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1992 New Hampshire Presidential Primary
Lenora Fulani (D)
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AMERICA IS TO BIG FOR TWO PARTIES
The media is already saying that George Bush is a re-election shoo-in and that there will be no real presidential contest in 1992. But for those of us who care about our youth, about health care, education, the AIDS crisis, peace and the deterioration of the economy, 1992 must be a year where the national dialogue on social policy is enriched and expanded. Dr. Lenora Fulani, America's independent presidential candidate in 1992, is running to challenge the political process that locks out new leadership and prevents a genuine national dialogue on these issues.
The voter rebellion of 1990 made clear that millions of Americans no longer want to participate in "politics as usual." Many didn't vote. Many voted against incumbents. And where voters had the opportunity, they cast ballots for independents who offered an alternative to the candidates of the two major parties.
Atter years of disappointing performance by our elected officials — leading to the S&L scandal, the failure to pass civil rights legislation and an in.ability to stop the AIDS epidemic, the two major parties have become so far removed from the diverse concerns of ordinary citizens that millions of Americans no longer feel represented. More and more people recognize that America has gotten too big for two parties.
Dr. Fulani was among the first to take action in response. In 1988, her independent presidential campaign expanded our political choices beyond those offered by the two major parties and established that America needed more democracy.
In 1988, Dr. Lenora Fulani became the first African American and the first woman presidential candidate in U.S. history to be on the ballot in every state. That same year she became the first Black woman to qualify for federal primary matching funds. She garnered a quarter of a million votes as an independent, making third party politics a new and developing option in the 1990's, and inspired the "Democracy in Presidential Debates Act", H.R. 791, which would make the Presidential debate process more open and inclusive.
Dr. Fulani's concern for democracy extends beyond our borders. She has popularized the struggle to rid the African nation of Zaire of its brutal dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. She also supported hundreds of pro-democracy candidates in Haiti.
Countless protests against police brutality and racially-motivated violence from Los Angeles to Plainfield, N.J., to the Bronx, have been led by Dr. Fulani, who demonstrated with Atlantic City's Forgotten Youth for recreation facilities and economic justice. She is the leader of the "Youth and Democracy Voter Registration Drive" in New York City.
The cable TV show, "Fulani", syndicated in 10 cities nationally, is hosted by Dr. Lenora Fulani, who also authors a weekly syndicated column in 140 newspapers and a bi-weekly radio commentary on 55 stations nationally. Dr. Fulani has been a keynote speaker at Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Howard, Brown, Spellman, Smith, Tuskegee Institute, University of California at Berkeley and Center for Media, London.
Dr. Fulani has been a guest on countless TV and radio programs, including The MacNeilLehrer Report, Crossfire, America's Black Forum, BET's Our Voices, the Larry King Show, Sonya LIVE!, Tony Brown's Journal; and on National Public Radio, National Black Network, Inner City Broadcasting, Gay Cable Network, KISSFM, WUB, WBAI, WVON, WDAS, WOL, WHUR, WDCU, and many more.
Our Goal
• Qualify for matching funds by Sept. 1, 1991 by raising a minimum of $5,000 in each of 22 states.
• Raise 1 million dollars by January 1992.
• Have the government match your campaign contribution dollar for dollar!
In order to legally qualify, you must raise $5,000 in each of 20 states. Once we've attained our goal, we've reached the threshhold and are eligible to have the government match your campaign contribution dollar for dollar.
Contributions
• The Republicans and Democrats will each be receiving about $60 million of our tax dollars to run negative, no issue campaigns, and qualifying for matching funds gives us a chance to use our tax dollars for something that benefits us for a change!
Lenora B. Fulani for President '92
200 West 72nd Street
Suite 30
New York, New York 10023
212-799-2100
Make checks payable to:
Lenora B. Fulani for President
Paid for by Lenora B. Fulani for President
Booklet - 5 3/8" x 8 5/8". more
Do we need more democracy?
