Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark has received
the important and influential endorsement
of Native American Times the nation's largest
publication for the Native American community. The February 3
states of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and North Dakota each
have large Native American populations which are often the
deciding factor in statewide elections. They were the key to
victory in the 2000 campaigns of U.S. Senators Tim Johnson in
South Dakota and Maria Cantwell in Washington.
While death loomed close to him, General Wesley Clark helped
save 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, all
without losing one American soldier. He is proven to be a
remarkable leader. If words are a persons bond and actions
even more telling, then Clark is the clear choice from a Native
and non-Native American perspective. If our country truly seeks
peace, it will need a proven peacemaker. Only Clark fills that
role...Clark has talked in poignant detail about the depressing
statistics facing Indian people on crime. He understands the
unique and shameful way Native American men, women and children
are victimized in Indian communities.
Perhaps nowhere has the impact of the Native American vote
been felt more acutely than in South Dakota, where Senator Tim
Johnson won re-election last year by only 524 votes after
mounting an aggressive get-out-the-vote campaign at the states
nine reservations. Indian voters are also credited with helping
Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell win a close race in Washington
State in 2000.
Clark in Nashville today
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