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00:00:00I still remember that night.

00:00:22It was July 11th, 1979.

00:00:25I was six years old, was lying on the open terrace on top of my house in New Delhi.

00:00:31My eyes wide open looking at the clear sky, stars sparkling, looking out for the streaming

00:00:36line of fire.

00:00:37Skylab, the manned space station, had to be dismantled and was falling into the earth.

00:00:43I was both afraid and hopeful that it would fall near my house so I can see it.

00:00:49It never did.

00:00:51I vowed to come to the United States of America and build a spaceship like the ones you see

00:00:55in Star Trek.

00:00:57I never became a rocket scientist, but I got into movie making instead where it's much

00:01:02easier to be a rocket scientist, thanks to Jerry Bruckheimer.

00:01:06I finally arrived in America a few years ago.

00:01:11One of the things that always intrigued me about the United States is that being the

00:01:15largest democracy in the world, it had only two parties, the Democrats and the Republicans.

00:01:22Now I was from India where we had a party for every flavor of ice cream you can buy

00:01:25at Baskin Robbins.

00:01:27Not that that was better, but why only two?

00:01:31Are there only two points of view in the world?

00:01:34It would continue to wrack my brain for the longest time until I met it.

00:01:38Dan Byington, a talk radio show host and businessman, has a major announcement.

00:01:44First of all, welcome to Nothing But Truth, Dan, it's a real pleasure to have you here.

00:01:46Thank you, Crane, thank you for having me, it's a pleasure.

00:01:49Actually, this is the first time this has been announced on WGNU's Airwaves.

00:01:53I host a show here, and this is the first time that this is coming out on the air.

00:01:57On WGNU, I am running for Congress.

00:01:59Running against Tic, running against Tic, running against Tic, running against Tic.

00:02:03Before you vote today, there's something I have to say.

00:02:07Do you really want to make life better?

00:02:12If so, don't hesitate.

00:02:14That's really no debate.

00:02:16I'm not that kind of lady.

00:02:18We need to make changes, reprint, so if everything's correct, then we'll do it.

00:02:24What about me?

00:02:28Would you vote for me, America?

00:02:34I stand alone in my policy.

00:02:38Hello, I'm Mike Steger, I'm running for Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.

00:02:48My name's Michael Graham, I'm running against Dick Gephardt in the Democratic primary.

00:02:54Running against Tic, running against Tic, running against Tic, running against Tic,

00:02:58running against Tic, running against Tic, running against Tic, running against Tic.

00:03:05It's something you have to know, this is not another show.

00:03:09It's not about the money or power.

00:03:13There's not another place like the United States.

00:03:17Let's all make this our finest hour.

00:03:21Volunteer kickoff for Congress District 3 Barbecue.

00:03:29Welcome volunteers, free food.

00:03:34You gotta get the people in the house to hear the message, and sometimes you can do this.

00:03:38Free food.

00:03:40I just made all these.

00:03:44I'm gonna put this one in my front yard, and see where it says,

00:03:48glad you could stop buying tin.

00:03:52That's gonna be in the back, so when they walk out of the backyard, they'll see this sign,

00:03:56and when they walk in the backyard, they'll see...

00:04:04Well, this is the day I start to meet the candidate barbecue.

00:04:08I'm gonna have some people come over.

00:04:10I have a radio show on WGNU from 11 to noon.

00:04:14I just started, I had the idea Thursday.

00:04:18You know, there may only be one person that shows up, or there could be 40 people.

00:04:22I really don't have a clue.

00:04:34I think that government is simply a stereotype-controlled anarchy,

00:04:40and that you have a bunch of mafia running these organizations like the United States of America,

00:04:44just to put their hand in your wallet, take out your money, and spend it for somebody else.

00:04:48If it was a libertarian platform, a lot of these people wouldn't be going to jail.

00:04:52We wouldn't be prosecuting any of this minor, petty drug stuff, and stuff like that.

00:04:56Don't get me wrong, I've changed my opinion on the whole drug thing over the years.

00:05:00I've come to the conclusion that they should just go ahead and legalize drugs,

00:05:04and I'm a conservative. I don't do drugs, I don't want to do drugs.

00:05:08But I'll tell you what, if they legalized the drugs, it would eliminate most of the crime.

00:05:12What I'm saying is that Type 1 and 2 is completely stupid to be illegal,

00:05:16because it's a plant, for God's sakes.

00:05:20It's like beer, really.

00:05:24So what are you gonna do for...

00:05:29So what are you gonna do for Dan to ensure he wins?

00:05:33Well, I guess what I'll do is I'll try to get the word out, and anybody who goes against Gebhardt

00:05:37has definitely got my vote, and I'm sure a lot of other people's.

00:05:41I want him to, for one thing, get out of other people's business as much as possible,

00:05:45stop taxing us to death,

00:05:49and the third thing is do something about all the jobs that are going south of the border.

00:05:53I'd ask Gebhardt flat to his face,

00:05:58what's he done to stop the jobs from leaving this country?

00:06:02The question is, to ask Gebhardt, what's he doing to stop the flow of jobs from this country

00:06:06to the next country? He voted for NAFTA, didn't he?

00:06:10Didn't he vote for GAF?

00:06:14How can these people out here in these factories, Chrysler and Ford, say, hey, he's our boy?

00:06:18He says he's a machine, and the machine is running,

00:06:22so you have to either have your own machine to run against it,

00:06:26or somehow throw a monkey wrench into his machine.

00:06:30I think maybe he ought to have a bake sale next week.

00:06:34I thought we could maybe get Dan to base jump off the Eads Bridge

00:06:38with a Speedo that says Vote Byington on the back,

00:06:42and getting you to film it, and then we release that to the media.

00:06:46Something that gets free publicity.

00:06:50Thank you all for coming to the volunteer barbecue

00:06:55for my campaign. I've made my announcement publicly

00:06:59this past Thursday for the first time. Actually, no, about two weeks ago.

00:07:03Enjoy the food and everything. The reason why I'm wearing this hat

00:07:07is because I'm working hard for myself, and I think you all should work hard for yourself as well.

00:07:11I'm not going to relate to my neighbor as a competitor for some type of government handout,

00:07:15grant, or program. Anyway, a couple of my neighbors stopped by.

00:07:19But I have this sheet here.

00:07:24Write your name, phone number, email address, or your address

00:07:28if you'd like to volunteer in my campaign anyway.

00:07:32Just continue eating. If you want to ask me any questions or anything, I'll be around.

00:07:36I have a question, sir. Who's your girlfriend?

00:07:40And what are your intentions?

00:07:44My intentions on what?

00:07:48I've been asked to assist Dan with his campaign

00:07:52in a management form. I haven't decided whether I'm going to do that or not.

00:07:56I wanted to come out and meet some of his friends.

00:08:00So throughout meeting some of them today, I'm not quite certain I want the job.

00:08:04What will it take for Dan to win this war,

00:08:08or this fight against big politicians?

00:08:12About two and a half million dollars.

00:08:17Well, it's...

00:08:21I'm very ticked about

00:08:25dogs and dead people voting.

00:08:29That's a main issue.

00:08:33This is Mike Steger, another hopeful, unfunded,

00:08:37running in the Republican primaries against party-endorsed Ms. Katherine Enns.

00:08:41He is a one-man campaign crew.

00:08:45It's crooked. And it's fixed.

00:08:49All we've got to do is merge the voter database in the city and the county

00:08:53with the driver's license. Put a V on the driver's license.

00:08:57If you're a non-driver, you get the non-driver's card. Fixed.

00:09:01And then, I'm going to do something that Thomas Jefferson would do

00:09:05if he was around today. I'm going to return control of the government

00:09:09to the public. Pretty monumental task.

00:09:14Sounds like a challenge to me.

00:09:18I don't even want to go to Washington. I'll do two-way teleconference secure.

00:09:22I don't really need to go out there. I've been to Washington before.

00:09:26Now, before Mike can talk about going to Washington, he had to beat Ms. Enns

00:09:30in the primaries, who was party-endorsed and was relatively well-funded.

00:09:34Oh, that's becoming a breeze now.

00:09:38I've got 23 years' experience in federal government.

00:09:43Because I can do a better job. I've got 23 years' federal government experience.

00:09:47For Mike, this was personal. Some time ago, he had caught

00:09:51some people falsifying documents, and he complained to Dick Gebhardt.

00:09:55And he answered me like he'd answer anybody in the district.

00:09:59He said, it's an administrative matter. He told me I was on my own.

00:10:03He said, you've exhausted

00:10:07your administrative options. To which I say,

00:10:11no, I haven't. Gebhardt, you're fired.

00:10:15It seemed to me that Mike Steger was planning too far ahead.

00:10:19Mike Brahm, on the other hand, was gunning for Dick Gebhardt

00:10:23in the Democratic primary. To me, it seemed like an uphill battle.

00:10:27But then, what do I know?

00:10:31It's time for the individuals to stand up and try to get our country back.

00:10:35The country right now is like Rome.

00:10:40The reason a lot of people don't know why Rome collapsed, it was financial.

00:10:44The idea of represent is to represent

00:10:48the beliefs and the backgrounds of the people

00:10:52of your area. Not go around the nation raising money

00:10:56and then run for president.

00:11:00Now this is an area up here, like I said earlier, that will vote for him.

