Ron Unz for US Senate in California

[President Pepe]

Ron Unz is an interesting candidate. The two front runner are two establishment candidates. The other two Republicans are establishment as well. Ron Unz takes up conventional issues such as raising the minimum wage, free admision at Harvard, and taxing Wall Street.

http://www.starktruthradio.com/?p=2213

Ron Unz is the editor of The Unz Review and his campaign website is unzforsenate.org. He is also chairman of Free Harvard/Fair Harvard, a slate of candidates running for the university’s Board of Overseers on a platform of immediately abolishing undergraduate tuition.

Topics include:

How Ron Unz organized and sponsored a successful ballot initiative(prop 227) to keep English in the Schools
The San Francisco Chronicle article about Ron Unz, Even Republicans Swing Left in 1st California U.S. Senate Debate
His support for Raising the Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage as a politically correct way to reduce illegal immigration
His stance on Immigration  and support for a reduction in legal immigration
How mass immigration effects workers and the environment
Cutting College Tuition and his campaign for ending tuition at Harvard
The Myth of American Meritocracy
Opposing Affirmative Action
Controlling the Wall Street Casinos and His support for a Financial Transaction Tax
The importance of Admitting the Iraq War was a Disaster
Civil Liberties and Government Surveillance

[Ebsy]

Just a question: how would the US Senator from California have any influence over how Harvard, or for that matter, any private university admits students? How would any politician?

[smoltchanov]

No. AFAIK - he is too conservative for my tastes on too many social issues (choice and other)...

[President Pepe]

Just a question: how would the US Senator from California have any influence over how Harvard, or for that matter, any private university admits students? How would any politician?

He ran and organized a slate for Harvard board of oversears which included Ralph Nader.

[SATW]

No, he's the worst of the GOP candidates.

[President Pepe]

Just a question: how would the US Senator from California have any influence over how Harvard, or for that matter, any private university admits students? How would any politician?

In theory, they could pass a law dictating exactly how colleges must admit applicants if they want to receive federal funds.  In practice, that will likely never happen.

Not a Federal Law, the Harvard Board of Oversears. Basically Harvard is a giant hedge fund. They can easily afford providing free tuition.

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Just a question: how would the US Senator from California have any influence over how Harvard, or for that matter, any private university admits students? How would any politician?

Nationalisation of the Ivies?

[jaichind]

I became a big fan of Ron Unz since his various initiatives in the 1990s as I was for English only education very early beginning even at a time when I barely spoke any English when I arrived in USA.  I will be glad to vote for him if I were in CA.  Of course it does not matter as the GOP vote is so split that the Dems will take the top two spots for sure.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

I did (actual CA-Dem) because I'm hoping that he can beat Sanchez for the second spot, giving Harris an easy win.

[Kingpoleon]

I would have supported Sundheim, who is largely supported by members of the Republican Main Street Partnership. I don't know much about Unz, other than his alliance with Ralph Nader against Harvard.

[sparkey]

As much as the word "libertarian" gets tossed around for Unz, I don't see it with him. He's a weird mixed bag with his anti-immigration and minimum-wage-cures-all stances. I guess I'd vote for him in a runoff against any of the other 5 "major" candidates, but I'm planning on voting big-L Libertarian in the primary.

[Mr. Smith]

I am a CA voter, and heck no.

[Maxwell]

If I were in California, probably not, but he has some interesting stances.

[Eraserhead]

If I were in California, probably not, but he has some interesting stances.

Indeed. Definitely fascinating.

[President Pepe]

Looks like the election will be two Democrats. The problem is Ron Unz entered at the last minute. If he was in the race earlier he would of made it to two second place because he can unite Bernie and Trump supporters. Probably the best example of Radical Centrist campaign with the possible exceptions of Perot and Ventura.

[TJ in Oregon]

I'd probably vote for Loretta Sanchez.

[JMT]

I'd vote for Kamala Harris

[VPH]

I like a lot of his economic points, but he's far too nationalistic for me.

[Vosem]

Kamala Harris is terrible enough that I'd probably vote for Sanchez in the primary to ensure that she doesn't get to skate through to November.

[H. Ross Peron]

Yes, I voted for Unz despite being a registered Democrat due to the strategic considerations Fubart Solman mentioned and because I think his nonracial version of national conservatism is about the only remotely tolerable potential future for the Republican Party (which let's face it given the two-party system is going to be sticking around in one form or another) as opposed to ideologically bankrupt fusionism, the delusions of the libertarians and the demagogic nativism of the Trumpists and the Alt Right. It certainly helped that he was the only Senate candidate to endorse Sanders and is standing up for Asian American interest by fighting the new quota system against Orientals in the nation's Ivy Leagues, which he helped expose. Go Unz!

[sparkey]

Ouch, 1.3%. I believe that is 12th place, behind big-L Libertarian Lightfoot.

[rob in cal]

  Hey, don't blame me, I got three Unz votes out of our household, me, my wife and my newly enfranchised daughter.  I like his statement that he's pro-immigrant, but not pro-mass immigration.  An original thinker compared to most politicians.  I remember when he ran against Wilson in 94 in the primary and got about 30% of the vote out of nowhere.