Ritter to endorse Kucinich 1/30/04 in New Mexico

[eridani]

For Immediate Release
Contact: Leland Lehrman, +1.505.474.7998

What: Santa Fe, New Mexico Press Conference
When: Friday, January 30, 10:00 a.m.
Where: Capitol Rotunda, Santa Fe

What: Taos, New Mexico Talk: Seeking Peace in a Time of Frontier Justice
When: Friday, January 30, Taos, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Taos Community Auditorium, 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte
Notes: Sponsored by the Action Coalition (Cliff Bain, 505-776-8486)

What: Santa Fe Talk: Seeking Peace in a Time of Frontier Justice
When: Sunday, February 1, 11:00 a.m.
Where: St. Francis auditorium, 107 W. Palace & Lincoln, Santa Fe
Notes: Free. Seating limited to 450. Book signing.

Former United States Marine and United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter, a leading critic of the Iraq war, will announce his endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich at a news conference Friday, January 30, at 10 a.m., in the rotunda of the State Capitol Building in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

[bluestateguy]

1. Impressive

Ritter voted for Bush in 2000. He may not vote for the eventual Democratic nominee this fall, but one less Bush voter is always a victory.

[Tweed]

2. Congrats!

Yeah for my number 2 candidate.

[JohnKleeb]

3. Sweeeeeeet!

[WilliamPitt]

4. Woop

There it is.

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[jsw_81]

19. Impressive

Kucinich should get at least two percent of the vote in New Mexico, maybe even three! Dennis rocks!

[no name no slogan]

28. WHOA?!?!?!?!

WHERE DID THAT ENDORSEMENT COME FROM?

That's absolutely AMAZING. Back in the 90s, I NEVER thought I'd see the day when Ritter would endorse someone like DK.

:toast:

(BTW that book was required reading last spring (and still is today). I bought/distributed a number of copies to family and friends who were gung-ho about the war. A CLASSIC.)

[juajen]

5. Good news

Go Kucinich. It will be good to hear from Scott Ritter again. Where has he been hiding since the junta did their "take-down"?

[joshcryer]

7. Wow, I'm surprised! I've always liked Ritter.

But I thought he was more Libertarian, etc. That's just awesome.

[Capn Sunshine]

8. Will Pitt works fast!

Scott Ritter , co author of the definitive tome on Iraq.
aka
so I wrote this book....

[LWolf]

9. Glad to hear it.

[Desertrose]

10. damn fine job Will & Dennis!

oops...and Kevin!

damn fine job...and as you so eloquently stated...

WHOOP!

:bounce:

Peace & hope
DR

edited to add Kevin!

[eridani]

11. Kick

[Sam Lowry]

12. Hate to say it, doggs

But that takes the Scott Ritter card off the table.

[rucky]

33. Read this:

http://kucinich.us/DennisKucinichWasRight.pdf

Then let's talk about credibility.

[Myra]

13. Kick thread

Kick ass!

[ThirdWheelLegend]

14. wow heck ya!

Go Ritter!
Go Kooooooooch!

TWL

[isbister]

15. Great to see

I hope to be watching some type of coverage on my favorite corporate television station. Maybe they can do an interview of Scott and he can stick his thumbs in his ears, wiggle his fingers, stick out his tongue and say "I told you so!"

I'm sick of listening to that lying so and so Kay... cheerleads us to war all last winter and leaves the troops behind because it was too dangerous for him.

[hippywife]

31. Actually, I heard tonight on NPR

that Kay is now joining McCain and the Dems in calling for an independent inquiry into the evidence that was used to sell the war to Americans.

So maybe Kay is also coming over.

[stickdog]

16. What does Ritter have against Kerry? (nt)

[snoochie]

37. Probably didn't respect Kerry backing up bush on the WMD threat

[tobys]

17. that's great to hear

[newyawker99]

42. Hi tobys!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[rpf113]

18. I've been convinced for a while...

that Ritter had converted to the light side.

And guess what guys... Ritter was right! NO WMD! Funny how he's not invited on any talk shows now to say 'I told you so!'

[ThirdWheelLegend]

20. kick!

:hi:

TWL

[Raven]

21. Fine work Will!

I knew you'd be busy before the 4th! Someone needs to keep beating the WMD drum until people finally get it. And who better that DK. Here's what gets me: the argument that we got Saddam and he was a bad man misses the point. The point is that we were not told the truth. We have to keep dragging Bush back to that fact.

[redqueen]

22. Woohoooooo!

Scott knows that there was no reason to hype the WMD 'we need to disarm Saddam' line the bush goons were pimping. I'm glad he's picked a candidate who also knew better than to provide echo-chamber service to bush's warmongering lies.

Scott was on Washington Journal this morning I hear. Seems like every time I don't watch there's someone interesting on.

[MuseRider]

23. Great news.

He is a good man and I am proud that he has come on over.

[goodhue]

24. hopefully this will get press, Ritter endorsement announced 1/19

Endorsements Coming in for Kucinich
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 19, 2004

Among the latest endorsers of Dennis Kucinich for President are San Francisco Commissioner Paul Kangas, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Missouri Congressional candidate Corey Mohn, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Bruce Gagnon, Director of the Center for Social Action Connie Hogarth, Author Daniel A. Stafford, the Coordinator of Environment Programs at Southampton College Peter Maniscalco, and Author Carlton Cornett.

Scott Ritter is the author of "Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destructions and the Bushwacking of America" and "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis." Ritter was chief weapons inspector for the U.N. during the 1990s, and correctly predicted before the invasion of Iraq that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.kucinich.us/pressreleases/pr_011904d.php

[genius]

25. I guess he noted that there was only one candidate who voted against the

war. Great move.

[blm]

26. WOOHOOO.....So Cool......congrats Kucinich team.

.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

27. New Mexico's a caucus

what's the viability threshold and what are the polls showing?

[rucky]

34. Jerry Brown finished second in NM

dunno the polls, but I know the DK base is very motivated (and organized) in NM.

[Jerseycoa]

29. Congratulations!

Wonderful news.

:toast:

[eridani]

30. Kick

[rucky]

32. Hot Damn!

That is quite a coup.

[Paulie]

35. A positive thread

:kick:

Welcome aboard Scott Ritter!

:yourock: Dennis K!!!!

[0rganism]

36. Quite the turnaround, for a republican ex-marine

Although, considering DK's stance on the Iraq situation, it is also appropos.

[eridani]

38. Kick

[fujiyama]

39. WOW!

Congrats to Kucinich and his supporters!

[DemBones DemBones]

40. Doesn't Dennis have some great endorsements?!

Go, Dennis, go, Dennis!!!

[DemBones DemBones]

41. Doesn't Dennis have some great endorsements?!

Go, Dennis, go, Dennis!!!

[ThirdWheelLegend]

44. The best, Zinn, Terkel, Ritter, Stallman, Willie....

The list goes on: respected, talented, intelligent people.

TWL

[Paulie]

45. Don't forget Patch Adams, Glover, Ehrenrich, Gandhi, Ben Cohen, Granny D..

More here: http://www.kucinich.us/endorsements/

[ThirdWheelLegend]

47. Saying that it is impressive is an understatement.

The list of Kucinich endorsers covers some of the greatest activitsts, authors and artists of the here and now.

Chomsky is just a bit short of an endorsement also.

[Rhiannon12866]

43. Terrific! This makes perfect sense

I guess Will is doing a great job!:toast:

[bushwakker]

46. WOW. Ritter just kicks ass plain and simple.

Very impressive.