On October 25, Ralph Nader released this statement: “Christina Tobin as Secretary of State of California will give more voices and choices to millions of California voters who think the ‘two-party dictatorship’ is monopolizing the ballot line against third party and independent candidates.” Tobin is on the California ballot as the Libertarian nominee for Secretary of State. During the first half of 2010 she was instrumental in putting up the leading web page in opposition to Proposition 14. She also organized press conferences and protests against Proposition 14. That measure, the “top-two” idea, in practice, leaves general election ballots with virtually no one on the ballot except Democratic and Republican candidates.
Tobin also is active organizing inclusive debates, and has organized six such debates this year. She also organized the only general election presidential debate of 2008 that included any of the non-Democratic, non-Republican presidential candidates who were on the ballot in enough states to be elected. That debate was between Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin. She organized a similar vice-presidential debate, between Matt Gonzalez, Wayne Allyn Root, and Darrell Castle.
We could use some Nader endorsements in Ohio, you know…
No surprise here. After all it was “Nader’s Raiders” led by Chrisine Tobin, who blocked us Libertarian Party petitioners in New Hampshire in 2008, harrassed LP petitioners in Ohio, and d*cked us over on the final night of turn-in by begging out of the shared-Notary deal in Connecticut.
Christina Tobin doesn’t have a Libertarian bone in her body. She’s pure Leftwing Socialist Libertarian-hater. No Libertarian should ever vote for her. A vote for Tobin is pretty-much a vote against all Libertarians.
Christina Tobin has been extraordinarily active promoting Prop. 19, to legalize marijuana. She is also in sync with her father’s anti-tax views. Jim Tobin, her father, has been Illinois’ leading anti-tax activist for decades, and was the Libertarian nominee for Governor of Illinois in 1998 and the Libertarian nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2002. Christina Tobin is also against U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Christina Tobin’s body is loaded with libertarian bones.
Ralphy Boy! Where ya been? It is good to see Ralph publicly endorse Christina. She has been a tireless worker with her Free and Equal Elections campaign. If you do not support Prop 19 your are not a libertarian. The whole drive behind libertarianism is to get the government’s nose out of my business. It is too often forgotten that our constitutional rights and liberties are NON_GOVERNMENTAL INTERFERENCE GUARANTEES. The social compact theory has become a noose around America’s neck and our corrupt Supreme Court is tightening the noose every time they make a decision that is mangled in legal rhetoric that always results in more power for the government and less empowerment of the individual. Of course, when you determine the operational scope of the other branches of government and empower them, you empower yourself. Power, ego, and greed are the trinity of the Devil…and the underpinning of all three branches of OUR government. It is clearly the “Evil Sea.” Good Luck Christina…and follow the Raider’s mantra…………….
GO……..WE GO !!!!!!!!! Once we’re there…stay.
Eric Dondero is full of crap. I led the effort to get Ralph on the ballot in Ohio and nobody blocked or harassed any Libertarians. She is a Libertarian that believes everybody has a right to run for office.
Congratulations, Christina.
Nader is an important and influential endorsement.
Mark Axinn
Chair, LPNY
Phil Sawyer wrote to his contacts, on 10-16-10, the following:
Hello,
Following are my endorsements for the California Statewide Consolidated General Election (November 2, 2010).
For the following partisan offices in the jurisdictions in which I reside, I endorse the following (the candidates listed first are the people I voted for; the candidates listed second are my next choices and, if we had ranked voting, I would make my second choice candidates):
Governor: Jerry Brown (Democratic); Laura Wells (Green)
Lieutenant Governor: C.T. Weber (Peace and Freedom); James “Jimi” Castillo (Green)
Secretary of State: Christina Tobin (Libertarian); Debra Bowen (Democratic)
Controller: Karen Martinez (Peace and Freedom); John Chiang (Democratic)
Treasurer: Debra L. Reiger (Peace and Freedom); Bill Lockyer (Democratic)
Attorney General: Kamala D. Harris (Democratic); Robert J. Evans (Peace and Freedom)
Insurance Commissioner: Dina Josephine Padilla (Peace and Freedom); Dave Jones (Democratic)
Member, State Board of Equalization, District 2: Chris Parker (Democratic); Toby Mitchell-Sawyer (Peace and Freedom)
United States Senator: Barbara Boxer (Democratic); Marsha Feinland (Peace and Freedom)
United States Representative, Congressional District 3: Mike Roskey (Peace and Freedom); Ami Bera (Democratic)
State Senator, District 1: Ken Cooley (Democratic); Barbara Alby (Republican)
Member of the State Assembly, Assembly District 5: Elizabeth Martinez (Peace and Freedom); Richard Pan (Democratic)
*State Superintendent of Public Instruction: Larry Aceves (independent); Tom Torlakson (Democratic)
*Sheriff of the County of Sacramento: Scott Jones; Jim Cooper
(*The office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the office of Sacramento County Sheriff are nonpartisan but I need to include them in the above for my own organizational purposes.) By the way, both Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer worked in the late, great, Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s campaign for president in 1968.
