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 getting in the National Media dialogue about the campaign. We get in on a lot of local media when we show up but in terms of the network news, the big newspapers, the cable news, weve been blanked out. And so thats a big frustrati
Indigenous people who backed the movement for socialism won the election by 20 . Look at the amazon. Corporate interests expanding into the amazon at the expense of indigenous nations. This problem has not ended. The doctrine of discovery set in something, the pope talked about a 500 years ago, is something we have not reconciled. That is something we need to understand and redress. Host we would like to thank howie hawkins, green Party President ial candidate for coming on this morning and telling us about his platform in the president ial election. Thank you for your time. Guest thank you. Cspan, live with the news of the day. Coming up sunday morning. House editor David Wasserman will join us to talk about campaign 2020. Ceo ofrthur evans, the the American Psychological association. Washington journal live at 7 a. M. Eastern sunday morning. We will take your calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. Sunday night, the University Lu talksos cap lingzi nt 5. 0. E proud boys and the
Welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate of president , and Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate governor george w. Bush of texas, and lets welcome the candidates now. Hello. Hello, jim. Good to see you. Governor. Good to see you both. Nice to see you again. How are you all . Before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to m
Sitting president evo morales the countrys 1st indigenous born president this as you remember helped trigger a military coup that eventually saw the installation of right wing christian zealot and u. S. State department behavior on the 9 yeahs as interim president and forced morales to flee for his life to mexico and then argentina will now as the numbers continue to pour in showing a major victory for morale says former finance minister louis r. C. The former president tweeted out quote brothers and sisters the will of the people has been asserted this is an overwhelming victory we are going to give dignity and liberty back to the people. 2 major progressive socialist wins coming on the eve of one of the biggest u. S. President ial elections in history should the corporate powers that be here in the United States actually start worrying about where the worlds going lets find out as we start watching the honks. If you want to go on a cd. You want to. Do so you can see the prizes you al
Side and thats the side thatans good for you know better how to spend your money and you know best what your family needs than that of politicians and of my main issues are health care, bringing it to the truth, and theen environment. Host tell us about your experiences running for president. You are on the show back in july. Tell us about how the campaign and how this process running for president has been for you from then until now. Guest we have a tour bus with my name painted a little too big on the side and together we have spent 47 states Something Like that between me and my running mate and we see huge crowds everywhere we go. I have a couple hundred people with as many as over 400 of the 500 people and a lot of people are from the party and thats whats so amazing. Some of our earlier crises when we could talk to people. My Deputy Campaign manager would go out and ask people this anybody want to work for the party we can sign you up and we are shocked at threequarters of each