00:11:04So to campaign here really does not do any good because

00:11:09you can talk all day long and the people will not listen to you

00:11:13because they've already decided, they don't care, they have it in their minds

00:11:17and they will vote for him.

00:11:21Not only that, but they will vote Democrat. They will never vote Republican.

00:11:25They've always voted Democrat, always will vote Democrat.

00:11:29So you have to go against Dick Gebhardt as a Democrat

00:11:33and you have to do it in the primary.

00:11:37I was reading in the press the last week about a fax

00:11:41that she sent me. Maybe you saw it.

00:11:45Some of the Republicans thought that was cute.

00:11:49Well, what I want to say to my friends in the Republican party

00:11:53is eat your heart out.

00:11:57I get faxes from Barbara Streisand.

00:12:01They get faxes from Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson.

00:12:06A lawyer by training, like many other politicians, Dick Gebhardt was first elected

00:12:10to the U.S. Congress in 1976 and has been undefeated ever since.

00:12:14At the onset, it did not seem likely

00:12:18that this race would pose a challenge. In the past, he had raised 2-3 million dollars

00:12:22in each campaign and this was going to be no different.

00:12:26So why is he so invincible?

00:12:30He's done an awful lot. You can watch him on television. He's here, he's there.

00:12:35I was born in DeSoto, Missouri. I ran Highway 21 a lot

00:12:39and he had 21 into a four-lane highway

00:12:43and he's going to continue to make it the rest of the way to DeSoto, Missouri.

00:12:49He's wavered on most major issues throughout his life.

00:12:53Abortion, tax reform.

00:12:57A more generous interpretation of the events

00:13:01may say that he had a sincere, genuine change of heart.

00:13:05I don't really find that to be the case.

00:13:09I think that as he aspired to the Democratic nomination for president in 1988,

00:13:13he changed his position on abortion. He changed his position on gun control.

00:13:17He changed his position on a variety of issues.

00:13:21Okay, if that's the case, how do you explain this?

00:13:25And Mr. Gebhardt, if he was terrible or bad,

00:13:30would he have been in there for 20 some odd years?

00:13:34People can't be wrong that long.

00:13:38He has access to a national Democratic fundraising base.

00:13:42These national donors are able to give him, you know, $2 million

00:13:46for each election cycle. The second reason is that

00:13:50as the district has changed demographically and as the voting patterns

00:13:54have changed over the last 10 or 15 years, Gebhardt has skillfully

00:13:58been able to take the lead in redistricting every 10 years.

00:14:02Gebhardt's original political base is here in the heart of the south side

00:14:06of the city of St. Louis.

00:14:10In the redistricting after the year 2000, after the census came out,

00:14:14Gebhardt, whose district used to, the lines used to end here,

00:14:18he took territory, even though his population in his district

00:14:22had been moving this way, he decided to make sure his district went upwards

00:14:27because this swath of people here, there's two types of people.

00:14:31There's African Americans, who are disproportionately Democratic,

00:14:35and there's white progressives. Because of the complexity,

00:14:39the sophistication of redistricting software,

00:14:43state legislatures are able to mold their districts to make sure

00:14:47that they are not going to face a strong challenger.

00:14:51I caught up with Dan a week after the barbecue to find out what kind of success he had had.

00:14:56The results, let's just say, were less than optimal.

00:15:00A lot of people I noticed at this barbecue will sit there and they'll bitch to the cows

00:15:04come home and they'll talk about how it's the blacks fault, the poor guys fault, the rich guys fault,

00:15:08some politicians fault, but then when you ask them to volunteer, maybe put a yard sign in their yard,

00:15:12they act like they're doing you a big friggin' favor. It's like, pal, contribute a little bit.

00:15:16I'm not asking you for a lot. Can you pass out 10 flyers?

00:15:20You have no problem wolfing down my hot dogs, that's for sure.

00:15:24My strategy is, and if I can afford it, I want to get billboards, I want to buy billboards,

00:15:28but I thought about putting something like

00:15:32do it for the kids, in parenthesis, and then

00:15:36Byington. And then I'll say pay for Byington for Congress.

00:15:40Or, I'm just a common man. I like the common-

00:15:44I'm a common man, you're a common man.

00:15:48Won't you be a common man? Tears up.

00:15:53So we rushed to see him in person.

00:15:57He's pretty much been a career politician for the last 26 years.

00:16:01I thought, you know, I'd get some good tips from him.

00:16:05Well...

00:16:09What?

00:16:13This is awesome.

00:16:17Thank you, man.

00:16:22Thank you very much. And I want to congratulate

00:16:26the mayors, the park board members,

00:16:30farmer mayors, and mostly the citizens

00:16:34of this great community for having the

00:16:38generosity and the foresight and the good citizenship

00:16:42to invest in a wonderful facility like this.

00:16:46This center, to me,

00:16:50is a family center.

00:16:54So we finally got to see Dick Gephardt in person.

00:16:58This was the man Dan was going to debate against.

00:17:02Gephardt clearly knew how to talk a lot without really saying anything

00:17:06but making people feel good.

00:17:10Looking at the novices who were running in the race, it was getting pretty apparent to me

00:17:14that this was going to be one bloodbath.

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00:18:21And you might want to use one of these as an attack billboard.

00:18:28And the attack ones would be totally different and I could put my little thing on small print

00:18:33but it'll say something that Gevhardt said.

00:18:35Like Gevhardt sucks.

00:18:37Radio, internet, billboards, flyers, yard signs, and guest appearances.

00:18:44That's it.

00:18:45That's all I'm going to be doing for campaigning.

00:18:47That's enough.

00:18:48As long as we do a lot of it.

00:18:50They say that your treasurer should be, like in your case, it should be a pro-life Republican

00:18:57woman.

00:18:58How do you find that?

00:18:59You just want to add or something?

00:19:00I don't know.

00:19:01You have to find, like, you know, they say it should be the opposite of your candidate

00:19:11to try and bring other people into the campaign.

00:19:18Why do a lot of congressmen make a local quirky documentary and it's turning out really,

00:19:23really good.

00:19:24The footage and the film.

00:19:25There's a lot of WGNU radio.

00:19:26I think that would be a good start to catapult when you talk about getting news coverage.

00:19:32How are we going to raise money?

00:19:33What's your thoughts?

00:19:34What's your budget?

00:19:35What are you going to spend?

00:19:36Okay, Mike, what I think I need is about 50 grand to do everything I want to do.

00:19:40And that's what, obviously, that's the next thing.

00:19:41Let me change that.

00:19:42You think it's 150,000?

00:19:43Yeah, I'm going to put one in front of it.

00:19:44Okay.

00:19:45And that's our goal.

00:19:46If there's any demons that are going to come to haunt us from your past, like, you know,

00:19:47you...

00:19:48Well, let me tell you something.

00:19:49I have no police record.

00:19:50Right.

00:19:51I'm a single guy, so at least at that date, you know, I'd meet women.

00:19:52I haven't met Mrs. Wright, but I've probably, in the last two to three years, probably slept

00:19:53with 20 different women.

00:19:54Uh-huh.

00:19:55That's just what I'm saying.

00:19:56A couple of girls left me.

00:19:57That's just what I'm saying.

00:19:58That's just what I'm saying.

00:19:59That's just what I'm saying.

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00:20:04That's just what I'm saying.

00:20:05That's just what I'm saying.

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00:20:34Uh-huh.

00:20:35How are you?

00:20:36Good to see you.

00:20:37Good to see you.

00:20:38What are you going to do for me?

00:20:39Uh, um, nothing.

00:20:40I'll help protect you from yourself.

00:20:41Winning November 5th.

00:20:43Right

00:20:44Winning November 5th.

00:20:45Right

00:20:46What do I got to do?

00:20:47And just think of it like that.

00:20:48I'm a grunt.

00:20:49I'm out there.

00:20:50I'm out there in the trenches.

00:20:51That's the one way I can approach it.

00:20:59Dan looked far and wide for suitable treasure.

00:21:01He finally convinced my girlfriend to sign up.

00:21:03The only problem?

00:21:04nor pro-life.

00:21:34I just thought it would be fun.

00:21:36But it doesn't look like it now.

00:21:38Okay, I got you as a treasurer.

00:21:40You signed on.

00:21:42I didn't have you sign anything official or nothing.

00:21:44I'm going to get a P.O. box with an address.

00:21:46I'm going to call the F.E.C. and ask questions.

00:21:48I'm going to start raising funds

00:21:50to put into a bank account

00:21:52that we will both open jointly.

00:21:54Okay.

00:21:56Well, thank you for...

00:21:58You're welcome.

00:22:00You're very welcome.

00:22:02Official handshake.

00:22:04You're saying it now.

00:22:06Your finances will be all screwed up.

00:22:08I have no new wardrobe.

00:22:10It is getting close to the primaries.

00:22:12While Catherine Enns was still evading my calls

00:22:14and Dick Gephardt was nowhere to be seen,

00:22:16I met up with Mike Steger

00:22:18who was on his campaign trail.

00:22:20Let me describe for you

00:22:22the flavor of representation under Gephardt.

00:22:24The MSD plant

00:22:26here in Lemay

00:22:28with burnin' poop.

00:22:30There's little kids that live around here

00:22:32every day

00:22:34and breathe this burnin' poop every day.

