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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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Socialist Dan La Botz Surpasses 25,000 Votes in Ohio

04 November 2010

By: Darcy G. Richardson
UncoveredPolitics


"The Socialist Party's Dan La Botz has surpassed the 25,000-vote mark in Ohio's U.S. Senate race. With all but fourteen of Ohio's 9,910 precincts reporting, the former history and Latin American studies professor and ex-journalist is unofficially garnering 25,311 votes.

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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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Why We Supported Dan La Botz: Some Faces of the Campaign

A Post-Election Statement by the Dan La Botz, Socialist for U.S. Senate, Campaign

03 November 2010