http://www.realchange.org/nader.htm

The Nader myth is built in large part of stories of his personal asceticism
-- such as taking a minuscule salary, not owning a car (he bums lots of
rides), and living (through the 1970s at least) in a boarding house with a
bathroom down the hall. He claims to live on $5,000 a year and give nearly
all the rest to his organizations. 


Back in 1996, we noted that Nader had long earned hundreds of thousands of
dollars per year in speaking fees -- over $250,000 annually even in the
mid-1970s -- played the stock market and carefully avoided making details
of his finances public, even as he demanded that various corporations and
other politicans reveal their money dealings. 


He has steadfastly refused to make his tax returns public (as Dole and
Clinton have done). In 1996 he even says he spent less than $5,000 on his
campaign so that he wasn't required to file even the minimal financial
disclosure forms every other candidate is filing. 


This time he had to admit spend more than $5,000, and his financial
disclosure -- while sketchy -- revealed that he is a multimillionaire who
makes hundreds of thousands on speeches each year and owns over $1 million
in Cisco stock alone. (Nader still refused to release his tax returns,
though all other major candidates have done so for the last many years.) 


His lifestyle claims are bullpucky in other ways, too. His speaking gigs
often include first class hotels and and meals, even limousines, and the
many organizations he controls -- that's where his tax-deductible
contributions go -- have many ways to cover his expenses as well. Plus,
there is considerable evidence that he does own and stay in one or more
houses. He acknowledges spending considerable time at a "family house" in
Connecticut, and he appears to own a townhouse in Washington. 


David Sanford of the New Republic documented that residents of a posh
neighborhood in Washington -- on Bancroft Place NW -- often spotted him
sneaking into an expensive house there. Some investigation showed that
Nader's brother purchased the house -- worth $100,000 even back in 1972 --
though he was an underemployed educational "consultant" and had no
education beyond high school. Nader issued a statement "that he does not
live in his brother's Bancroft Place house", but when a now-former worker
(Lowell Dodge) asked him privately, he wouldn't deny it. 


When the Washington Post's then-society columnist Maxine Cheshire asked
Nader about the reports, he knew every detail of the house's financing and
couldn't resist rhapsodizing about what a great tax break buying a house
was. "He talks about that real estate investment the way some men talk
about sex. He's so excited about the whole idea of tax write-offs and all
that. I mean, did I realize that that's the greatest investment you can
make, the biggest tax advantage, bla bla bla bla bla bla." 

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humbubba@smart.net
>
>http://www.realchange.org/nader.htm
>
>The Nader myth is built in large part of stories of his personal asceticism
>-- such as taking a minuscule salary, not owning a car (he bums lots of
>rides), and living (through the 1970s at least) in a boarding house with a
>bathroom down the hall. He claims to live on $5,000 a year and give nearly
>all the rest to his organizations. 
>
>
>Back in 1996, we noted that Nader had long earned hundreds of thousands of
>dollars per year in speaking fees -- over $250,000 annually even in the
>mid-1970s -- played the stock market and carefully avoided making details
>of his finances public, even as he demanded that various corporations and
>other politicans reveal their money dealings. 
>
>
>He has steadfastly refused to make his tax returns public (as Dole and
>Clinton have done). In 1996 he even says he spent less than $5,000 on his
>campaign so that he wasn't required to file even the minimal financial
>disclosure forms every other candidate is filing. 
>
>
>This time he had to admit spend more than $5,000, and his financial
>disclosure -- while sketchy -- revealed that he is a multimillionaire who
>makes hundreds of thousands on speeches each year and owns over $1 million
>in Cisco stock alone. (Nader still refused to release his tax returns,
>though all other major candidates have done so for the last many years.) 
>

Hmmm, isn't Cisco a corporation?


:oP

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Long time ago I read a sci-fi novel by Greg Bear. I think it was 
"Eternity". In that book people of future worship Nader and they are 
called Naderites. They refer to Nader as "good man Nader"

John Bailo wrote:
> http://www.realchange.org/nader.htm
> 
> The Nader myth is built in large part of stories of his personal asceticism
> -- such as taking a minuscule salary, not owning a car (he bums lots of
> rides), and living (through the 1970s at least) in a boarding house with a
> bathroom down the hall. He claims to live on $5,000 a year and give nearly
> all the rest to his organizations. 
> 
> 
> Back in 1996, we noted that Nader had long earned hundreds of thousands of
> dollars per year in speaking fees -- over $250,000 annually even in the
> mid-1970s -- played the stock market and carefully avoided making details
> of his finances public, even as he demanded that various corporations and
> other politicans reveal their money dealings. 
> 
> 
> He has steadfastly refused to make his tax returns public (as Dole and
> Clinton have done). In 1996 he even says he spent less than $5,000 on his
> campaign so that he wasn't required to file even the minimal financial
> disclosure forms every other candidate is filing. 
> 
> 
> This time he had to admit spend more than $5,000, and his financial
> disclosure -- while sketchy -- revealed that he is a multimillionaire who
> makes hundreds of thousands on speeches each year and owns over $1 million
> in Cisco stock alone. (Nader still refused to release his tax returns,
> though all other major candidates have done so for the last many years.) 
> 
> 
> His lifestyle claims are bullpucky in other ways, too. His speaking gigs
> often include first class hotels and and meals, even limousines, and the
> many organizations he controls -- that's where his tax-deductible
> contributions go -- have many ways to cover his expenses as well. Plus,
> there is considerable evidence that he does own and stay in one or more
> houses. He acknowledges spending considerable time at a "family house" in
> Connecticut, and he appears to own a townhouse in Washington. 
> 
> 
> David Sanford of the New Republic documented that residents of a posh
> neighborhood in Washington -- on Bancroft Place NW -- often spotted him
> sneaking into an expensive house there. Some investigation showed that
> Nader's brother purchased the house -- worth $100,000 even back in 1972 --
> though he was an underemployed educational "consultant" and had no
> education beyond high school. Nader issued a statement "that he does not
> live in his brother's Bancroft Place house", but when a now-former worker
> (Lowell Dodge) asked him privately, he wouldn't deny it. 
> 
> 
> When the Washington Post's then-society columnist Maxine Cheshire asked
> Nader about the reports, he knew every detail of the house's financing and
> couldn't resist rhapsodizing about what a great tax break buying a house
> was. "He talks about that real estate investment the way some men talk
> about sex. He's so excited about the whole idea of tax write-offs and all
> that. I mean, did I realize that that's the greatest investment you can
> make, the biggest tax advantage, bla bla bla bla bla bla." 
> 

MTT wrote:
> Long time ago I read a sci-fi novel by Greg Bear. I think it was 
> "Eternity".

"Eon"