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page 12
daily nebraskan
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Photo by Mitch Hrdlicka
Ron Kurtenbach, socialist party member, said he
thinks it is important to educate the public about
the issues his party supports. Also pictured is his
son, Benjamin.
By Bill Graf
The Socialist Party U.S.A. has candidates for the presi
dency and vice presidency of the United States. But they
won't appear on the Nebraska ballot.
The socialist candidate for president is David
McReynolds. According to literature released by the
party, McReynolds, 50, has been active in the party since
1951. He has been arrested several times in labor, civd
rights and peace demonstrations. In 1978, he was arrested
in the Red Square in Moscow and in 1979 at the White
House.
McReynolds was a national organizer of a movement
against the Indochina War. His political experience
includes a Congressional race in New York in 1968. He is
an acknowledged gay and senstitive to women's issues and
gay rights. A collection of his essays, "We Have Been
Invaded By The 21st Century," was published in 1969
His running mate, Sister Diane Drufenbrock, 50, is a
Catholic nun and a teacher in Milwaukee. She is a
community organizer fighting racism and sexism in hous
ing and employment according to the releases. She has
. been the treasurer of the party since 1977 and represented
the party at the Socialist International meeting in Paris in
1978.
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Bill Douglas, a worker of the party headquarters in Mil
waukee, said the party expects to be on the ballot in 12
states. McReynolds and Drutenbrock are currently on tne
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ballot in Wisconsin, Alabama, New Jersey, Iowa, Rhode
Island and Washington, he said.
Next week, they will file in Minnesota, North Dakota,
and Tennessee, he said. In addition, the party's candidates
may be on the ballot in Vermont and New Hampshire.
In Nebraska, Ralph Engert, Nebraska's deputy secre
tary of state, explained that the party failed to submit
the petitions required to get their candidates on the
ballot. To get a new party on the November ballot, he
said, the party needs the signatures of registered voters
front 19 counties equaling at least 1 percent of the total
votes cast for governor in the last election. This year the
party would have needed to submit 4,924 signatures
before the Aug. 1 deadline, he said.
One of the Socialist Party's Nebraska electors, Lincoln
ite Ron Kurtenbach, said he doesn't expect he'll have to go
to Washington in November to vote in the electoral
college. Nor does he believe the party will pull off any sur
prising upsets in other elections around the country.
But it's still important to educate the public about the
party and other democratic socialist parties, he said.
But it's still important to educate the public about the
party and other democratic socialist parties, he said.
"Whatever this party does, the key thing is the issues,"
he said.
Do away with oppression
Kurtnebach said the party's "struggle is to do away
with sex oppression, race oppression, and class oppression."
The party shouldn't be confused with the "undemo
cratic left," he said. The difference is that members of the
democratic socialist parties retain the right of descension
after pary rules have been made, he said.
Other priorities identified by the Socialist Party USA.
are:
The immediate dismantling of all nuclear weapons;
Full employment for all Americans seeking work;
-Price controls of necessities such as rent, food, fuel
and the slashing of military spending to relieve inflation;
The closing of all nuclear power plants with an empha
sis on solar power as well as the development of other
renewable energy sources;
-Decent and adequate medical care for all Americans
as a right;
-Unabridged rights for gays;
-Environmental protection and the development of
more parks and wilderness areas.
Citing the recent strikes in Poland, Kurtenbach called
Poland's socialist system "so-called socialism" and added
that in a true socialist state the workers have complete
democratic control over production.
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He agreed that the Soviet system has given socialism
a bad name. But rather than calling, the party by another
name, he stressed that "the truth should not be abandon
ed. Nebraskans should be educated on what socialism is."
But as for whether TCurtenbach will vote for the social
ist candidate, he said he isn't sure which is most import
ant; voting socialist as- a symbolic gesture or voting
Ronald Reagan.
Citing what he called Reagan's attempt to "rationalize
Vietnam as an honorable war," and his unwillingness to
consider the rights of the Palestinians, Kurtenbach said,
"Reagan has to be stopped. Carter has been extremely
disappointing, but Reagan is worse.
UNL students intern with
pipeline company in Beatrice
Two UNL students recently completed a three-month
internship with the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of
America, the interstate transmission subsidiary of
Chicago-based Peoples Energy Corporation.
Nebraska residents Kenneth Rice, Lincoln, and Michael
Colgrove, Wymore, worked at Natural's facility in Beat
rice. Rice, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, in
terned m the communications department, while
Colgrove, a junior majoring in industrial engineering,
worked m the corrosion department.
Natural's annual summer intern program has provid
ed college students with business experience for over 20
years. Forty -three students from 26 colleges participated
in the program this summer.
Natural Gas Pipeline Company operates an 11. 000
rrule pipehne networir that supplies gas from producing
ttelds in the south and southwest to 49 customer utili
ties serving 12 million consumers in the upper Midwest,
including major Chicago-area markets.