Whittaker's Article Is Just Dem-Speak

Dear Editor,
    In Richard Whittaker’s Dem-speak article, “Greens Gain Ballot Access in Curious Fashion” [News, July 16], he closes his corporate, democratic committee-researched “journalism” by attempting to paint the Green Party of Texas in Bush/Cheney innuendo. The poor-pitiful-me, plaintive appeal of the well-heeled, unapologetically corporate-funded Democratic and Republican parties (logos positioned at the conventions like a NASCAR chassis, and under said chassis, there is very little resemblance to a vehicle on the street) get most of their traction with media sources advertising friendly to their paid-for political system. Running up court costs via a frivolous lawsuit is not only a tactic to block citizens’ alternative voice but serves as financial harassment to Green Party officers who are volunteers. Paul Silver of Common Cause of Texas hit the nail in his postmarks letter [“Postmarks”, July 9] calling for reform of a system that relies on Bush Help America Vote Act election law (promoting, like our Travis County clerk, black-box voting machines where your vote is invisible, unaccountable, and unverifiable) instead of the subpoena-powered Voting Rights Act. And now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations have unlimited financial access to our elections, how will citizens have any voice toward taking back our elections by eliminating corporate access completely?
    Our democracy is clearly a corporate pig trough as exemplified by how the bank bailout and single-payer (not) health care favor Wall Street not Main Street.
    Check out the July 16 radio broadcast of Texas Politics Today on KOOP 91.7FM. You can also read a reasoned description surrounding the Greens' ballot access in Elaine Wolff’s article “The empire strikes backhanded” in the San Antonio Current.