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Independent Chris Daggett hits 20% in latest NJ Poll

 Independent candidate Chris Daggett continues to rise in New Jersey polls. The latest poll was conducted by Rutgers University on Oct. 22nd and had Daggett at 20%. Daggett has been rising steadily in recent weeks as the Republican and Democratic candidates continue to blast each other with extremely negative ads. In recent days, both major party candidates began running negative tv and radio ads against Daggett. The Republican Governor’s association is also running negative tv ads against Daggett. View CNN’s story on Daggett rising in the polls.

New American Independent Party conducting poll to consider Chris Daggett (I-NJ) endorsement

 

The New American Independent Party is conducting a poll to allow their members to decide if the NAIP should endorse the independent candidate Chris Daggett for Governor of New Jersey. Polling ends at the end of the day on Oct. 25th. Members and those interested can vote at: http://poll.fm/19k0b

Let’s get going!

Sorry for the recent inactivity. Several Third party and Independent candidates are now starting their push for 2010 and 2012. I will beginning posting those updates / announcements soon.

Dan

SENATOR MIKE GRAVEL ENDORSES JOHN MURPHY FOR CONGRESS

 

FORMER DEMOCRAT SENATOR AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAILS MURPHY FOR HIS OPPOSITION TO IRAQ WAR AND TO U.S. MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

 

 

For Immediate Release: October 15, 2008 

For Further Information: John Murphy (610) 384-4460

 

EAST FALLOWFIELD, PA – The John Murphy for Congress Campaign is extremely happy to announce that former Senator and Presidential candidate Mike Gravel has endorsed John Murphy for House of Representatives in the sixteenth district of Pennsylvania.

 

“There are a few people in government who qualify for the term hero” said John Murphy, “but Mike Gravel is one of those people. I remember him from my undergraduate days as an anti-Vietnam War protester. Mike not only opposed the war but was an outspoken critic of the draft and tried to have it abolished”.

 

Senator Gravel demonstrated great courage when he conducted a filibuster in the Senate forcing the “Pentagon Papers” to be included into the Congressional record despite personal risk to himself. The “Pentagon Papers” was a 47 volume, top secret Defense Department history of the United States military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The “Pentagon Papers” documented unconstitutional behavior by a succession of presidents, the violation of their oath and the violation of the oaths of every one of their subordinates.

 

“Mike made an unsuccessful bid as the Democrat Party candidate for president in 2008 but the Democrat Party leadership removed him even before Kucinich. The Democrat Party leadership does not tolerate candidates who truly represent the American people. Mike called for the immediate end of the occupation of Iraq and universal single-payer healthcare. Most uniquely, however”, continued John Murphy, “Mike is a true champion of democracy. He supports, as do I, a Constitutional amendment that would allow for national referendums on major public policy issues. This would truly mean ‘we the people’ would finally have a real voice in how we are governed”.

 

“Even his endorsement of my candidacy shows that he is as gutsy as ever. It is extremely rare that a two-term United States Senator would endorse anyone other than a Democrat. But doing the right thing rather than the politically correct thing has always been Mike’s style. It’s what makes him heroic” concluded John Murphy.

 

Mike Gravel said of John Murphy, “I strongly endorse John not only because of his strong opposition to the Iraq war but, like me, he knows that we could cut the price of gasoline in half at the pump if only George Bush, the Democrats and the Republicans would stop talking about invading Iran. And he’ll do something about it when elected”.

 

Senator Gravel added, “Rather than blindly support the military-industrial complex that spends more on defense than all the rest of the world combined, John will bring balance to our security and economic needs. Congress has lost touch with our real priorities. John will support the needs of working class Americans by prioritizing secure and sustainable jobs, fair taxes and a fair system of trade. Freedom, civil liberties and security are the values that will guide John as he represents of your interests. I hope you will consider voting for him”.

 

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INDEPENDENT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE JOHN MURPHY SLAMS Mc CAIN AND OBAMA

THE TWO CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES

BAIL OUT WEALTHY AMERICANS AT THE EXPENSE OF WORKING AMERICANS

 

 

For Immediate Release: September 29, 2008 

For Further Information: John Murphy (610) 384-4460

 

EAST FALLOWFIELD, PA – Independent Congressional candidate John Murphy blasted what he called the two corporate owned parties “for picking the bones clean of working-class Americans in order to feed the bloated fat cats on Wall Street who have turned the investment business into a gambling casino”. Both of the two old parties are financed by the same 1,500 corporations.

