On the issues: More Kucinich than Dean, More Green than Dem?

[srpantalonas]

Please let me know--I appreciate your input to my campaign. Plus I like a good scrum...

http://www.crystleforsenate.com/issues_short.html

Thanks!

[liberalcapitalist]

1. I agree with you 100% on every issue

I wish you were running in my state.

[spindoctor]

2. You sound like one of the good guys

Good luck to you.

[govegan]

3. More better than lies and dissembling, too.

Nice website, Mr. Crystle.

I lived in Southwestern PA for a few years, and if still lived there, you surely would have my wholehearted support. I enjoyed my time in PA and was glad to see the strong Democratic vote in the Philly mayor's race yesterday.

It has been over ten years now, but I remember a strong practicality and common sense attitude in the Pittsburgh area. God knows, we can use more common sense, wisdom and integrity in DC.

Your response to the question about global warming sums things up so well, "The President is wrong." Right, he is wrong about global warming, about environmental issues in general, and wrong for America.

Senators represent one state of the union, but in the overall scheme of government, a senator who is of the people and for the people is much more than a voice for one geographic unit.

I enjoyed your response to the agribusiness and family farm question as well. PA has a fine heritage in organic agriculture, with Walnut Acres and others in Lancaster county being actively promoting organic agriculture for decades now. Even though Walnut Acres is now part of a larger corporation, I am sure PA has room for more success in that area.


Are your stands more Kucinich than Dean? Yes, I think so. You and Dennis can work well together in DC, especially when he is in the WH. (Work without hope is like drawing nectar in a sieve. - GM Hopkins)

And I see nothing incongruous with Dem & Green.

"They do not care about regular people. Make no mistake, we are a corporate-run country. This cancer on true democracy has spread to the Democratic Party as well. It is time we get away from We the Corporation and back to We the People." Right on, Mr. Crystle. My sentiments precisely. Let us hope that the people can be awakened to a more organic sensibility, and not just agriculturally speaking.

The family farmers in Concord some years ago rallied against impersonal, pernicious and oppressive government. Those ordinary folks had a certain organic sensibility sorely lacking, or too quietly slumbering, today.

[srpantalonas]

4. thank you; it's important to relate the family farm problems to ...

job losses, to business losses at the small business level, to the disintegration of the family. It all comes back to government, who controls it, and for whom it is controlled. We really must fight back against corporate control of our lives. Thanks so much for your thoughts here. Universal Organics?