The political criticism of Nadar is valid, but the personal attack on him is
misguided and fundamentally irrelevant.
Rod
Louis Proyect wrote:
> >Yes, but not that much further. My parents, who lived on my dad's middle
> >class income of about $25,000 a year back in those days, bought a $100,000
> >house in the NVA suburbs at the same time--it wasn't shabby, but it wasn't a
> >mansion. You probbaly could have done better in the city in those days of
> >white flight and before the city became fashoonable again.
>
> The main point is that it wasn't an $85 per month furnished room.
>
> >be bought. If he stayed silent on no-fault, it was not because he was
> bribed,
> >but because there are serious consumerist arguments against it. There are,
>
> The problem with Naderism is that we have to accept the honest motives of
> the leader pretty much as a given. It is in the nature of nonprofits,
> especially inside-the-beltway types like Public Citizen, to make decisions
> ON BEHALF of the public. It is inherently undemocratic. Even in the
> nickle-and-dime nonprofit I was president of the board of, there were
> constant complaints about the Executive Director making unilateral
> decisions--like starting a program in Africa, spending money on an
> ambitious direct mail program, etc. He once told me in private (I was the
> only person he ever really confided in) that he modeled the organization on
> the small businesses he ran in Utah, where he 'made everything go', even
> when it took big risks. We fired him in 1990 after he went totally
> overboard on certain financial matters. But with Nader you won't even get a
> board that has the gumption to challenge him. He is just too powerful for
> that. This, IMHO, sends the wrong kinds of signals to the left when the
> Greens nominate a guy like him. After accepting the nomination in 1996, he
> made a unilateral decision to lowkey the campaign. And today he is
> considering unilaterally whether to run as a Reform candidate, I'll betcha.
>
> Louis Proyect
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