Third-party candidate campaigns into the night

[Alex35332]

Ron Cassie, The Examiner
Aug 5, 2006 5:00 AM
BALTIMORE - Listen my children and you shall hear the midnight campaign of Kevin Zeese,

On the third of August, 2006

It may not have had the romantic poetry, as described by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, of a certain midnight ride by the famous American patriot Paul Revere, 236 years past, but Kevin Zeese, third-party candidate for U.S. Senate, was nonetheless out late Thursday evening, delivering the anti-war message to Baltimore voters.

“I’m for peace and justice,” said Zeese as he greeted Giant Food employee Girard Venable in the store parking lot in Waverly at 11 p.m. “We’ve got to stop war in Iraq. We got to end the drug war and make treatment available. And we’ve got to take the tax burden off those making less than $100,000.”

Zeese has the endorsement of the state Green, Libertarian and Populist parties.

“Why don’t you run for president?,” asked Venable, who also works at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

Zeese, the director of Democracy Rising, an anti-war organization, and the former head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, came up with the idea of a “midnight campaign” to reach shift workers and those working two jobs as they did last-minute food shopping.

He made five “ride” stops, beginning on Thursday at 9:30 p.m. in front of the Charles Theatre and N. Charles Street Safeway, then moved to Waverly and Canton before finally leaving the Shoppers Food Warehouse on E. Fort Avenue.

“I was happy he was here,” said Nimoyia Fairley, 24, of Remington, at the Charles Village Safeway as she grabbed some diapers.

“He doesn’t beat around the bush on the issues. And he’s right — we’ve got to end this war in Iraq and stop our people from getting killed over there ... I’ll vote for him.”

And so through the night went his cry of alarm

To every Baltimore village and farm,—

A cry of defiance, and not of fear,

A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door...

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[lhfang]

1. blah

Posted by Zeese's son....and Examiner is a right wing rag that. Zeese will help drain votes to help a Republican win, and has no grass roots support- only that of his son.

[Alex35332]

2. I never tried to hide who I was

And I would call the Examiner a libertarian paper not right wing. 2 we are targeting the red's too, thats why we have libertarian support. Do I have to point out that us getting in the Examiner does just that? Fang you know as well as I do that we have tons of grassroots support I am just the only one who cares enough to post to blogs like DU. And I do so for 2 reasons.

1. Open your minds, to realizing that you guys need us outsider progressives, if we weren't here then you would already know who the Democratic candidate is, it would be Cardin. We also keep your more corrupt neo-con candidates, left leaning. I doubt Cardin would have flipped on the war and the voting machines issue if he did not know we were out here criticizing him.

2. I like messing with the DNCers like Fang.

You guys have a simple problem on your hands with us independents and that is that the public is going toward us and away from the D&R system as you two shrink we grow and are now up to 16% of MD.

Your party ain't gonna be around forever and anyone who studies political history will tell you that we are looking at an ideology shift/shakeup in the next 10-20 years where party ideology will be changed, this is usually caused by some economic factors, like oh say the shift from an oil economy to whatever will come next. The question becomes if the Democratic party dissolves or openly becomes the Neo-Con, (pro-war, anti-choice, anti-universal health care) Party that they are being pushed toward, where are you gonna go? If your not thinking that long term then your really not thinking.

Now I assume someone is going to try and give me sh*+ for this but I don't mind, I as mr Fang will tell you LOVE Debate and do not even mind personal attacks. Heck I used to do them all the time on Linda Lamone when I worked on getting us a voter verified paper trail in Maryland for the past year. Though I would ask if attacks are made at the personal level that they are kept to me, as I will be the one responding.