We always welcome third party people with new ideas, and aren't thoroughly pleased when such voices are silenced. But it is with those mixed emotions that we're glad that the Ralph Nader campaign, which is by his own admission nothing more than an egotistical laboratory experiment, has hit a very severe brick wall. Ralph - you are so good at activism. Please find a more productive way to do it and don't continue this campaign of alienation. Please.
Nader fails to make California ballot
Famed third-party candidate Ralph Nader has failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the California ballot as an independent after ditching his Green Party label of four years ago.
Nader had submitted slightly more than half of the 153,805 signatures required two hours before Friday's deadline, according to the secretary of state's office.
"We were not there, the last I heard," confirmed Peter Camejo, Nader's running mate and a two-time gubernatorial candidate who lives in Folsom.
The news could spell doom in the nation's biggest voting state for Nader, whom Democrats blamed for costing Democrat Al Gore the 2000 presidential election.
