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MISSISSIPPI NEWSPAPER MENTIONS "10 MINUTES TOO LATE" LAWSUIT
December 28th, 2009
The December 28 issue of the Biloxi, Mississippi, Sun Herald, has this story about Brian Moore’s ongoing lawsuit to settle the exact deadline for candidates to file presidential elector paperwork to be on the ballot. The lawsuit is more than a year old, and is far from being settled. This is apparently the first time that any newspaper in Mississippi has mentioned the case.
Sun Herald Newspaper
Biloxi-Gulfport, and South Mississippi
ANALYSIS: MISS. BALLOT DEADLINE DISPUTE LINGERS
By Jack Elliott Jr. - Associated Press Writer,
Monday, December 28, 2009
He sends his qualifying papers by taxi to the Mississippi secretary of state's office. The cab driver arrives at 5 p.m. on the day qualifying is to end. The office is closed. The cabbie leaves the papers on the doorstep.
The filing deadline is unmet, and the candidate's name is left off the ballot.
The candidate sues.
A year of legal wrangling later and Brian Moore is back at square one. He's the Socialist Party USA presidential candidate in 2008 who wanted to be on the Mississippi ballot as the Natural Law Party nominee.
READ FULL ARTICLE
On December 18, 2009, Three Republican Judges (2 President Reagan & 1 President Bush appointee) in the 5th District Federal Court Ruled in Favor of Socialist Party Presidential Candidate in the State of Mississippi.
It was the first time the conservative 5th Circuit has issued an opinion favorable to a minor party or independent candidate since 1996, when it invalidated a Texas law requiring independent candidate petitions to include the voter registration affidavit number of each petition signer.
Moore's attorney, Mark Brown, Esq., a law professor at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, stated that "...it is safe to say that the Fifth Circuit agreed with Moore that Mississippi’s deadline is ambiguous. If the Mississippi Legislature changes the deadline to clearly state 5:00 p.m., then Moore will have achieved at least one objective–forcing Mississippi to clearly state its deadline. Even then, Moore can still win a more important point in federal court; that is, state agents do not have the constitutional authority to establish deadlines for presidential elections under Article II."
FIFTH CIRCUIT SAYS THAT MISSISSIPPI "10 MINUTES TOO LATE" CASE IS NOT MOOT; TELLS LOWER COURT TO SETTLE THE ISSUE
December 19th, 2009
On December 18, the 5th circuit issued an opinion in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, the case filed by Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore last year, when the Mississippi Secretary of State refused to accept his presidential elector paperwork because it was submitted at 5:10 p.m. on the filing deadline. The Secretary of State rejected the paperwork because it arrived ten minutes after he had closed his office. The building itself was still open, so the paperwork had been left at the door of the Secretary of State’s office. READ FULL ARTICLE
PEACE GROUP EXPERIENCES MORE PUBLIC ENCOUNTERS DURING SATURDAY WAR PROTESTS
Despite Growing Public Support Against Wars, Individuals Engage Protestors for Second Time With Racial Slurs and Taunts of Being Traitors
Weeki Wachee, FLORIDA, Wednesday, December 16, 2009:
Despite the growing public support against America's two wars in the middle east, The NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice encountered four hostile individuals in four separate incidents Saturday, December 12th, during its antiwar protest at the Weeki Wachee Park intersection on U.S. Highway 19 and State Road 50.
One individual drove his late model Dodge Ram pickup truck into the CVS parking lot, behind the departing demonstrators, and began harassing them with verbal taunts, offering to "take them to any country they wanted to go to, as long as it wasn't in America." The older gentleman told the departing protestors as their demonstration was ending, that they were "Un-American" and acting "against our troops." The cowboy-hatted driver also pulled a camera out and starting taking pictures of the small group of eight demonstrators. (See attached picture of harasser in truck with camera in hand, taken by a Coalition protestor).
A second individual, while waiting at the intersection light, during the protest, used a racial slur, the "N" word, against President Obama, despite the protestors opposition to the Obama Administration's new war policy in sending 30,000 more troops to fight in Afghanistan. This is the second local antiwar demonstration in a row, within two weeks, that passersby have made derogatory racial slurs about President Obama.
A third individual also drove his Toyota Rav4 vehicle into the CVS parking lot, and double-parked it along the frontage road, disembarking from the vehicle and approached the protestors along the edge of U.S. Highway 19. The person was very agitated, about 55 years old, and starting yelling about being a Vietnam veteran, highly decorated with military pins on his hat, showing his stomach scars from the war, and complained that as an American-Hispanic he was not being treated fairly by a local merchant. The person complained about a general store on Cortez Blvd. back in the Weeki Wachee area, where the merchant never spoke with him, and told him the reason was because of his ethnic makeup. After ten minutes, the gentleman left.
A fourth individual, also while stopped at the intersection light, yelled to the group to "bring the troops home, but to nuke Iraq."
Throughout the 90 minute demonstration, the vast majority of passersby, who did react, honked their horns in support, or gave the group thumbs up signs of approval and good will.
The peace group also gained a new member that same day when a woman, who had read about the demonstration in the newspaper, stopped her car, parked in the CVS parking lot and joined the coalition in its protest. She also volunteered to participate in any future demonstrations. Two weeks ago, two other passersby stopped their cars, who were military veterans from previous wars, and gave their moral support to the group directly in front of them, to carry on, as well.
The antiwar protest occurred simultaneous with the annual Christmas parade which was being held in Brooksville, which started at the same time, 10 AM. No press or media attended the antiwar event
THIRT-PARTY CHANGE NEEDED
The Independent Political Report and the Tampa Tribune December 16, 2009
Blaise Ingoglia's guest column last week in Hernando Today, which was critical of third parties for undermining the two major parties' future existence, was laughable.
The only threat to his Republican Party, and to the Democratic Party for that matter, is the ineffectual and destructive policies they advocate and legislate. Furthermore, they are also responsible for the dollars they allocate in such a wasteful fashion, which have caused our economic crisis, high unemployment, a broken health care system and the downward spiralof poverty that continues unabated now amongst the middle class, as well as the lower economic classes, unabated in America. Read Full Article
SHERIFF'S INTERNAL INVESTIGATION OF FUGITIVE DROWNING PROMPTS ACTIVIST TO REQUEST FORMAL REVIEW BY STATE & FEDERAL OFFICES
Hunter's Lake, Spring Hill, Hernando/Pasco Counties, FLORIDA: Tuesday, December 8, 2009:
Hunter's Lake, Spring Hill, Hernando/Pasco Counties, FLORIDA: Tuesday, December 8, 2009:
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Photo of Hernando County Sheriff helicopter hovering over Hunter Lake spot where fugitive James "Little Man" Rayford just went under water and subsequently drowned, September 10, 2009. Did the sheriff helicopter cause his death?
Activist says New Eyewitnesses' Accounts Incriminates Sheriff Department of Flawed/Sloppy Chase and Pilot's Deadly Actions // Helicopter Video "Not Used"
Pilot Admits to "Being 3 feet above water surface," Six feet from Fugitive, Knocking off hat, and Saying Kayak 'Could Have Flipped into Air' from Velocity of Rotor Blades
The Internal Affairs investigation of the Hernando County Sheriff's actions in fugitive James "Little Man" Rayford's drowning on Hunter's Lake on September 10, 2009, while clearing its' own department of any culpability, includes numerous statements by a collection of new eyewitnesses, deputies and bondspeople, raising serious questions about the two sheriff departments' innocence. If anything, the new information, according to an activist, "incriminates the two departments in causing Mr. Rayford's death."
According to a local Hunter Lake resident, Brian Moore, the new eyewitness accounts in the internal Hernando County Sheriff's report "substantiates the first eyewitnesses' reports" which Moore originally referred to the sheriffs' departments, despite their subsequent backtracking and denials.
Moore said, even the pilot's recorded comments in the official report (see below), and other eyewitnesses accounts (also see below), "gives clear evidence" and substantiate the first reported personal eyewitness reports that the helicopter pilot "could have easily caused the fleeing fugitive's death" by his "deliberate actions" with the air unit. Moore said "one could easily surmise" that the pilot was flying a large helicopter machine too low and was hovering its powerful rotating blades too close over the fugitive in a small kayak boat, before, during and after Mr. Rayford disappeared below the water. The pilot appears to have been menacing, hovering and pushing his machine near the fugitive, and, by the pilot's own admission about the strength and power of the velocity of the rotor blades, Moore said the pilot could have "caused Rayford's boat to flip, causing him to fall out of the kayak, be forced under the water several times and subsequently to cause his drowning"
READ FULL ARTICLE AND LETTERS INCLUDING LETTER TO GOVERNER CRIST
CAPITOLWATCH, CONNECTICUT POLITICS
By Christopher Keating, The Hartford [Connecticut] Courant's Capitol bureau chief
1 of 4 Comments
By Todd Vachon on December 1, 2009 11:37 PM
Socialist Party Presidential candidate Brian Moore, Vice-Presidential candidate Stewart Alexander and myself, candidate for U.S. Congress here in CT, would have gladly informed the public that we stood for an immediate end of both wars. We also would have reminded people that mandating private health insurance is only socialism for the insurance corporations and that bailing out bankers is yet further welfare for millionaires and billionaires...
We hope that the disenchanted popular movement that brought this administration into power on a tide of "hope" and "change" will not walk away and become apathetic. We invite them instead to join a real movement for real change starting tomorrow, Wednesday Dec. 2, at 4:30pm by joining us and dozens of other groups to protest the war escalation in front of the Federal Buildings in Hartford and New Haven and demand that our public assets return home to serve our public good!
If Obama's a socialist, his comrades aren't happy
By
Daniela Altimari
on December 1, 2009 11:00 PM | Comments (4) |
The Socialist Party of Connecticut tonight is denouncing President Obama's plan to escalate the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.
"Amidst the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama has mistakenly chosen to dedicate yet more resources, manpower and lives to military interventionism,'' the group said in a press release issued just hours after Obama's speech at West Point.
Tomorrow at 4:30 p.m., socialist activists intend to hold a pair of demonstrations against the war. They will join other groups in front the federal building in Hartford to voice their displeasure. A similar protest is planned in front of the federal building in New Haven.
The Socialist Party of CT finds this course to be foolhardy and wasteful,'' the press release states. "We advocate instead for an immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. The seemingly endless pool of public money spent on war could far better serve the unemployed, underemployed and uninsured people of the United States by creating a public works program and a single-payer national health insurance plan."
The group also alludes to conservative critics, who continually paint Obama, a Democrat, as a socialist, and takes the media to task as well.
"During the 2008 presidential campaign the mainstream media made a big to-do about claims that Mr. Obama was a 'socialist' and yet did little or nothing to find out what the actual socialist candidates thought about the issues,'' the release states.
BRIAN'S LETTER-TO-EDITOR: "RADICAL CHANGE NEEDED FOR ALL"
St. Petersburg Times, Hernando Edition, December 2, 2009
The recent letter (Nov. 26, 2009) saying better days are ahead and the letter writer defending himself as a blind optimist reminds one of what most critics say of those of us who are promoting socialism in America. They say we are naive, grasping at windmills and unrealistic of how the world operates.
However, the shoe now fits on the other foot. What the writer says is true, that life spans are longer, homes are bigger, food is more affordable and more education available. But that is not true for everyone, and each day fewer and fewer Americans have such a luxury or such a privilege.
I am not thankful for where our country is today, or where we, as a nation, are going. I can understand the writer’s limited and false perspective, though, because he is relatively secure in his retired lifestyle. He must have multiple pensions, excellent health insurance and probably has never experienced the insecurity of looking for a job, much less losing gainful employment after many years of steady work.
I too am optimistic, but my optimism is not blind, it is based on a belief that by radically altering our economic system we will be able to survive as a nation and for more people (i.e. the entire population) to share in the benefits of full health, housing, employment and education, all as a right, and not as an economic privilege.
Brian P. Moore, Spring Hill, Florida
PROTEST OF IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN WARS DRAWS NEW,
DIFFERENT RESPONSES
Bush Hate Gone/Obama Hate Emerges/More Positive-Calmer Opposition to Wars/
News Reporting Changes
Weeki Wachee, FLORIDA, Saturday, November 28, 2009: The NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, conducted another of its antiwar demonstrations on Saturday, November 28, after a hiatus of four to six months, and discovered "new and different responses" from the passing cars and public. READ FULL ARTICLE
SOCIALIST RAISES ALARM ABOUT BEING UNPREPARED FOR ECONOMIC CHAOS CAUSING GOVERNMENTAL COLLAPSE
Center for Inquiry Invite in Tampa Gives Socialist Opportunity to Share Concerns About The Rise of Dictators and Fascism When a Nation Cannot Change
Tampa, FLORIDA, Tuesday, November 21, 2009:
Socialist activist Brian Moore warned a group of mostly public school teachers, college professors and attorneys, in the small audience, of the dangers of nations not prepared for severe economic crises causing governmental collapse. The speaker further warned that such a state of affairs could bring on unwanted social and political conditions resulting in countries being controlled by dictators, without the rule of law, and the loss of basic freedoms. READ FULL ARTICLE
THREE RADIO INTERVIEWS AND COLLEGE PRESENTATION KEEP SOCIALIST BUSY IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER
Brian Moore was interviewed from North Carolina by host Bill LuMaye in a 24-minute interview on news and talk radio station WTPF in the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Fayetteville) with a population base of 2 million people. The interview was conducted live on October 22nd (see following link or summary below). The interview remains on the station's website: http://www.wptf.com/goout.asp?u=http://billlumaye.blogspot.com/.
On Friday, November 13th, from Houston, Texas, Clear Channel radio station 740 KTRH, with host Bill O'Brien, conducted a 12-minute interview of Brian, which was aired in the Houston, Texas metro area, with a metropolitan population base of 5.7 million people. The interview was played several times per day from November 13th thru the 15th (no web link). Texas Governor Rich Perry accused President Obama of being a socialist, which enabled Brian to address the issues of capitalism and socialism.
Brian also had another radio interview, from a faith-based radio station in the Norfolk,Virginia area, which also covers the west central region of Florida.
Host David Allan Carmichael, of station WILF, 104.3, entitled "Faith and Freedom," interviewed Brian on October 8th with the theme of "[Carmichael] Counters Claim That 'Jesus Was a Socialist.' " David uses quotes from Jesus and the Socialist Party website to prove that Jesus was not only not a Socialist, but that the socialist dogma and modus operandi is also anti-Christ like. The host planted the question more than Brian initiating the theme.
