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Grateful Dead: Don't Vote for Nader

By Jeralyn, Section Elections
Posted on Tue Aug 03, 2004 at 08:52:20 AM EST
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The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir is pleading with Deadheads everywhere not to vote for Ralph Nader. Performing on Saturday in Boston, Weir told the band's followers to be sure to vote, but the exorted, "Don't vote for Nader. I know him. He's an a--hole," our spies tell us. The band then broke into "Johnny B. Goode," a theme song of the Kerry-Edwards campaign ...

Nothing personal against Mr. Nader, he was very polite the one time I had a discussion with him shortly before the 2000 election, but I disagreed with several of the comments he made in his speech that night and thought some of them were mean-spirited. Let's not let him take any of Kerry's votes.

Example of a mean-sprited Nader comment:

He told the Denver crowd, in asking them to vote for a certain Green party Congressional candidate, that the opponent in the race, incumbant U.S. Congressman Mark Udall, who is the son of the late Arizona Senator Mo Udall, "couldn't tie his father's shoes." Congressman Mark Udall is an absolutely outstanding Congressman, responsive to his consituents, much admired among Democrats state-wide and a national leader. I hope he becomes Secretary of the Interior when Kerry is elected. Nader was out of line with his cheap shot.

[closing comments, thread went too far off-topic.]

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