00:22:36When I'm elected,

00:22:38I'm going to have a wash,

00:22:40put it on the top of this tower,

00:22:42a spray,

00:22:44and then I'm going to do something about the tanks

00:22:46so that the

00:22:48little kids don't breathe this

00:22:50burnin' poop every day.

00:22:52I want to put my office in the building where I used to work at.

00:22:54Here are the defense mapping.

00:22:56And if the Air Force will let me,

00:22:58I'll let them open up that building

00:23:00for Boy Scout and Girl Scout camp.

00:23:02The only Boy Scout and Girl Scout camp

00:23:04in South City.

00:23:10Right now,

00:23:12I've just got to get through the primaries.

00:23:14And after the primaries,

00:23:16things will pick up.

00:23:20Because I don't want funds

00:23:22getting locked in.

00:23:24And this installation board,

00:23:26you can put it on the windshield of your car.

00:23:34I've got a lot of base,

00:23:36and a lot of people understand

00:23:38exactly where I'm coming from.

00:23:44When I stop,

00:23:46they come,

00:23:48and they're like,

00:23:50you know,

00:23:52when I stop, they come

00:23:56and say, what are you going to do?

00:23:58What are you going to do?

00:24:04I am pretty impressed with Mike Steger's

00:24:06determination, but is this

00:24:08an efficient way to reach out to 700,000

00:24:10people in the district?

00:24:12Michael Bram, on the other hand,

00:24:14was running around the district

00:24:16trying to get endorsements

00:24:18from local Democratic wards.

00:24:20There were other ward meetings

00:24:22where Dick and his representatives

00:24:24did not show up.

00:24:26And you have to show up to get an endorsement,

00:24:28which they did not,

00:24:30and he was endorsed anyway.

00:24:32That also goes with this area here,

00:24:38the 15th ward in the city.

00:24:40Same thing.

00:24:42Dick and his representatives don't show up.

00:24:44I show up.

00:24:46You have to show up to be considered

00:24:48So not only do we have problems

00:24:50up at the federal level, but we have problems

00:24:52at the local level.

00:24:54I hope that

00:24:56I win. If not,

00:24:58the website stays up.

00:25:00I'm going to keep letting people know,

00:25:02informing them of the truth.

00:25:06It is the day before

00:25:08the primaries.

00:25:10Mike Steger's one-man campaign crew

00:25:12is in full force.

00:25:14Whether it will be enough to beat Kathy Yance

00:25:16is another matter.

00:25:18All I got to do is beat ends.

00:25:20I think she already gave up.

00:25:24Get involved with every

00:25:26high-tech project the government's got

00:25:28and bring those projects into the district.

00:25:30That means business, jobs, opportunity.

00:25:32P.S.

00:25:34Kephart, you are fired.

00:25:36Didn't you see that already?

00:25:42They burn the poop 24 hours a day.

00:25:46And them little kids

00:25:48have to breathe burning poop.

00:26:02My Teamster Union dad

00:26:04went to his grave

00:26:06knowing that Kephart

00:26:08tried to screw me.

00:26:10This is a blood feud.

00:26:17A buck for the board

00:26:21and however much for the paint.

00:26:39My South County Journal thing,

00:26:41I said, I want to be a representative,

00:26:43not a dictator.

00:26:46I'm against dogs and dead people voting.

00:26:48We're going to merge the voter database

00:26:50of the city and county with the driver's license.

00:26:52You know what Mayor Daley says,

00:26:54vote early, vote often.

00:27:10It's like driving a boat

00:27:12bored through mulch.

00:27:14It is mulch.

00:27:3050 feet.

00:27:4450 feet.

00:28:00The primaries

00:28:02ended with no upsets.

00:28:04As expected, Mike Bram

00:28:06had lost to Dick Kephart.

00:28:10Alright, we got to put him back.

00:28:14You tear Pat his head.

00:28:16Alright, say bye-bye.

00:28:20The campaign ended

00:28:22very nice.

00:28:2426.5% of the vote

00:28:26received over 16,000 votes.

00:28:28That's more than

00:28:30the 13,000 that

00:28:32the Republican candidate

00:28:34Catherine Enns, who received

00:28:3613,000, will face Dick Kephart

00:28:38in the general election.

00:28:40But, of course, we have

00:28:42media bias again.

00:28:44Five days after the election,

00:28:46and there's a picture of Dick Kephart getting

00:28:48free press on the front page.

00:28:50Also in the paper,

00:28:52if you read,

00:28:54it talks that

00:28:56Kephart pummeled Mike Bram

00:28:58and

00:29:00Enns breezed past

00:29:02computer consult Mike Steger.

00:29:06If you look at the percentages from the state,

00:29:08Catherine Enns

00:29:10did get 58%,

00:29:12and Mike Steger got 41%.

00:29:14I don't call that a breeze.

00:29:16And 26%

00:29:18to 73%

00:29:20is not a slaughter.

00:29:22Now, the paper also reports that

00:29:24Kephart got

00:29:26nearly 80% of the vote.

00:29:28Well, he didn't get 80% of the vote.

00:29:30Now, in St. Louis County,

00:29:32yes, I did get

00:29:343,822

00:29:36votes,

00:29:38which is about 20%.

00:29:40I did pull higher percentages.

00:29:42But the paper does not show that.

00:29:44That was the county.

00:29:46They are giving a perception that that was

00:29:48the total everywhere.

00:29:54The train that's going by right now

00:29:56is

00:29:58Burlington Northern.

00:30:00It's a track that goes into St. Louis,

00:30:02comes up from Memphis.

00:30:04It'll probably be carrying nuclear waste through here

00:30:06Dick Gebhardt shows up in the area

00:30:08and said, oh no, waste is not going to go through.

00:30:10Waste is not going to go through.

00:30:12It's going through.

00:30:14It was started back in 1987.

00:30:16He was House Majority Leader. He could have killed it.

00:30:18He could have killed all the appropriations for Yucca Mountain.

00:30:20He did not do that.

00:30:22The only way for people to take this country back

00:30:24is they have to stand up.

00:30:26They have to say,

00:30:28hey, that's it.

00:30:30And the only way they can do it peacefully

00:30:32is by voting.

00:30:34I had somebody run against him in the primary

00:30:36for many, many, many years.

00:30:38So this was very interesting to see

00:30:40that large of a turnout for me

00:30:42when the media won't even put

00:30:44my picture in the paper.

00:30:46They won't put my picture on TV.

00:30:48And basically,

00:30:50nobody knew who I was.

00:30:52So that begs the question,

00:30:54what about the media?

00:30:56Is it not supposed to be fair and balanced,

00:30:58as some would say?

00:31:00Radio plays a greater role than ever.

00:31:02Time on the air is paid for by all parties

00:31:04and distributed evenly among them,

00:31:06giving the party in office

00:31:08no advantage over its opponents.

00:31:10Most of the mainstream media

00:31:12only focus on official sources.

00:31:14Well, who are the official sources?

00:31:16Of course, the Democrats and the Republicans.

00:31:18And they are colluding

00:31:20to keep independent voices

00:31:22like the Green Party

00:31:24out of the electoral process.

00:31:26It is so hard to get information.

00:31:28I just want to know,

00:31:30who believes what?

00:31:32What do you think the role of the media is

00:31:34in this whole election process?

00:31:36To sell newspapers and TVs,

00:31:38TV ads.

00:31:40Hello from the anchor desk.

00:31:42Good morning again.

00:31:44It's 6.30 now

00:31:46on this Monday, January 3rd.

00:31:48And here's what's happening in the news this morning.

00:31:50This story about two Tennessee boys

00:31:52who need to eat squirrel meat

00:31:54might sound a little nutty,

00:31:56but it is true.

00:31:58Journalists in Morgan County, Tennessee

00:32:00have been out hunting squirrels today.

00:32:02Been hard trying to find foods

00:32:04that are high in protein,

00:32:06and we got the idea of squirrels.

00:32:08Journalists can be eyes for the world,

00:32:10often risking their lives.

00:32:12But that's another story.

00:32:14Another story we want to hear.

00:32:16That's right. We're using all sorts of French.

00:32:18I thought Maurice Chevalier might sneak in here.

00:32:20I'm going to sneak off to Jacques Epinay.

00:32:24What's on your time mark?

00:32:26That's Bugs.

00:32:28Yeah.

00:32:30And Daffy.

00:32:32And Wile E. Coyote.

00:32:34This was for sale in the post office.

00:32:36$1.3 trillion.

00:32:38Make this holiday season

00:32:40a time of giving.

00:32:42Come on, join us.

00:32:44If you want to fall out of debt.

00:32:46Nice Friday. Nice Friday.

00:32:48Sit, Friday, sit.

00:32:50All right, let's go up to Chopper 2 right now.

00:32:52Some serious clowning around going on today.

00:32:54Exactly.

00:33:04Yeah, they told me where to stand,

00:33:06where to sit, and I'm doing okay this morning.

00:33:08And put it, quote,

00:33:10a cheap publicity stunt.

00:33:12And again, quote, a classic case

00:33:14of media manipulation.

00:33:16Media.

00:33:18Media manipulation.

00:33:20That is the news this morning.

00:33:22Now let's head back to Brian and Jane.