You be the judge.
by Dr. Lenora Fulani
Recently a three-judge panel ruled that I had no right ("standing") to challenge the tax-exempt status of the Commission on Presidential Debates for failing to include me in the 1988 Presidential debates — despite the fact that, no less than Michael Dukakis and George Bush, I was on the ballot in every state and had received federal primary matching funds. Tte amazing thing about the court decision is not that two out of three federal judges ruled against me, but that one of them, Chief Judge Abner Mikva, had the guts to side with me — and with democracy.
The Commission on Presidential Debates was established in 1987 by the national Democratic and Republican parties for the explicit purpose of taking over sponsorship — control — of the debates from the League of Women Voters. My lawyers have argued that the Commission is not entitled to enjoy tax-exempt status because it is not nonpartisan, as the law requires, but bi-partisan — that is, it excludes everyone who isn't a Republican or a Democrat.
The Commission on Presidential Debates said I wasn't eligible to be included in the debates because I wasn't a "legitimate" candidate. That's a Catch-22 situation, because minor party candidates can never be "legitimate" as long as the system says that the only legitimate candidates are major party candidates! By ruling in favor of the CPD, the court perpetuated a dangerous and unconstitutional political myth — which is that bi-partisan means the same thing as non-partisan. But it doesn't. Since the Constitution doesn't even mention political parties at all, in giving special privileges to two nongovernmental agencies — namely the Republican and the Democratic parties — the US government and its institutions are in violation of the Constitution.
A ruling in our favor would have meant the unraveling of American electoral politics as we know it. It's clear that the powers that be are willing to do whatever they have to do — even if that means issuing criminally biased and partisan judicial decisions — to hold on to their two party political monopoly. Even if it means destroying democracy itself.
From Gramm-Rudman (the so-called "balanced budget" legislation that turned Reaganomics into law, enacted with bi-partisan support) to the war in the Persian Gulf, the history of the last ten years has been
DEMOCRACY IS THE ISSUE FOR
THE 1990'S
On Election Day, November 6th 1990, the next phase of the American Electoral Revolution began. Though many media analysts portrayed the "throw-the-bums-out" sentiment of the American people as having changed little more than which party controlled 14 statehouses, the fact is that for the first time in over half a century there was popular support for democratizing the two party political system by expanding the political options open to the voters.
In two states, third party candidates were elected governor: Lowell Weicker in Connecticut and Walter Hickel in Alaska. Independent Christina Campbell Cline polled 9% of the vote in the Kansas gubernatorial race. An independent Workers World Party gubernatorial candidate won ballot status for the party in Michigan.
Bernie Sanders, a socialist, grabbed Vermont's only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives; and independent Terry Bouricius won her race for the Vermont state legislature.
In New Hampshire, Lucy Wyman, the Green Party candidate running as a Democrat for state legislature polled 46% of the vote in a very close race. And in Alaska, the Green Parry polled 1.5% of the vote statewide to win permanent ballot status.
Elizabeth Munoz, a Chicana leader of the New Alliance Party, ran for governor of California on the independent Peace and Freedom line and polled 90,000 votes - the most votes cast for a Peace and Freedom gubernatorial candidate since the party first won ballot status in 1968 and the independent Illinois Solidarity Party secured ballot status with 8.1 % of the vote.
My independent "Youth and Democracy" campaign for governor of New York — which registered 16,000 first time voters between the ages of 18 and 25 — polled 32,000 votes, a 40% increase over my 1986 run.
And the Fair Ballot Access Initiative, Question 4, which opens up the ballot to independent candidates to provide more options to Massachusetts' voters — which was sponsored by a coalition of pro-democracy forces including the New Alliance Parry, the Rainbow Lobby and the Libertarian Party, and for which I actively campaigned — garnered over a million votes and passed with 52% of the vote.
The election results show that American politics is undergoing a discernible transformation — an opening up of the political process and the introduction of independent progressive forces as factors in local, statewide and, ultimately, national elections. As TIME magazine pointed out in its post-election coverage, wherever it was possible the voters managed to register their dissatisfaction with a political system which protects incumbents (96% returned to Congress) and promotes non-participation (only a third of the eligible voters went to the polls on Election Day).
