Some Leading Vote-Getters in the Backbone Campaign "Cabinet"
By DiscoverTheNetworks.org
December 2005

The Backbone Campaign website provides its visitors with a mechanism for registering their votes indicating who they would like to see assigned to America's most important government positions in a so-called "Backbone Cabinet." As evidenced by the results of these "elections," the political ideals of Backbone Campaign supporters occupy the far left of the political spectrum.

For example, leading all candidates (as of December 2005) for Agriculture Secretary is Dolores Huerta, a radical labor activist and a board member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Tom Harkin and Jimmy Carter also rank among the top vote-getters.

For Secretary of Commerce, Backbone Campaign voters favor Robert Reich, who served as Labor Secretary under President Clinton. Other leading choices are New York Times columnist Paul Krugman; Progressive Caucus members Bernie Sanders and Nydia Velazquez; and New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

For the office of Defense Secretary, BC voters choose former Georgia Senator Max Cleland, who voted eleven times against the Homeland Security measures co-authored by Georgia's more moderate Democratic Senator Zell Miller. Other leading vote-getters include Randall Forsberg, Representative Dennis Kucinich, Senator Joe Biden, Senator Carl Levin, and Professor Noam Chomsky.

Leading the pack of Backbone Campaign nominees for Education Secretary is Professor Howard Zinn, followed by such notables as Bill Moyers, Marian Wright Edelman, and bell hooks.

To head the Department of Health and Human Services, BC voters favor Howard Dean, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Jim McDermott, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, Carol Moseley Braun, and former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.

For the office of Attorney General, BC voters favor Representative John Conyers, followed by the radical attorney and avowed Marxist Ron Kuby, Center for Constitutional Rights attorney David Cole, and Senator Richard Durbin.