00:33:24This was when we were invading.

00:33:26We were going

00:33:28into Yugoslavia.

00:33:30And I was really upset about

00:33:32some stuff. And I was watching

00:33:34and I was like

00:33:36watching how they would,

00:33:38like the local newscasters would

00:33:40talk about, you know, they'd briefly introduce

00:33:42a few serious issues with these stern looks on their faces.

00:33:44And then like immediately they'd be,

00:33:46you know, they'd be cutting up and making jokes

00:33:48and stuff. And I was just like,

00:33:50how can anybody

00:33:52take it seriously?

00:33:54The real news,

00:33:56because there is some substance there.

00:33:58How can they take it seriously if, like,

00:34:00these newscasters are just total clowns?

00:34:02You know? When you're trying to,

00:34:04when you're trying to

00:34:06win your market share

00:34:08by providing entertainment,

00:34:10then you've lost your focus on the news.

00:34:12After dismal response

00:34:14in getting volunteers

00:34:16and raising funds,

00:34:18I was really frustrated the next time I saw him.

00:34:20No one from the Libertarian

00:34:22Party has called me and said,

00:34:24okay, here, people are going to

00:34:26help you with fundraising or nothing like that.

00:34:28And I'm not really blaming them, but I was kind of

00:34:30feeling frustrated because I was like, man,

00:34:32am I really, am I willing to

00:34:34waste all this time and energy?

00:34:36Because really that's all you have.

00:34:38The only independent right now is a

00:34:40guy from Vermont named Bernie Sanders

00:34:42who's a socialist,

00:34:44actually, and Vermont's quite a quirky state

00:34:46politically. I would bet my

00:34:48life savings that Dan

00:34:50Byington will not be able to

00:34:52win this seat.

00:34:54Why do you vote Democratic?

00:34:56Well, it's a party that my father and mother

00:34:58and sister all vote for.

00:35:00And that's the only way that I can go.

00:35:02Which party do you generally vote for?

00:35:04Republican.

00:35:06It's just, in general, they seem more conservative

00:35:08than the

00:35:12Democrats.

00:35:14What do you mean conservative?

00:35:16What are the things that are conservative?

00:35:18All that

00:35:20seem to me...

00:35:24As a labor man and as a working

00:35:26man, I have to vote Democratic.

00:35:28Democrat.

00:35:30Why do you vote Democratic?

00:35:32Because we're more

00:35:34liberal.

00:35:36What have they specifically done?

00:35:38I really don't know.

00:35:40I just, where I was brought up

00:35:42I'm about to vote Democratic.

00:35:44Republican, the rich keep getting richer

00:35:46and the poor keep getting poorer, so I want to

00:35:48be on the rich side.

00:35:50My parents are both

00:35:52Democrats, so I was raised a Democrat.

00:35:56God first.

00:35:58Love of country. Family.

00:36:00Traditional things.

00:36:02Republicans, the people who

00:36:04have been elected so far,

00:36:06have they kept the promises that

00:36:08you've been promised as a voter?

00:36:10Well, it doesn't make any difference.

00:36:14I support them, and

00:36:16I would,

00:36:18it's my time.

00:36:20I am starting to get the idea now.

00:36:22The two-party system

00:36:24works something like this.

00:36:26This

00:36:28is

00:36:30America.

00:36:32God

00:36:34bless

00:36:36America.

00:36:38One, two, three, four!

00:36:40Hooray!

00:36:42Hooray!

00:36:44Land of the free and the home of the brave.

00:36:46Land of the free and the home of the brave.

00:36:48America!

00:36:50Hey America, I'm the better choice.

00:36:52I am for the poor people.

00:36:54Vote for me.

00:36:58No, no.

00:37:00I'm the better choice.

00:37:02Nobody gets free money,

00:37:04and I'll protect you all with big bombs.

00:37:08This is stupid.

00:37:10I will protect you all.

00:37:12Black people, yellow people, brown people,

00:37:14gay people, from the man.

00:37:18Don't be an idiot.

00:37:20I'll let you keep your guns so you can be safe.

00:37:22Ha ha, jackass.

00:37:26Guns kill, guns kill.

00:37:30What about pro-choice?

00:37:32Or, if you keep your kids,

00:37:34I'll pay you.

00:37:36I heard that.

00:37:38He's taking away all my votes.

00:37:40Holy Jesus.

00:37:42I'm fucked.

00:37:44That's it. Jesus.

00:37:46I present to you,

00:37:48Jesus.

00:37:58Vote for me.

00:38:00No, vote for me.

00:38:02Vote for me.

00:38:04Yellow people.

00:38:06Jackass, vote for me.

00:38:10Hey, guys.

00:38:12I'm an independent.

00:38:14Why don't we debate issues?

00:38:16You guys want to debate me?

00:38:18I bet you I'll kick y'all's ass.

00:38:20You don't know who you're up against.

00:38:22You don't know who you're up against.

00:38:36You guys don't play fair.

00:38:40America.

00:38:42America.

00:38:44Land of the free and the home of the brave.

00:38:46Land of the free and the home of the brave.

00:38:48America.

00:38:52America.

00:38:54Because we will

00:38:56probably never change to proportional

00:38:58representation, and we can only elect

00:39:00one person,

00:39:02that indicates that we'll always

00:39:04have two parties coming to the

00:39:06median voter, trying to get that median voter.

00:39:08Additionally, they'll be able to raise

00:39:10so much money through their connections

00:39:12in Washington with political action committees,

00:39:14through their connections back home

00:39:16with businesses in the district,

00:39:18and also through the franking

00:39:20privilege, the fact that they can send

00:39:22as much mail as they want, as

00:39:24congressmen, for free.

00:39:26The barriers, the obstacles, are

00:39:28almost insurmountable.

00:39:34We've been certified by the

00:39:36Missouri Secretary of State.

00:39:38Greens are on the ballot.

00:39:40We're running, I believe, nine

00:39:42candidates statewide.

00:39:44The Green Party probably would be

00:39:46very aligned with

00:39:48my values, but I feel

00:39:50I'd be throwing my vote away.

00:39:52You don't have to have a two-party system

00:39:54to run a country.

00:39:56You've got to be able to listen

00:39:58to opposition.

00:40:00And the two-party system

00:40:02is too much intertwined

00:40:04with each other.

00:40:06If you got me a map of the 435

00:40:08districts, in 400

00:40:10of the races,

00:40:12I would tell you, I could tell you

00:40:14who will win 400 of those

00:40:16with utmost certainty.

00:40:18So much so that I would bet, again,

00:40:20my life savings, I would bet my

00:40:22home on it. I think it's the money game.

00:40:24It's a money game.

00:40:26It takes a lot of money

00:40:28to get in politics.

00:40:30And Democrats

00:40:32and Republicans, they got it all.

00:40:40Money is the

00:40:42mother's milk of American politics.

00:40:44If you don't have money

00:40:46and you can't raise money, you almost

00:40:48have no shot of getting there.

00:41:06The main reason that

00:41:08it's hard to run as a third-party candidate

00:41:10is money, pure and simple.

00:41:12Estimates are

00:41:14that my Democratic and Republican

00:41:16opponents in this Senate

00:41:18race here in Missouri will spend

00:41:20five to ten million dollars

00:41:22each on their campaigns.

00:41:24Five to ten million dollars.

00:41:34But without money or the possibility of raising it,

00:41:36it doesn't seem like a possible dream

00:41:38in this society these days.

00:41:40It freaks me. It frightens me a lot.

00:42:10I

00:42:12don't think our forefathers

00:42:14could have ever predicted the strong

00:42:16lobbyists that we have over here

00:42:18who pretty much dictate

00:42:20public policy and tell politicians

00:42:22where to spend their money.

00:42:24And if the politicians don't go with them, fine.

00:42:26You just don't get any campaign contribution.

00:42:40I finally got the message

00:42:42from Republican candidate

00:42:44Ms. Enns' office

00:42:46that I was afraid of.

00:43:10You called last week

00:43:12about us participating

00:43:14in a documentary that you're doing.

00:43:16I've discussed it

00:43:18with the staff and with

00:43:20Representative Enns also

00:43:22and we just wouldn't be able

00:43:24to do it at this time. I'm sorry.

00:43:26We wish you the best of luck with your

00:43:28program. Yes, Mr. Henderson?

00:43:30Hi, this is Srikanth Chalapa.

00:43:32I had

00:43:34been requesting

00:43:36an interview with Ms. Enns

00:43:38and I think I got a message from you

00:43:40about a couple of weeks back or so.

00:43:48Would it be possible for me

00:43:50to kind of just follow her

00:43:52on her campaign trail, maybe a couple of days

00:43:54or something, between now and

00:43:56November? I mean, if she

00:43:58can't do an online interview, I can at least capture

00:44:00that kind of footage because I'm really trying to capture

00:44:02how the campaigns are run and stuff like that.

00:44:04Okay.

00:44:08Alright. Bye.

00:44:12Editing.

00:44:14Editing

00:44:16Radio Free St. Louis. I am Chuck Coleman

00:44:18which is actually going to be

00:44:20part of my

00:44:22campaign. Hopefully I'll be able to

00:44:24maybe I might even sell tickets

00:44:26wherever it shows.

