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 'Bush Can't Connect the Dots' Campaigning Gubernatorial Candidate Blasts Jeb & George 'Vote Free in Cuba? Please, Jeb Stole Florida for his Brother' |
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By Jack Nichols
"George W Bush called for free elections in Cuba," Kunst said to GayToday, "while he collaborated with his brother right here in Florida, stealing the Presidential Election in 2000." Kunst is a veteran campaigner. In 1986 he persuaded approximately 150,000 Democratic primary voters to support his single-issue campaign: "Cure AIDS Now." Yesterday, however, his 2002 campaign called attention to the facts surrounding a stolen election, facts that grassroots Floridians often excitedly applaud but which the corporate media studiously ignore. "Scott, Elvira and myself got to the Knight Center in downtown Miami, by Noon," Kunst related. They confronted, he said, "hundreds Cuban Right Wingers who'd showed up to see the Bush Brothers' performance," and a few of these right wingers shouted at the dissident picketers whose signs included: "Bush Can't Connect The Dots -- But Kunst Can" Other picketers' signs said: "Bush Stole The Election", "Gore Won", "Miami Is A Banana Republic", "Privatize Jeb", "End The Embargo", "Free Elections in America, not just Cuba." "Naturally," Kunst related, "a few of the Right Wingers called us Communistas. I'm not anti-Cuban, but I'm definitely anti-Cuban Right Wing." Miami Police moved the picketers to another location after it became apparent, said Kunst, "that Channel 7, FOX, Channel 51, and Hispanic TV were getting videos of all of this going on." "We were told to go one block away. Then we were told to go across the street. Then we were told to go on the other street corner. A huge banner from Nicaraguans welcoming Bush was left directly across the street while we were out of sight behind the Metro People Mover pillars, though we did have large access to a lot of traffic. "Meanwhile, while we were walking to the protest, all sorts of folks were noticing our signs and giving us positive feedback, including an Hispanic Security Guard, and a businessman who said 'Go Get Him'. "And outside of the area, where we protested, we got lots of very positive feedback and I was also holding the No More Bushit stickers and a man from Peru got two of them, and some bus drivers, who brought the Cubans to the Knight Center, were also giving us positive feedback. "As to the event itself, we left early as Elvira wasn't feeling well, and I wanted to avoid the traffic to Stuart, Florida., which is 100 miles away and figured that the Bush Calvacade might make me late for my meeting with the Martin County Democrats, where I can bring up all of it." Kunst Critiques Bush's Re-Enforcement of Embargo Thus far, Kunst's gubernatorial message has succeeded most among Florida's rural Democrats. Personality sketches of the candidate have appeared in county newspapers such as the Palatka Daily News, or in alternate papers like Ft. Lauderdale's City Link. But his assurances that "Bush Stole Election 2000" are unwelcome, it is clear, in the corporate media as well as around conservative Florida Democrats who he says are "far too timid to take such a stand." Commenting on Cuba, Kunst called attention to how "W has reinforced what hasn't worked for 43 years, which is the Cuban Right Wing's Agenda, which includes keeping the Cuban Embargo, which I oppose, as well as the Cuban Adjustment Act, and absolutely for 'free American travel' to Cuba, and 60,000 Americans already have. "What makes all of this so hypocritical, is that those attending the Bush speech are all sending their families in Cuba, all these Yankee dollars, which runs the Cuban economy. Meanwhile, dissidents in Cuba, say their position would be strengthened if the Embargo was lifted."
"It's not that Castro shouldn't be making reforms," Kunst notes, "it's just that Bush is so full of himself and such a liar on everything, and such a coward as well." "Opening doors," says the openly gay activist-candidate, "might well mean change in Cuba, which Bush pretends he wants, but doesn't really. For that means NOT catering to the Right Wing Cuban fanatics, who are so predictable, and everything Castro does is to give them a black eye, and they readily agree to make themselves look so foolish, always, and this is why Castro is still in power. "Democratic Senators Graham and Nelson, from Florida attended this Bush show too, to play out this charade…" |
