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                       STATEMENT OF RALPH NADER


     Earlier this month, a number of active citizens in California and 
members of the Green Party of California, asked me to enter the Green 
Party of California primary as a way of stimulating a debate on the 
distribution of power, its abuses, and reforms as well as other vital 
subjects very often neglected by "major" party candidates and the media.

     I am permitting the Green Party of California to put my name on the 
their March 1996 primary ballot to broaden the narrow agenda that the 
"major" party candidates parade before the electorate.

     I intend to stand with others around the country as a catalyst for 
the creation of a new model of electoral politics, not to run any 
campaign.  The campaign will be run by the people themselves and will be 
just as serious as citizens choose to make it.

     It will be a campaign for democracy waged by the private citizens 
who choose to become public citizens. (See Concord Principles, Attached)

     Californians deserve a campaign that will practice taking the 
corrosive impact of special interest money out of politics at the same 
time that it preaches campaign finance reform. This effort will focus on 
removing such money from elections, and ending the corporate welfare and 
other privileges that it buys.

     I will not seek nor accept any campaign contributions -- but I 
welcome civic energy to build democracy so as to strengthen and make 
more useable our democratic processes for a just, productive and 
sustainable society.