The issues of social and economic justice, of civil and human rights, of freedom of choice and expression are the most basic elements of a humanistic social vision that the majority of the American people care very deeply about.
But the lack of democracy in this country has restricted dialogue on these issues and tied the hands of legislators and-voters alike. The hard-won right of women to choose an abortion is still in jeopardy throughout the country. The paltry allocation of funds for AIDS research by federal, state and local legislators who won't stand up to their "homophobic and proud of it' colleagues; the refusal to speak out against police officers who are allowed to get away with racial violence and murder; the politicians' apparent willingness to tolerate homelessness because — regardless of their personal sentiments — their parties will not allow them to-challenge the corporate real estate and banking interests to which they are beholden and which are ultimately responsible for this terrible epidemic; the anti-gay, anti-progressive orgy of cultural repression and censorship precipitated by Senator Jesse Helms ... these are some of the very disturbing signs of our times. I believe that these issues cannot be addressed, let alone fought for, in the absence of addressing the underlying issue of democracy.
Unless access to the entire political process (from coverage in the mass media, to participation in televised debates, to having a place on the ballot) is opened up to include an independent and third party political agenda, unless voter registration is made easy and accessible, unless campaign financing is made equitable, the voters will still be denied their democratic right to have or to know about and thus to choose progressive alternatives to the solutions put forth by the professional politicians of the major parties.
On Election Day the voters made a small but significant statement that the political status quo is no longer sufficient to give expression to our ideals and beliefs. We must support that statement by making sure that the message of 1990 becomes the mandate of the decade — DEMOCRACY IS THE ISSUE!
PAID FOR BY LENORA B. FULANI FOR PRESIDENT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS • 250 W. 57TH ST., SUITE 317 • NEW YORK, NY 10019 212-362-1818
The media is already saying that George Bush is a re-election shoo-in and that there will be no real presidential contest in 1992. But for those of us who care about our youth, about health care, education, the AIDS crisis, peace and the deterioration of the economy, 1992 must be a year where the national dialogue on social policy is enriched and expanded. Dr. Lenora Fulani, America's independent presidential candidate in 1992, is running to challenge the political process that locks out new leadership and prevents a genuine national dialogue on these issues.
The voter rebellion of 1990 made clear that millions of Americans no longer want to participate in "politics as usual." Many didn't vote. Many voted against incumbents. And where voters had the opportunity, they cast ballots for independents who offered an alternative to the candidates of the two major parties.
Atter years of disappointing performance by our elected officials — leading to the S&L scandal, the failure to pass civil rights legislation and an in.ability to stop the AIDS epidemic, the two major parties have become so far removed from the diverse concerns of ordinary citizens that millions of Americans no longer feel represented. More and more people recognize that America has gotten too big for two parties.
Dr. Fulani was among the first to take action in response. In 1988, her independent presidential campaign expanded our political choices beyond those offered by the two major parties and established that America needed more democracy.
In 1988, Dr. Lenora Fulani became the first African American and the first woman presidential candidate in U.S. history to be on the ballot in every state. That same year she became the first Black woman to qualify for federal primary matching funds. She garnered a quarter of a million votes as an independent, making third party politics a new and developing option in the 1990's, and inspired the "Democracy in Presidential Debates Act", H.R. 791, which would make the Presidential debate process more open and inclusive.
Dr. Fulani's concern for democracy extends beyond our borders. She has popularized the struggle to rid the African nation of Zaire of its brutal dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. She also supported hundreds of pro-democracy candidates in Haiti.
Countless protests against police brutality and racially-motivated violence from Los Angeles to Plainfield, N.J., to the Bronx, have been led by Dr. Fulani, who demonstrated with Atlantic City's Forgotten Youth for recreation facilities and economic justice. She is the leader of the "Youth and Democracy Voter Registration Drive" in New York City.