00:44:28I guess pretty much

00:44:30all the topics I wanted to cover I have covered

00:44:32because I mean at this particular point

00:44:34I'm just continuing to fill out surveys

00:44:36and pass out flyers

00:44:38and I guess if I can just

00:44:40if you can kind of help me get spots

00:44:42to speak in front of and work with these guys

00:44:44and get a speech, I'll show up wherever I can

00:44:46as long as it's not Monday through Friday

00:44:489 to 5.

00:44:50Don't we have a debate?

00:44:52No, the legal debate is on Friday

00:44:549 to 5.

00:44:56Don't we have a debate?

00:44:58No, the League of Women Voters originally were going to have a debate

00:45:00and I talked to them and they said they're not having a debate this year.

00:45:02Oh, so now we don't have a debate.

00:45:04No, I hadn't heard that.

00:45:06So I was kind of disappointed about that.

00:45:08Hello, sir.

00:45:12How much? I'm passing out flyers

00:45:14too today.

00:45:16Dan Bynson for Congress.

00:45:18That's me.

00:45:20Libertarian.

00:45:22I'm going down

00:45:24to the legalized marijuana for us guys, man.

00:45:26I think marijuana should be

00:45:28I think there should be

00:45:30I think the drug laws are not working in this country.

00:45:32The only criticism I hear

00:45:34about you guys

00:45:36is that you want to privatize the forest.

00:45:38I can't do that.

00:45:40Privatize what? The forest.

00:45:42My buddy's

00:45:44running for

00:45:46Senator

00:45:48Green Party. Yeah.

00:45:50Dan Romano. Okay.

00:45:52He's a friend of mine.

00:45:54I'll probably see him today. We're actually going down to a peace protest.

00:45:56Anyway, man, it was nice meeting you. What is your name?

00:45:58Lefty Flowerchild.

00:46:00Lefty Flowerchild? Yeah, right. That's my legal name.

00:46:02I haven't changed it. Okay, well, hey, give me a call

00:46:04if you know anyone who's interested

00:46:06in helping out a third party.

00:46:08We've sustained a huge loss with the cancellation

00:46:10of the League of Women Voters debate.

00:46:12That's a huge setback.

00:46:16And what's our symbol?

00:46:18Isn't it a donkey?

00:46:20That's

00:46:22Democrats. No, it's a blunt.

00:46:24It's a donkey.

00:46:26It's a libertarian.

00:46:28I thought it was a blunt.

00:46:30A big old spleen.

00:46:32What? You're saying it's a donkey?

00:46:34That's the libertarian?

00:46:36In Missouri, it is. Yeah, it's a donkey or a mule.

00:46:38So what are some things

00:46:40that you guys are doing? Because I have no idea.

00:46:42Tomorrow I'm passing out flyers

00:46:44after work. Okay, Saturday?

00:46:46Saturday from 2 to 4 down at the Arch.

00:46:482 to what?

00:46:502 to 4 at the Arch. Okay, now,

00:46:52did you want to do a different type of flyer

00:46:54for that? Yeah.

00:46:56We need to get that done so I can get it done tomorrow.

00:46:58The Tivoli, I'm going to premiere the film,

00:47:00which you saw.

00:47:02It wasn't a completed project, but it will be

00:47:04totally complete. I'm premiering that

00:47:06on October 15th. Yeah, you don't like

00:47:08the way he portrayed himself in his film.

00:47:10Your

00:47:12one and a half minutes

00:47:14of soundbite from that

00:47:16entire film is pretty

00:47:18hard-edged. But it's done.

00:47:20Right.

00:47:22And whatever happens, happens. So I agree with that,

00:47:24because we're going to do that. Small stuff?

00:47:26War-based.

00:47:28What do you mean?

00:47:30I mean, you've got to give me something.

00:47:32He's good, war bad.

00:47:34Bush equals Nazi.

00:47:36You should not exchange

00:47:38an 18-year-old's

00:47:40life for

00:47:42an oil price.

00:47:44You know what I mean? I'm not nervous about

00:47:46Iraq lobbing a bomb over

00:47:48from Iraq. I'm nervous about

00:47:50some terrorist waltzing through the borders.

00:47:52It'll probably happen in two years.

00:47:54Some terrorist just waltzing through the borders

00:47:56with a bomb in a

00:47:58briefcase.

00:48:00And he just puts it somewhere in Kaboom.

00:48:02That's the biggest threat.

00:48:04Our foreign policy should be that where we don't

00:48:06meddle in anybody's business unless they...

00:48:08Absolutely. That is

00:48:10a large reason why we're hated

00:48:12in a lot of parts of the world.

00:48:14We're everywhere. We're trying to be the world's policemen.

00:48:16Sometimes we come down on the wrong side.

00:48:20The war drums

00:48:22had started beating out of Washington

00:48:24and a resolution authorizing war

00:48:26was on the table.

00:48:28Third-party voices were in the

00:48:30forefront opposing war.

00:48:32Why war?

00:48:34Why Iraq? And why now?

00:48:36To the

00:48:38neocons, 9-11

00:48:40was a godsend.

00:48:42Like a dying vampire that has

00:48:44been given a transfusion

00:48:46of human blood.

00:48:48We don't have to look

00:48:50very far to see the influence

00:48:52of the money power

00:48:54dragging us into war.

00:48:56ExxonMobil, the oil majors,

00:48:58British Petroleum,

00:49:00Halliburton, Dick Cheney's

00:49:02own company, the burgeoning

00:49:04homeland security industry

00:49:06that profits from government

00:49:08efforts to spy on us.

00:49:10The whole military-industrial

00:49:12complex is now becoming

00:49:14the only growth sector in

00:49:16an economy dragged down

00:49:18by war, fear,

00:49:20and crushing taxation.

00:49:22What you can do? Get on the

00:49:24phone tomorrow

00:49:26morning. Call your congressman.

00:49:28Who is the congressional

00:49:30representative from this district?

00:49:32I blame Gephardt.

00:49:34It's Gephardt!

00:49:36Who is that?

00:49:38You've got to work hard.

00:50:00My name is

00:50:02Digger, also known as

00:50:04Daniel Amato, and I am running

00:50:06as the Green candidate

00:50:08for the U.S. Senate.

00:50:12The Green Party has come out consistently

00:50:14against this war.

00:50:16George W. Bush

00:50:18should look at himself.

00:50:20I hear him talking about

00:50:22how he's appalled how Saddam

00:50:24gassed the Kurdish people

00:50:26back in 1988.

00:50:28Well, George W. Bush,

00:50:30where the hell were you

00:50:32back in 1988, and why

00:50:34weren't you saying anything about it

00:50:36back then? What's the matter?

00:50:38Are you too drunk at the time?

00:50:40I'm Tamara Millay, and I'm the libertarian

00:50:42candidate for U.S. Senate.

00:50:44I'm not going to take much of your time,

00:50:46and I'm not going to ask you

00:50:48for your vote today.

00:50:50I'm here instead to stand in solidarity

00:50:52with all Americas.

00:50:54Libertarians, yes, but Greens,

00:50:56Democrats, and Republicans, too,

00:50:58who oppose the terrible

00:51:00Obama.

00:51:06Hello, my name is Daniel.

00:51:08I'm running as a libertarian

00:51:10candidate for Congress.

00:51:12There's not much that I can

00:51:14add that has not been said

00:51:16today.

00:51:18But when I hear the stories about the veterans

00:51:20who were over in Iraq,

00:51:22stuff that you don't see in the news,

00:51:24or the media doesn't cover,

00:51:26the destruction that the Persian Gulf

00:51:28War has left behind,

00:51:30where all we seem to be driven towards

00:51:32is the only solution for our

00:51:34families' crisis,

00:51:36is war,

00:51:38it bothers me.

00:51:40I'm going to have to go apply the Sante motion

00:51:42to my phone. I know it's kind of figured out,

00:51:44and I've got a good Sante.

00:51:46He needs to practice.

00:51:48I think he wasn't prepared,

00:51:50and he was nervous. That's what I think.

00:51:52But it was his first time out,

00:51:54and now he's

00:51:56got experience under his belt.

00:51:58And I think when I said the joke

00:52:00about the suntan or whatever, I don't know what I was thinking,

00:52:02but that's what I was thinking, really, because it was like,

00:52:04man, my head was starting to really

00:52:06burn up, because some of those people talked

00:52:08and talked and talked.

00:52:10And

00:52:12I was just nervous as shit.

00:52:14And I know that I have to have something prepared now

00:52:16when I go in there.

00:52:18The war resolution passed overwhelmingly

00:52:20in the Congress, with the House

00:52:22approving it 296

00:52:24to 133,

00:52:26and the Senate 77

00:52:28to 23.

00:52:30This past Saturday,

00:52:32I went and talked in front of a peace group,

00:52:34and I just didn't feel as if

00:52:36I was prepared

00:52:38enough.

00:52:40And why do you feel you're qualified for this office?

00:52:42I'm not a lawyer.

00:52:44I mean, I'm actually a Missourian.

00:52:46I live in Missouri,

00:52:48and I think that the people of Missouri

00:52:50deserve a candidate who really doesn't want

00:52:52to have a career path.

00:52:54Well, my name is Carl Schlanger, and for the

00:52:56campaign for Dan Byington, I'm just trying

00:52:58to help out

00:53:00with the words

00:53:02when it comes to perhaps doing

00:53:04commercials,

00:53:06helping him with speeches.

