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Nader for Hawkins
Albany Notebook
By Erik Kriss
Syracuse Post-Standard |
Consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader was in Albany Tuesday to join Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Howie Hawkins, of Syracuse, in calling for all-inclusive debates.
Nader and Hawkins said everyone in his race, including himself, incumbent Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, Republican John Spencer and the Socialist Equity, Socialist Workers and Libertarian candidates, should be allowed to participate.
Nader excoriated Clinton for embracing corporate interests and praised Hawkins as "an ex-Marine, a working Teamster, a longtime organizer at the community level, a writer and an honest, dedicated man."
Free at last
After his news conference with Hawkins, Nader visited the Capitol's press room for the first time and admired the black-and-white portraits of New York's governors hanging on its walls.
He was asked whether he offered his condolences to his disciple, Mark Green, who lost last week's Democratic primary for attorney general to Andrew Cuomo.
Nader said he left Green, who has run for numerous public offices since the 1980s, a message saying, "For the first time in 25 years, you're a free man."
He explained by quoting Green: "Politics is being nice to people you don't like." |
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 *Website by David Doonan, Labor Donated to Hawkins for Senate Campaign* |
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