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Democrats and progressives from around the country have asked for Ralph Nader to withdraw his bid for the WhiteHouse [http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021202&s=dugger]. One group, [http://www.stopnader.com StopNader.com], has started to air [http://www.stopnader.com/nadervision.asp  TV commercials] warning voters that a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush.
 
Democrats and progressives from around the country have asked for Ralph Nader to withdraw his bid for the WhiteHouse [http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021202&s=dugger]. One group, [http://www.stopnader.com StopNader.com], has started to air [http://www.stopnader.com/nadervision.asp  TV commercials] warning voters that a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush.
 
"Ever since Ralph Nader announced his independent candidacy for president last month, both friends and critics have wondered why he is running -- and where the great gadfly will obtain the enormous resources needed for a national campaign," writes Joe Conason in his March 15, 2004, ''Salon'' article "Office Space. Ralph Nader's got some explaining to do. Why is his campaign headquarters housed in his nonprofit's tax-exempt offices?"
 
 
Nader's campaign for U.S. presidential election, 2004 is "presently headquartered at 1400 16th Street in Washington [which is] a modern, downtown office building where it shares a suite with an outfit called [[Citizen Works]]," a group that [http://www.citizenworks.org/admin/about.php describes] "itself as 'a nonprofit, nonpartisan, [[501c3]] tax-exempt organization founded by Ralph Nader in April 2001 to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation in power."
 
 
Conason cites this as evidence that Nader's "organization may be cutting financial corners and skirting the dubious edge of federal election and tax laws."
 
 
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=== Contact ===
 
=== Contact ===
  
*[http://www.citizenworks.org/ Citizen Works] web site
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*Nader/Camejo 2004 Campaign Website: [http://www.votenader.org/ votenader.org]
*Nader 2004 Campaign Website: [http://www.votenader.org/ votenader.org]
 
 
*Nader 2004 Blogsite: [http://naderspring.org/ naderspring.org]
 
*Nader 2004 Blogsite: [http://naderspring.org/ naderspring.org]
 
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=== External Links ===
 
=== External Links ===
  
*[http://www.stopnader.com Stop Nader Campaign].
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*[http://www.nader.org/ The Nader Page] (not campaign-related)
*[http://www.citizenworks.org/admin/staff/staff_nader.php Ralph Nader's Citizen Works biography].
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*[http://nader2004.meetup.com/ National Nader in 2004 Meetup]
*[http://www.ralph-nader.info/ Nader's impact on the 2000 election & the big names that no longer support him].
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*[http://greensfornader.net/ Greens for Nader]
*Harry G. Levine, [http://www.soc.qc.edu/Staff/levine/Ralph-Nader-As-Suicide-Bomber.html "Ralph Nader as Mad Bomber,"] Department of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York, March 2004.
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*[http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/matt-gonzalez-why-vote-for-ralph-nader.html Why Vote for Ralph Nader?]
*Joe Conason, [http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/03/15/nader/index_np.html Office space. Ralph Nader's got some explaining to do. Why is his campaign headquarters housed in his nonprofit's tax-exempt offices?], ''Salon'', March 15, 2004.
 

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Ralph Nader, currently a candidate for U.S. presidential election, 2004, is an Arab American, born February 27, 1934, in Winsted, Connecticut to Lebanese immigrants Rose and Nathra Nader. [1] [2]


In a speech Monday night, May 24, 2004, at the Council on Foreign Relations, presidential candidate Ralph Nader "delivered a strong call ... for America to withdraw from Iraq by the end of this year, a stand that threatens to lure antiwar voters to his independent presidential campaign and away from Democrat John Kerry."

"Nader said Iraq faces a choice between two futures. In one, he said, Iraq could stay on its current course and remain a 'puppet regime' under Washington's control. Or, he said, 'we could declare a set date for corporate and military withdrawal - let's say the end of the year.'"

Nader "also called for replacing U.S. forces with a peace-keeping force from the United Nations - although the U.N. hasn't agreed to such a plan and Nader is in no position to negotiate it."

"Nader also called Monday evening for Bush's impeachment, saying he prosecuted a war under false pretenses. 'To say Bush has exaggerated the threat of Saddam Hussein is pretty much commonly accepted,' Nader said. '. . . The fabrications, deceptions and prevarications rise to high crimes and misdemeanors and warrant impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives.'"


Democrats and progressives from around the country have asked for Ralph Nader to withdraw his bid for the WhiteHouse [3]. One group, StopNader.com, has started to air TV commercials warning voters that a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush.


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