[Iowa-dx] Fwd: Fox news website says Democrats trying to draft Nader?

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 From Fox News via Iowa Independent blog!  Pay's decent....


WASHINGTON ?
   Ralph Nader for President?
   There may be a new effort to woo the man who has been called both a =20
"political spoiler" and "maverick" into running for president one more =20
time.
   A job advertisement on the Des Moines Iowa Craigslist.com ? the =20
popular marketplace Web site ? is calling for eight experienced =20
organizers and 12 field interns living in Iowa and "committed to =20
progressive change," for the Ralph Nader Democratic Caucus Draft =20
Committee.
   The ad offers $1,000 a week for the full time field organizers for =20
50 hours a week on the road. Field interns would get $15 an hour for =20
15 to 30 hours a week.
   A similar ad by the draft movement in New Hampshire was "flagged =20
for removal" by midday Wednesday.
   Nader, who ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for =20
president in 1992, also ran for the White House three more times ? as =20
an independent in 2004 and on the Green Party ticket in 2000 and 1996.
   A left-leaning activist who made his name fighting government =20
corruption and pursuing consumer-friendly federal regulation in the =20
1960s and 1970s, Nader was shunned in each election by the Democratic =20
establishment, which called him a "spoiler," for supposedly siphoning =20
off votes from the Democratic nominee ? particularly in the extremely =20
close contest between Democrat Al Gore and George W. Bush in 2000.
   Nader has not publicly shown an interest in running for president =20
again, though he has been consistently visible, speaking to audiences =20
on a wide range of subjects, including his anti-Iraq war stance, =20
corporate globalization and even Sen. Larry Craig's arrest in a =20
Minnesota bathroom scandal. He is the subject of the 2007 documentary, =20
"An Unreasonable Man."

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