No more Nader.

• Position: Letters to the Editor

Ralph Nader explains in his article ("After Enron," March issue) that the Enron scandal has caused damage to "poor people, low income people, people with investments in state pension funds or private pension funds. ..." That damage is, however, nowhere near the damage that Nader caused these same people when he worked to defeat Al Gore and elect this current retrogressive Administration.

It sickens me to read that Nader can somehow portray himself as a progressive spokesperson for those people. Those are the very people, along with a very large contingent of others, who actually benefited by the modest gains of the Clinton-Gore Administration and had high hopes to see those gains continue, no matter how modest they may have been.

The "poor people, low income people, people with investments in state pension funds or private pension funds" survived the savings and loan scandal, Reaganomics, and Daddy Bush's "read-my-lips" pledge. They will also survive the Enron scandal. I'm not sure, however, if they will survive Nader's egomaniacal desire to, as he puts it, crash the party.

On page 39, there is an ad for Nader's...