Since july. Tell us, what has happened with your campaign from july until now . Your campaign is going. Guest well, the first thing weve focused on, july is when we got the national nomination, me and my running mate Angela Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is gettin
How do you i think its difficult. Lets be honest about it, thats why we need Campaign Finance reform. Thats why i reach out to the perot voters. Theyre looking at the republican record. Whatever it is, whatever the check list was in 92, its all done with Campaign Finance reform. I worked with senator mitchell who played me in the debate warmup. We tried six or eight years ago as he appointed three people, i appointed three people to try to get Campaign Finance reform. We couldnt get it done because it wasnt enforceable. You suggested a commission, Newt Gingrich did, i did at least three our four years ago. We sent it to congress to vote it up or down. Thats how it works. Were never going to fix it by the problems because the democrats want a better veg, we want a better advantage as republicans, and thats not how its going to work. I want to touch on the tobacco thing. I want to go back to 1965. That is my first vote against tobacco companies. I said we ought to label cigarettes. I had
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