00:53:08While Dan was having a tough time

00:53:10finding places to speak,

00:53:12the third-party candidates in the tightly contested

00:53:14Missouri Senate race hit limelight

00:53:16for once.

00:53:18What I am saying

00:53:20is that these elections matter.

00:53:22It's bigger than us up here.

00:53:24I mean, there are people in this state,

00:53:26tens of thousands of them, seniors.

00:53:28I've met them in the 30 senior centers

00:53:30and independent living centers I went to

00:53:32who need prescription drug coverage.

00:53:34I remember the first Gulf War. We were told about

00:53:36what, oh, the third biggest army in the world

00:53:38and what a threat he was,

00:53:40and they turned out to be a second-rate army.

00:53:42Thomas Jefferson specifically wrote some of the

00:53:44most important documents.

00:53:46I think we all probably have a fond

00:53:48place in our heart for them, except maybe

00:53:50John Ashcroft.

00:53:52Getting the job done,

00:53:54that's what it's about, sir,

00:53:56in the United States Senate.

00:53:58The Green Party is not taking away

00:54:00votes from any other party,

00:54:02because no other party owns those votes.

00:54:04The voters own those votes.

00:54:06I would not doubt your patriotism,

00:54:08nor would I doubt the patriotism

00:54:10of any member of the United States

00:54:12Senate, Republican or Democrat,

00:54:14and I don't want you to doubt mine again.

00:54:16Actually, I'm very pleased

00:54:18to say that the media have done a great job

00:54:20reporting on my positions

00:54:22when they have talked about me.

00:54:24I've noticed no inaccuracies.

00:54:26Once the media gives us a little bit

00:54:28of attention and lets the public know

00:54:30what we stand for, it seems like we get a lot

00:54:32more that people are really very interested

00:54:34in our message.

00:54:36I've been asking people,

00:54:38why are you running

00:54:40for the Senate,

00:54:42the U.S. Senate, as a third-party candidate?

00:54:44Don't you know that this is a two-party

00:54:46system? My reply

00:54:48to that is,

00:54:50that's right, it's a two-party system,

00:54:52and we need a second party.

00:54:54I am getting involved in politics

00:54:56because there's two things I think we really need to address

00:54:58as Americans, and that's one,

00:55:00our health care system, and two, taxes.

00:55:02I think our

00:55:04health care system, I mean, looking out

00:55:06here, I guess by show of hands, do any of you remember

00:55:08doctors making house calls?

00:55:10Okay,

00:55:12what happened there?

00:55:16I'm quite

00:55:18positive. You could call the IRS with one

00:55:20question, and if you talk to

00:55:22four different people, you get four different answers.

00:55:24So,

00:55:26in reality, what you need to do, we need to

00:55:28reform the tax process, and

00:55:30people need to at least say this.

00:55:32Not a lot of politicians even mention

00:55:34this stuff. I'll be over here

00:55:36at the end.

00:55:40The elections are drawing near,

00:55:42and Dan's campaign had little momentum.

00:55:44All bets

00:55:46are on his big movie premiere.

00:55:48Fundraise, fundraise,

00:55:50fundraise. We're going

00:55:52against Gephardt. Who knows how much money

00:55:54he has? Let's just say a lot.

00:55:56And how much money does Dan

00:55:58have? None. So,

00:56:00in order to

00:56:02win, you need money.

00:56:04Content of character.

00:56:06You know, character is a lot,

00:56:08and you have that, Dan. Oh, thank you.

00:56:10And I'm not just trying to boost you up. It's true.

00:56:12You have character. You're going to win.

00:56:14Well, thank you. I appreciate it. I wish you were in my

00:56:16district, Jeannie. I'm going to vote.

00:56:18I'm going to work for you anyway. I don't have to vote

00:56:20for you to campaign for you.

00:56:22Dan, I called to tell you I

00:56:24need ten tickets on reserve.

00:56:26Okay. If you would

00:56:28like to see the WGNU documentary,

00:56:30the first show is basically sold

00:56:32out.

00:56:34We're at the Tivoli Theater today.

00:56:36Beautiful Tivoli Theater.

00:56:38Trying to organize our first fundraiser

00:56:40where Dan will show his film,

00:56:42the Chuck Norman documentary,

00:56:44which has come off fabulously.

00:56:46What if you only sell

00:56:48120?

00:56:50Well, then I'll pretty much

00:56:52lose about $1,500 off the whole thing.

00:56:54So that means my work is a cutout

00:56:56for me. Right.

00:56:58I've got to start selling tickets.

00:57:00I've only got two weeks. Period. I've got two weeks to do it.

00:57:02The thing, Dan can

00:57:04contribute as much money as he wants

00:57:06to his own campaign. The film

00:57:08premiere is his film.

00:57:10Right. It's not necessarily a

00:57:12fundraiser, so whatever money he makes from that

00:57:14doesn't have to be counted.

00:57:16We're going to need people to staff a booth. You want to set

00:57:18a table up and sell buttons and stickers?

00:57:20Yeah, absolutely.

00:57:22Who's going to do that?

00:57:24I've got people who can do that. Pretty girls are good

00:57:26for that. Okay.

00:57:28Not the shootest.

00:57:30I'm not getting anybody home.

00:57:32I've got one person, Gloria Parker.

00:57:34She said she'll put a yard sign

00:57:36in her yard.

00:57:38I think what it is

00:57:40is a lot of people, they think,

00:57:42why bother? I don't have a chance.

00:57:44I have no chance to win this election.

00:57:46I'm just pretty much

00:57:48like, I have absolutely

00:57:50zip chance of winning.

00:57:52The only way I'll win this election is if

00:57:54Gebhardt and Cathy Innes kicks the bucket.

00:57:56Like, and I'm the only one on the ballot

00:57:58somehow, you know.

00:58:00But even then, I mean, last time they voted

00:58:02a dead guy.

00:58:10I've got to go get my flyers out of the car, too.

00:58:12You don't mind passing them around here?

00:58:14No, I don't mind.

00:58:16I just want to make sure everything's right.

00:58:18Nine of them.

00:58:20So you owe me

00:58:2250 bucks.

00:58:24Hey, Gary, what's up? This is Dan.

00:58:26I need you to give me

00:58:28a call ASAP. I'm driving around

00:58:30and Gebhardt has yard signs and so does

00:58:32Cathy Innes all over the place and I have none.

00:58:34I need you

00:58:36to get me that design. You're supposed to email

00:58:38it to me and I need to get these things up ASAP.

00:58:40And there's my tickets.

00:58:42Okay, good enough.

00:58:44Thanks, Gloria. Thank you. And I look forward to

00:58:46seeing you at the premiere. That's going to be fun.

00:58:48Okay, alright.

00:58:50And you don't have to inform me of anything.

00:58:52Just put it

00:58:54and I know you've been here.

00:58:56With a thousand guys like you, I could win a campaign.

00:58:58What's going on, man?

00:59:00Not much. What are you up to, man?

00:59:02Our rainbow festivals? Yeah.

00:59:04Libertarians from all over the country

00:59:06come there. They're cool as can be. They got tents.

00:59:08They're sitting there. They'll be smoking less.

00:59:10They'll do everything, man.

00:59:12But when they start privatizing the parks,

00:59:14everybody gets cool.

00:59:16Are you right-handed? Yeah.

00:59:18Okay, try to get in touch with the other side

00:59:20of your brain over here, your right mind.

00:59:22It lets you be a people-like person.

00:59:24Yeah, that's pretty good.

00:59:26I think I'm going to start trying to do stuff like

00:59:28brush my teeth left-handed.

00:59:30You'll see after a while.

00:59:32You'll start looking at things differently.

00:59:34Why are you supporting Carnahan

00:59:36when Digger is running for House of Parks?

00:59:38Digger's the one that scared me.

00:59:40I was with Digger

00:59:42at my house and Digger

00:59:44let me off and I go,

00:59:46he goes, you know, Carnahan's running.

00:59:48He goes, I don't think

00:59:50she's going to make it. She's got a weak campaign going on.

00:59:52I go, really? I go, darn it.

00:59:54I got scared and I left him

00:59:56and about four or five days later I came out with my sign.

00:59:58So you would rather vote for Digger

01:00:00than her, but you're voting for her.

01:00:02No, Digger doesn't stand a chance.

01:00:04He knows it. Everybody knows it.

01:00:08This is my mother-in-law, Olga.

01:00:10I'm a strong politician.

01:00:12Dan's running against,

01:00:14well, he's in the... Are you Democrat?

01:00:16No, I'm not a Democrat.

01:00:18Oh, I don't know.

01:00:20I love him.

01:00:22Oh, give me some papers

01:00:24on you.

01:00:26What are you going to do with them?

01:00:28No, don't give her any papers. She'll turn you in.

01:00:30She's a Democrat.

01:00:32Why do you love her, though?

01:00:34Because she's a Democrat.

01:00:36But why are you a Democrat?

01:00:38Because my mother was.

01:00:40There you go.

01:00:42The only Republican I did vote for

01:00:44was Eisenhower.

01:00:46And you know why?

01:00:48He came from Massachusetts.

01:00:50I was working at the bank that day,

01:00:52and he waved to me.

