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"As I listen to the vice president espouse his views on campaign finance reform, I look at his investment portfolio and have to ask how that might influence public policy. Gore owns substantial stock in Occidental Oil Co., which is working to exploit oil reserves under Uwa land in Colombia." -- Winona LaDuke
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"Government Of, By, And For The People... Not The Monied Interests" slogan of the NaderBush 2000 campaign.
1996 NPR Interview: SCOTT SIMON: Mr.- Mr. Nader, will you, would you, as major party presidential candidates do, release copies of your tax return and financial disclosure statement?
RALPH NADER: No, because I want to practice what I- I've preached for 30 years. I have advocated the privacy of medical records, income tax records, because I think that's an essential defense to corporate power and arbitrary government power.
SCOTT SIMON: I- I'm just wondering if- if American voters aren't entitled to know something about what your sources of financial support have been over the years in work which you're very clearly involved, even for the benefit of the American people, just so they can, you know, make a rational judgment.
RALPH NADER: Well, I- I've- I'm- I've said it to anybody who asks. It's not relevant because it's full of zeros. In other words, I don't take any funds from any of these non-profit groups. I don't take any funds from the potential can- campaign contributors, and it's hard to, you know, demonstrate a negative. (http://www.npr.org/hotnews/nadert.html)
--- "Nader said the stocks he chose were 'the most neutral-type companies.' 'Number one, they're not monopolists and number two, they don't produce land mines, napalm, weapons,' he said." (Washington Post, June 18, 2000) Nader's Fidelity Magellan fund: 777,080 shares of Raytheon, missile manufacturer (plus five other aerospace/defense corporations).
--- Nader: "I'm quite aware of how the arms race is driven by corporate demands for contracts, whether it's General Dynamics or Lockheed Martin. They drive it through Congress. They drive it by hiring Pentagon officials in the Washington military industrial complex, as Eisenhower phrased it." (The Progressive Magazine, April 2000) Nader's Fidelity Magellan fund: 2,041,800 shares of General Dynamics.
--- "The corporations are planning our futuresSThey are making sure [our children] grow up corporate. The kids are over-medicated, militarized, cosmetized, corporatized. They are raised by Kindercare, fed by McDonaldıs, educated by Channel One." (The Washington Post, Saturday, June 17, 2000) Ralph Nader's Fidelity Magellan fund: 15,694,800 shares of McDonald's.
--- "Bristol-Myers Squibb markets Taxol at a wholesale price that is nearly 20 times its manufacturing cost. A single injection of Taxol can cost patients considerably more than $2,000 and treatment requires multiple injections." -- Ralph Nader Testimony before the House Budget Committee. June 30, 1999 Ralph Nader's Fidelity Magellan fund: 15,266,900 shares of Bristol-Mayers Squibb.
--- "Both parties are terrible on antitrust. Look, we have Boeing now, one aircraft company, manufacturer after the McDonnell Douglas merger." (Ralph Nader, Burden of Proof, CNN, 8/9/00.) Ralph Nader's Fidelity Magellan fund: 2,908,600 shares of Boeing.
--- "Equally damaging, Nader said, was the Justice Departmentıs failure to effectively challenge such recent mergers as British Petroleum with Amoco and Exxon with Mobil. 'The combining of these giant oil companies concentrates the oil industryıs economic power in fewer hands and gives these merged companies greater opportunity to manipulate prices,' Nader said. 'Oil company profits are up an average of 300 percent in the first quarter of 2000 compared to the first quarter of 1999.' (Nader 2000 press release, June 28, 2000) Nader's Fidelity Magellan fund: 24,753,870 shares of BP-Amoco. 28,751,268 shares of Exxon-Mobil.
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