Brian Moore Sends Congratulatory Letter to President-Elect Obama

Hopes Chicagoan Will Re-distribute Wealth and Share Benefits Equally

SPRING HILL [Tampa Bay Area], FLORIDA, November 14 —  Brian P. Moore, the Socialist Party’s candidate for President, sent a congratulatory letter to President-Elect, Barack Obama today, to his Chicago headquarters, wishing him the best in his four-year Democratic Administration and hopes for the “change you have promised to improve the nation’s economy and general well-being.”

Moore said to the president-elect that ” Your campaign was hard-fought, and victory well-earned.”   The 65-year-old Moore, a semi-retired executive health care recruiter from Spring Hill, Florida, indicated that he [Moore] was the “true Socialist in the race,” and that he sincerely hoped that “you [Obama] will be willing to make the type of changes that will achieve a meaningful re-distribution of wealth, and a sharing in the benefits equally for all Americans.”

The Socialist candidate said that he, and his party, “would be of any assistance in developing new ideas and programs for the country,” and that “we are at your service.”  Moore, and his Vice-President, Stewart Alexander, were on the ballot in eight states and official write-in candidates in twenty-two other states, thereby passing the 270 electoral threshold, theoretically enabling them to gain the presidency, under different conditions.

In his congratulatory statement, the Socialist candidate said that it was a “pleasure competing against you despite the limiting nature of the Socialist Party’s fewer resources, lack of fair state ballot access and minimal national media recognition.”  However, Moore wrote the president-elect that he believed The Socialist Party’s ideas and programs, advocated and popularized in the first half of the last century, under the inspiring leadership of Eugene V. Debs and Norman M. Thomas, “led to the various social programs and human rights that now make up the fabric of our democratic society.”

The athletic and robust six foot socialist candidate, concluded his remarks to Mr. Obama stating that as Socialists, and as Americans, he earnestly hoped that Obama “will break from the safety of the status quo” and “follow in the grand tradition of men like Debs and Thomas in fighting for economic and social justice for all of the people of the United States, as well as our fellow citizens across the globe.”

Moore included his telephone number and e-mail address should the president-elect wish to communicate to discuss ideas with him and his radical political party.

Moore, who was brought up in California in a large family with a strong tradition of an Irish-American heritage, and a practicing Catholic religion, concluded his complimentary remarks by saying that “With deep respect for the position and mantle you are about to assume, we remain your humble servants as mutual citizens.”

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