Mr. Carmichael posted the interview on October 16th. He breaks his program into four parts, with Brian's comments coming in the middle of the fourth part:
http://faithfreedoms.net/2009/10/16/faith-and-freedom--counter-to-claim-jesus-was-a-socialist.aspx.
Part four follows with Brian finally calling in halfway through this fourth segment: http://www.faithfreedoms.org/audio/podcasts/wifl9oct2009carmichael6.mp3
On October 29th, A "Patriot Politics" Group of college students, of different political persuasions, from Central Florida Community College, in Ocala, Florida, hosted a two-hour session on "Socialism" with invited guest, former Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore. No tape or video was made of the engaging and spirited event.
Radio: A REAL SOCIALIST TALKS ABOUT CAPITALISM
Raleigh, North Carolina
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Bill LuMaye Radio Show
Blog Archive
A Real Socialist talks about Capitalism
2008 Socialist candidate for President Brian Moore, in a 24-minute radio interview, tells Bill whats wrong with capitalism and how a socialist economy could save America.
MP3 File
Posted by Sundays at 6 PM on 680 WPTF
WITNESS STATEMENTS IN RAYFORD REPORT ADD CONFUSION
by Kent Weissinger, Friday, November 13, 2009
An internal affairs investigator for the Hernando County Sheriff's Office interviewed 10 lay witnesses, 6 Hernando deputies, 4 Pasco deputies, and an assistant medical examiner for a report on the drowning death of Pasco fugitive James Rayford. The report concluded allegations of unnecessary force were unfounded.
The convicted felon disappeared below the surface of Hunters Lake two months ago while swimming away from a hovering HCSO helicopter. Spring Hill political activist Brian Moore quoted some witnesses as blaming the copter for Rayford's death, but those same witnesses told investigators that Moore didn't accurately report what they observed
At the same time, the 20 witnesses quoted in the report themselves gave conflicting statements about how close the helicopter was to Rayford and whether the rotor wash could have prevented him from staying afloat once he jumped from a kayak he was paddling toward an island in the lake. In fact, the variance in statements from those watching the incident with naked eyes or through binoculars could give Moore more fuel for the fire he lit in late September with e-mails to news media calling for the investigation.
HERNANDO DEPUTIES CLEARED IN FUGITIVE'S DROWNING
By Joel Anderson, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA— Complaints by local activist Brian Moore that deputies are responsible for the death of a 35-year-old fugitive are unfounded, an investigation by the Hernando County Sheriff's Office has determined.
The investigation results, released Tuesday, deal with the death of James "Little Man" Rayford, who was wanted in Pasco County on several warrants.
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INVESTIGATOR: MOORE 'HOUNDED WITNESSES'
By Tony Holt
Tampa Tribune Newspaper, Hernando Today Print Edition,
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Brian Moore ran for president last year on the Socialist Party ticket.
BROOKSVILLE - Try as he might, political activist Brian Moore could not uncover any wrongdoing on the part of the sheriff's office in the death of a fugitive who drowned two months ago during a pursuit.
When he first talked to eyewitnesses two months ago, they told him deputies were responsible, he said.
Now some of those same witnesses are saying Moore has "hounded" them. They told the lead investigator he tried to get them to describe something they didn't see, according to an internal affairs investigation. READ FULL ARTICLE
"TEN MINUTES TOO LATE TO FILE" CASE ARGUED IN 5TH CIRCUIT
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
On November 4, the 5th circuit heard arguments in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, the case that arose in 2008 when presidential elector declarations of candidacy for Brian Moore were turned in to the Mississippi Secretary of State at 5:10 p.m. The office was still open, but the Secretary of State said they were ten minutes too late. Brian Moore was the Socialist Party presidential candidate, although in Mississippi he had been nominated by the Natural Law Party, a ballot-qualified party.
Mississippi election laws do specify that 5 p.m. is the deadline for many other kinds of paperwork, but says nothing about 5 p.m. for anything concerning presidential elections. The Mississippi Secretary of State said he had his own regulation about that, but Article II of the U.S. Constitution says only state legislatures can write election procedures concerning presidential electors.
Judge Edith Jones seemed unsympathetic, but she might have been playing devils’ advocate. Judge Harold DeMoss seemed very interested in the case and asked tough questions for both sides. Judge Jerry Smith only asked about whether the case is moot.
ACTIVIST SPURS PROBE OF FUGITIVE'S DEATH
By TIMOTHY HOWSARE | Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today
Published: October 1, 2009; In Print: October 2, 2009
BROOKSVILLE - In response to a civic activist's claims of a cover-up, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office is conducting an internal investigation into the death of a fugitive who drowned Sept. 10 in Hunter's Lake.
Brian P. Moore, who ran as a Socialist Party candidate for president in 2008, claims sheriff's deputies may have been responsible for the death of James Rayford, 35, who was wanted in Pasco County on several warrants. Rayford drowned in the lake when authorities from both counties tried to apprehend him while he was attempting to flee in a kayak. READ FULL ARTICLE
ACTIVIST SEEKS INVESTIGATION OF FUGITIVE'S DROWNING
HENANDONEWSSOURCE.COM
by Kent Weissinger, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009
Spring Hill's resident socialist, Brian Moore, is on another crusade. Moore has written a letter to Hernando Sheriff Richard Nugent and Pasco Sheriff Bob White calling for internal affairs or independent citizens' investigations of the death of a fugitive who drowned on Hunter's Lake two weeks ago as deputies from both counties prepared to arrest him. The suspect, James "Little Man" Rayford, who was described as one of Pasco's most wanted criminals despite a record of mostly petty thefts, tried to get away from the deputies by paddling a canoe toward an island in the lake. According to accounts from law enforcement, Rayford fell from the small craft and drowned. Moore says he's talked to witnesses who claim that a sheriff's helicopter was operated "in a menacing manner," hovering very low over the boat with the fugitive in it, causing the boat "to flip up in the air" and overturn, throwing Rayford out of the boat and into the water. Moore said the witnesses told him that the helicopter continued to fly low as the fugitive surfaced twice before disappearing into the water. The witnesses, according to Moore's account, are refusing to confirm the reports to media representatives because of "family and spousal pressure and fear of retaliation by the sheriffs' departments." Hernando News Source has not yet received a response to a request for comment directed to the Hernando County Sheriff's office.
"SOCIALISM IS NOW A FOUR-LETTER WORD"
The Voyager, University of West Florida
Pensacola, Florida
By Mike Greear
Opinions Editor
Published: Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I hate talking about politics in this town. Being a non-conservative in Pensacola is like getting caught wearing the scarlet letter.
It sucks because whenever people want to talk about politics with me, I always wind up having to argue on the behalf of a certain ideology, even if that ideology isn’t mine.
I can’t just talk about it openly with people and share my thoughts with them.
They hear my point of view on it and immediately assign me to a label and begin arguing with me about it. And it’s funny because when they’re arguing with me, they’re actually just arguing with the label that they stamped me with.
BRIAN MOORE BALLOT ACCESS CASE AGAINST MISSISSIPPI GETS HEARING DATE IN 5TH CIRCUIT
September 18th, 2009
The Fifth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Moore v Hosemann in New Orleans, the week of November 2-6. The case concerns the Mississippi Secretary of State’s refusal to accept presidential elector paperwork for Brian Moore, the 2008 Socialist Party presidential candidate. The Secretary of State said the paperwork arrived ten minutes too late. However, the Mississippi law setting the deadline does not specify any particular hour for receiving such paperwork. Certain other election-related deadlines do specify 5 p.m. in the election law, but this deadline doesn’t.
Moore also argues that if the Secretary of State says he had administratively set the closing deadline at 5 p.m., that would have violated Article II of the U.S. Constitution, because that part of the Constitution, setting forth rules for presidential elector selection, says only state legislatures can set forth rules for that topic.
A somewhat similar case is pending in the 5th circuit against Louisiana, concerning the Libertarian Party, but no oral argument date has been set for that case, called Libertarian Party v Dardenne.
HEALTHCARE PROTEST AT TEA PARTY
Sept. 14, Port Richey, Fl
Brian Moore demonstrates with small group for single payer health at a conservative Anti-Obama Tea-Party rally, 80 people strong, standing behind him, along U.S. Highway 19, on Saturday, September 14, 2009, in Port Richey (Pasco County), Westcentral Florida.
"MOORE, BROWN-WAITE SIT DOWN FOR A CORDIAL MEETING"
By KYLE MARTIN | Hernando Today
Published on-line: September 15, 2009
Published in-print: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
BROOKSVILLE - He doesn't expect to change her mind overnight. But Brian Moore was glad to have the opportunity to speak his piece Monday during a sit-down with U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville.
It was the first face-to-face meeting between the two since Moore publicly criticized the congresswoman for not allowing him to protest directly outside her office in June.
On Monday, Moore brought six members of his organization, the NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, to a pre-scheduled meeting with Brown-Waite. READ FULL ARTICLE...
HERNANDO NEWS SOURCE.COM
Hernando County, Spring Hill, Brooksville News
by Kent Weissenger
Monday, September 14, 2009
BROWN-WAITE LISTENS TO HEALTH CARE ACTIVISTS---SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH IS FOCAL POINT
Fifth District Representative [U.S. Congress] Ginny Brown-Waite met Monday with Brian Moore and The NatureCoast Coalition of health-care activists, but there's no indication that any minds were changed. Moore said after the 40-minute meeting between Brown-Waite and seven members of the coalition that he was pleased that the congresswoman listened and even debated their arguments for a single-payer system. The 40 minutes was 10 more than Brown-Waite had allotted for the appointment. Moore sought to allow media attendance, but Brown-Waite said no and even refused a requested photo opportunity, telling Moore who persisted in the request that "No means no." Contrary to the original plans, there was no demonstration along Spring Hill Drive in front of the representative's district office, because all seven coalition members present were allowed to sit in on the Coalition's Single-Payer meeting with Brown-Waite.
[The sign on the wall behind Moore, at the entrance to Congresswoman Brown-Waite's Brooksville office, states that no photographs or recording equipment is allowed in her office. The sentence is highligted in yellow]
CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON BRIAN'S 2008 ELECTION RESULTS REFUTED BY HISTORIAN DARCY G. RICHARDSON
Independent Political Report, Monday, August 10, 2009
Darcy G. Richardson refutes Jeremy Young's historical inaccuracies on criticizing Brian Moore's socialist candidacy for president, 2008
“If I'm not mistaken, his [Brian's election results] is the worst showing the Socialist Party has ever had, going back to the days of Debs and even earlier.” — Jeremy Young
Response by historian and author on political third parties, Darcy G. Richardson: While nobody was more disappointed in his relatively poor showing than Brian Moore himself, it simply isn't true that the 6,538 votes cast for him represents the “worst showing” in the party's history. As meager as it was, Brian still managed to outperform at least a half-dozen Socialist Party candidates for President in the post-Norman Thomas era.
During the Cold War, Darlington Hoopes, a former Socialist state legislator from Pennsylvania and Thomas's vice-presidential running mate a dozen years earlier, garnered less than a third of Moore 's total during the 1956 presidential election.
In terms of popular votes, Brian also outpolled former Milwaukee Mayor Frank P. Zeidler, the party's nominee in 1976 — no small feat given Zeidler's considerably higher name recognition. Including write-in votes, Zeidler garnered 6,062 votes nationally, 4,298 which were from his native Wisconsin .
In addition to improving on the 5,602 votes cast in 2000 for David McReynolds — one of the party's most appealing and articulate candidates in the post-Thomas period —Brian Moore also garnered more votes than the party's presidential nominees in 1988, 1992 and 1996.
In terms of media coverage — and exposure for the party and its principles — Brian arguably did as well as any Socialist Party candidate since Thomas's 1948 campaign.
There's nothing worse than a self-described historian who doesn't bother to read history, or at least do a little basic research before commenting on a given subject.
Darcy G. Richardson
Darcy G . Richardson is the author of six books, including five volumes of a planned seven-volume history on independent and third-party politics in America . He also authored "A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign."
Health reform fuels anger, debate and presidential threats:
Brian is a regular "opposition" caller into the Bob Haa conservative radio talk show, and was quoted in St. Petersburg Times newspaper article regarding U.S. Secret Service Investigation of radio host's threats on President Obama.
HERNANDO RADIO HOST HAA GETS SECRET SERVICE VISIT AFTER PERCEIVED THREAT ON OBAMA (Can He Say That on the Air?)
St. Petersburg Times
(Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida)
By Michael Kruse, Times Staff Writer
Online, Sunday, August 9, 2009
In Print: Front page, Monday, August 10, 2009
BROOKSVILLE, Florida— From his small studio at the small radio station in this small town, chain-smoking, caffeine-swallowing longtime talk radio host Bob Haa uses his morning show to pit conservatives against what he calls "the leftists," "the Marxists" and "the fruitcakes."
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THE WEEKLY FILIBUSTER RADIO BLOG (Every Sunday at 10 PM)
Moderator Ben Goodman, from the University of Maine
Sunday, August 9, 2009, beginning at 10:23 PM EST
Interviews are archived on: http://www.weeklyfilibuster.com/
Robert Burack
Did you miss Brian Moore?
In Guests on August 9, 2009 at 7:55 pm
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON DEMAND
Nationwide, angry protesters are bombarding health care town halls – often causing members of Congress to cancel the events. We spoke with 2008 Socialist Party Nominee Brian Moore about whether “Obamacare” meets his definition of socialism.. We also discussed the swearing in of Justice Sotomayor, and all of the week’s news.
We were also joined again by guest panelist Michael Worley of Barry University, the host of The Progressive Hour on WBRY-AM in Miami, and author of The Worley Blog who provided great insight on the latest in the Florida senate.
Brian Moore is interviewed for an 8.5 minute segment (from minute 23:45 to 33:15 during the hour-long program) on the August 9th national radio blog program---The Weekly Filibuster.
Panel participants:
• Panelist Posts
• Ben Goodman
• Abigail Walsh
• Robert Burack
• Tom Dec
• Bob Bowen
[Notes on The Weekly Filbuster: Each week, we bring together the greatest panel in political talk to break down the week in politics and talk to the biggest newsmakers from across the country. Join Moderator Ben Goodman along with panelists from colleges and universities all over the United States. Politicos Meet the Radio! It's the fastest hour in political talk!]