 

Murphy went on to say that both presidential candidates are in complete agreement about the continuation of wars throughout the Middle East, never hesitating to use military force, saber rattling with respect to Iran on behalf of the rogue state Israel which is in violation of 138 United Nations resolutions, threatening nuclear armed Pakistan and referring to Venezuela as a rogue nation.

 

Most egregious on the domestic front however, according to independent congressional candidate John Murphy, is the use of 700 billion US taxpayer dollars to bailout the wealthiest Americans in the nation; people who knew in advance that if the dangerous game they were playing in order to further engorge themselves with the hard earned money of lunch-box Americans backfired, the government would have to bail them out.

 

“We are now reaping the harvest sown by Ronald Reagan” said John Murphy. “Ronald Reagan did away with a reasonably functional form of capitalism and replaced it with the thinking of Milton Friedman from the Chicago school. These people even redefined the word ‘freedom’. By ‘free markets’ and ‘free trade’ they meant that the government could make no rules regarding corporate greed, fraud and corruption. Imagine if I were to say, that I should be totally free to put a gun on my neighbor and steal his car which would then become my private property. That’s what corporate America has done under the so-called concepts of ‘free trade’ and ‘free markets’.  All of the regulations put on the greed-driven corporate class in the 1930’s to prevent another great depression have been removed and now working Americans are going to pick up the tab”.

 

Murphy further said that “while the corporations are completely free of regulations, working men and women have so many laws placed upon them that it is impossible for the labor movement to gain a foothold and protect working Americans. Because of the Taft-Hartley law passed in 1947 only 10% of the American workforce has been able to join unions to protect themselves from the onslaught of corporate America and neither the corporate-owned Republicans nor Democrats have made any effort to repeal this most horrendous piece of anti-working class legislation on the books. While the economy has grown 78% in the last 30 years, only 167,000 Americans – less than 1/10 of 1% have become extraordinarily rich while the rest of the American people have experienced no increase in their standard of living since 1973. These corporate criminals shouldn’t be asking for a bailout, they should be asking for bail”, insisted John Murphy.

 

John Murphy went on to say that “when Ronald Reagan was president the ratio of CEO salary to worker was 42 to 1. Today the CEO makes 426 times the amount of the average employee. The ruling elite have continuously pushed down wages by invoking the bogus excuse of foreign competition and then outsources our jobs to Third World nations. All the while they are sucking the very life out of working Americans constantly reminding us that ‘we’re number one’ then playing one group of demoralized working people off against another. These greedy leeches tell us to blame the tree hugging environmentalists, the welfare queens and undocumented workers for our problems. We are never permitted to hear anyone criticize the ruling elite. Anyone who engages in such criticism is accused of class warfare.

 

“Now, as if to add insult to injury”, Murphy added “they actually plan to take over $700 billion of our money to cover their bad gambling debts and tell us that it is for our own good! If you believe this, then I have some weapons of mass destruction to sell you along with a bridge in Brooklyn“.

 

John Murphy added “nowhere are we told that there are other answers to this problem. We have been told that we are going to bailout the 400 most wealthy people in this nation while 1 million Americans will lose their homes in the next few months. These executives will continue to get their golden parachutes and their salaries. The deal that should have been worked out should have been extremely punitive in nature forcing these executives to give back the $20 million plus bonuses they received last year.

 

“We could have developed an economy and a society that was truly just and met the critical needs of our people. But we have been told that we will work ourselves to death to enrich a handful of people and that we should be content that their wealth will ‘trickle down’ upon us. The wealthy have been trickling upon us and now they are about to stick our face into something even more degrading.  How long before we reach our braking point and say we’ve had enough?”

 

John Murphy concluded saying “we need a taxpayer revolt in this country to free ourselves from this corporate domination. Unfortunately, because five corporations own 11,000 television and radio stations, and another five own 11,000 newspapers and news magazines, we never learn what is really happening to us and never develop the courage we need in order to fight back. This system has even robbed us of our imagination, our creativity and our ability to think and act for ourselves. The neoliberal economics of Ronald Reagan, exponentiated by Bush I, II and Clinton has now created the final incarnation of its monstrous system – state socialism – more frequently called fascism”.

 

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INDEPENDENT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE JOHN MURPHY CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE END TO PHONY WAR ON TERROR

 

RAND CORPORATION CONFIRMS WAR ON TERROR IS A HOAX

 

For Immediate Release: July 31, 2008 

For Further Information: John Murphy (610) 384-4460

 

CHESTER COUNTY, PA – Sixteenth District Independent congressional candidate John Murphy has been calling the so-called War on Terror “bogus” for over three years on his website.  On Tuesday, July 29, 2008 the Rand Corporation, a leading adviser to the United States military released a study titled: “How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering Al Qaeda”.  The report concludes that terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals not holy warriors and that there is no battlefield solution to terrorism.