01:00:54So I waved back, and I voted for him.

01:00:56Hi, Harvey. Should we eject the fire?

01:00:58Hey, how's it going?

01:01:00Would you like a fire?

01:01:02I'm running for Congress.

01:01:04Oh, okay.

01:01:06I figured, why not?

01:01:08Why not?

01:01:10That's a good idea.

01:01:12All right, I will.

01:01:14They take notes.

01:01:16Here you go.

01:01:18It's a haunted house.

01:01:20Two dollars off.

01:01:22And also, I'm running for Congress.

01:01:24Are you really?

01:01:26Yeah.

01:01:28It's like, here's a haunted house, and I'm running for Congress.

01:01:30What a novel idea.

01:01:32See, people aren't receptive

01:01:34to taking a political fire,

01:01:36but when you combine it with a free ticket to a haunted house,

01:01:38they take it all day long.

01:01:40What about me?

01:01:42Oh!

01:01:44What about me?

01:01:46America!

01:01:48He's running for office.

01:01:50Yeah.

01:01:52Oh, I can see the grand opening

01:01:54of the WGNU.

01:01:56It doesn't do you justice.

01:01:58No.

01:02:00You look younger.

01:02:02Hey, cool, the yard signs.

01:02:06Look at these yard signs, Joe.

01:02:08Wow, those are great, man.

01:02:10All 300 of them.

01:02:12Put it there.

01:02:14When I hit play,

01:02:16it should jump right to

01:02:18the beginning

01:02:20of the film.

01:02:22Yeah.

01:02:24Good job, Norman.

01:02:30And I'm not going to

01:02:32rattle on much longer,

01:02:34but I am running for Congress.

01:02:36If you want to ask any questions,

01:02:38we can have a coffee.

01:02:40Other than that, enjoy the show.

01:02:42I'll let it speak for itself.

01:02:58I enjoyed it a lot.

01:03:00Excellent production values

01:03:02and very entertaining.

01:03:04I loved it.

01:03:06This was the best film

01:03:08I've seen in 25 years.

01:03:10Patton was the last one.

01:03:12Chuck, good seeing you.

01:03:26I think a lot of people

01:03:28like the movie.

01:03:30They liked the movie,

01:03:32but it didn't go well

01:03:34and it really put me in the hole.

01:03:36I didn't really raise any money

01:03:38towards my campaign.

01:03:40So total to pull the whole thing off

01:03:42was about $2,400.

01:03:44I think

01:03:46with pre-sold tickets,

01:03:48tickets at the door and everything,

01:03:50I may have sold

01:03:52around $1,800

01:03:54for the tickets,

01:03:56so I actually figured I lost about $600.

01:03:58I had one volunteer

01:04:00for the volunteer sign.

01:04:02Eight people signed up for yard signs

01:04:04or six or seven,

01:04:06and I had 40 people sign up for DVD and VHS sales.

01:04:08I called all the local media,

01:04:10but none of them even returned my calls

01:04:12or anything like that.

01:04:16They're more interested in covering murders,

01:04:18drug arrests,

01:04:20crap like that.

01:04:22How are your speaking

01:04:24opportunities coming along?

01:04:28I registered to speak at

01:04:30a community college. They returned my check.

01:04:32Oh, your speeches are getting cancelled too.

01:04:34So where do you go from here?

01:04:36Well, I'm just going to put up as many yard signs

01:04:38as I can, and I think what it is

01:04:40is when people go into the polls,

01:04:42they just look at a name they recognize.

01:04:46Have you heard of Mr. Dan Byington?

01:04:48No.

01:04:50It's the Gephardt race.

01:04:52Probably Republican.

01:04:54Have you heard of Mr. Dan Byington?

01:04:56No.

01:05:00Hi.

01:05:04Hi.

01:05:06What are you trying to do?

01:05:08I'm trying to run for Congress.

01:05:10You're selling that house?

01:05:12What?

01:05:14You're selling that house?

01:05:16I'm running for Congress.

01:05:20I will be pumped into 318,000 homes,

01:05:22of which probably

01:05:2410 people will watch this,

01:05:26because it's on local access.

01:05:28This is my entree

01:05:30into the media exposure,

01:05:32since third parties get literally

01:05:34no coverage by the press.

01:05:36How's it sound? Pretty good?

01:05:38I mean, is it a good 30-second sound bite?

01:05:42Just smile and be more relaxed.

01:05:44That's why we're just going through it.

01:05:46Just don't be too harsh.

01:05:48My name is Daniel Byington.

01:05:50My name is Daniel Byington.

01:05:52My name is Daniel Byington,

01:05:54and I am running for the

01:05:563rd District, and I am running

01:05:58for the U.S. House of Representatives,

01:06:00and I am running for the office of

01:06:02U.S. House of Representatives.

01:06:04My name is Daniel Byington.

01:06:06If you believe the individual

01:06:08should have the right and responsibility

01:06:10to run their own life,

01:06:12then vote for me on November 5th.

01:06:14Daniel Byington.

01:06:22This year, I don't think it's going to happen,

01:06:24but I do think Dan Byington

01:06:26can and will happen.

01:06:28It may not be Dan Byington,

01:06:30by the way. It may be another person

01:06:32doing the same thing he's doing now.

01:06:34But we have to have people like Dan

01:06:36start this process.

01:06:44That sign might get like six votes

01:06:46just by being there for a week or two.

01:06:54We're protesting illegal immigration.

01:06:56How does it affect you

01:06:58and the ordinary citizens?

01:07:00Well, it keeps wages lower,

01:07:02takes people's jobs,

01:07:04increases crime,

01:07:06the security of the nation.

01:07:08So here I am, an immigrant,

01:07:10filming a group opposing

01:07:12immigration. I know Dan

01:07:14was running out of places to speak,

01:07:16but this?

01:07:18We don't need it anymore. We've got 300 million people here.

01:07:20Yeah, you want me to just go ahead and start?

01:07:22Today, our nation is controlled

01:07:24by a single party, which has

01:07:26disguised itself under two parties,

01:07:28under two umbrellas

01:07:30named the Democrat

01:07:32and Republican Party.

01:07:34For example, I believe that in regards

01:07:36to our foreign policy, we should

01:07:38remove all of our troops from overseas,

01:07:40stop meddling in people's business,

01:07:42put our troops on our borders, and make it clear

01:07:44and simple.

01:07:46You attack us,

01:07:48we will annihilate you and kick the U.N. out.

01:07:52This is the only way

01:07:54out of the tyranny of the one-party

01:07:56system with Democrats as the heads

01:07:58and Republicans as the tails.

01:08:00Mr. Byington has enough guts

01:08:02and courage to come out here

01:08:04with odds against him

01:08:06that are insurmountable, and he's

01:08:08willing to make a point.

01:08:10Mr. Gephardt

01:08:12had the audacity, even though he represents

01:08:14a working-class district,

01:08:16and he should be more cognizant of

01:08:18their problems, and it's a lot of

01:08:20voters that are suffering

01:08:22to offer a blanket amnesty

01:08:24for all illegals in the United States.

01:08:26There's millions of them.

01:08:28He's in favor of high taxes,

01:08:30bringing in more immigrants,

01:08:32deluding

01:08:34the white population

01:08:36of the third district.

01:08:38Pam Buchanan put it

01:08:40better than anyone else.

01:08:42If the Democrats submitted a bill to burn

01:08:44down the Capitol building, the Republicans

01:08:46would offer an alternative amendment

01:08:48to phase it in over three years.

01:08:50I'm going to walk into Dick Gephardt's office

01:08:52just to see if I can get some information.

01:08:54I just want to see if they're actually

01:08:56having a debate

01:08:58that maybe I didn't know about.

01:09:00Yeah,

01:09:02201.

01:09:08In a way, I feel kind of off the hook,

01:09:10though, because being

01:09:12a congressman, it almost

01:09:14feels like I'm going up against a Goliath

01:09:16where when I'm walking up the steps,

01:09:18I'm thinking, it shouldn't be that way.

01:09:20Have you heard of Mr. Dan Byington?

01:09:22Dan Byington?

01:09:24Byington?

01:09:26I think he was a

01:09:30fighter pilot

01:09:32during World War II, wasn't he?

01:09:34What do you think of this sign?

01:09:36Him? He's all right.

01:09:38He's got to get out and get some work in.

01:09:40Who, Byington?

01:09:42Have you heard of Byington yet?

01:09:44I've seen him a few times. I've seen him sign up on Chippewa out there.

01:09:46What do you think of Byington?

01:09:48He's all right.

01:09:50It's Byington, Dick Gephardt, and Kathy Enns in a race.

01:09:56Kathy who? Enns?

01:09:58Enns, right, right, right.

01:10:00You've got to learn how to do this.

01:10:02You want to get a campaign going?

01:10:04Get out on the corners.

01:10:06You see that little beep beep there?

01:10:08That's what that's about.

01:10:10He came by and read beep beep. He does that.

01:10:12When the other Democrats come by, they see it.

01:10:14They beep. Republicans see it.

01:10:16They're quiet and go by.

01:10:18I need to get a beep beep on my sign.

01:10:20You've got to cheat every little way you can.

01:10:22For sure.

01:10:24Look, these people are honking.

01:10:26How do you know if these people are honking?

