ralph Nader's presidential campaign this week
>     abruptly abandoned the Center City office that
>     housed its efforts to get on the Pennsylvania
>     ballot, leaving behind a mess of accusations and
>     a damaged building.
> 
>     The office, on the 1500 block of Chestnut
> Street,
>     was emptied Thursday after a raucous scene the
>     night before. Police were called as dozens of
>     homeless people lined up to collect money they
>     said they were owed for circulating petitions on
>     the candidate's behalf.
> 
>     Many of the circulators were never paid,
>     according to outreach workers and interviews
> with
>     several men who had collected signatures.
> 
>     "A lot of us were scammed," said Ed Seip, 52,
> who
>     said he collected more than 200 signatures for
>     Nader.
> 
>     Nader has until Monday to collect the 25,697
>     petition signatures required to be on the
>     presidential election ballot. Dan Martino, the
>     campaign's Pennsylvania coordinator, said he
>     believes the campaign is on track to meet that
>     goal.
> 
>     The quest has drawn national attention because
>     many Democrats believe Nader, who is running as
>     an independent, could drain enough support from
>     John Kerry to throw Pennsylvania's 21 hotly
>     contested electoral votes to President Bush.
> 
>     Nader has succeeded in New Jersey, where the
>     state Division of Elections has ruled that his
>     name will appear on the ballot. A spokesman for
>     the New Jersey Attorney General's Office said
> the
>     deadline for filing challenges to a person's
>     candidacy was Monday, and none was filed.
> 
>     In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, Nader's campaign
>     has accused Kerry supporters of resorting to
>     dirty tricks to keep the candidate off the
>     ballot.
> 
>     John Slevin, a ballot-access contractor hired by
>     Nader to run the Pennsylvania petition campaign,
>     said all circulators would be paid. And he
>     speculated that the accusations and chaos at the
>     office were the result of political trickery.
> 
>     "That's the only explanation for it," Slevin
>     said.
> 
>     He cited both the unexpected arrival of large
>     numbers of homeless people looking for petition
>     work and the calls he received from city
>     officials about payment complaints as examples
> of
>     possible partisan efforts to derail the
> campaign.
> 
>     Slevin began hiring petition circulators two
>     weeks ago with classified advertisements in
>     newspapers and on the Internet.
> 
>     Petition circulators were told they would be
> paid
>     from 75 cents to $1 for each valid signature.
>     Half of the money was to be delivered at the end
>     of the day and the balance paid by check the
>     following Wednesday.
> 
>     But people who showed up Wednesday described a
>     chaotic situation. Lines moved slowly as Slevin
>     and one assistant, protected by armed guards,
>     vetted the petitions for obviously forged
>     signatures. Many in line were shouting and
>     claiming they had been underpaid. As tensions
>     grew, police were called.
> 
>     By day's end, many left without being paid.
> Those
>     who returned the next day found the office
> empty.
> 
>     Slevin said he would mail checks to the
> addresses
>     people had given when hired. He said he had not
>     planned to move out of the office until the end
>     of the month but would no longer be working
>     there.
> 
>     One petition circulator has also lodged a
>     complaint with Lance Haver, the city's consumer
>     advocate.
> 
>     "They trashed the place," said Lee Brahim, a co-
>     owner of the building where Slevin had rented an
>     office for the month. Brahim said people had
>     urinated in garbage cans and broken a stairway
>     railing.
> 
>     The 2-week-old effort to collect signatures
> using
>     hired petition circulators also faced scrutiny
>     last week after reporters witnessed several
>     circulators repeatedly signing each other's
> forms
>     and telling signers that they could use whatever
>     name they wanted.
> 
>     Slevin said circulators had been instructed to
>     obey the law.
> 
>     But one disgruntled circulator said they had not
>     known the rules. "Everyone in the mission was
>     just passing them around from person to person,"
>     said Michael Reed Jr., 21, who said he had not
>     been paid.
> 
>     Under Pennsylvania law, only registered voters
>     may sign ballot petitions, and only once. Flawed
>     petitions can be challenged in court, leading to
>     a candidate's removal from the ballot.
> 
>     Democrats plan to challenge the petitions after
>     Nader turns them in next week to make sure the
>     signatures are proper.
> 


		
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