Thusday, August 6, 2009
The following television interview of July 28th, 2009, by host Neil Cavuto, with socialist Brian Moore, was not posted on FoxNews Business website after the live program, and thus, could not be copied. However, to obtain a video copy the network now charges fees to lease its videos for a limited time (up to $2,225 for 15 months). However, a transcript of the 8.5 minute interview was obtained by Brian from FoxNews on August 5th, and can now be read:
Brian emphasized a socialized health system, with Single Payer health as a transitional compromise. He spoke of 27 other countries with national health programs, who have better health outcomes and live longer than Americans. Brian also accused the United States of rationing health care, causing 20,000 Americans to die unnecessarily each year. He urged the elimination of 1500 private health insurance companies, salarying doctors and owning hospitals, and capping salary levels of medical providers during the transition to a national socialized health system. Brian agreed with Neil Cavuto, the host, that lawyers would also be limited by tort reform and he referred to lower Canadian indemnity insurance costs as proof that it can be done.
Brian also blamed the politicians and health insurance industry for its scare tactics and false stories, and conveyed his personal experience as a "Kaiser [Health Plan} baby" in California. He also spoke of his 20 years as a professional administrator in the HMO field, seeing a "social" health system work through government grant programs, but failing and suffering miserably when turned over to the private sector and Wall Street, for profit and greed, by then Governor Reagan in California, and then President Reagan nationally.
Moore also criticized U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, and the liberal Democrats, and President Obama by inference, for being part of the capitalist system, and for not supporting a truly social health system. Moore said they (the so-called progressives) lack principal, and that is what his political ideology has to offer; along with implementing a more equitable distribution of money for the nation.
FOX NEWS’ NEIL CAVUTO INTERVIEWS SOCIALIST BRIAN MOORE ON EXECUTIVE PAY LIMITS/NATIONAL HEALTH
New York/Tampa: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 6:30-7:30 PM EST
"A Fox Business Alert."
Neil Cavuto: All right. Moments ago, [Congressman] Barney Frank's House Financial
Services Committee voting to approve new rules on executive pay at financial firms
that encourage, what they talk about, “inappropriate risk.”
My next guest has a simple answer for all the critics about “regulation.” Socialist Party, USA,
Brian Moore. Good to have you back.
Brian Moore: Thank you, Neil. Nice to be back.
ALL BRIEFS FILED IN 5TH CIRCUIT IN LOUISANA PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT ACCESS CASE
August 6th, 2009
All three briefs have now been filed in the 5th circuit in Libertarian Party v Dardenne, the case over whether the Louisiana Secretary of State acted improperly when he kept Bob Barr and Brian Moore off the November 2008 ballot for president (Brian Moore was the Socialist Party nominee). The case is being handled for the political parties by Law Professor Mark Brown, who is an expert on the question of why the U.S. Constitution, Article II, does not permit any authority except state legislatures from creating rules that keep anyone off the ballot for president.
"NATIONAL HEALTH CARE WOULD COST LESS"
Tampa Tribune (Fla), Hernando Today Edition, On-Line and In Print
Letter-to-Editor, by Brian P. Moore, Spring Hill, Florida
Saturday, August 1, 2009
John Nash's column, "Socialized medicine will cost us dearly," in the July 22 edition of Hernando Today, is nothing but cheap fear-mongering and scare tactics. A nationalized health system will save us from higher taxes and higher premiums. It will make us healthier. READ FULL LETTER
"MAKE THE FOURTH OF JULY MORE MEANINGFUL"
Letter-to-the-Editor by Brian P. Moore, Florida
St Petersburg Times, Friday, July 3, 2009
It seems like most articles on the day after the Independence Day holiday usually report on military demonstrations or parades, rifle or gun shooting events, target practicing efforts, park fireworks, along with numerous pictures and displays of our country's flag.
While patriotism is a trait to be proud of occasionally, it seems on most national holidays, and especially on July Fourth, Old Glory and the military always are the focal points.
Patriotism and nationalism should not be built on nostalgia, symbols or politicians' generalities, but based on one's behavior or citizens' individual acts of conscience. Our country should be promoting virtues of liberty and acts of justice, rather than martial actions, wars or wrapping ourselves in the flag. READ FULL ARTICLE
"SOME DRAMA, NO ARRESTS AT MOORE PROTEST"
Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today Edition
Thursday, June 25, 2009
By KYLE MARTIN
Hernando Today
Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, electronic edition;
Thursday, June 25, 2009, printed edition (3 photos)
SPRING HILL - In the end, there were no arrests.There was some finger-pointing and excited shouting, but that was the limit of the drama at a protest Wednesday outside U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office in Spring Hill. The high noon rally was the culmination of a weeklong showdown between Brian Moore and the Brooksville Republican's staff.
Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today Edition
Thursday, June 25, 2009
By KYLE MARTIN
Hernando Today
Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, electronic edition;
Thursday, June 25, 2009, printed edition (3 photos)
SPRING HILL - In the end, there were no arrests.There was some finger-pointing and excited shouting, but that was the limit of the drama at a protest Wednesday outside U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office in Spring Hill. The high noon rally was the culmination of a weeklong showdown between Brian Moore and the Brooksville Republican's staff.
Moore, chairman of the NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, was pushing for the right to protest outside Brown-Waite's doors on Spring Hill Drive. She moved months ago from the downtown courthouse to provide more handicap access to her constituents, according to staff. READ FULL ARTICLE
CIVILITY MARKS PROTEST
St. Petersburg Times, Hernando Times Edition
By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer
Published Wednesday, June 24, 2009
BROOKSVILLE — They threatened civil disobedience.But when high noon came hot and humidly over U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's district office on Wednesday, the demonstrators obeyed the law.And it all went down civilly
.
Ten members of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice decided not to protest to the point of arrest when sheriff's deputies showed up at the Brooksville Republican's office and asked them to leave.
READ FULL ARTICLE
"DEMONSTRATORS EVICTED FOR TRESPASSING IN FRONT OF CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE FOR PROTESTING WAR AND PROMOTING A NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN"
Hernando News Source Blog
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
PROTESTERS BOW TO LANDLORD, SET UP ON ROAD
http://hernandonewssource.com/
After first setting up in front of Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite's office on private leasehold property along Spring Hill Drive, local Socialist Brian Moore and about a dozen protesters politely moved to the Spring Hill Drive right of way Wednesday as requested by two Hernando County sheriff's deputies.
At first, the media almost outnumbered the protesters, as Moore and friends lined up in front of Brown-Waite's office.
When a representative of landlord Regency Oak warned Moore and others to leave the property, Moore disputed his right to do so, on the basis of the public use of the office by a federal representative, and initially stood his ground.
As dead-tree media reporters scribbled, Moore's tune began to change when a deputy arrived to enforce a previous trespass warning.
And when a second deputy arrived, Moore and about a dozen other protesters reluctantly headed for the right of way adjacent to the leased buildings.
Moore has complained that the right of way is dangerous and gives them no safe place to protest the Congresswoman's policies. Wednesday's protest was aimed specifically at health care reform. Moore said the flags his group waved represented the countries around the world that have adopted single-payer systems.
"ACTIVIST LEANS TOWARD CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE"
Tampa Tribune
Hernando Today Edition, Thursday, June 18, 2009
By Kyle Martin
Brian Moore sees two choices. He can take his protest to the road and risk getting flattened by traffic. Or he can stage a rally on private property and take the chance of getting arrested.
At this juncture, Moore's leaning towards "civil disobedience." Chair of the NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, Moore asked for permission last week to hold a two-hour protest outside the offices of U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville. READ FULL ARTICLE...
"MORE TO MOORE'S PROTEST"
Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today Edition
By KYLE MARTIN, Reporter
Brooksville, Florida, June 13, 2009
[Front Page Article, head pictures of Republican Congresswoman Brown-Waite and Brian Moore, side-dy-side]
When U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite moved her offices to a storefront on Spring Hill Drive, she signed a lease that prohibits public demonstrations on the private property. Her staff said Friday that's a standard clause in all Congressional lease agreements. Brian Moore, chair of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice, believes it's an infringement on his Constitutional rights. READ FULL ARTICLE
SINGLE-PAYER RALLY
Tampa, Florida,
May 28, 2009
At Single-Payer Rally in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday, May 28, 2009,
Brian is confronted by federal marshals and ordered to remove flags
of foreign countries with national health plans. Brian had inserted the
flags in topless parking meters in front of the federal building which had
three-foot high open-ended pipes for easy flagpole insertions.
See more photos in our photo gallery
BRIAN MOORE FILES 5TH CIRCUIT BRIEF AGAINST MISSISSIPPI
June 8th, 2009
On June 8, Brian Moore, the 2008 Socialist Party presidential nominee, filed his brief in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, in the 5th circuit. The issue is whether the Secretary of State should have accepted the paperwork to put Moore on the ballot last year.
Mississippi election laws generally specifiy that certain paperwork is due by 5 p.m. of the deadline day. However, the law does not set a time deadline for paperwork involving presidential elector candidates; the law merely says the deadline is 60 days before the general election.... READ FULL ARTICLE
BRIAN RALLIES FOR NATIONALIZED HEALTH PLAN
Tampa, Florida,
May 28, 2009
Brian Moore joins 25 to 30 other demonstrators in downtown Tampa, Florida, at a rally for HR 676, a "single-payer health plan" bill now before the U.S. Congress. The demonstration took place on Thursday, May 28th, at the offices of U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, which a small contingent visited, and in front of the Sam M. Gibbons Federal Courthouse and office buiilding. Moore's sign read "Nationalize Health Care, Now!."
A competing group of 15 to 20 protestors were also rallying closeby, objecting to any federalized health plan and trying to shout down the single-payer advocates. They called themselves the "9-12 group."
May 17, 2009
Brian is interviewed on "Left Jab" Sirius XM Channel 167 Radio, with hosts Mark Walsh and David Goodfriend.
The hosts were told, in a nationwide Sunday evening broadcast, that "President Obama is not a socialist, not even a Democrat, but that he actually behaves like a Republican." The interview is in two ten-minute segments, with the first part starting about 3-4 minutes into the first segment.
Listen to segment 1 
5/17/2009) 05-17-09 Left Jab Hour 1 Segment 2: Brian Moore
Left Jab hosts Mark Walsh and David Goodfriend continue their conversation with the Chairman of the Socialist Party in Florida and former Presidential Candidate Brian Moore.
Listen to segment 2 (5/17/2009) 05-17-09 Left Jab Hour 1 Segment 2: Brian Moore
Left Jab hosts Mark Walsh and David Goodfriend welcome Brian Moore, graduate of ASU and the Chairman of the Socialist Party of Florida, to defend his party from accusations that moderate President Obama is one of his own.
DEMOCRATIC RADIO ASKS SOCIALIST TO REFUTE REPUBLICANS' CLAIM "OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST" Brian Moore Agrees: Obama is Not a Socialist, Not Even a Democrat; But Behaves as a Republican
Washington, DC, Monday, May 18, 2009: "Left Jab" Sirius XM Radio hosts, Mark Walsh and David Goodfriend, were told, in a nationwide May 17th, Sunday evening broadcast, that "President Obama is not a socialist, not even a Democrat, but behaves like a Republican." This surprise response came from their socialist guest, Brian Moore, Chairman of the Socialist Party of Florida and former 2008 presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA. READ FULL ARTICLE
The Democratic Daily Blog
HANNITY'S 'TREE OF LIBERTY' BEARS BOGUS FRUIT
[Getting to Know the Socialist Party USA]
By: Berry Craig
May 18th, 2009 @ 11:31 am
(excerpted)
The Republicans started knocking Obama as a “socialist” on the campaign trail last year, hoping to scare voters to their man, McCain. Obama clobbered McCain.
Since he was inaugurated, the president’s approval ratings have been way up, according to polls. The same surveys show the GOP is popularity-challenged.
The polls don’t rate Brian P. Moore, last year’s Socialist Party U.S.A. presidential candidate. Moore got only 6,528 votes, according to the Federal Election Commission.
But the GOP’s “socialist” slam on Obama is grabbing Moore some press. He has been on the Colbert Report and C-Span insisting Obama isn’t a socialist. He’s been saying the same thing on the radio and in other media, too.
Moore claims Obama isn’t even a liberal. He says the president is a “centrist.”
READ FULL ARTICLE
REP.GINNY BROWN-WAITE RELOCATES BROOKSVILLE OFFICE; DETRACTORS QUESTION MOTIVE
By John Frank, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, May 2, 2009
Smart move or a side step?
BROOKSVILLE — In the world of politics, minutiae matters as much as foreign policy and conspiracies occupy every street corner.....
..."I suspect it was a move to give her more privacy and not be so accessible to the public," said Brian Moore, a tireless Spring Hill activist who ran for president on the Socialist Party USA ticket. READ FULL ARTICLE
North Carolina Radio Station, News Talk host Bill Lumaye Interviews Brian About Socialism,
and How Obama is not one of them!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Obama is not a Socialist!
Brian Moore, 2008 Presidential Nominee of the Socialist Party USA says President Obama is NOT a Socialist.
MP3 File
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http://www.wptf.com/goout.asp?u=http://billlumaye.blogspot.com/
A 12-minute interview with Brian Moore by a North Carolina radio station, WPTF 680, News Talk with host Bill LuMaye
Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today
edition, Monday, April 13, 2009
"Rallies planned Wednesday for health care, taxation"
Old Courthouse Will Be Epicenter of Free Speech
By TONY MARRERO
Demonstrators determined to speak up about two separate issues will descend Wednesday on the county seat.
The historic courthouse in downtown Brooksville will be the site of two unrelated rallies, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Both rallies hit on raw nerves for many Americans: taxation and health care.
Supporters of a single-payer health care system will assemble from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. outside U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office in the old courthouse, 20. N. Main St. .......
Demonstrators seek to put pressure on Congress to approve HR 676, said Brian Moore, chairman of the peace coalition. The bill, dubbed United States National Health Care Act would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care system that expands the already existing Medicare program to all U.S. residents.