The cable TV show, "Fulani", syndicated in 10 cities nationally, is hosted by Dr. Lenora Fulani, who also authors a weekly syndicated column in 140 newspapers and a bi-weekly radio commentary on 55 stations nationally. Dr. Fulani has been a keynote speaker at Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Howard, Brown, Spellman, Smith, Tuskegee Institute, University of California at Berkeley and Center for Media, London.
Dr. Fulani has been a guest on countless TV and radio programs, including The MacNeilLehrer Report, Crossfire, America's Black Forum, BET's Our Voices, the Larry King Show, Sonya LIVE!, Tony Brown's Journal; and on National Public Radio, National Black Network, Inner City Broadcasting, Gay Cable Network, KISSFM, WUB, WBAI, WVON, WDAS, WOL, WHUR, WDCU, and many more.
Our Goal
• Qualify for matching funds by Sept. 1, 1991 by raising a minimum of $5,000 in each of 22 states.
• Raise 1 million dollars by January 1992.
• Have the government match your campaign contribution dollar for dollar!
In order to legally qualify, you must raise $5,000 in each of 20 states. Once we've attained our goal, we've reached the threshhold and are eligible to have the government match your campaign contribution dollar for dollar.
Contributions
- All contributions to Dr. Fulani's campaign should be made to: Lenora B. Fulanl for President
• The Republicans and Democrats will each be receiving about $60 million of our tax dollars to run negative, no issue campaigns, and qualifying for matching funds gives us a chance to use our tax dollars for something that benefits us for a change!
Lenora B. Fulani for President '92
200 West 72nd Street
Suite 30
New York, New York 10023
212-799-2100
Make checks payable to:
Lenora B. Fulani for President
Paid for by Lenora B. Fulani for President
Booklet - 5 3/8" x 8 5/8". more
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You be the judge.
by Dr. Lenora Fulani
Recently a three-judge panel ruled that I had no right ("standing") to challenge the tax-exempt status of the Commission on Presidential Debates for failing to include me in the 1988 Presidential debates — despite the fact that, no less than Michael Dukakis and George Bush, I was on the ballot in every state and had received federal primary matching funds. Tte amazing thing about the court decision is not that two out of three federal judges ruled against me, but that one of them, Chief Judge Abner Mikva, had the guts to side with me — and with democracy.
The Commission on Presidential Debates was established in 1987 by the national Democratic and Republican parties for the explicit purpose of taking over sponsorship — control — of the debates from the League of Women Voters. My lawyers have argued that the Commission is not entitled to enjoy tax-exempt status because it is not nonpartisan, as the law requires, but bi-partisan — that is, it excludes everyone who isn't a Republican or a Democrat.
The Commission on Presidential Debates said I wasn't eligible to be included in the debates because I wasn't a "legitimate" candidate. That's a Catch-22 situation, because minor party candidates can never be "legitimate" as long as the system says that the only legitimate candidates are major party candidates! By ruling in favor of the CPD, the court perpetuated a dangerous and unconstitutional political myth — which is that bi-partisan means the same thing as non-partisan. But it doesn't. Since the Constitution doesn't even mention political parties at all, in giving special privileges to two nongovernmental agencies — namely the Republican and the Democratic parties — the US government and its institutions are in violation of the Constitution.
A ruling in our favor would have meant the unraveling of American electoral politics as we know it. It's clear that the powers that be are willing to do whatever they have to do — even if that means issuing criminally biased and partisan judicial decisions — to hold on to their two party political monopoly. Even if it means destroying democracy itself.
From Gramm-Rudman (the so-called "balanced budget" legislation that turned Reaganomics into law, enacted with bi-partisan support) to the war in the Persian Gulf, the history of the last ten years has been
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Lenora B. Fulani for President
National Headquarters, 200 West 72nd Street, Suite 30, New York, NY 10023 • 212-799-2100
the capitulation of the Democratic Party to the Republicans' right wing agenda. As Judge Mikva pointed out in his 12 page dissent, there is a real danger that democracy has come to a complete standstill. We see it in the bias of the courts, we see it in the poverty and the despair of our communities, we see it in the empty voting booths that millions of Americans no longer bother to enter.
