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I mean, come on...

Now Ralph Nader wants to share his mother's Apple Cake recipe... Seriously, he is in need of some sound campaigning advice, and not from his mother...

Read the Email...

Ralph Nader for President 2008

October 20, 2008
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It's that time of year again.

Apple harvest time.

I love apples.

As a child, to help with the harvest in orchards, I picked lots of apples.

And in New England, where I grew up, there were so many great varieties.

Baldwin, Cortland, Golden Russet, Honey Crisp, Macintosh, Red Delicious, Rome, Shamrock.

Honey Crisp was -- and still is -- my favorite.

During apple harvest time, my mom would make a spectacular apple cake.

It had lemons, and apples and cinnamon and butter.

It remains to this day my favorite cake.

And it got me to thinking -- with only two weeks left in our campaign -- about an idea that would help us raise funds to push our substantive agenda onto the front burner of American politics.

Here it is:

If you donate to Nader/Gonzalez by midnight tonight an amount that has the number two in it (two being the number of lemons in my mom's apple cake recipe -- the number of apples will remain a secret, for now), we'll e-mail to you Rose Nader's apple cake recipe tomorrow.

But it has to have at least one two in it.

If it has a two in it, we'll e-mail you the apple cake recipe tomorrow.

And it's a great recipe that serves 20.

So, you can share it with your friends and family.

Ralph Nader

PS: Given my love for apples, I was a little disheartened to read today that the state of Washington -- the apple state -- has misspelled my name on the official election ballots. They spelled it Nadar instead of Nader -- and refused to reprint it accurately.

PPS: Remember, if you give $100 or more now, we will ship you our special Wall Street rally DVD, featuring my speech on Wall Street last week. In addition, we'll send you two great books -- Gangster Capitalism by Michael Woodiwiss, and The Cheating of America by Charles Lewis, Bill Allison and the Center for Public Integrity. (This offer ends October 24, 2008 at 11:59 p.m.)




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