 

According to John Murphy, “the ‘war on terror’ is an absolute fraud. I said this over two years ago and it remains more obviously true two years hence.  It is a war designed specifically to mask the injustices and inequalities which afflict millions of Americans by aggravating and amplifying the injustices and inequalities inflicted upon millions of non-Americans. Its very existence represents continuous and ever-expanding victory for only the most vicious, opportunistic, and hateful elements among humanity, who will impose upon us tragedy upon tragedy, and terror upon terror, until we break cleanly and completely from the rotted chains of mindless fealty to false national leaders and forge links with those abroad whose friendships we have forgone for far too long.”

 

Murphy went on to say “I am overwhelmingly pleased that the Rand Corporation has concluded that the ‘war on terror’ is a hoax and that military efforts to deal with terrorism have always been ineffective.  As I have always maintained, and the Rand report concludes, we must make policing and intelligence the backbone of US efforts.  This will require careful involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as collaboration with foreign police and intelligence agencies.

 

“It is also not surprising that the Rand Corporation further suggests that a second aspect of a counterterrorism effort would minimize the use of US military force.  It further concludes that using the term ‘war on terror’ suggest that there is a battlefield solution.  Terrorist should be perceived as criminals not as warriors.  Nearly every US ally, including the UK and Australia, has stopped using the term ‘war on terror’ and replaced it with the term ‘counterterrorism’.

 

Murphy concluded, “although it should have been obvious many years ago, I am nevertheless pleased at the Rand Corporation has finally concluded that terrorist organizations end either because of operations carried out by police and intelligence agencies or because they join the political process; not because of military operations.  The terrorism of Timothy McVeigh was brought to an end through police action not by bombing New York, his home state.  The terrorism in Northern Ireland ended with a political solution showing the futility of years of military action.”

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CONGRESSMAN PITTS INTRODUCES A BIPARTISAN SUPPORTED BOGUS HEALTH CARE PLAN FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

 

For Immediate Release July 24, 2008

For Further Information: John Murphy (610) 384-4460

 

CHESTER COUNTY, PA –   Representative Joe Pitts, the Republican congressman from Pennsylvania has introduced a bipartisan bill intended to make health care insurance more affordable for small businesses. “Unfortunately”, according to the 16th district Independent Congressional Candidate John Murphy, “as long as the insurance companies and HMOs remain part of the healthcare system we will never bring costs under control which will not only make health care affordable but accessible to everyone.

 

“This bill might be well-intentioned” continued Murphy.  “We never want to think that any of our elected representatives are passing legislation which will deliberately benefit corporate America at the expense of working America.  I certainly share Congressman Pitts’ concern that close to 50 million Americans have no health care insurance and millions of others have inadequate healthcare insurance. Experience shows however that these types of ad hoc, pool programs whether they are state subsidized through tax credits or otherwise do nothing to control insurance company policies like denial of claims, excluding the sick through ‘pre-existing condition clauses’ and do nothing to control costs.” 

 

Murphy went on to say, “we can certainly understand why our congressmen might jump the gun and look for a quick fix – especially in an election year but these piecemeal, ad hoc, patchwork plans, to the extent that they leave private insurance companies in the driver’s, seat will not be able to deliver what they promise in any meaningful or long-lasting way. They always end up crashing on the rocks of spiraling health care costs which are the result of corporations which are selling healthcare insurance for a profit and consequently incur all of the associated costs such as $100,000,000+ paid CEOs, executive perks, stock options, corporate profits, along with sales and marketing expenses. 

 

“All of these expenses, representing over 50% of the cost of providing health care, would be eliminated through universal single-payer health care.  Eliminate the middleman, the insurance companies and HMOs, which are in business not to provide health care, because that reduces profits, but to deny health care as much as possible and to control how Americans receive health care.

 

Murphy added that “producing an automobile in Windsor Canada cost $1,700 less than it does right across the river in Detroit, Michigan simply because in the United States we have put insurance companies in charge of our health care system instead of physicians with a system funded by the government.  The government is essentially better at some things than private industry.  Medicare operates at a 2% overhead while private insurance companies operate at a 20% overhead.  Universal single payer health care would essentially be Medicare for all.  No deductions; no co-pays; no exclusions; no denial of services; no charge for pharmaceuticals; all at half the current cost!  Everyone gets full coverage and the taxpayer takes home about $300 more of their paycheck each month.”