In the conclusion to his 12 page dissent, Judge Mikva wrote: " ... whatever its proper role in correcting imbalances and imperfections in the status quo, government certainly must not abandon its posture of nonpartisanship. The government of any democracy, let alone one shaped by the values of our Constitution's First Amendment, must avoid tilting the electoral playing field, lest the democracy itself becomes tarnished...."
If democracy is to be expanded and the electoral process opened up in the way that Judge Mikva has advocated, we need to take his ruling out to the grassroots. That's what my 1992 Presidential campaign is all about. I'm urging everyone who cares about fairness and justice to vote for Lenora Fulani and Abner Mikva in 1992! He lost the fight for democracy in the courts, so we need to win it in the communities. We need a sizeable vote just because we can't win in the courts. They've been seized by the right wing — Clarence Thomas is just the icing on the oreo cookie!
We already have strong evidence to show that if the electoral process is opened up — even with all its limitations — voting patterns alter considerably. For example, whenever independent candidates of national stature — such as John Anderson or George Wallace — have run for office, even in one-shot campaigns, large numbers of people turned out to vote for them.
Just imagine what it would be like if the "electoral playing field" were tilted in favor of democracy and inclusion. Imagine what it would mean if the debates included four or five or six different candidates, each of them representing different political viewpoints, different social values, different solutions to the problems that confront our society. Imagine the media covering those viewpoints, examining those values and solutions. It would mean that the concerns of millions of ordinary Americans would be addressed and discussed; more than that, it would mean that our opinions, needs, and desires would actually shape social policy. Our participation in the electoral process would actually make a difference. Just imagine the impact that
would have on first time voters, who have no reason to be loyal to the Democrats or the Republicans. They would have a reason to vote. To be involved. To participate.
Do we need more democracy? You be the judge.
Paid for by Lenora B. Fulani for President
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Lenora B. Fulani for President
National Headquarters, 200 West 72nd Street, Suite 30, New York, NY 10023 • 212-799-2100
the capitulation of the Democratic Party to the Republicans' right wing agenda. As Judge Mikva pointed out in his 12 page dissent, there is a real danger that democracy has come to a complete standstill. We see it in the bias of the courts, we see it in the poverty and the despair of our communities, we see it in the empty voting booths that millions of Americans no longer bother to enter.
In the conclusion to his 12 page dissent, Judge Mikva wrote: " ... whatever its proper role in correcting imbalances and imperfections in the status quo, government certainly must not abandon its posture of nonpartisanship. The government of any democracy, let alone one shaped by the values of our Constitution's First Amendment, must avoid tilting the electoral playing field, lest the democracy itself becomes tarnished...."
If democracy is to be expanded and the electoral process opened up in the way that Judge Mikva has advocated, we need to take his ruling out to the grassroots. That's what my 1992 Presidential campaign is all about. I'm urging everyone who cares about fairness and justice to vote for Lenora Fulani and Abner Mikva in 1992! He lost the fight for democracy in the courts, so we need to win it in the communities. We need a sizeable vote just because we can't win in the courts. They've been seized by the right wing — Clarence Thomas is just the icing on the oreo cookie!
We already have strong evidence to show that if the electoral process is opened up — even with all its limitations — voting patterns alter considerably. For example, whenever independent candidates of national stature — such as John Anderson or George Wallace — have run for office, even in one-shot campaigns, large numbers of people turned out to vote for them.
Just imagine what it would be like if the "electoral playing field" were tilted in favor of democracy and inclusion. Imagine what it would mean if the debates included four or five or six different candidates, each of them representing different political viewpoints, different social values, different solutions to the problems that confront our society. Imagine the media covering those viewpoints, examining those values and solutions. It would mean that the concerns of millions of ordinary Americans would be addressed and discussed; more than that, it would mean that our opinions, needs, and desires would actually shape social policy. Our participation in the electoral process would actually make a difference. Just imagine the impact that
would have on first time voters, who have no reason to be loyal to the Democrats or the Republicans. They would have a reason to vote. To be involved. To participate.
Do we need more democracy? You be the judge.
