Sole for Senate Campaign Challenges Media to Cover the Only Anti-War Voice in the Campaign

Sole for Senate Campaign
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
313-680-5508

October 31, 2006

GREEN PARTY CAMPAIGN RALLY TO TAKE PLACE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2006, 6:00 P.M., CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, 23 E. ADAMS, DETROIT

Contact: (313) 680-5508 or campaign@stopthewarslate.org

The last couple of weeks have made clear that the war in Iraq is the critical issue in the elections nationwide. With 65% of the population opposed to the war, the Democrats are demagogically trying to divert this opposition to the war into support for their candidates. And the media is generally going along with this ploy.

The fact of the matter is that the Democrats have consistently supported Bush’s war in Iraq. The last Senate vote on the military budget and appropriations for the war was 100-0. To this date, the Democrats stand opposed to the only real solution to the war – to end it now by withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq immediately. 

Debbie Stabenow, incumbent Democrat for Senate, has voted for every appropriation for the war. She echoes the Bush-Rumsfield line about the Iraqis assuming more responsibility for the war, a universally discredited position in light of the massive defections by the Iraqi military and police whenever faced with resistance.

The bulk of the media has shown its subservience to big business and the Pentagon by refusing to cover the David Sole for U.S. Senate campaign, the only anti-war voice in the Michigan Senate race. In contrast, last week the Michigan Citizen, Detroit’s largest and most progressive African American weekly newspaper, endorsed David Sole for U.S. Senate.

With regard to his program, Sole stated: “I call for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. I call for using the billions wasted on the Pentagon’s wars to fund health care, housing, jobs at living wages, and to rebuild our cities. I am for amnesty and legalization for undocumented workers, not the racist fence to keep out immigrants supported by Stabenow and Bouchard. I am for protecting civil liberties and for repeal of the Patriot Act and Military Commission Bill, in contrast to Stabenow and Bouchard’s support for torture and detention without due process. And I am for genuinely protecting workers’ pensions by not allowing corporations to use the bankruptcy process to eliminate the pensions and benefits of the workers, unlike Stabenow and Bouchard who both supported last year’s anti-worker bankruptcy act.”

David Sole is available for interviews with any media outlets in Michigan and challenges the media to cover the only anti-war platform in the campaign. The media is also invited to a Green Party election rally taking place Saturday, November 4, 2006, 6:00 pm, at Central Methodist Church, Woodward at Adams at Grand Circus Park in downtown Detroit.