 

“Imagine going to a doctor”, Murphy suggested “who diagnoses your problem correctly but then, instead of prescribing an antibiotic, prescribes a placebo.  It is possible the placebo may actually make the patient feel better for a while but the disease continues to increase in severity threatening the very life of the patient.  This is what these hodgepodge, piecemeal, ad hoc programs are all about.  They especially look good to our representatives around election time! 

 

“When both corporate owned party gang up on a piece of legislation with what they call ‘bipartisanship support’ like the USA Patriot Act or the Military Commissions Act or the FISA bill, the people know they are in trouble.  This disgraceful, so-called “Small Business Choice” Bill, should be rejected by the House of Representatives because it is clearly an election year ploy to keep healthcare firmly entrenched in the hands of the for-profit insurance companies by providing a placebo instead of a cure. Under universal single-payer health care, costs per capita would be $2,902 as opposed to $5,711 per capita under our so-called “private”corporate health care system.

 

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OBAMA AND THE HITLER YOUTH REVISITED

By John Murphy

Back in September of 2004 I put together a photo essay and sent it to my friends on the Internet.  The essay was entitled “Kerry and the Hitler Youth revisited”.  It was an analysis of one of John Kerry’s campaign planks which he called “A New Army of Patriots”.  It demanded a compulsory year of service for high schoolers.  That service was to include assisting local and federal law enforcement and homeland security.  Kerry also promised college tuition in return for two years in the military which he called “the highest form of service”.  This is the “service” where Kerry’s band of brothers learned to burn villages and murder civilians.  Along with expanding what I called his “Police Corps” program John Kerry also wanted to create what can only be characterized as a Gestapo-like “Community Defense Service” with local captains functioning as the eyes and ears of the government.

 

Interestingly the URL which I quoted as a source no longer leads to this program.  The reference can still be found here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200407/ai_n21840070

 

The Police Corps Returns

 

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”  Barack Obama, July 2, 2008

 

In the same speech Obama repeated his pledge to boost the size of the active military. But he said the nation’s future and safety depends on more than just additional service members. “It also depends on the teacher in East LA, or the nurse in Appalachia, the after-school worker in New Orleans, the Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, the Foreign Service officer in Indonesia,” he said.

 

Obama would put teeth in his program by promising to withhold funds from school districts which failed to establish service programs and set goals of 50 hours of service a year for middle school and high school students. For college students, Obama would set the goal at 100 hours of service a year and create a $4,000 annual tax credit for college students tied to that level of service.

 

In Germany in 1926 Adolph Hitler created the “Hitler Youth” (Hitlerjugend).  One of its sub-organizations was called the “Patrol Service” (Hitlerjugend-Streifendienst). It was the Hitler Youth’s counterpart of the Gestapo. It was designed to be a type of internal police service that worked in the shadows to enforce the strict laws of the Third Reich. It ruled by fear, terror, and violence. Its members sought out any dissident or suspected traitor to the cause. Like the Gestapo, its members were everywhere and were the eyes and ears of top party members. Any suspected disloyalty or even anti-Nazi (or Hitler) jokes were reported. “Patrol Service” members were capable of denouncing their own family and parents on occasion.

 

Obama’s “Civilian National Security Force”, like Kerry’s “Community Defense Service”, with their compulsory training of young people, strongly enforced by withholding educational services, was ominously foreshadowed by the Hitler Youth’s “Patrol Service”.  Just as there was virtually no mention of John Kerry’s compulsory youth program back in 2004 there is virtually no mention of Obama’s compulsory youth training corps by the mainstream media.  In fact, if the speech were not available on YouTube, http://tinyurl.com/5t76rw it might be suggested that the comments never occurred.  This is altogether warranted since the prepared remarks given to the media did not contain some of the comments Obama made in the actual presentation.

 

The Obama Youth versus Nader’s Watchdogs

 

By contrast Ralph Nader has introduced the idea of “Congressional Watchdogs”.  Instead of forced participation in a government run program driven by threatening the loss of educational funds and instead of creating an organization with the nebulous purpose of further protecting our “homeland security”, Nader’s proposal does not establish a covert organization for spying on our fellow citizens.  Rather it is an effort to galvanize American citizens in each congressional district in order “to turn the Congress around” as Nader puts it.  Rather than creating an atmosphere of fear and the aura of a police state, as planned by the corporate Democrats in 2004 and now again in 2008, Nader’s idea is to have “Congressional Watchdogs” defang the corporate serpent which now controls our Congress. 