For the following nonpartisan races in the jurisdictions in which I live, I endorse the following (I am only listing the candidates whom I voted for; where there is more than one candidate listed it is because that is the number that one is allowed to vote for. The candidates are listed here in the order in which they are listed on my ballot):
Los Rios Community College District; Trustee, Area 6: Deborah Ortiz (Democratic)
San Juan Unified School District, Governing Board Member: Greg Paulo; Larry Masuoka
Member, City Council (of the proposed City of Arden Arcade): Patricia Cole; Mary Ose; Matt Gray; Matt Powers; Joel E. Archer; Anthony A. Hernandez; and Warren Harding.
For the judicial offices, I voted yes on all of them: Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California; and for Associate Justices of that court: Ming W. Chin; Carlos R. Moreno; George W. Nicholson; Harry E. Hull, Jr.; and M. Kathleen Butz.
Statewide Propositions:
Proposition 19: Yes
Proposition 20: Yes
Proposition 21: No
Proposition 22: Yes
Proposition 23: No
Proposition 24: Yes
Proposition 25: Yes
Proposition 26: No
Proposition 27: No
Local Measure D (Proposed Incorporation of the City of Arden Arcade): Yes
Lastly, even though I do not reside in the following jurisdictions, of course I endorse these Peace and Freedom Party candidates:
State Senator, District 6: Lanric Hyland
Member of the State Assembly, District 4: Daniel D. Frederick
Member of the State Assembly, District 9: Daniel A. Costa
Member of the State Assembly, District 10: Albert R. Troyer
By the way, in 1982, I was the Peace and Freedom Party nominee for State Senator, District 6. For purposes of disclosure, I am now, again, a member of the Peace and Freedom Party of California. Although I plan to request appointment to my old seat on the Party’s Country Central Committee of Sacramento County (if it is open); I am right now just a “garden variety” member of the Party. With that being the case, there is no compelling reason for me to vote for the entire candidate slate of the Party – nor is there anything inappropriate about not doing so. My endorsements reflect my honest and true opinions and have been made without coercion or duress of any sort.
Here is hoping that you enjoy fulfilling your critical, patriotic duty; I hope that I have helped anyone wondering what to do with this long ballot. There is one more thing of great importance that I really need to add here: If you have not already done so, please go to your favorite book store and purchase a copy of American Conspiracies by Jesse Ventura (with Dick Russell). This book does a terrific job of organizing a ton of information from many other sources. What you need to know right now is there in black and white and it will “knock your socks off,” believe me.
Yours truly,
Phil
Philippe L. Sawyer, Member:
Amnesty International USA
Coalition for Free and Open Elections
Peace and Freedom Party of California
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
United Public Employees, Local #1
“The truth is out there.”
Tobin did a mediocre job on the web site.
In a state where early voting creeps toward 50%
she was alerted again and again.
The site was started late.
Like Cindy Sheehan, she doesn’t do a good job of
out reach or collecting allies. Lot’s of folks gain
tons of apathy upon bumping into Christina ……..
Oh, she also hit up the big print media —– late.
[You know, the MSM that rakes in the bucks from the bigs!]
She did next to nothing with alternative media, weekies
I do not know Christina Tobin but I am of the opinion that anyone who hires National Ballot Access out of Georgia has to be on the shady side – crooks!