2000 Election spoiler Ralph Nader supports Green Party Peter Camejo's recall bid.

To the Editor:

During the 2000 Presidential campaign, consumer advocate and Green Party candidate Ralph Nader repeatedly asserted that there were only a few minor differences between the Democratic candidate Al Gore and the Republican candidate George W. Bush. In the November 2000 election, Nader garnered about five percent of the national vote, and as a left-liberal candidate siphoned off enough votes from Gore in key states to allow Bush to win a victory in the Electoral College vote. Since Bush has come to power, his Administration has been an unmitigated disaster for our domestic economy, our environment and international relations. To this day, Ralph Nader has never admitted that his "little difference" assertion was wrong and way off the mark, and that he played a spoiler role in putting George Bush in the Oval Office.

So fast forward to the present and we find now find Ralph Nader endorsing the candidacy of a Green Party candidate, Peter Camejo, in the California recall election scheduled for October 7th. Nader claims that Camejo best understands the roots of our fiscal crisis in California. However, Peter Camejo is unwilling to publicly acknowledge the role of his endorser, Ralph Nader, in bring Bush to power in 2000. Bush stood by in the bogus California energy crisis of 2001 while his buddies at Enron Corporation and El Paso Natural Gas Corporation gamed our energy system and stole many billions of dollars of rate payers money. Federal law requires that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) intervene in state and regional energy markets when there are severe energy price spikes. Bush just smirked, while Cheney made disparaging remarks about California and stated that we caused the energy crisis and FERC just sat on its hands. So Ralph Nader should shoulder some responsibility for allowing Bush to seize power in 2000 and inflict his Texas-style brand of misery on America and the rest of the world.

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

13 August 2003