Citizen Nader: a consumer advocate runs against the 'big money interests.' (Ralph Nader)(Conversations)(Interview)

E, September, 1996 by Motavalli, Jim

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes that the polluter lobby is extremely powerful because of its money and ability to persuade. His campaign for the presidency is aimed at ending the political influence of these interests.

In 1992, when he ran an independent candidacy for the presidency, consumer advocate Ralph Nader nailed a democratic agenda known as The Concord Principles on the church door of American politics. Presidential campaigns, it said, have become narrow, shallow, redundant and frantic parades and horse races which candidates, their monetary backers, and their handlers control unilaterally."

Nader, who first came to prominence with the muckraking Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965, didn't get much attention four years ago, but the power brokers are...

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