Monday, April 5, 2010

Ohio candidate for U.S. Senate, Buckeye Socialist Dan La Botz, offers vision for 'just society'

05 April 2010

By John Michael Spinelli
Columbus Examiner


"Change in America will come as it always has - as it did in the creation of the industrial unions in the 1930s, as it did in the civil rights movements of the 1960s, as it did in the environmental movement of the 1970s, and as id did in the gay and lesbian movements of the 1980s, and the immigrant rights movement of the 1990s - through massive social protest and confrontations with authority. What is crucial is to provide the growing movements with a political alternative to escape the trap of the two-party system, to break and move beyond the Republicans and Democrats to a progressive alternative on the left...."

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

La Botz Campaign Seeks Volunteer Campaign Coordinator

Dan La Botz
Socialist Party candidate for U.S. Senate (Ohio)
23 March 2010


Dan La Botz, the Socialist Party candidate for US Senate in Ohio is looking for a volunteer to work as coordinator of his campaign. The position would last for four months and would involve the organization of speaking engagements, meetings, and other activities; work with volunteers and local committees; fund-raising; work with the media; the development of databases, listservs, e-mailings and e-social networks. Work would involve some travel in the state of Ohio. The coordinator would work under the direct supervision of La Botz and in coordination with local and state committees...


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Monday, March 15, 2010

Maybe it's Time for a Troublemaker

15 March 2010

By Gregory Flannery
Streetvibes Newspaper (Cincinnati)


"Today the corporation, like slavery, is an institution that should be abolished. Closing a factory, destroying the economy of a town, is too important a decision to be in the hands 10 or 20 men. That is a decision society should make. Skilled tradesmen, factory workers, secretaries, electricians, millwrights, accountants advertising people - all of those people created that wealth, and that wealth should be seen as our common property...."



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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Join the Protests! Free Life-Long Education for All!

A statement by Dan La Botz, Socialist Party Candidate for U.S. Senate (Ohio)

3 March 2010


Today, on March 4, 2010, students and education workers throughout the United States will join in protests to demand a solution to the educational crisis facing this country. Their slogan is: “Resist, Mobilize, Transform.” We see in these protests the beginning of a movement to reform education and to transform our society...

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Dan La Botz, Cincinnati School Teacher, Socialist Party Candidate for US Senate in Ohio

Dan La Botz
Socialist Party candidate for U.S. Senate (Ohio)
18 February 2010


(Published by the Cincinnati Beacon

Dan La Botz, a 64-year old Cincinnati school teacher, has filed petitions with the Ohio Secretary of State to become the candidate of the Socialist Party for the U.S. Senate. La Botz, who needed 500 signatures to get on the Socialist Party primary ballot, filed petitions with approximately 1,200 signatures on Thursday, Feb. 18. La Botz, a long time labor and social movement activist, is the candidate of the Socialist Party of Ohio which is the state organization of the Socialist Party USA...

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Miss. ballot deadline dispute lingers

28 December 2009

By Jack Elliot Jr.
Biloxi Sun Herald


"Heard the true story about the guy who wanted on the presidential ballot in Mississippi?

He sends his qualifying papers by taxi to the Mississippi secretary of state's office. The cab driver arrives at 5 p.m. on the day qualifying is to end. The office is closed. The cabbie leaves the papers on the doorstep.

The filing deadline is unmet, and the candidate's name is left off the ballot.

The candidate sues.

A year of legal wrangling later and Brian Moore is back at square one. He's the Socialist Party USA presidential candidate in 2008 who wanted to be on the Mississippi ballot as the Natural Law Party nominee..."


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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Fifth Circuit Says that Mississippi "10 Minutes Too Late" Case is Not Moot; Tells Lower Court to Settle the Issue

19 December 2009

by Richard Winger
Ballot Access News


"On December 18, the 5th circuit issued an opinion in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, the case filed by Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore last year, when the Mississippi Secretary of State refused to accept his presidential elector paperwork because it was submitted at 5:10 p.m. on the filing deadline. The Secretary of State rejected the paperwork because it arrived ten minutes after he had closed his office. The building itself was still open, so the paperwork had been left at the door of the Secretary of State's office..."


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