 

Ralph Nader encourages us saying that “we’re millions of people out there, and we simply have to, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and the state of our nation in [sic] the world, we have to mobilize in that manner, and that’s what that, that Web site (www.votenader.org) is all about [sic].  It’s not just a Web site. It’s a gathering center”. 

 

When I read about Obama’s plan I feel a draft.  A national draft, both for military and civic purposes, in which Obama’s Youth will find themselves indoctrinated in the beliefs of neoliberal corporatism and taught to pledge their allegiance to Milton Friedman every morning.  What I would like to have heard from Obama, wishful thinking, would be that he is cutting the Pentagon budget by 15% and would use that to fund a college education for every kid in America.  But Obama is not about do that anymore that he is going to propose universal single-payer health care.  Just as he receives huge campaign contributions from the financial organizations that make a fortune on college loans, he is up to his neck in HMO and big Pharma contributions.

 

This is a scary election. In previous years, candidates would at least sometimes go through the motions of trying to differentiate themselves from the opposition.  In 2008 with both candidates having approved the USA Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act and the FISA bill, both parties seem to be competing to make America a police state.

 

 

We can choose to follow a citizen-based civic oriented watchdog group or a government mandated, fear driven program which moves us further to the corporate goal of a completely controlled population.  Bringing about a new version of the Hitler Youth will not be a difficult task.  Two recent books, “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein and “American Fascists” by Chris Hedges both detail how easily either the corporate Democrats or the corporate Republicans could swiftly engineer a situation which would result in the final eradication of the last vestiges of democracy to be replaced by an unmitigated corporate totalitarian government.

 

Postscript

 

Less than 24 hours after completing the draft of this article, just prior to submitting it after final proofing, I noticed that the video of Obama’s speech in Colorado Springs at YouTube says that it is no longer available.  Another website which archived the speech http://forthardknox.com/2008/07/16/say-what-a-400b-national-security-force/ still has the appearance of the video but last time I tried to listen, it too failed to open so that approximately 16 minutes into the speech Obama’s obiter dicta could be heard!

 

John Murphy is the independent candidate for House of Representatives in the 16th Congressional District of Pennsylvania (www.johnmurphyforcongress.org). He is also one of the founding members of the Pennsylvanian Ballot Access Coalition, working to change the egregious ballot access laws in Pennsylvania. He can be reached at: johnamurphy@comcast.net.

 

Moore/Alexander ‘08 Ballot Access Appeal for Funds

$15,000 Appeal to Assist Ballot Access Efforts

 

Please help the Moore/Alexander ‘08 presidential ticket gain ballot access in 20 states this election year, in November, and also “write-in” status in another 20 states as well, with an urgent donation. Any amount will be appreciated!

We have already qualified in the states of Vermont and Colorado, and we have targeted 20 other states for ballot access status by no later than September 9th, less than two months away!

Because of the time constraints, and limited resources, we need to compensate some of our volunteers to work extra hours, as well as hire professional petitioners, by paying them per signature, and in some cases, cover our volunteers’ gas and motel expenses.

 

We expect petitioner expenses in the states of Washington ($2,000), Arkansas ($1,500), Iowa ($1,500), Ohio ($5,000), Minnesota ($2,500), and in the secondary states of Nebraska, New Hampshire and Kansas (a significant amount if we can achieve donations for the others). That is a total of $12,500 for those 5 targeted states, and probably another $9,000 for the three secondary states.

We also have upcoming state fees of $500 for Louisiana, and we have already had to pay $750 for three separate legal advertisements required by the state of Washington, in three separate city newspapers (Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver) and possibly more, to announce our upcoming petitioning efforts. Socialist Party member, and former presidential candidate, Walt Brown of Oregon, has already been gracious to pay our $500 fee for Colorado. A list all of our contributors in a separate communication is forthcoming. The early contributors have also helped us immensely in this ballot access effort. The campaign also will have expected expenses in July and August for campaign signs, bumper stickers, flyers; plus, travel and convention fees and publicity expenses to announce upcoming speeches, etc. This is not to speak of our efforts in September and October to pay

for radio ads, cable TV spots, mass marketing e-mails and taped telephone calls in as many states as we can, both where we are on the ballot or in states where we have official “Write-In” status.

 

So any dollars you can donate would be most appreciated. $5.00 and up! Please ask your friends, family and acquaintances who you know that support the Moore/Alexander ‘08 platform and our Socialist Party’s efforts to radically alter our economic system to redistribute wealth, gain worker and citizen control, and achieve a quality of life with a more egalitarian and democratic process for all.

 

Please contribute now!  Thank you.

 

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