Ralph! Enough! A Memo to Ralph Nader
This is addressed to Nader, but I think it applies to every anti-Democrat "progressive" out there:
by Ann Brown, former Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Ralph! You used to be my hero.
In fact, who in the consumer movement felt any other way? With the power of your arguments you set our efforts in motion.
Some of us were willing to forgive you even after your disastrous presidential campaign in 2000, costing the election of our greatest environmentalist, paving the way for the Iraq War, and our economic collapse.
But this week you tore into Hillary Clinton with the disdain for facts you used to charge came from corporate CEOs.
"Corporatist and militarist," you said. "...a menace to the United States of America."
Ralph! Don't do this again!
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And during my time at the CPSC, there was one person whose interest in the consumer went beyond politics: Hillary Clinton.
I remember when we invited her to attend an event focused on cribs in day care centers. We needed to publicize how many centers had old cribs that could suffocate infants.
"Where and when?" she asked. She stayed well past the time she had to leave, listening to parents who had lived through tragedy. Her concern -- her passion -- was real.
Ralph, for whatever reason, your vicious, personal caricature has trashed a great friend of the consumer movement. Don't compound the error you made in 2000.
I know your passion for consumers is real.
But along with the other issues, your campaign then damaged anyone who cared about mattresses flaring up, cribs that suffocated children, guns that could take out an eye -- and vehicles that killed.
Don't negate all the good you achieved as the country's leading consumer advocate. And don't attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton, this pioneering champion of consumers.
more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annbrown/ralph-enough-a-memo-to-ra_b_6145396.html
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