Paid for by Lenora B. Fulani for President
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On Election Day, November 6th 1990, the next phase of the American Electoral Revolution began. Though many media analysts portrayed the "throw-the-bums-out" sentiment of the American people as having changed little more than which party controlled 14 statehouses, the fact is that for the first time in over half a century there was popular support for democratizing the two party political system by expanding the political options open to the voters.
In two states, third party candidates were elected governor: Lowell Weicker in Connecticut and Walter Hickel in Alaska. Independent Christina Campbell Cline polled 9% of the vote in the Kansas gubernatorial race. An independent Workers World Party gubernatorial candidate won ballot status for the party in Michigan.
Bernie Sanders, a socialist, grabbed Vermont's only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives; and independent Terry Bouricius won her race for the Vermont state legislature.
In New Hampshire, Lucy Wyman, the Green Party candidate running as a Democrat for state legislature polled 46% of the vote in a very close race. And in Alaska, the Green Parry polled 1.5% of the vote statewide to win permanent ballot status.
Elizabeth Munoz, a Chicana leader of the New Alliance Party, ran for governor of California on the independent Peace and Freedom line and polled 90,000 votes - the most votes cast for a Peace and Freedom gubernatorial candidate since the party first won ballot status in 1968 and the independent Illinois Solidarity Party secured ballot status with 8.1 % of the vote.
My independent "Youth and Democracy" campaign for governor of New York — which registered 16,000 first time voters between the ages of 18 and 25 — polled 32,000 votes, a 40% increase over my 1986 run.
And the Fair Ballot Access Initiative, Question 4, which opens up the ballot to independent candidates to provide more options to Massachusetts' voters — which was sponsored by a coalition of pro-democracy forces including the New Alliance Parry, the Rainbow Lobby and the Libertarian Party, and for which I actively campaigned — garnered over a million votes and passed with 52% of the vote.
The election results show that American politics is undergoing a discernible transformation — an opening up of the political process and the introduction of independent progressive forces as factors in local, statewide and, ultimately, national elections. As TIME magazine pointed out in its post-election coverage, wherever it was possible the voters managed to register their dissatisfaction with a political system which protects incumbents (96% returned to Congress) and promotes non-participation (only a third of the eligible voters went to the polls on Election Day).
The issues of social and economic justice, of civil and human rights, of freedom of choice and expression are the most basic elements of a humanistic social vision that the majority of the American people care very deeply about.
But the lack of democracy in this country has restricted dialogue on these issues and tied the hands of legislators and-voters alike. The hard-won right of women to choose an abortion is still in jeopardy throughout the country. The paltry allocation of funds for AIDS research by federal, state and local legislators who won't stand up to their "homophobic and proud of it' colleagues; the refusal to speak out against police officers who are allowed to get away with racial violence and murder; the politicians' apparent willingness to tolerate homelessness because — regardless of their personal sentiments — their parties will not allow them to-challenge the corporate real estate and banking interests to which they are beholden and which are ultimately responsible for this terrible epidemic; the anti-gay, anti-progressive orgy of cultural repression and censorship precipitated by Senator Jesse Helms ... these are some of the very disturbing signs of our times. I believe that these issues cannot be addressed, let alone fought for, in the absence of addressing the underlying issue of democracy.
Unless access to the entire political process (from coverage in the mass media, to participation in televised debates, to having a place on the ballot) is opened up to include an independent and third party political agenda, unless voter registration is made easy and accessible, unless campaign financing is made equitable, the voters will still be denied their democratic right to have or to know about and thus to choose progressive alternatives to the solutions put forth by the professional politicians of the major parties.
On Election Day the voters made a small but significant statement that the political status quo is no longer sufficient to give expression to our ideals and beliefs. We must support that statement by making sure that the message of 1990 becomes the mandate of the decade — DEMOCRACY IS THE ISSUE!
PAID FOR BY LENORA B. FULANI FOR PRESIDENT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS • 250 W. 57TH ST., SUITE 317 • NEW YORK, NY 10019 212-362-1818
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