Pat Driscoll running for 5th CD

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Any thoughts on the Green Party candidate running in the special election in the 5th district? This was in today's GP press release response to *'s inaugural speech (full text in a seperate post in "politics").

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"President Bush's idea of global democracy and freedom is the spread of U.S. military dominance around the world and permission for U.S.-based corporations to gain control over foreign economies and resources, such as oil and fresh water," said Pat Driscoll, California Green candidate in a special election for Congress (5th
Congressional District) <http://www.driscollforcongress.org>. "This
doctrine was applied in Iraq after the U.S. 'victory' in 2003, when Iraq occupation administrator Paul Bremer issued an order opening
up Iraqi businesses and resources to foreign -- i.e., chiefly American corporate -- ownership. The result was massive unemployment and the collapse of locally-owned Iraqi businesses, which
fueled the Iraqi insurgence."