Brian Moore's Panel Interview on Cable FoxNewsBusiness.com TV "Cashin' In" Program
Saturday, Aprill 11, 2009
Host: Terry Keenan
Radio 700 WLW, Cincinnati, Ohio
Conservative Talk Show Host, Mike McConnell
"Is Obama a Socialist? The guest is Brian Moore, the former Socialist candidate for President"
Recorded Live, Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Released, Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Double-click on "listen" box below to hear 20-minute interview, or go to one of links below to locate the 3/24/09, hour 2 interview.
http://www.700wlw.com:80/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=mike_mcconnell.xml
Mike McConnell 3/24/09 Hour 2
Is Obama a socialist? The guest is Brian Moore, the former Socialist candidate for President
READ WRITTEN SUMMARY OF 20-MINUTE INTERVIEW:
FLORIDA PEACE GROUPS RALLY AGAINST IRAQ, AFGHANIS-TAN AND PAKISTAN WARS;
BLAST BANKS and BAILOUT Uncertainty Over Obama Motivates Antiwar Protesters;
Calls for More Domestic Spending and Citizen Control
MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, Friday, April 3, 2009: 150 antiwar protestors in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, March 28th, representing over 50 Florida antiwar and social justice groups, criticized America's policies and President Obama's ongoing and delayed war in Iraq, plus the U.S.'s increasing aggression in Afghanistan and continuing bombings in Pakistan. READ MORE...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
MARCHERS SEEK TO FOCUS ON HOME
Peace rally demands an end to war, more money for domestic issues
BY KEYONNA SUMMERS
FLORIDA TODAY
MELBOURNE -- Colorful banners, speeches, music and food were among the sights and sounds Saturday at a peace rally and march calling for an end to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and more focus on domestic issues, such as jobs, hunger, education and health care. READ FULL ARTICLE
RADIO FREE KANSAS
BLOG TALK RADIO
Mike Caddell of RADIO FREE KANSAS, Airs Interview of the Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate for 2008, Brian Moore, Friday, March 20, 2009
Mike's website (http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/2009/03/meet-brian-moore-on-radio-free-kansas.html) has the name of "Fightin' Cock Flyer," and it is part of Radio Free Kansas, via blog talk radio. Mike recently interviewed Ray McGovern, former CIA agent and social activist; and Cindy Sheehan, antiwar activist.
Brian's interview was initially aired Thursday evening, March 19th, at 10 PM Central Time, and will be on Mike's website for the week of March 20 thru the 27th. Anyone can call in to Mike's show every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 10 PM to 12 midnight, Central Time, by dialing 646-716-8652.
Fightin' Cock Flyer: Meet Brian Moore on Radio Free Kansas!
By Michael Caddell, March 20, 2009
If you missed last night's segment on Radio Free Kansas, check it out by clicking the play button. Brian Moore ran for president in 2008 on the Socialist Party, USA ticket. A group in Kansas took up his campaign, click here..Fightin' Cock Flyer
To read the notes and highlights click here
"Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know."
By Billy Wharton (Socialist Magazine Editor)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
It took a massive global financial crisis, a failed military adventure and a popular repudiation of the Republican Party to make my national television debut possible. After 15 years of socialist political organizing -- everything from licking envelopes and handing out leaflets to the more romantic task of speaking at street demonstrations -- I found myself in the midtown Manhattan studio of the Fox Business Network on a cold February evening. Who ever thought that being the editor of the Socialist magazine, circulation 3,000, would launch me on a cable news career?
READ FULL ARTICLE...
"Brian's footnote:"
The Washington Post Newspaper published a 1,300 word op-ed article on "Socialism and Obama," in its Sunday, March 15, 2009 edition, written by the Socialist Party magazine editor, Billy Wharton. Brian's role as the former 2008 Socialist Party presidential candidate was referenced in the article due to his national interview on the Stephen Colbert Comedy Central show, and exposure on/in other TV, radio, blogs and newspapers as well.
However, it would be remiss not to give a special note of recognition to the earlier pioneering efforts of Brian's socialist candidacy by reporter Michael Kruse of the St. Petersburg Times; Managing Editor Randy Barrett of The National Journal and FoxNews TV Host, Neil Cavuto (four national program interviews).
[Some other important Tampa and Florida area contributors include Tampa Tribune's columnist Tom Jackson and reporter Tony Marrero, Bay News 9 TV reporter Fernando Zogbaum, Tampa Community WMNF Radio's Rob Lorei and TBCN TV's Chris Krimitsis; St. Augustine Community TV hostess Norma Sherry and Sarasota's Steve of Surreal Radio WSLR, 96.5 FM]" ... Brian
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DELAYED AND LIMITED TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ PROTESTED AS "UNACCEPTABLE"
TAMPA, FLORIDA, Sunday, March 1, 2009: Socialist activist Brian Moore joined other antiwar protestors on radio Friday to criticize President Obama's delayed (19 months) and limited troop withdrawal from Iraq (50,000 to remain) as "totally unacceptable." Moore stated on Tampa Community Radio WMNF 88.5 FM Friday evening, February 27th, http://www.wmnf.org/program_strips/show/357 that American soldiers remaining in Iraq will still be actively involved in "combat, intelligence and continuing military search missions."
READ MORE...
Click here for the full [Free Speech Radio] newscast for Friday, February 27, 2009
ALL HAIL COMRADE LINDSEY GRAHAM
posted by John Nichols on February 17,2009 @ 12:44pm
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's usual allies are not impressed with the Republican senator's suggestion that the time might have come to start nationalizing banks.
"Did hell just officially freeze over?" grumbled Fox News host Stuart "I am refugee from (British socialism)" Varney, "A top Republican senator says he is open to nationalizing our banks..."
So opened a segment where Varney welcomed Brian Moore, the Socialist Party's 2008 presidential candidate, to the cable redoubt of yahoo economics.
Moore agreed with Comrade Graham's prognosis.
Varney did not.
And it made for a bizarre (yet oddly refreshing) five minutes of something akin to debate about the current economic crisis.
Read full article...
SOCIALIST AGREES WITH U.S. REPUBLICAN SENATOR IN 'NATIONALIZING THE BANKS'
GOP senator under fire for 'nationalizing the banks' comment. Socialist Brian Moore concurs with nationalization idea on television's Fox News Program
Tampa Bay, Florida, Monday, February 16, 2009
Stuart Varney of Fox News and Brian Moore, Socialist Party of America.
Click here to view the video of the interview provided on the Fox News website.(first 30 seconds ad, please be patient)
Brian Moore, the former presidential candidate for the socialist Party USA in 2008, appeared on FoxNews.com TV's Neil Cavuto's program, today, Monday, February 16, 2009, in response to Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina's statement on a Sunday ABC talk show that he supports 'nationalizing the banks.'
Brian Moore says he agrees.
Fox News TV's substitute host, British born Stuart Varney, in for regular host Neil Cavuto of "Your World" business' Monday program, interviewed Socialist Brian Moore, in an aggressive exchange that covered four and one-half minutes on the Fox News TV's Business program Monday afternoon.
Host Varney, an obvious immigrant from England, immediately questioned Moore if he had ever lived in a socialist country. He attacked Moore because of his (Varney's) "own personal experience with socialism" saying that socialism was "awful" and a "moral construct" and that under socialism "favored groups" gained all the benefits at the expense of everyone else. Moore countered that "capitalism has sapped our society, not socialism."
Moore exclaimed that "possibly $2.5 trillion of taxpayer and worker's money may have already been allocated to American banks, in the form of a bailout, by our federal government through the private actions of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
In response to Varney's accusation that "politicians will decide on how the money is distributed under socialism," Moore countered that to the contrary, "We believe that the financial system of the country should be managed by an independent democratically controlled financial commission, made up of consumers, accountants and economists, who would set policy and distribute loans through cooperatives, credit unions and state-run banks. Moore said, to the contrary, Socialism would "de-centralize government, not enhance it."
Moore's stated after the television interview that his strong statement and high figure of 2.5 trillion dollars is seldom mentioned on television or in the press despite the suspicion amongst congress and the fourth estate that "we may be in the Great Depression right now, directly due to Mr. Bernanke's quiet and early actions, under the guise of the Federal Reserve, plus capitalism's own irresponsible and greedy actions."
Fox News Host Varney exclaimed that "America survived the depression due to capitalism, and not due to socialism and communism." Varney also said that Under socialism, "money is controlled by favored groups, not the free market, and decided by a Politburo." Moore immediately criticized capitalism, and defended socialism stating that America "survived the depression due in part to the acceptance of social programs (child labor laws, workers compensation, unemployment insurance, social security, government work programs, collective bargaining, etc. advocated by the Socialist Party. Moore added that these programs were reluctantly, but ultimately, embraced by both the Democrats and Republicans during the Depression period. Moore contended that it was because of those socialist programs that the country "partially improved its economic situation."
OBAMA STIMULUS BILL CRITICIZED AS "THE WRONG ACTION" BY SOCIALIST, ON HOUSTON RADIO STATION
Houston radio station KTRH 740 AM
Treasury Secretary Geithner's Effort to Stabilize Banks "Doomed to Fail, Also," says Socialist, Brian Moore
Tampa Bay (Spring Hill), FLORIDA, February 10, 2009
Socialist Party member Brian Moore agreed with President Obama's words that a failure to act swiftly and boldly on a massive economic recovery bill "could turn a crisis into a catastrophe." However, the former socialist presidential candidate in 2008 said that the Stimulus Bill is "the wrong action to take" and predicted that the $828 billion package approved by the U.S. Senate today, and Treasury Secretary Geithner's economic plans for the banks and investors, are both "doomed to fail." Read full article...
DONALD TRUMP AND THE SOCIALISTS VERSUS THE CEOs
posted by John Nichols on February 6, 2009 @ 5:17pm
There has been a good deal of grumbling from Wall Street about President Obama's proposal to cap CEO pay at companies that accept federal bailout money.
The line of complaint generally comes around to the question: "How can you get good help for $500,000?
Donald Trump--who knows a thing or two about attracting executive talent, or at least plays someone who does on TV -- thinks that's silly.
The other night, CNN's Larry King asked the Trump Organization CEO what he thought about the president's plan to set some executive pay limits:
KING: Is Obama right or wrong to go after these executives with salary caps?
TRUMP: Well, I think he's absolutely right. Billions of dollars is being given to banks and others. You know, once you start using taxpayer money, it's a whole new game. So I absolutely think he's right.
The Socialists agree.
Here's a statement from Brian Moore, who was the Socialist Party candidate for president last year--and who made the very good point that, despite what Sarah Palin said, Barack Obama was neither a capital "S" nor a small "s" socialist: READ MORE...
PRESIDENT OBAMA JOINS BRIAN MOORE IN CAPPING CEO AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE PAY
Socialist Presidential Candidate Advocated Executive Caps In 2008 Campaign; Says, "This is Good Start Toward Socialism"
TAMPA BAY (Spring Hill), FLORIDA, February 5, 2009 —President Barack Obama, who on Wednesday imposed $500,000 caps on senior executive pay for the most distressed financial institutions receiving federal bailout money, saying Americans are upset with "executives being rewarded for failure," has joined his 2008 minor party opponent who called for executive caps throughout the presidential election campaign. Read more...
SOCIALIST BRIAN MOORE OPPOSES NOMINATION OF ERIC HOLDER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, CALLS SUPPORT AND RATIONALE OF SENATORS WEAK
January 30th, 2009
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By 2008 Socialist Party USA Presidential candidate Brian Moore. Forwarded to contact.ipr@gmail.com by former IPR correspondent Peter Orvetti, and posted here by Paulie. Disclosure: I worked as an independent contractor to help Moore get on the ballot in several states in 2008.
U.S. Attorney General Nominee Opposed; Support and Rationale By Senators Of Candidate Is Weak–Claims Civic Critic
Access to Voice Dissent on Eric Holder Nomination Blocked at Almost Every Turn
SPRING HILL, FLORIDA, Friday, January 30, 2009 — A blistering letter of criticism for “unfair access to the nomination process” and “shaky support of the candidate by senators of both major parties” was faxed today from a civic activist in Florida to Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, regarding the nomination hearings of Eric H. Holder, Jr. for United States Attorney General. READ MORE....
HERNANDO COUNTY RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES GATHER TO WATCH OBAMA MAKE HISTORY
St. Petersburg Times
Newspaper, Hernando Edition January 21, 2009
By Joel Anderson, Times Staff Writer
"…..Hernando County's own presidential contender, Spring Hill resident Brian Moore of the Socialist Party USA, watched the inauguration at home with his wife and said he hoped to have the ear of the new president in the future."
"I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt," said Moore, who sent Obama a congratulatory letter following the election. "We would hope that he would move in our direction. I mentioned Socialism throughout the entire letter."
SPRING HILL — Charlene Johnston could have been one of the thousands in Washington, D.C., bundled tight in winter clothes to brave the cold, fighting through the crowds and basking in the moment unfolding at the U.S. Capitol. Read full article
MIDDLE
EAST DELICATE TOPIC, EVEN IN PEACE GROUP
Tampa Tribunes Hernando Edition, Hernando Today, January 9, 2009
By Tony Marerro
The Middle East crisis is so divisive that even members of the local peace group can come down on opposite sides.
Several members of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice declined to participate in a demonstration Wednesday at the corner of U.S. 19 and Cortez Boulevard to oppose Israel's campaign against Palestinians in Gaza and forcing the U.S. government to condemn the action.
Read Full Article...
GAZA PROTEST HITS THE ROAD IN WEEKI WACHEE
ST. Peterburg Times Newspaper, Hernando Edition January 8, 2009
By Will Vragovic, Times photographer
Members and supporters of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice hold signs at U.S. 19 and State Road 50 in Weeki Wachee on Wednesday. The coalition organized the demonstration to protest the conflict in the Gaza Strip, the failing economic system and other issues. “We have a conscience, and there are innocent civilians dying” in Gaza, coalition chairman Brian Moore said on his blog. “We’ve been getting everything from honks to fingers today,” he said of the demonstration. Read full article.
MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT PROMPTS PEACE COALITION TO DEMONSTRATE
TAMPA TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER, January 6, 2009, Hernando Today Edition
by Tony Marrero
The war in Iraq has given the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice plenty to protest in the last five years.Now the latest conflict between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza has prompted the group to act.
