The MEDIA v. QUALIFIED Candidates

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" Instead of concentrating on the worst choices, give the better candidates some space. They might not be as funny, but it won't be funny if you in the media make these losers the winners in November. "
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Gail Collins continues her rundown of outlandish candidates for high office.



The Constant Weader responds:


]It's great fun to laugh at these losers, but haven't we done that enough? You & the rest of the media have made Joe Miller & Christine O'Donnell households names. If they don't wind up in Washington, they've got a sure shot at becoming Fox "News" "analysts," thanks to the name recognition you've bestowed upon them.


So why not mention some of the candidates who are worthy of the people's trust? I'll bet most Americans -- even those who pay attention to the news -- don't know who Scott McAdams is (in fairness, you did tell us last week). He's the Democratic nominee for Senate in Alaska, & among his bona fides, he's the mayor of a town even bigger than Wasilla. Before that, he served on the local school board & was president of the state association of school boards. He seems like a guy whose heart is in the right place. And as far as I know, his father didn't appoint him to his best job ever (think Murkowski). Here's McAdams' Website.

<http://www.scottmcadams.org/home/>


Does the name Chris Coons ring a bell? No? He's the Democratic nominee for Senate in Delaware. He has been a very effective County Executive, which in a state that has only two counties is, as former Delaware Senator Joe Biden would say, "a Big Fuckin' Deal." Like Joe a-Noun-a-Verb-and-Unconstitutional Miller, Coons is a Yale Law alum, & he had an extensive & exemplary career working for charitable & non-profit organizations. You can read more about Coons on his Website.

<http://www.chriscoons.com/>


Even in South Carolina, where the media have made the spectacularly unqualified Democrat Alvin Greene a star & given the odious Sen. Jim DeMint a free ticket back to Washington, THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE: Green Party candidate Tom Clements seems downright normal and has worked for civic causes for a long time. Here is Clement's website:

<http://clementsforsenate.com/>

Clements' background is in energy policy, having spent years working on nuclear nonproliferation in the nonprofit sector. He has logged hours with Greenpeace and the Peace Corps. He currently works for the environmental activist group Friends of the Earth. Clements praised the call for military budget cuts put forth by Reps. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Barney Frank, D-Mass. He called DeMint “a strong supporter of the military-industrial complex which is financially and morally bankrupting our country.”

He also accused DeMint of “big government corporate elitism,” where rampant privatization of government programs and services benefits only a small number of large corporations: “That's the big government he likes.”




Here is Clements responding to Jim DeMint's hate tripe against gays and unmarried women:



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Clements criticizes DeMint on gay teacher issue


Tom Clements, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, criticized incumbent Sen. Jim DeMint on Monday for saying gay people and unmarried women who sleep with their boyfriends shouldn't be allowed to teach.


“If he wants to come up with guidelines for some kind of morality test, I challenge him to produce it,” Clements, 59, said in an interview at the Herald-Journal.


“Lay out how you're going to screen out people you don't like. And how far does it go? Does it go beyond gay people, or single women, or single males? Let's hear how extensive your morality test is going to be applied to people. And I don't think people in South Carolina would agree that somebody else's morality test be applied to public school teachers.”


DeMint spoke to several hundred people Friday night at a Greater Freedom Rally at First Baptist North Spartanburg.


He told the crowd that if someone is openly homosexual or if an unmarried woman sleeps with her boyfriend, then that person shouldn't be allowed in the classroom.


- “He's trying to push his version of religion onto the entire country. And I believe in separation of church and state. And I do believe that gay people should have equal rights,” Clements said. “That's his belief, but I don't think he can force that on society as a whole or the public school system.”


Clements also criticized DeMint for advocating abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.


“The federal government has a key role in trying to make sure that access to education by all children in South Carolina is equal,” he said. “If the federal government wasn't in place to try to do that, I think our education standards would fall.”

DeMint's campaign did not return calls Monday seeking comment.



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1. I would rather accept electing Green Party candidate Tom Clements as SC's new Senator

rather than allow a continuance of DeMint's viral floor hate rants against gays, women et al.

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2. Democrats ( especially progressives ) have a much better chance of getting things done with Clements

as Senator than with obstructionist Demint at the helm.