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"Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader will campaign in
Columbia, Fri. July 25, hosting a news conference at the First Floor
Lobby of the State House, 1100 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC, 29201. The
News Conference starts at 11:30 a.m."
Qualifying for the Ballot
PRESS RELEASE from Nader for
President 2008
MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chris Driscoll (Washington,
D.C.), 202-360-3273, chris@votenader.org;
David Petyon (Columbia, S.C.), 414-915-8883, djpeyton@votenader.org
NADER
SUPPORTERS TO FILE NOMINATING PETITIONS Nader/Gonzalez
Campaign Set to Secure Ballot Line In South Carolina
South Carolina supporters of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader will file nominating
petitions with the Secretary of State to place Naderand
running-mate Matt Gonzalez on South Carolina's November 2008 election
ballot. South Carolina will be the eleventh state to formally submit
paperwork for Ralph Nader's
candidacy since the celebrated consumer advocate announced his intent
to run during a February 24 appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press". To
qualify to appear on South Carolina's ballot, state law requires
submission of the signatures of 10,000 registered voters. The Nader
/Gonzalez
campaign will be submitting over 18,000 signatures, nearly twice the
number required.
WHO: supporters of Nader/Gonzalez
2008 campaign
WHAT: turn-in of nominating petitions
WHEN: Monday July 14, 2008
1:00 PM
WHERE: State House – North Steps
Gervais Street
Columbia, S.C.
29201
About the Nader/Gonzalez
Campaign
According to a July 1 CNN poll, Ralph Nader is polling six-percent nationally, higher than
his highest major poll numbers during the same time period in 2000 and approaching the ten-percent
threshold required for eligibility to participate in "America's
Presidential Debate in New Orleans", a non-Commission on Presidential
Debates sponsored event scheduled for September 18. In the key swing
state of Michigan--whose voters were partially disenfranchised by the
Democratic National Committee--an EPIC-MRA poll found Nader at eight-percent. For more information
on the Nader/Gonzalez
campaign, visit votenader.org.
About Ralph Nader
Celebrated attorney, author and
consumer advocate Ralph Nader
has been named by Time Magazine one of the "100 Most Influential
Americans in the 20th Century". For more than four decades he has
exposed problems and
organized millions of citizens into more than 100 public interest
groups advocating solutions. His organizations have helped establish
the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and enact the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Motor
Vehicle Safety Act, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and countless other pieces of
important consumer legislation. Because of Ralph Nader we drive safer cars, eat healthier
food, breath better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments. Nader graduated from Princeton University and
received
a LLB from the Harvard School of Law.