Members will set up at one of their favorite spots this Wednesday to protest what coalition president Brian Moore called Israel's "disproportionate response to a minimal threat." Read full article
MISSISSIPPI NEWSPAPER MENTIONS "10 MINUTES TOO LATE" LAWSUIT
December 28th, 2009
The December 28 issue of the Biloxi, Mississippi, Sun Herald, has this story about Brian Moore’s ongoing lawsuit to settle the exact deadline for candidates to file presidential elector paperwork to be on the ballot. The lawsuit is more than a year old, and is far from being settled. This is apparently the first time that any newspaper in Mississippi has mentioned the case.
Sun Herald Newspaper
Biloxi-Gulfport, and South Mississippi
ANALYSIS: MISS. BALLOT DEADLINE DISPUTE LINGERS
By Jack Elliott Jr. - Associated Press Writer,
Monday, December 28, 2009
He sends his qualifying papers by taxi to the Mississippi secretary of state's office. The cab driver arrives at 5 p.m. on the day qualifying is to end. The office is closed. The cabbie leaves the papers on the doorstep.
The filing deadline is unmet, and the candidate's name is left off the ballot.
The candidate sues.
A year of legal wrangling later and Brian Moore is back at square one. He's the Socialist Party USA presidential candidate in 2008 who wanted to be on the Mississippi ballot as the Natural Law Party nominee.
READ FULL ARTICLE
On December 18, 2009, Three Republican Judges (2 President Reagan & 1 President Bush appointee) in the 5th District Federal Court Ruled in Favor of Socialist Party Presidential Candidate in the State of Mississippi.
It was the first time the conservative 5th Circuit has issued an opinion favorable to a minor party or independent candidate since 1996, when it invalidated a Texas law requiring independent candidate petitions to include the voter registration affidavit number of each petition signer.
Moore's attorney, Mark Brown, Esq., a law professor at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, stated that "...it is safe to say that the Fifth Circuit agreed with Moore that Mississippi’s deadline is ambiguous. If the Mississippi Legislature changes the deadline to clearly state 5:00 p.m., then Moore will have achieved at least one objective–forcing Mississippi to clearly state its deadline. Even then, Moore can still win a more important point in federal court; that is, state agents do not have the constitutional authority to establish deadlines for presidential elections under Article II."
FIFTH CIRCUIT SAYS THAT MISSISSIPPI "10 MINUTES TOO LATE" CASE IS NOT MOOT; TELLS LOWER COURT TO SETTLE THE ISSUE
December 19th, 2009
On December 18, the 5th circuit issued an opinion in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, the case filed by Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore last year, when the Mississippi Secretary of State refused to accept his presidential elector paperwork because it was submitted at 5:10 p.m. on the filing deadline. The Secretary of State rejected the paperwork because it arrived ten minutes after he had closed his office. The building itself was still open, so the paperwork had been left at the door of the Secretary of State’s office. READ FULL ARTICLE
PEACE GROUP EXPERIENCES MORE PUBLIC ENCOUNTERS DURING SATURDAY WAR PROTESTS
Despite Growing Public Support Against Wars, Individuals Engage Protestors for Second Time With Racial Slurs and Taunts of Being Traitors
Weeki Wachee, FLORIDA, Wednesday, December 16, 2009:
Despite the growing public support against America's two wars in the middle east, The NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice encountered four hostile individuals in four separate incidents Saturday, December 12th, during its antiwar protest at the Weeki Wachee Park intersection on U.S. Highway 19 and State Road 50.
One individual drove his late model Dodge Ram pickup truck into the CVS parking lot, behind the departing demonstrators, and began harassing them with verbal taunts, offering to "take them to any country they wanted to go to, as long as it wasn't in America." The older gentleman told the departing protestors as their demonstration was ending, that they were "Un-American" and acting "against our troops." The cowboy-hatted driver also pulled a camera out and starting taking pictures of the small group of eight demonstrators. (See attached picture of harasser in truck with camera in hand, taken by a Coalition protestor).
A second individual, while waiting at the intersection light, during the protest, used a racial slur, the "N" word, against President Obama, despite the protestors opposition to the Obama Administration's new war policy in sending 30,000 more troops to fight in Afghanistan. This is the second local antiwar demonstration in a row, within two weeks, that passersby have made derogatory racial slurs about President Obama.
A third individual also drove his Toyota Rav4 vehicle into the CVS parking lot, and double-parked it along the frontage road, disembarking from the vehicle and approached the protestors along the edge of U.S. Highway 19. The person was very agitated, about 55 years old, and starting yelling about being a Vietnam veteran, highly decorated with military pins on his hat, showing his stomach scars from the war, and complained that as an American-Hispanic he was not being treated fairly by a local merchant. The person complained about a general store on Cortez Blvd. back in the Weeki Wachee area, where the merchant never spoke with him, and told him the reason was because of his ethnic makeup. After ten minutes, the gentleman left.
A fourth individual, also while stopped at the intersection light, yelled to the group to "bring the troops home, but to nuke Iraq."
Throughout the 90 minute demonstration, the vast majority of passersby, who did react, honked their horns in support, or gave the group thumbs up signs of approval and good will.
The peace group also gained a new member that same day when a woman, who had read about the demonstration in the newspaper, stopped her car, parked in the CVS parking lot and joined the coalition in its protest. She also volunteered to participate in any future demonstrations. Two weeks ago, two other passersby stopped their cars, who were military veterans from previous wars, and gave their moral support to the group directly in front of them, to carry on, as well.
The antiwar protest occurred simultaneous with the annual Christmas parade which was being held in Brooksville, which started at the same time, 10 AM. No press or media attended the antiwar event
THIRT-PARTY CHANGE NEEDED
The Independent Political Report and the Tampa Tribune December 16, 2009
Blaise Ingoglia's guest column last week in Hernando Today, which was critical of third parties for undermining the two major parties' future existence, was laughable.
The only threat to his Republican Party, and to the Democratic Party for that matter, is the ineffectual and destructive policies they advocate and legislate. Furthermore, they are also responsible for the dollars they allocate in such a wasteful fashion, which have caused our economic crisis, high unemployment, a broken health care system and the downward spiralof poverty that continues unabated now amongst the middle class, as well as the lower economic classes, unabated in America. Read Full Article
SHERIFF'S INTERNAL INVESTIGATION OF FUGITIVE DROWNING PROMPTS ACTIVIST TO REQUEST FORMAL REVIEW BY STATE & FEDERAL OFFICES
Hunter's Lake, Spring Hill, Hernando/Pasco Counties, FLORIDA: Tuesday, December 8, 2009:
Hunter's Lake, Spring Hill, Hernando/Pasco Counties, FLORIDA: Tuesday, December 8, 2009:
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Photo of Hernando County Sheriff helicopter hovering over Hunter Lake spot where fugitive James "Little Man" Rayford just went under water and subsequently drowned, September 10, 2009. Did the sheriff helicopter cause his death?
Activist says New Eyewitnesses' Accounts Incriminates Sheriff Department of Flawed/Sloppy Chase and Pilot's Deadly Actions // Helicopter Video "Not Used"
Pilot Admits to "Being 3 feet above water surface," Six feet from Fugitive, Knocking off hat, and Saying Kayak 'Could Have Flipped into Air' from Velocity of Rotor Blades
The Internal Affairs investigation of the Hernando County Sheriff's actions in fugitive James "Little Man" Rayford's drowning on Hunter's Lake on September 10, 2009, while clearing its' own department of any culpability, includes numerous statements by a collection of new eyewitnesses, deputies and bondspeople, raising serious questions about the two sheriff departments' innocence. If anything, the new information, according to an activist, "incriminates the two departments in causing Mr. Rayford's death."
According to a local Hunter Lake resident, Brian Moore, the new eyewitness accounts in the internal Hernando County Sheriff's report "substantiates the first eyewitnesses' reports" which Moore originally referred to the sheriffs' departments, despite their subsequent backtracking and denials.
Moore said, even the pilot's recorded comments in the official report (see below), and other eyewitnesses accounts (also see below), "gives clear evidence" and substantiate the first reported personal eyewitness reports that the helicopter pilot "could have easily caused the fleeing fugitive's death" by his "deliberate actions" with the air unit. Moore said "one could easily surmise" that the pilot was flying a large helicopter machine too low and was hovering its powerful rotating blades too close over the fugitive in a small kayak boat, before, during and after Mr. Rayford disappeared below the water. The pilot appears to have been menacing, hovering and pushing his machine near the fugitive, and, by the pilot's own admission about the strength and power of the velocity of the rotor blades, Moore said the pilot could have "caused Rayford's boat to flip, causing him to fall out of the kayak, be forced under the water several times and subsequently to cause his drowning"
READ FULL ARTICLE AND LETTERS INCLUDING LETTER TO GOVERNER CRIST
CAPITOLWATCH, CONNECTICUT POLITICS
By Christopher Keating, The Hartford [Connecticut] Courant's Capitol bureau chief
1 of 4 Comments
By Todd Vachon on December 1, 2009 11:37 PM
Socialist Party Presidential candidate Brian Moore, Vice-Presidential candidate Stewart Alexander and myself, candidate for U.S. Congress here in CT, would have gladly informed the public that we stood for an immediate end of both wars. We also would have reminded people that mandating private health insurance is only socialism for the insurance corporations and that bailing out bankers is yet further welfare for millionaires and billionaires...
We hope that the disenchanted popular movement that brought this administration into power on a tide of "hope" and "change" will not walk away and become apathetic. We invite them instead to join a real movement for real change starting tomorrow, Wednesday Dec. 2, at 4:30pm by joining us and dozens of other groups to protest the war escalation in front of the Federal Buildings in Hartford and New Haven and demand that our public assets return home to serve our public good!
If Obama's a socialist, his comrades aren't happy
By
Daniela Altimari
on December 1, 2009 11:00 PM | Comments (4) |
The Socialist Party of Connecticut tonight is denouncing President Obama's plan to escalate the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.
"Amidst the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama has mistakenly chosen to dedicate yet more resources, manpower and lives to military interventionism,'' the group said in a press release issued just hours after Obama's speech at West Point.
Tomorrow at 4:30 p.m., socialist activists intend to hold a pair of demonstrations against the war. They will join other groups in front the federal building in Hartford to voice their displeasure. A similar protest is planned in front of the federal building in New Haven.
The Socialist Party of CT finds this course to be foolhardy and wasteful,'' the press release states. "We advocate instead for an immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. The seemingly endless pool of public money spent on war could far better serve the unemployed, underemployed and uninsured people of the United States by creating a public works program and a single-payer national health insurance plan."
The group also alludes to conservative critics, who continually paint Obama, a Democrat, as a socialist, and takes the media to task as well.
"During the 2008 presidential campaign the mainstream media made a big to-do about claims that Mr. Obama was a 'socialist' and yet did little or nothing to find out what the actual socialist candidates thought about the issues,'' the release states.
BRIAN'S LETTER-TO-EDITOR: "RADICAL CHANGE NEEDED FOR ALL"
St. Petersburg Times, Hernando Edition, December 2, 2009
The recent letter (Nov. 26, 2009) saying better days are ahead and the letter writer defending himself as a blind optimist reminds one of what most critics say of those of us who are promoting socialism in America. They say we are naive, grasping at windmills and unrealistic of how the world operates.
However, the shoe now fits on the other foot. What the writer says is true, that life spans are longer, homes are bigger, food is more affordable and more education available. But that is not true for everyone, and each day fewer and fewer Americans have such a luxury or such a privilege.
I am not thankful for where our country is today, or where we, as a nation, are going. I can understand the writer’s limited and false perspective, though, because he is relatively secure in his retired lifestyle. He must have multiple pensions, excellent health insurance and probably has never experienced the insecurity of looking for a job, much less losing gainful employment after many years of steady work.
I too am optimistic, but my optimism is not blind, it is based on a belief that by radically altering our economic system we will be able to survive as a nation and for more people (i.e. the entire population) to share in the benefits of full health, housing, employment and education, all as a right, and not as an economic privilege.
Brian P. Moore, Spring Hill, Florida
PROTEST OF IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN WARS DRAWS NEW,
DIFFERENT RESPONSES
Bush Hate Gone/Obama Hate Emerges/More Positive-Calmer Opposition to Wars/
News Reporting Changes
Weeki Wachee, FLORIDA, Saturday, November 28, 2009: The NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, conducted another of its antiwar demonstrations on Saturday, November 28, after a hiatus of four to six months, and discovered "new and different responses" from the passing cars and public. READ FULL ARTICLE
SOCIALIST RAISES ALARM ABOUT BEING UNPREPARED FOR ECONOMIC CHAOS CAUSING GOVERNMENTAL COLLAPSE
Center for Inquiry Invite in Tampa Gives Socialist Opportunity to Share Concerns About The Rise of Dictators and Fascism When a Nation Cannot Change
Tampa, FLORIDA, Tuesday, November 21, 2009:
Socialist activist Brian Moore warned a group of mostly public school teachers, college professors and attorneys, in the small audience, of the dangers of nations not prepared for severe economic crises causing governmental collapse. The speaker further warned that such a state of affairs could bring on unwanted social and political conditions resulting in countries being controlled by dictators, without the rule of law, and the loss of basic freedoms. READ FULL ARTICLE
THREE RADIO INTERVIEWS AND COLLEGE PRESENTATION KEEP SOCIALIST BUSY IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER
Brian Moore was interviewed from North Carolina by host Bill LuMaye in a 24-minute interview on news and talk radio station WTPF in the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Fayetteville) with a population base of 2 million people. The interview was conducted live on October 22nd (see following link or summary below). The interview remains on the station's website: http://www.wptf.com/goout.asp?u=http://billlumaye.blogspot.com/.
On Friday, November 13th, from Houston, Texas, Clear Channel radio station 740 KTRH, with host Bill O'Brien, conducted a 12-minute interview of Brian, which was aired in the Houston, Texas metro area, with a metropolitan population base of 5.7 million people. The interview was played several times per day from November 13th thru the 15th (no web link). Texas Governor Rich Perry accused President Obama of being a socialist, which enabled Brian to address the issues of capitalism and socialism.
Brian also had another radio interview, from a faith-based radio station in the Norfolk,Virginia area, which also covers the west central region of Florida.
Host David Allan Carmichael, of station WILF, 104.3, entitled "Faith and Freedom," interviewed Brian on October 8th with the theme of "[Carmichael] Counters Claim That 'Jesus Was a Socialist.' " David uses quotes from Jesus and the Socialist Party website to prove that Jesus was not only not a Socialist, but that the socialist dogma and modus operandi is also anti-Christ like. The host planted the question more than Brian initiating the theme.
