From: visser@convex.com (Lance Visser)
Subject: Re: Candidate Larry Agran Excluded, Arrested
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:43:04 GMT
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In <9204110051.AA00211@wright.msi.cornell.edu> harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (Harel Barzilai) writes:



+>       Regarding "tiny mayor" of a "tiny city," Irvine is one of the 200
+>largest cities in the United States.  And if they want to insult Agran's
+>height, well, their prejudice against short people only exposes their
+>bigotry.

	I made the reference and it had nothing to do with Agran's physical
height.  The reference had to do with his national stature.   But far
be it from me to stop the Agran campaign from expressing its fantasys
of prejudice.  What sort of discrimintation did Agran accuse the DNC of
for not supporting him?  I forget.







+>       The statement that "117 people are running for President" is also
+>false.  The truth is that there were only four active candidates on the
+>Democratic primary ballot -- Agran, McCarthy, Brown and Clinton.

	Your talking about New York only. But far be it from me to interfere
with your distortion of the facts.  How many times has McCarthy run now.
How could anyone take that campaign seriously?

+>       The suggestion that Agran get a crowd of 10,000 ignores common sense.
+>How can a candidate attract a crowd if the party and the national media
+>systematically denies him access to the voters?  

	Agran supposedly has this natitonal system of supporters which you
have said validates his existance as a serious candidate.  And yet, he cant
manage to have any events where this support shows itself.  



+>Jerry Brown recently said,
+>"Why doesn't he get some people together and hold his own event?"  That was
+>the same rationale used by white bigots back in the 1950s to keep blacks out
+>of segregated schools -- "separate but equal."  The Supreme Court threw out
+>"separate but equal" because it was unconstitutional.  I guess Jerry Brown
+>didn't get the message.

	This is true garbage.  Excluding Agran, who has since the beginning
tried to muscle his way into national promenence/coverage by claiming to
be a "victim".  He has no support.  The party and the media know it.  



+>       Regarding the statement, "It's THEIR party and THEY decide who is
+>included."  Excuse me, but the Democratic Party does not belong to Bill
+>Clinton or Jerry Brown or the Democratic National Committee.  It belongs to
+>the millions of registered Democrats across the country.  THEY are the ones
+>who should choose their party's nominee.  And the polls are showing that
+>most of them are quite dissatisfied with the "approved" candidates the DNC
+>is permitting them to hear.  The problem with the Democratic Party is that
+>it isn't democratic any more.

	The usual way people go about running for high office is to build
up friendships with people in the party and then have those people "work"
the party regulars to build up a base of support.  If you go into a national
campaign as the mayor of Irvine and then start ranting about how everyone
is "unfair" and that the DNC is biased against you, people are not going
to take you very seriously.




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