From harelb Sun Apr 26 00:27:23 1992
To: conf!elections.usa@igc.org
Subject: Tsongas fraud in NY


    "...two individuals contacted by Newsday identified themselves as
    Emerson College students and verified the allegations..."

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Date: 20 Apr 92 09:44:27 EDT
From: Agran for President <75300.3112@CompuServe.COM>
To: <harelb@math.cornell.edu>
Subject: More on New York
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       Harel --
       On the issue of the NY petitions, you may wish to clarify that Agran
was ultimately proven right about Tsongas' petitions.  To quote Newsday,
3/7/92:
 
       Democratic presidential contender Paul Tsongas' campaign illegally
paid students by the signature to collect enough names to place him on
New York's primary ballot, a lawyer seeking to knock him out of the race
charged yesterday . . .
       New Alliance lawyer Gary Sinawsky said at yesterday's court hearing
that the Tsongas campaign bused in students from out of state to gather
signatures, including a group from Emerson College in Boston.
       In addition to paying the students 50 cents per signature, which
would be a violation of New York election law, Sinawsky said Tsongas
campaign aides improperly signed mandatory witness statements vouching for
the signatures the students had gathered.  The statements are supposed to be
signed by registered New York voters who actually witness the signatures.
New Alliance charges that many of the students were from out-of-state.
       Sinawsky provided tapes of interviews with several students to the
press, and two individuals contacted by Newsday identified themselves as
Emerson College students and verified the allegations.
       "We got 50 cents a signature," said Tracy Robinson, a Kings Point,
L.I., resident who said she was a freshman.
       Lorena Ryan, a resident of Maine, said she gathered signatures with a
group that did not include any New York residents, and then witness
statements were signed by Tsongas aides at the campaign's Manhattan
headquarters.
 
       So once again, Andrew Kopkind missed a story.  He ignores serious
charges of elctoral fraud by Tsongas, which were the basis of Agran's
possible challenge to Tsongas' petitions, and instead continues to
rationalize his biased reporting.
       Andrew Kopkind took it upon himself to deny The Nation's readers the
fundamental constitutional right to evaluate the candidates themselves.
Instead, he decided that he himself would censor Agran from The Nation's
pages.  It's a pity that Pravda isn't around any more; his editorial style
would fit in perfectly there.
       Steve



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Date: 20 Apr 92 09:19:07 EDT
From: Agran for President <75300.3112@CompuServe.COM>
To: <harelb@math.cornell.edu>
Subject: DRAFT SO FAR

       Kopkind's description about encountering Agran at the bar is a lie.
Media Director Mike Kaspar approached Kopkind and asked him if he wanted to
interview Agran.  Kopkind said he wasn't interested.  Kaspar contacted
The Nation several times over the weeks in NH, trying to get him to interview
Agran, but was turned down every time.
       Regarding NY, Agran never filed.  Fulani did.  But Clinton also filed
and Tsongas filed too.  Kopkind apparently never mentioned that.
       Steve

	[Note: Tsongas filed against everyone else before Fulani's
	lawyers filed against Tsongas]

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