Mr. Carmichael posted the interview on October 16th. He breaks his program into four parts, with Brian's comments coming in the middle of the fourth part:
http://faithfreedoms.net/2009/10/16/faith-and-freedom--counter-to-claim-jesus-was-a-socialist.aspx.
Part four follows with Brian finally calling in halfway through this fourth segment: http://www.faithfreedoms.org/audio/podcasts/wifl9oct2009carmichael6.mp3
On October 29th, A "Patriot Politics" Group of college students, of different political persuasions, from Central Florida Community College, in Ocala, Florida, hosted a two-hour session on "Socialism" with invited guest, former Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore. No tape or video was made of the engaging and spirited event.
Radio: A REAL SOCIALIST TALKS ABOUT CAPITALISM
Raleigh, North Carolina
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Bill LuMaye Radio Show
Blog Archive
A Real Socialist talks about Capitalism
2008 Socialist candidate for President Brian Moore, in a 24-minute radio interview, tells Bill whats wrong with capitalism and how a socialist economy could save America.
MP3 File
Posted by Sundays at 6 PM on 680 WPTF
WITNESS STATEMENTS IN RAYFORD REPORT ADD CONFUSION
by Kent Weissinger, Friday, November 13, 2009
An internal affairs investigator for the Hernando County Sheriff's Office interviewed 10 lay witnesses, 6 Hernando deputies, 4 Pasco deputies, and an assistant medical examiner for a report on the drowning death of Pasco fugitive James Rayford. The report concluded allegations of unnecessary force were unfounded.
The convicted felon disappeared below the surface of Hunters Lake two months ago while swimming away from a hovering HCSO helicopter. Spring Hill political activist Brian Moore quoted some witnesses as blaming the copter for Rayford's death, but those same witnesses told investigators that Moore didn't accurately report what they observed
At the same time, the 20 witnesses quoted in the report themselves gave conflicting statements about how close the helicopter was to Rayford and whether the rotor wash could have prevented him from staying afloat once he jumped from a kayak he was paddling toward an island in the lake. In fact, the variance in statements from those watching the incident with naked eyes or through binoculars could give Moore more fuel for the fire he lit in late September with e-mails to news media calling for the investigation.
HERNANDO DEPUTIES CLEARED IN FUGITIVE'S DROWNING
By Joel Anderson, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA— Complaints by local activist Brian Moore that deputies are responsible for the death of a 35-year-old fugitive are unfounded, an investigation by the Hernando County Sheriff's Office has determined.
The investigation results, released Tuesday, deal with the death of James "Little Man" Rayford, who was wanted in Pasco County on several warrants.
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INVESTIGATOR: MOORE 'HOUNDED WITNESSES'
By Tony Holt
Tampa Tribune Newspaper, Hernando Today Print Edition,
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Brian Moore ran for president last year on the Socialist Party ticket.
BROOKSVILLE - Try as he might, political activist Brian Moore could not uncover any wrongdoing on the part of the sheriff's office in the death of a fugitive who drowned two months ago during a pursuit.
When he first talked to eyewitnesses two months ago, they told him deputies were responsible, he said.
Now some of those same witnesses are saying Moore has "hounded" them. They told the lead investigator he tried to get them to describe something they didn't see, according to an internal affairs investigation. READ FULL ARTICLE
"TEN MINUTES TOO LATE TO FILE" CASE ARGUED IN 5TH CIRCUIT
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
On November 4, the 5th circuit heard arguments in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, the case that arose in 2008 when presidential elector declarations of candidacy for Brian Moore were turned in to the Mississippi Secretary of State at 5:10 p.m. The office was still open, but the Secretary of State said they were ten minutes too late. Brian Moore was the Socialist Party presidential candidate, although in Mississippi he had been nominated by the Natural Law Party, a ballot-qualified party.
Mississippi election laws do specify that 5 p.m. is the deadline for many other kinds of paperwork, but says nothing about 5 p.m. for anything concerning presidential elections. The Mississippi Secretary of State said he had his own regulation about that, but Article II of the U.S. Constitution says only state legislatures can write election procedures concerning presidential electors.
Judge Edith Jones seemed unsympathetic, but she might have been playing devils’ advocate. Judge Harold DeMoss seemed very interested in the case and asked tough questions for both sides. Judge Jerry Smith only asked about whether the case is moot.
ACTIVIST SPURS PROBE OF FUGITIVE'S DEATH
By TIMOTHY HOWSARE | Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today
Published: October 1, 2009; In Print: October 2, 2009
BROOKSVILLE - In response to a civic activist's claims of a cover-up, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office is conducting an internal investigation into the death of a fugitive who drowned Sept. 10 in Hunter's Lake.
Brian P. Moore, who ran as a Socialist Party candidate for president in 2008, claims sheriff's deputies may have been responsible for the death of James Rayford, 35, who was wanted in Pasco County on several warrants. Rayford drowned in the lake when authorities from both counties tried to apprehend him while he was attempting to flee in a kayak. READ FULL ARTICLE
ACTIVIST SEEKS INVESTIGATION OF FUGITIVE'S DROWNING
HENANDONEWSSOURCE.COM
by Kent Weissinger, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009
Spring Hill's resident socialist, Brian Moore, is on another crusade. Moore has written a letter to Hernando Sheriff Richard Nugent and Pasco Sheriff Bob White calling for internal affairs or independent citizens' investigations of the death of a fugitive who drowned on Hunter's Lake two weeks ago as deputies from both counties prepared to arrest him. The suspect, James "Little Man" Rayford, who was described as one of Pasco's most wanted criminals despite a record of mostly petty thefts, tried to get away from the deputies by paddling a canoe toward an island in the lake. According to accounts from law enforcement, Rayford fell from the small craft and drowned. Moore says he's talked to witnesses who claim that a sheriff's helicopter was operated "in a menacing manner," hovering very low over the boat with the fugitive in it, causing the boat "to flip up in the air" and overturn, throwing Rayford out of the boat and into the water. Moore said the witnesses told him that the helicopter continued to fly low as the fugitive surfaced twice before disappearing into the water. The witnesses, according to Moore's account, are refusing to confirm the reports to media representatives because of "family and spousal pressure and fear of retaliation by the sheriffs' departments." Hernando News Source has not yet received a response to a request for comment directed to the Hernando County Sheriff's office.
"SOCIALISM IS NOW A FOUR-LETTER WORD"
The Voyager, University of West Florida
Pensacola, Florida
By Mike Greear
Opinions Editor
Published: Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I hate talking about politics in this town. Being a non-conservative in Pensacola is like getting caught wearing the scarlet letter.
It sucks because whenever people want to talk about politics with me, I always wind up having to argue on the behalf of a certain ideology, even if that ideology isn’t mine.
I can’t just talk about it openly with people and share my thoughts with them.
They hear my point of view on it and immediately assign me to a label and begin arguing with me about it. And it’s funny because when they’re arguing with me, they’re actually just arguing with the label that they stamped me with.
BRIAN MOORE BALLOT ACCESS CASE AGAINST MISSISSIPPI GETS HEARING DATE IN 5TH CIRCUIT
September 18th, 2009
The Fifth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Moore v Hosemann in New Orleans, the week of November 2-6. The case concerns the Mississippi Secretary of State’s refusal to accept presidential elector paperwork for Brian Moore, the 2008 Socialist Party presidential candidate. The Secretary of State said the paperwork arrived ten minutes too late. However, the Mississippi law setting the deadline does not specify any particular hour for receiving such paperwork. Certain other election-related deadlines do specify 5 p.m. in the election law, but this deadline doesn’t.
Moore also argues that if the Secretary of State says he had administratively set the closing deadline at 5 p.m., that would have violated Article II of the U.S. Constitution, because that part of the Constitution, setting forth rules for presidential elector selection, says only state legislatures can set forth rules for that topic.
A somewhat similar case is pending in the 5th circuit against Louisiana, concerning the Libertarian Party, but no oral argument date has been set for that case, called Libertarian Party v Dardenne.
HEALTHCARE PROTEST AT TEA PARTY
Sept. 14, Port Richey, Fl
Brian Moore demonstrates with small group for single payer health at a conservative Anti-Obama Tea-Party rally, 80 people strong, standing behind him, along U.S. Highway 19, on Saturday, September 14, 2009, in Port Richey (Pasco County), Westcentral Florida.
"MOORE, BROWN-WAITE SIT DOWN FOR A CORDIAL MEETING"
By KYLE MARTIN | Hernando Today
Published on-line: September 15, 2009
Published in-print: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
BROOKSVILLE - He doesn't expect to change her mind overnight. But Brian Moore was glad to have the opportunity to speak his piece Monday during a sit-down with U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville.
It was the first face-to-face meeting between the two since Moore publicly criticized the congresswoman for not allowing him to protest directly outside her office in June.
On Monday, Moore brought six members of his organization, the NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, to a pre-scheduled meeting with Brown-Waite. READ FULL ARTICLE...
HERNANDO NEWS SOURCE.COM
Hernando County, Spring Hill, Brooksville News
by Kent Weissenger
Monday, September 14, 2009
BROWN-WAITE LISTENS TO HEALTH CARE ACTIVISTS---SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH IS FOCAL POINT
Fifth District Representative [U.S. Congress] Ginny Brown-Waite met Monday with Brian Moore and The NatureCoast Coalition of health-care activists, but there's no indication that any minds were changed. Moore said after the 40-minute meeting between Brown-Waite and seven members of the coalition that he was pleased that the congresswoman listened and even debated their arguments for a single-payer system. The 40 minutes was 10 more than Brown-Waite had allotted for the appointment. Moore sought to allow media attendance, but Brown-Waite said no and even refused a requested photo opportunity, telling Moore who persisted in the request that "No means no." Contrary to the original plans, there was no demonstration along Spring Hill Drive in front of the representative's district office, because all seven coalition members present were allowed to sit in on the Coalition's Single-Payer meeting with Brown-Waite.
[The sign on the wall behind Moore, at the entrance to Congresswoman Brown-Waite's Brooksville office, states that no photographs or recording equipment is allowed in her office. The sentence is highligted in yellow]
CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON BRIAN'S 2008 ELECTION RESULTS REFUTED BY HISTORIAN DARCY G. RICHARDSON
Independent Political Report, Monday, August 10, 2009
Darcy G. Richardson refutes Jeremy Young's historical inaccuracies on criticizing Brian Moore's socialist candidacy for president, 2008
“If I'm not mistaken, his [Brian's election results] is the worst showing the Socialist Party has ever had, going back to the days of Debs and even earlier.” — Jeremy Young
Response by historian and author on political third parties, Darcy G. Richardson: While nobody was more disappointed in his relatively poor showing than Brian Moore himself, it simply isn't true that the 6,538 votes cast for him represents the “worst showing” in the party's history. As meager as it was, Brian still managed to outperform at least a half-dozen Socialist Party candidates for President in the post-Norman Thomas era.
During the Cold War, Darlington Hoopes, a former Socialist state legislator from Pennsylvania and Thomas's vice-presidential running mate a dozen years earlier, garnered less than a third of Moore 's total during the 1956 presidential election.
In terms of popular votes, Brian also outpolled former Milwaukee Mayor Frank P. Zeidler, the party's nominee in 1976 — no small feat given Zeidler's considerably higher name recognition. Including write-in votes, Zeidler garnered 6,062 votes nationally, 4,298 which were from his native Wisconsin .
In addition to improving on the 5,602 votes cast in 2000 for David McReynolds — one of the party's most appealing and articulate candidates in the post-Thomas period —Brian Moore also garnered more votes than the party's presidential nominees in 1988, 1992 and 1996.
In terms of media coverage — and exposure for the party and its principles — Brian arguably did as well as any Socialist Party candidate since Thomas's 1948 campaign.
There's nothing worse than a self-described historian who doesn't bother to read history, or at least do a little basic research before commenting on a given subject.
Darcy G. Richardson
Darcy G . Richardson is the author of six books, including five volumes of a planned seven-volume history on independent and third-party politics in America . He also authored "A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign."
Health reform fuels anger, debate and presidential threats:
Brian is a regular "opposition" caller into the Bob Haa conservative radio talk show, and was quoted in St. Petersburg Times newspaper article regarding U.S. Secret Service Investigation of radio host's threats on President Obama.
HERNANDO RADIO HOST HAA GETS SECRET SERVICE VISIT AFTER PERCEIVED THREAT ON OBAMA (Can He Say That on the Air?)
St. Petersburg Times
(Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida)
By Michael Kruse, Times Staff Writer
Online, Sunday, August 9, 2009
In Print: Front page, Monday, August 10, 2009
BROOKSVILLE, Florida— From his small studio at the small radio station in this small town, chain-smoking, caffeine-swallowing longtime talk radio host Bob Haa uses his morning show to pit conservatives against what he calls "the leftists," "the Marxists" and "the fruitcakes."
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THE WEEKLY FILIBUSTER RADIO BLOG (Every Sunday at 10 PM)
Moderator Ben Goodman, from the University of Maine
Sunday, August 9, 2009, beginning at 10:23 PM EST
Interviews are archived on: http://www.weeklyfilibuster.com/
Robert Burack
Did you miss Brian Moore?
In Guests on August 9, 2009 at 7:55 pm
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON DEMAND
Nationwide, angry protesters are bombarding health care town halls – often causing members of Congress to cancel the events. We spoke with 2008 Socialist Party Nominee Brian Moore about whether “Obamacare” meets his definition of socialism.. We also discussed the swearing in of Justice Sotomayor, and all of the week’s news.
We were also joined again by guest panelist Michael Worley of Barry University, the host of The Progressive Hour on WBRY-AM in Miami, and author of The Worley Blog who provided great insight on the latest in the Florida senate.
Brian Moore is interviewed for an 8.5 minute segment (from minute 23:45 to 33:15 during the hour-long program) on the August 9th national radio blog program---The Weekly Filibuster.
Panel participants:
• Panelist Posts
• Ben Goodman
• Abigail Walsh
• Robert Burack
• Tom Dec
• Bob Bowen
[Notes on The Weekly Filbuster: Each week, we bring together the greatest panel in political talk to break down the week in politics and talk to the biggest newsmakers from across the country. Join Moderator Ben Goodman along with panelists from colleges and universities all over the United States. Politicos Meet the Radio! It's the fastest hour in political talk!]
