Nader to Campaign in Columbia, S.C., Fri. July 25
News Advisory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chris Driscoll, 202-360-3273, chris@votenader.org
NADER TO CAMPAIGN IN COLUMBIA, S.C., FRI., JULY 25
Who: Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader
What: News Conference
When: FRI., July 25, 11:30 a.m. News Conference
Where: First Floor Lobby of the State House, 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC, 29201
Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader will campaign in Columbia, Fri. July 25, hosting a news conference at the First Floor Lobby of the State House, 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC, 29201. The News Conference starts at 11:30 a.m.
The Nader/Gonzalez Campaign July 14 submitted 18,000 signatures with South Carolina's Secretary of State, nearly twice the number required to procure a place on the November 2008 election ballot. South Carolina is one of 15 states in which the Nader/Gonzalez Campaign has completed ballot drives with another 30 already or soon to be underway. The campaign expects to be on the ballot in 45 states.
Mr. Nader will address critical issues the major party candidates have taken "off the table" that the Nader/Gonzalez campaign has put on the table, including:
- a comprehensive, negotiated military and corporate withdrawal date from Iraq;
- a single-payer, Canadian-style, private delivery, free-choice public health insurance system for all;
- a living wage and repeal of the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act;
- a no-nuke, solar-based energy policy supported by renewable, sustainable, energy-efficient sources;
- a carbon tax to deter global warming;
- an end to the corporate welfare and corporate crime that has resulted in millions losing pensions, savings and jobs and squandered tax dollars; and,
- more direct democracy reflecting the preamble to our constitution which starts with "we the people," and not "we the corporations."
About Ralph Nader
Celebrated attorney, author, and consumer advocate Ralph Nader has been named by Time Magazine one of the "100 Most Influential Americans in the 20th Century." For more than four decades he has exposed problems and organized millions of citizens into more than 100 public interest groups advocating solutions. His organizations have helped establish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and enact the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and countless other pieces of important consumer legislation. Because of Ralph Nader we drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments. Nader graduated from Princeton University and received an LL.B from the Harvard School of Law.
For more "on the table" topics see: VoteNader.org
