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27 unusual facts about Ralph Nader


Automobile products liability

A major foundation for modern awareness of the defects found in automobiles was laid when Ralph Nader published his book Unsafe at Any Speed about the Chevrolet Corvair and defects found in other vehicles.

Boulder County, Colorado

In 2000, Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader took 11.82% of the vote in Boulder County, more than twice the 5.25% he took statewide in Colorado, and more than four times his 2.73% nationwide vote share.

Cathy Gordon Brown

The University of Oregon Oregon Daily Emerald noted that people disturbed by the spoiler effect in elections, particularly with respect to the close 2000 presidential election were singling out Ralph Nader for blame, but not "criticizing Cathy Gordon Brown" or other third party and independent candidates.

Consensus decision-making

Cory Doctorow, Ralph Nader and other proponents of deliberative democracy or judicial-like methods view the explicit dissent as a symbol of strength.

Corvair Monza GT

Although the SS came close to series production, both cars ended up as concepts only, tied to the fortunes of the Corvair, which had been declared unsafe by Ralph Nader.

Ed Fallon

During the 2000 presidential election, he made headlines across the state when he endorsed the candidacy of Green Party nominee Ralph Nader over that of Democrat Al Gore because of Gore's choice of Joe Lieberman as a running mate.

Green Party of Rhode Island

In the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections, GPRI put Ralph Nader on the Rhode Island ballot for U.S. President, and Nader's vote share in 2000 (6.12%) was enough to win major party status for the GPRI.

Green Party of Texas

Small, active Green groups existed in large cities throughout the state (particularly Houston, Dallas and Austin) before this time, but Ralph Nader's 2000 campaign helped spur the growth of the Green Party of Texas.

Independent Party of Delaware

In 2004, the party gave its ballot line to the independent presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, he received 2,152 votes for 0.6% of the total vote in Delaware.

In 2008, the party again gave its ballot line to the independent presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, he received 2,401 votes.

James Ridgeway

Ridgeway became nationally known when he revealed in The New Republic that General Motors had hired private detectives to tail consumer advocate Ralph Nader in an attempt to dig up information that might discredit him (Nader was behind litigation which challenged the safety of the Chevrolet Corvair).

Latah County, Idaho

Ralph Nader, who received 6.5% of the vote in 2000, was not on the ballot in 2004.

Lico Reyes

:Linda Goetsch of Gainesville said she was once a third party voter, having voted for Ralph Nader in the 2000 election, but has voted Democratic this year because she said third party candidates tend to spoil major party elections, though they do "force centrist candidates to address issues. He (Reyes) certainly represents many of the issues that I believe in," she said.

Lift-off oversteer

Attorney and consumer protection activist Ralph Nader described this type of handling in his 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed

Margin of error

According to an October 2, 2004 survey by Newsweek, 47% of registered voters would vote for John Kerry/John Edwards if the election were held on that day, 45% would vote for George W. Bush/Dick Cheney, and 2% would vote for Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo.

Multinational Monitor

The Multinational Monitor is a bimonthly magazine founded by Ralph Nader in 1980.

Nader

Ralph Nader, American attorney, citizen activist and four time third party presidential candidate

Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles

Ralph Nader called PNGV "an effort to coordinate the transfer of property rights for federally funded research and development to the automotive industry".

Partyline

With them they take their 24-hour party and interject it with such hot topics as Ralph Nader and what it means to be a girl.

Paul Jacob

2008 independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader referred to the laws such as the one Jacob was charged with breaking as “Jim Crow laws,” adding, “We’ve seen this before against African Americans.

Pedicularis furbishiae

In Robert Anton Wilson's 1980's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy novels, set in a parallel universe, the president of the United States, modeled at least in part after Ralph Nader, is named Furbish Lousewart V.

Phenformin

Ralph Nader's Health Research Group put the US government under pressure to ban the drug.

Politics of Marshall, Texas

The 2000 election had been closer, with Bush winning the county with 13,834 to Al Gore's 8,878 and Ralph Nader's 164 votes.

Public opinion and activism in the Terri Schiavo case

Most of these groups are affiliated with the Christian right, but consumer activist Ralph Nader and the Reverend Jesse Jackson, a Democrat and civil rights activist, also called for Schiavo's feeding tube to be reinserted.

Rienzi Crusz

Crusz also published several non-fiction books, of note is Ralph Nader: a Bibliography, 1960-1982, published at a time (first-edition, 1973) when Ralph Nader's views against triumphant consumerism were gaining understanding among the public.

The Mall at Mill Creek

In 1996, a New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled that the mall's requirement of a $1 million liability insurance policy had to be waived to allow supporters of then-presidential candidate Ralph Nader to distribute campaign literature.

Williamson County, Tennessee

In the 2004 presidential election, Williamson County voted 72 percent in favor of George W. Bush, 27 percent in favor of Senator John Kerry, and 1 percent in favor of Ralph Nader.


Blue-green alliance

The core issue of this alliance is opposition to globalization and to free trade, and it was significant in the candidacy of Ralph Nader in the 2000 Presidential election, as Nader was endorsed by some labor organizations (the overwhelming majority of labor unions and environmental organizations are loyal to the Democratic Party and endorsed Al Gore).

Center for Science in the Public Interest

CSPI is headed by Michael F. Jacobson, who founded the group in 1971 along with James Sullivan and Albert Fritsch, two fellow scientists from Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law.

Green libertarianism

Tucker published Liberty from 1881 to 1908, "widely considered to be the finest individualist-anarchist periodical ever issued in the English language," as a regular town newspaper for Winsted, CT, which is also Ralph Nader's home town.

Green National Convention

However, a group of Greens interested in a run by consumer advocate Ralph Nader met in Los Angeles in 1996 to nominate Nader for President and Winona LaDuke for Vice-President.

One Way Forward

Research on this problem has been done by liberals like Ralph Nader, Public Citizen, and Common Cause and conservatives like the Cato Institute.

Richard Walton

In the 1996 Presidential election in Rhode Island he was temporarily a stand-in candidate for Ralph Nader's official running mate Winona LaDuke.

Samuel W. Alderson

In 1966, the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was passed, which together with Ralph Nader's book, "Unsafe at Any Speed" put the search for an anatomically faithful test dummy into high gear.

Sean Parlaman

He was able to secure government grants, to become a member of the Oregon steering committee of the 2000 Green Party Presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, and to get permission from Stephen King to make Stud City, a short, independent sequel to Stand by Me.

Teaching for Change

Teaching for Change has helped bring noted authors to host readings, discussions and book signings, including Alice Walker, Howard Zinn, Cornel West, Ronald Takaki, Michelle Alexander, Melissa Harris-Perry, John Sayles, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Parris Moses, Juan Gonzalez, Ralph Nader, Taylor Branch, Dave Zirin, Naomi Klein, Tariq Ali, Clarence Lusane, Marita Golden and Junot Diaz.

The Stony Brook Press

In its early days, the Press featured exclusive interviews with political figures including Amiri Baraka, Abbie Hoffman, Ralph Nader, and Al D'Amato.