Thusday, August 6, 2009
The following television interview of July 28th, 2009, by host Neil Cavuto, with socialist Brian Moore, was not posted on FoxNews Business website after the live program, and thus, could not be copied. However, to obtain a video copy the network now charges fees to lease its videos for a limited time (up to $2,225 for 15 months). However, a transcript of the 8.5 minute interview was obtained by Brian from FoxNews on August 5th, and can now be read:
Brian emphasized a socialized health system, with Single Payer health as a transitional compromise. He spoke of 27 other countries with national health programs, who have better health outcomes and live longer than Americans. Brian also accused the United States of rationing health care, causing 20,000 Americans to die unnecessarily each year. He urged the elimination of 1500 private health insurance companies, salarying doctors and owning hospitals, and capping salary levels of medical providers during the transition to a national socialized health system. Brian agreed with Neil Cavuto, the host, that lawyers would also be limited by tort reform and he referred to lower Canadian indemnity insurance costs as proof that it can be done.
Brian also blamed the politicians and health insurance industry for its scare tactics and false stories, and conveyed his personal experience as a "Kaiser [Health Plan} baby" in California. He also spoke of his 20 years as a professional administrator in the HMO field, seeing a "social" health system work through government grant programs, but failing and suffering miserably when turned over to the private sector and Wall Street, for profit and greed, by then Governor Reagan in California, and then President Reagan nationally.
Moore also criticized U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, and the liberal Democrats, and President Obama by inference, for being part of the capitalist system, and for not supporting a truly social health system. Moore said they (the so-called progressives) lack principal, and that is what his political ideology has to offer; along with implementing a more equitable distribution of money for the nation.
FOX NEWS’ NEIL CAVUTO INTERVIEWS SOCIALIST BRIAN MOORE ON EXECUTIVE PAY LIMITS/NATIONAL HEALTH
New York/Tampa: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 6:30-7:30 PM EST
"A Fox Business Alert."
Neil Cavuto: All right. Moments ago, [Congressman] Barney Frank's House Financial
Services Committee voting to approve new rules on executive pay at financial firms
that encourage, what they talk about, “inappropriate risk.”
My next guest has a simple answer for all the critics about “regulation.” Socialist Party, USA,
Brian Moore. Good to have you back.
Brian Moore: Thank you, Neil. Nice to be back.
ALL BRIEFS FILED IN 5TH CIRCUIT IN LOUISANA PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT ACCESS CASE
August 6th, 2009
All three briefs have now been filed in the 5th circuit in Libertarian Party v Dardenne, the case over whether the Louisiana Secretary of State acted improperly when he kept Bob Barr and Brian Moore off the November 2008 ballot for president (Brian Moore was the Socialist Party nominee). The case is being handled for the political parties by Law Professor Mark Brown, who is an expert on the question of why the U.S. Constitution, Article II, does not permit any authority except state legislatures from creating rules that keep anyone off the ballot for president.
"NATIONAL HEALTH CARE WOULD COST LESS"
Tampa Tribune (Fla), Hernando Today Edition, On-Line and In Print
Letter-to-Editor, by Brian P. Moore, Spring Hill, Florida
Saturday, August 1, 2009
John Nash's column, "Socialized medicine will cost us dearly," in the July 22 edition of Hernando Today, is nothing but cheap fear-mongering and scare tactics. A nationalized health system will save us from higher taxes and higher premiums. It will make us healthier. READ FULL LETTER
"MAKE THE FOURTH OF JULY MORE MEANINGFUL"
Letter-to-the-Editor by Brian P. Moore, Florida
St Petersburg Times, Friday, July 3, 2009
It seems like most articles on the day after the Independence Day holiday usually report on military demonstrations or parades, rifle or gun shooting events, target practicing efforts, park fireworks, along with numerous pictures and displays of our country's flag.
While patriotism is a trait to be proud of occasionally, it seems on most national holidays, and especially on July Fourth, Old Glory and the military always are the focal points.
Patriotism and nationalism should not be built on nostalgia, symbols or politicians' generalities, but based on one's behavior or citizens' individual acts of conscience. Our country should be promoting virtues of liberty and acts of justice, rather than martial actions, wars or wrapping ourselves in the flag. READ FULL ARTICLE
"SOME DRAMA, NO ARRESTS AT MOORE PROTEST"
Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today Edition
Thursday, June 25, 2009
By KYLE MARTIN
Hernando Today
Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, electronic edition;
Thursday, June 25, 2009, printed edition (3 photos)
SPRING HILL - In the end, there were no arrests.There was some finger-pointing and excited shouting, but that was the limit of the drama at a protest Wednesday outside U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office in Spring Hill. The high noon rally was the culmination of a weeklong showdown between Brian Moore and the Brooksville Republican's staff.
Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today Edition
Thursday, June 25, 2009
By KYLE MARTIN
Hernando Today
Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, electronic edition;
Thursday, June 25, 2009, printed edition (3 photos)
SPRING HILL - In the end, there were no arrests.There was some finger-pointing and excited shouting, but that was the limit of the drama at a protest Wednesday outside U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office in Spring Hill. The high noon rally was the culmination of a weeklong showdown between Brian Moore and the Brooksville Republican's staff.
Moore, chairman of the NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, was pushing for the right to protest outside Brown-Waite's doors on Spring Hill Drive. She moved months ago from the downtown courthouse to provide more handicap access to her constituents, according to staff. READ FULL ARTICLE
CIVILITY MARKS PROTEST
St. Petersburg Times, Hernando Times Edition
By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer
Published Wednesday, June 24, 2009
BROOKSVILLE — They threatened civil disobedience.But when high noon came hot and humidly over U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's district office on Wednesday, the demonstrators obeyed the law.And it all went down civilly
.
Ten members of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice decided not to protest to the point of arrest when sheriff's deputies showed up at the Brooksville Republican's office and asked them to leave.
READ FULL ARTICLE
"DEMONSTRATORS EVICTED FOR TRESPASSING IN FRONT OF CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE FOR PROTESTING WAR AND PROMOTING A NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN"
Hernando News Source Blog
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
PROTESTERS BOW TO LANDLORD, SET UP ON ROAD
http://hernandonewssource.com/
After first setting up in front of Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite's office on private leasehold property along Spring Hill Drive, local Socialist Brian Moore and about a dozen protesters politely moved to the Spring Hill Drive right of way Wednesday as requested by two Hernando County sheriff's deputies.
At first, the media almost outnumbered the protesters, as Moore and friends lined up in front of Brown-Waite's office.
When a representative of landlord Regency Oak warned Moore and others to leave the property, Moore disputed his right to do so, on the basis of the public use of the office by a federal representative, and initially stood his ground.
As dead-tree media reporters scribbled, Moore's tune began to change when a deputy arrived to enforce a previous trespass warning.
And when a second deputy arrived, Moore and about a dozen other protesters reluctantly headed for the right of way adjacent to the leased buildings.
Moore has complained that the right of way is dangerous and gives them no safe place to protest the Congresswoman's policies. Wednesday's protest was aimed specifically at health care reform. Moore said the flags his group waved represented the countries around the world that have adopted single-payer systems.
"ACTIVIST LEANS TOWARD CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE"
Tampa Tribune
Hernando Today Edition, Thursday, June 18, 2009
By Kyle Martin
Brian Moore sees two choices. He can take his protest to the road and risk getting flattened by traffic. Or he can stage a rally on private property and take the chance of getting arrested.
At this juncture, Moore's leaning towards "civil disobedience." Chair of the NatureCoast Coalition for Peace and Justice, Moore asked for permission last week to hold a two-hour protest outside the offices of U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville. READ FULL ARTICLE...
"MORE TO MOORE'S PROTEST"
Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today Edition
By KYLE MARTIN, Reporter
Brooksville, Florida, June 13, 2009
[Front Page Article, head pictures of Republican Congresswoman Brown-Waite and Brian Moore, side-dy-side]
When U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite moved her offices to a storefront on Spring Hill Drive, she signed a lease that prohibits public demonstrations on the private property. Her staff said Friday that's a standard clause in all Congressional lease agreements. Brian Moore, chair of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice, believes it's an infringement on his Constitutional rights. READ FULL ARTICLE
SINGLE-PAYER RALLY
Tampa, Florida,
May 28, 2009
At Single-Payer Rally in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday, May 28, 2009,
Brian is confronted by federal marshals and ordered to remove flags
of foreign countries with national health plans. Brian had inserted the
flags in topless parking meters in front of the federal building which had
three-foot high open-ended pipes for easy flagpole insertions.
See more photos in our photo gallery
BRIAN MOORE FILES 5TH CIRCUIT BRIEF AGAINST MISSISSIPPI
June 8th, 2009
On June 8, Brian Moore, the 2008 Socialist Party presidential nominee, filed his brief in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, in the 5th circuit. The issue is whether the Secretary of State should have accepted the paperwork to put Moore on the ballot last year.
Mississippi election laws generally specifiy that certain paperwork is due by 5 p.m. of the deadline day. However, the law does not set a time deadline for paperwork involving presidential elector candidates; the law merely says the deadline is 60 days before the general election.... READ FULL ARTICLE
BRIAN RALLIES FOR NATIONALIZED HEALTH PLAN
Tampa, Florida,
May 28, 2009
Brian Moore joins 25 to 30 other demonstrators in downtown Tampa, Florida, at a rally for HR 676, a "single-payer health plan" bill now before the U.S. Congress. The demonstration took place on Thursday, May 28th, at the offices of U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, which a small contingent visited, and in front of the Sam M. Gibbons Federal Courthouse and office buiilding. Moore's sign read "Nationalize Health Care, Now!."
A competing group of 15 to 20 protestors were also rallying closeby, objecting to any federalized health plan and trying to shout down the single-payer advocates. They called themselves the "9-12 group."
May 17, 2009
Brian is interviewed on "Left Jab" Sirius XM Channel 167 Radio, with hosts Mark Walsh and David Goodfriend.
The hosts were told, in a nationwide Sunday evening broadcast, that "President Obama is not a socialist, not even a Democrat, but that he actually behaves like a Republican." The interview is in two ten-minute segments, with the first part starting about 3-4 minutes into the first segment.
Listen to segment 1 5/17/2009) 05-17-09 Left Jab Hour 1 Segment 2: Brian Moore
Left Jab hosts Mark Walsh and David Goodfriend continue their conversation with the Chairman of the Socialist Party in Florida and former Presidential Candidate Brian Moore.
Listen to segment 2 (5/17/2009) 05-17-09 Left Jab Hour 1 Segment 2: Brian Moore
Left Jab hosts Mark Walsh and David Goodfriend welcome Brian Moore, graduate of ASU and the Chairman of the Socialist Party of Florida, to defend his party from accusations that moderate President Obama is one of his own.
DEMOCRATIC RADIO ASKS SOCIALIST TO REFUTE REPUBLICANS' CLAIM "OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST" Brian Moore Agrees: Obama is Not a Socialist, Not Even a Democrat; But Behaves as a Republican
Washington, DC, Monday, May 18, 2009: "Left Jab" Sirius XM Radio hosts, Mark Walsh and David Goodfriend, were told, in a nationwide May 17th, Sunday evening broadcast, that "President Obama is not a socialist, not even a Democrat, but behaves like a Republican." This surprise response came from their socialist guest, Brian Moore, Chairman of the Socialist Party of Florida and former 2008 presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA. READ FULL ARTICLE
The Democratic Daily Blog
HANNITY'S 'TREE OF LIBERTY' BEARS BOGUS FRUIT
[Getting to Know the Socialist Party USA]
By: Berry Craig
May 18th, 2009 @ 11:31 am
(excerpted)
The Republicans started knocking Obama as a “socialist” on the campaign trail last year, hoping to scare voters to their man, McCain. Obama clobbered McCain.
Since he was inaugurated, the president’s approval ratings have been way up, according to polls. The same surveys show the GOP is popularity-challenged.
The polls don’t rate Brian P. Moore, last year’s Socialist Party U.S.A. presidential candidate. Moore got only 6,528 votes, according to the Federal Election Commission.
But the GOP’s “socialist” slam on Obama is grabbing Moore some press. He has been on the Colbert Report and C-Span insisting Obama isn’t a socialist. He’s been saying the same thing on the radio and in other media, too.
Moore claims Obama isn’t even a liberal. He says the president is a “centrist.”
READ FULL ARTICLE
REP.GINNY BROWN-WAITE RELOCATES BROOKSVILLE OFFICE; DETRACTORS QUESTION MOTIVE
By John Frank, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, May 2, 2009
Smart move or a side step?
BROOKSVILLE — In the world of politics, minutiae matters as much as foreign policy and conspiracies occupy every street corner.....
..."I suspect it was a move to give her more privacy and not be so accessible to the public," said Brian Moore, a tireless Spring Hill activist who ran for president on the Socialist Party USA ticket. READ FULL ARTICLE
North Carolina Radio Station, News Talk host Bill Lumaye Interviews Brian About Socialism,
and How Obama is not one of them!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Obama is not a Socialist!
Brian Moore, 2008 Presidential Nominee of the Socialist Party USA says President Obama is NOT a Socialist.
MP3 File
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http://www.wptf.com/goout.asp?u=http://billlumaye.blogspot.com/
A 12-minute interview with Brian Moore by a North Carolina radio station, WPTF 680, News Talk with host Bill LuMaye
Tampa Tribune's Hernando Today
edition, Monday, April 13, 2009
"Rallies planned Wednesday for health care, taxation"
Old Courthouse Will Be Epicenter of Free Speech
By TONY MARRERO
Demonstrators determined to speak up about two separate issues will descend Wednesday on the county seat.
The historic courthouse in downtown Brooksville will be the site of two unrelated rallies, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Both rallies hit on raw nerves for many Americans: taxation and health care.
Supporters of a single-payer health care system will assemble from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. outside U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office in the old courthouse, 20. N. Main St. .......
Demonstrators seek to put pressure on Congress to approve HR 676, said Brian Moore, chairman of the peace coalition. The bill, dubbed United States National Health Care Act would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care system that expands the already existing Medicare program to all U.S. residents.
