Wednesday, November 10, 2010

'Campaign a Great Success': Dan La Botz, Ohio Socialist Candidate for U.S. Senate

10 November 2010

By: La Botz for Senate
The Indypendent


"'The Socialist Party campaign for the U.S. Senate in Ohio was a great success. We won more than 25,000 votes for socialism in Ohio,' said Dan La Botz the 65-year old school teacher, writer and activist and the party's candidate for Senator. 'We didn't win in traditional terms, but this was not a traditional campaign. The corporate parties want working people to wake up think about politics only on election day, and then they want them to go back to sleep. This campaign was about creating an ongoing movement to build power to transform our society'....

La Botz is the first member of the Socialist Party to actively campaign for the U.S. Senate in Ohio since 1940 when Socialists in that state waged a forlorn write-in campaign for the party's presidential candidate Norman Thomas...."

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