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  Here’s your independent voice
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Last EditedCraverguy  Oct 27, 2010 05:34pm
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AuthorJohn Brummett
News DateSaturday, October 16, 2010 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionU.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said it a dozen or so times in the debate on public television last week. It was that she, if permitted, would continue to be an “independent voice” in Washington.

Lincoln had best hope she was not very persuasive.

If an independent voice is what you really want, and Lord knows you are not going to get it from milquetoasty Republican automaton John Boozman, then your real choice is the small and tough-seeming fellow to Lincoln’s left, both physically during the debate and in political philosophy.

John Gray, the Green Party candidate, is a retired engineer. He once worked for the Atomic Energy Commission and then became an anti-nuclear activist. As an engineer, he consulted the automotive industry and helped it relocate factories to Mexico. Now he offers penance, saying NAFTA and the World Trade Organization and the so-called free global economy are ruining us all.

He’s mayor of Greenland, the town just south of Fayetteville, and he was the hands-down winner of this debate, if, that is, relentless and unafraid truth-telling appeals to you.

Gray made only one error, saying something about how Willy Loman explained that he robbed banks because that was where the money was. Actually, Willie Sutton was the bank robber who said that. Loman, from “Death of as Salesman,” confronted a more complex predicament.

After the debate I heard a couple of Gray’s associates telling him he should have seen all the heads nodding in the audience as he spoke. They must have been seated behind me.

Gray said, among other things, that:
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