Brian Moore's Panel Interview on Cable FoxNewsBusiness.com TV "Cashin' In" Program
Saturday, Aprill 11, 2009
Host: Terry Keenan
Radio 700 WLW, Cincinnati, Ohio
Conservative Talk Show Host, Mike McConnell
"Is Obama a Socialist? The guest is Brian Moore, the former Socialist candidate for President"
Recorded Live, Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Released, Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Double-click on "listen" box below to hear 20-minute interview, or go to one of links below to locate the 3/24/09, hour 2 interview.
http://www.700wlw.com:80/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=mike_mcconnell.xml
Mike McConnell 3/24/09 Hour 2
Is Obama a socialist? The guest is Brian Moore, the former Socialist candidate for President
READ WRITTEN SUMMARY OF 20-MINUTE INTERVIEW:
FLORIDA PEACE GROUPS RALLY AGAINST IRAQ, AFGHANIS-TAN AND PAKISTAN WARS;
BLAST BANKS and BAILOUT Uncertainty Over Obama Motivates Antiwar Protesters;
Calls for More Domestic Spending and Citizen Control
MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, Friday, April 3, 2009: 150 antiwar protestors in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, March 28th, representing over 50 Florida antiwar and social justice groups, criticized America's policies and President Obama's ongoing and delayed war in Iraq, plus the U.S.'s increasing aggression in Afghanistan and continuing bombings in Pakistan. READ MORE...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
MARCHERS SEEK TO FOCUS ON HOME
Peace rally demands an end to war, more money for domestic issues
BY KEYONNA SUMMERS
FLORIDA TODAY
MELBOURNE -- Colorful banners, speeches, music and food were among the sights and sounds Saturday at a peace rally and march calling for an end to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and more focus on domestic issues, such as jobs, hunger, education and health care. READ FULL ARTICLE
RADIO FREE KANSAS
BLOG TALK RADIO
Mike Caddell of RADIO FREE KANSAS, Airs Interview of the Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate for 2008, Brian Moore, Friday, March 20, 2009
Mike's website (http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/2009/03/meet-brian-moore-on-radio-free-kansas.html) has the name of "Fightin' Cock Flyer," and it is part of Radio Free Kansas, via blog talk radio. Mike recently interviewed Ray McGovern, former CIA agent and social activist; and Cindy Sheehan, antiwar activist.
Brian's interview was initially aired Thursday evening, March 19th, at 10 PM Central Time, and will be on Mike's website for the week of March 20 thru the 27th. Anyone can call in to Mike's show every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 10 PM to 12 midnight, Central Time, by dialing 646-716-8652.
Fightin' Cock Flyer: Meet Brian Moore on Radio Free Kansas!
By Michael Caddell, March 20, 2009
If you missed last night's segment on Radio Free Kansas, check it out by clicking the play button. Brian Moore ran for president in 2008 on the Socialist Party, USA ticket. A group in Kansas took up his campaign, click here..Fightin' Cock Flyer
To read the notes and highlights click here
"Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know."
By Billy Wharton (Socialist Magazine Editor)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
It took a massive global financial crisis, a failed military adventure and a popular repudiation of the Republican Party to make my national television debut possible. After 15 years of socialist political organizing -- everything from licking envelopes and handing out leaflets to the more romantic task of speaking at street demonstrations -- I found myself in the midtown Manhattan studio of the Fox Business Network on a cold February evening. Who ever thought that being the editor of the Socialist magazine, circulation 3,000, would launch me on a cable news career?
READ FULL ARTICLE...
"Brian's footnote:"
The Washington Post Newspaper published a 1,300 word op-ed article on "Socialism and Obama," in its Sunday, March 15, 2009 edition, written by the Socialist Party magazine editor, Billy Wharton. Brian's role as the former 2008 Socialist Party presidential candidate was referenced in the article due to his national interview on the Stephen Colbert Comedy Central show, and exposure on/in other TV, radio, blogs and newspapers as well.
However, it would be remiss not to give a special note of recognition to the earlier pioneering efforts of Brian's socialist candidacy by reporter Michael Kruse of the St. Petersburg Times; Managing Editor Randy Barrett of The National Journal and FoxNews TV Host, Neil Cavuto (four national program interviews).
[Some other important Tampa and Florida area contributors include Tampa Tribune's columnist Tom Jackson and reporter Tony Marrero, Bay News 9 TV reporter Fernando Zogbaum, Tampa Community WMNF Radio's Rob Lorei and TBCN TV's Chris Krimitsis; St. Augustine Community TV hostess Norma Sherry and Sarasota's Steve of Surreal Radio WSLR, 96.5 FM]" ... Brian
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DELAYED AND LIMITED TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ PROTESTED AS "UNACCEPTABLE"
TAMPA, FLORIDA, Sunday, March 1, 2009: Socialist activist Brian Moore joined other antiwar protestors on radio Friday to criticize President Obama's delayed (19 months) and limited troop withdrawal from Iraq (50,000 to remain) as "totally unacceptable." Moore stated on Tampa Community Radio WMNF 88.5 FM Friday evening, February 27th, http://www.wmnf.org/program_strips/show/357 that American soldiers remaining in Iraq will still be actively involved in "combat, intelligence and continuing military search missions."
READ MORE...
Click here for the full [Free Speech Radio] newscast for Friday, February 27, 2009
ALL HAIL COMRADE LINDSEY GRAHAM
posted by John Nichols on February 17,2009 @ 12:44pm
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's usual allies are not impressed with the Republican senator's suggestion that the time might have come to start nationalizing banks.
"Did hell just officially freeze over?" grumbled Fox News host Stuart "I am refugee from (British socialism)" Varney, "A top Republican senator says he is open to nationalizing our banks..."
So opened a segment where Varney welcomed Brian Moore, the Socialist Party's 2008 presidential candidate, to the cable redoubt of yahoo economics.
Moore agreed with Comrade Graham's prognosis.
Varney did not.
And it made for a bizarre (yet oddly refreshing) five minutes of something akin to debate about the current economic crisis.
Read full article...
SOCIALIST AGREES WITH U.S. REPUBLICAN SENATOR IN 'NATIONALIZING THE BANKS'
GOP senator under fire for 'nationalizing the banks' comment. Socialist Brian Moore concurs with nationalization idea on television's Fox News Program
Tampa Bay, Florida, Monday, February 16, 2009
Stuart Varney of Fox News and Brian Moore, Socialist Party of America.
Click here to view the video of the interview provided on the Fox News website.(first 30 seconds ad, please be patient)
Brian Moore, the former presidential candidate for the socialist Party USA in 2008, appeared on FoxNews.com TV's Neil Cavuto's program, today, Monday, February 16, 2009, in response to Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina's statement on a Sunday ABC talk show that he supports 'nationalizing the banks.'
Brian Moore says he agrees.
Fox News TV's substitute host, British born Stuart Varney, in for regular host Neil Cavuto of "Your World" business' Monday program, interviewed Socialist Brian Moore, in an aggressive exchange that covered four and one-half minutes on the Fox News TV's Business program Monday afternoon.
Host Varney, an obvious immigrant from England, immediately questioned Moore if he had ever lived in a socialist country. He attacked Moore because of his (Varney's) "own personal experience with socialism" saying that socialism was "awful" and a "moral construct" and that under socialism "favored groups" gained all the benefits at the expense of everyone else. Moore countered that "capitalism has sapped our society, not socialism."
Moore exclaimed that "possibly $2.5 trillion of taxpayer and worker's money may have already been allocated to American banks, in the form of a bailout, by our federal government through the private actions of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
In response to Varney's accusation that "politicians will decide on how the money is distributed under socialism," Moore countered that to the contrary, "We believe that the financial system of the country should be managed by an independent democratically controlled financial commission, made up of consumers, accountants and economists, who would set policy and distribute loans through cooperatives, credit unions and state-run banks. Moore said, to the contrary, Socialism would "de-centralize government, not enhance it."
Moore's stated after the television interview that his strong statement and high figure of 2.5 trillion dollars is seldom mentioned on television or in the press despite the suspicion amongst congress and the fourth estate that "we may be in the Great Depression right now, directly due to Mr. Bernanke's quiet and early actions, under the guise of the Federal Reserve, plus capitalism's own irresponsible and greedy actions."
Fox News Host Varney exclaimed that "America survived the depression due to capitalism, and not due to socialism and communism." Varney also said that Under socialism, "money is controlled by favored groups, not the free market, and decided by a Politburo." Moore immediately criticized capitalism, and defended socialism stating that America "survived the depression due in part to the acceptance of social programs (child labor laws, workers compensation, unemployment insurance, social security, government work programs, collective bargaining, etc. advocated by the Socialist Party. Moore added that these programs were reluctantly, but ultimately, embraced by both the Democrats and Republicans during the Depression period. Moore contended that it was because of those socialist programs that the country "partially improved its economic situation."
OBAMA STIMULUS BILL CRITICIZED AS "THE WRONG ACTION" BY SOCIALIST, ON HOUSTON RADIO STATION
Houston radio station KTRH 740 AM
Treasury Secretary Geithner's Effort to Stabilize Banks "Doomed to Fail, Also," says Socialist, Brian Moore
Tampa Bay (Spring Hill), FLORIDA, February 10, 2009
Socialist Party member Brian Moore agreed with President Obama's words that a failure to act swiftly and boldly on a massive economic recovery bill "could turn a crisis into a catastrophe." However, the former socialist presidential candidate in 2008 said that the Stimulus Bill is "the wrong action to take" and predicted that the $828 billion package approved by the U.S. Senate today, and Treasury Secretary Geithner's economic plans for the banks and investors, are both "doomed to fail." Read full article...
DONALD TRUMP AND THE SOCIALISTS VERSUS THE CEOs
posted by John Nichols on February 6, 2009 @ 5:17pm
There has been a good deal of grumbling from Wall Street about President Obama's proposal to cap CEO pay at companies that accept federal bailout money.
The line of complaint generally comes around to the question: "How can you get good help for $500,000?
Donald Trump--who knows a thing or two about attracting executive talent, or at least plays someone who does on TV -- thinks that's silly.
The other night, CNN's Larry King asked the Trump Organization CEO what he thought about the president's plan to set some executive pay limits:
KING: Is Obama right or wrong to go after these executives with salary caps?
TRUMP: Well, I think he's absolutely right. Billions of dollars is being given to banks and others. You know, once you start using taxpayer money, it's a whole new game. So I absolutely think he's right.
The Socialists agree.
Here's a statement from Brian Moore, who was the Socialist Party candidate for president last year--and who made the very good point that, despite what Sarah Palin said, Barack Obama was neither a capital "S" nor a small "s" socialist: READ MORE...
PRESIDENT OBAMA JOINS BRIAN MOORE IN CAPPING CEO AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE PAY
Socialist Presidential Candidate Advocated Executive Caps In 2008 Campaign; Says, "This is Good Start Toward Socialism"
TAMPA BAY (Spring Hill), FLORIDA, February 5, 2009 —President Barack Obama, who on Wednesday imposed $500,000 caps on senior executive pay for the most distressed financial institutions receiving federal bailout money, saying Americans are upset with "executives being rewarded for failure," has joined his 2008 minor party opponent who called for executive caps throughout the presidential election campaign. Read more...
SOCIALIST BRIAN MOORE OPPOSES NOMINATION OF ERIC HOLDER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, CALLS SUPPORT AND RATIONALE OF SENATORS WEAK
January 30th, 2009
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By 2008 Socialist Party USA Presidential candidate Brian Moore. Forwarded to contact.ipr@gmail.com by former IPR correspondent Peter Orvetti, and posted here by Paulie. Disclosure: I worked as an independent contractor to help Moore get on the ballot in several states in 2008.
U.S. Attorney General Nominee Opposed; Support and Rationale By Senators Of Candidate Is Weak–Claims Civic Critic
Access to Voice Dissent on Eric Holder Nomination Blocked at Almost Every Turn
SPRING HILL, FLORIDA, Friday, January 30, 2009 — A blistering letter of criticism for “unfair access to the nomination process” and “shaky support of the candidate by senators of both major parties” was faxed today from a civic activist in Florida to Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, regarding the nomination hearings of Eric H. Holder, Jr. for United States Attorney General. READ MORE....
HERNANDO COUNTY RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES GATHER TO WATCH OBAMA MAKE HISTORY
St. Petersburg Times
Newspaper, Hernando Edition January 21, 2009
By Joel Anderson, Times Staff Writer
"…..Hernando County's own presidential contender, Spring Hill resident Brian Moore of the Socialist Party USA, watched the inauguration at home with his wife and said he hoped to have the ear of the new president in the future."
"I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt," said Moore, who sent Obama a congratulatory letter following the election. "We would hope that he would move in our direction. I mentioned Socialism throughout the entire letter."
SPRING HILL — Charlene Johnston could have been one of the thousands in Washington, D.C., bundled tight in winter clothes to brave the cold, fighting through the crowds and basking in the moment unfolding at the U.S. Capitol. Read full article
MIDDLE
EAST DELICATE TOPIC, EVEN IN PEACE GROUP
Tampa Tribunes Hernando Edition, Hernando Today, January 9, 2009
By Tony Marerro
The Middle East crisis is so divisive that even members of the local peace group can come down on opposite sides.
Several members of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice declined to participate in a demonstration Wednesday at the corner of U.S. 19 and Cortez Boulevard to oppose Israel's campaign against Palestinians in Gaza and forcing the U.S. government to condemn the action.
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GAZA PROTEST HITS THE ROAD IN WEEKI WACHEE
ST. Peterburg Times Newspaper, Hernando Edition January 8, 2009
By Will Vragovic, Times photographer
Members and supporters of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice hold signs at U.S. 19 and State Road 50 in Weeki Wachee on Wednesday. The coalition organized the demonstration to protest the conflict in the Gaza Strip, the failing economic system and other issues. “We have a conscience, and there are innocent civilians dying” in Gaza, coalition chairman Brian Moore said on his blog. “We’ve been getting everything from honks to fingers today,” he said of the demonstration. Read full article.
MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT PROMPTS PEACE COALITION TO DEMONSTRATE
TAMPA TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER, January 6, 2009, Hernando Today Edition
by Tony Marrero
The war in Iraq has given the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice plenty to protest in the last five years.Now the latest conflict between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza has prompted the group to act.
Members will set up at one of their favorite spots this Wednesday to protest what coalition president Brian Moore called Israel's "disproportionate response to a minimal threat." Read full article