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Nader: McAuliffe offered me money to pull out of key states

Terry McAuliffe — currently running for Virginia Governor, but formerly Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager and chairman of the Democratic National Committee — offered an unspecified amount of money to fuel Nader’s campaign…

…Nader alleges that McAuliffe personally called and offered a sum of money to enhance the Nader campaign in 31 states if he would pull out of 19 key Democratic battlegrounds.

The Washington Post noted:

McAuliffe isn’t denying the charge. His spokeswoman Elisabeth Smith said in a statement McAuliffe “was concerned that Ralph Nader would cost John Kerry the election as he did Al Gore in 2000 and give us another four years of George W. Bush.”

“It looks like Ralph Nader misses seeing his name in the press,” Smith said. “Terry’s focused on talking with Virginians about jobs, not feeding Ralph Nader’s ego.”

The accusations are outlined in a new book, Grand Illusion, The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny, by Theresa Amato, Nader’s national campaign manager in 2000 and 2004, who writes about the barriers to third-party candidates.