01:10:28My signs are your signs.

01:10:30All you want to do is get recognized, don't you?

01:10:32I think that's what it's about.

01:10:34You know what they're honking at?

01:10:36They're honking because they had almost a war for a year now.

01:10:38They had all that shit.

01:10:40Anyway, man, it was good seeing you again.

01:10:42Thanks, man.

01:10:44I think that guy beeped at me because he was looking right at my sign when he beeped.

01:10:54I'm actually running for Congress.

01:10:56My name is Dan Byington.

01:10:58On what ticket?

01:11:00The Libertarian ticket.

01:11:02Good luck.

01:11:04So you're going to vote for me for Congress in the 3rd District?

01:11:06Yeah, me and Janet.

01:11:08Well, I appreciate that.

01:11:10I'd like to see you.

01:11:12You know, Gebhardt's going to beat Enns by 10% or whatever.

01:11:14He was at the opening of the swimming pool.

01:11:16You know, shaking hands, getting photographed.

01:11:18A hundred people carefully let in.

01:11:20It's silly, you know?

01:11:22They got this

01:11:24five-story-tall

01:11:26water slide.

01:11:28You can see it from Kansas City.

01:11:32To get this swimming pool aquatic center,

01:11:34they had a bond issue

01:11:36and they fell short

01:11:38so then they passed a tax increase.

01:11:40A sales tax increase.

01:11:44Back, at least at the time of the sales tax increase,

01:11:46they knew they were going broke.

01:11:48They could have scaled back on the swimming pool.

01:11:50But no, you know, government wants to be

01:11:52everything to everybody.

01:11:54It is two days before the election.

01:11:56I never saw Dick Gebhardt again.

01:11:58Meanwhile, Dan's only hope

01:12:00is to get more than 0.7%

01:12:02that the last Libertarian candidate got.

01:12:06I'm getting ready to go.

01:12:08I'm going to go into

01:12:10Gebhardt's campaign headquarters here

01:12:12and I want to just ask

01:12:14volunteers who volunteer for the Democratic Party,

01:12:16why do they volunteer

01:12:18for the Democratic Party?

01:12:20Why are they volunteers?

01:12:22So I'm going to go in here and see what...

01:12:28How's it going?

01:12:30Hi. Hello. What can we help you with?

01:12:32Right now I'm standing outside of, I guess it's

01:12:34Richard Gebhardt.

01:12:36My congressman is

01:12:38campaign headquarters.

01:12:40Since I've had such a difficult time

01:12:42finding volunteers for my campaign,

01:12:44I was kind of curious to know

01:12:46why do people volunteer for a particular

01:12:48campaign and how come they do,

01:12:50how come they don't?

01:12:52Whatever.

01:12:54And that was something we wanted to ask

01:12:56and nobody wanted to go on camera

01:12:58and they kind of kicked us out of the office.

01:13:00Have you heard of Mr. Dan Byington?

01:13:02I don't believe in his agenda.

01:13:06And I won't support him.

01:13:08Dang it!

01:13:10I've got to

01:13:12perfect that a little bit.

01:13:14I hit it too hard and the staples keep popping up.

01:13:16My favorite sign

01:13:18up there is

01:13:20Gebhardt hasn't done dick for me

01:13:22or the 3rd District.

01:13:28I'll give you four.

01:13:30I'll give you this many.

01:13:32That's fine.

01:13:34But when you approach somebody, if you hand it to them and they read it,

01:13:36they can just read it and then after they read the information

01:13:38just take it back and then you can just do that

01:13:40that way you can get more people than just 10.

01:13:42Probably get 100 at this point.

01:13:48That's really the name of the game, man.

01:13:50Just getting your signs out there.

01:13:52Getting it where people see your name.

01:14:00I don't know.

01:14:02I don't know.

01:14:04I don't know.

01:14:06I don't know.

01:14:08I don't know.

01:14:10I don't know.

01:14:12I don't know.

01:14:14I don't know.

01:14:16I don't know.

01:14:18I don't know.

01:14:20I don't know.

01:14:22I don't know.

01:14:24I don't know.

01:14:26I don't know.

01:14:28I don't know.

01:14:38I don't know.

01:14:48I don't know.

01:14:50I don't know.

01:14:52Suppose this is the night before a national election, suppose you sat in this room and

01:15:02saw and heard this.

01:15:10I got a list of the St. Louis County, St. Louis City voting polls and I'm just going

01:15:15to go and put these signs up there.

01:15:22He's in Vegas right now, Joe Grasso.

01:15:28So there you have it, Joe Grasso is in Vegas.

01:15:32There were no big speeches, no $150,000, no billboards.

01:15:37This sounded very familiar.

01:15:39Afton Christian Church 9625 Tesson Ferry Road, this is the Afton Christian Church on Tesson

01:15:47Ferry Road and I don't see any signs.

01:15:56Sign broke.

01:15:57Goat Hillsboro.

01:15:58Hillsboro, that's like a big thing, Burns Mill, that's all off like 55 Barnhart.

01:16:10Here's another polling place.

01:16:20Two percent is good, five percent would be better.

01:16:35It is early morning of the first Tuesday in November.

01:16:41This is an American city, for this is election day.

01:16:46Oh man, thank God it is election day.

01:16:59Have you heard of Dan Bington?

01:17:02No I haven't.

01:17:03He's on WGNU.

01:17:06I've heard of the radio station.

01:17:09Yes I have seen placards along the roadside.

01:17:13That's about as far as my knowledge of him goes.

01:17:16I consider myself a libertarian.

01:17:20There's no reason to have a guy in Washington making decisions that I can make and hit a

01:17:26button on my internet and there it is.

01:17:29People would raise their children to believe that they're the government, not the guy you

01:17:34elect.

01:17:35Who's going to go up there and he's going to take all the money from the political action

01:17:39committees and vote that way?

01:17:42Who needs that?

01:17:44That's baloney.

01:17:45I'm just going to do a lot of waving today I think and try to pass out flyers.

01:17:50There's Joe Grasso down there.

01:17:52He's a...

01:17:53Shit it's fine.

01:17:54He caught me cross-dressing.

01:17:55I didn't know you were coming.

01:17:56Did I hear Congressman Byington?

01:18:07They forced me into wearing the sandwich board, see?

01:18:10They've got my children kidnapped, see?

01:18:13I voted for you though.

01:18:14Yeah.

01:18:15So how come you're supporting Gephardt and Byington at the same time?

01:18:18Oh I'm not.

01:18:19You're not?

01:18:20No.

01:18:21Okay maybe my English is wrong.

01:18:23They gave him a free sandwich to wear that.

01:18:26Yeah.

01:18:27Yeah.

01:18:28And there was something going on with, you know, my political hopeful.

01:18:35You know, I'd be out there, and I will be out there today.

01:18:38But this is...

01:18:39I'm helping a neighbor.

01:18:40He had a problem filling this slot.

01:18:42Have you heard of Mr. Dan Byington?

01:18:47Is he related to Spring Byington?

01:18:49No.

01:18:50The actress?

01:18:51No, I don't know him.

01:19:03Peace, liberty, and justice.

01:19:07Peace, liberty, and justice.

01:19:10Come on.

01:19:21Yeah.

01:19:24So you're there.

01:19:25Oh I like it.

01:19:27It's me.

01:19:28I'm running for candidates.

01:19:29If it's putting out that one...

01:19:30If it's putting out that one extra sign that will help, I'm going to do it.

01:19:35I'm playing for my own camp.

01:19:42I just got tired of...

01:19:43Oh, thank you.

01:19:44When it comes to a victory party, do you want to go to Gephardt's, Farnagans, or play with

01:19:45Gaskins, or Sam Rawls?

01:19:46I got my own party to go to.

01:19:47Oh, do you really?

01:19:48It's not quite.

01:19:49It'll be a victory party.

01:19:50I got an extra free plane.

01:19:51Oh, okay.

01:19:52That's it.

01:19:53That's it.

01:19:54That's it.

01:19:55That's it.

01:19:56That's it.

01:19:57If I got one percent, that's .30 percent better than the last candidate to run in that district.

01:20:25Probably not until nine, but maybe.

01:20:27I know that probably both of our statewide candidates, myself and Arnold Trimbley, are

01:20:31going to get above the two percent, so we're going to be cool for ballot access.

01:20:35Great.

01:20:40We really hope to retain ballot status after this election, and one way to do that is to

01:20:46get two percent in a statewide election.

01:20:48Have you seen your numbers?

01:20:50They won't show to third-party candidates.

01:20:53We know that Carnahan and Talent, between them right now, are getting about 99 percent,

01:20:59so there's a chance that we could still get the two percent.

01:21:03I'm kind of wary of the posture that Libertarians and the Greens are in, of struggling even

01:21:13for a place on the ballot.

01:21:15How do you feel now that it's almost over?

01:21:18How do you feel about how you did?

01:21:20I feel really good.

01:21:21We talked about reparations.

01:21:23We talked about so many issues, like this genetic modification of food.

01:21:29So I feel really good about everything we've done, and I think, you know, no matter what

01:21:34the results are in the polls, we have a victory tonight.

01:21:40Well, good work, man.

01:21:41All this is mid-work for you.

01:21:43Two percent!

01:21:45Woo!

01:21:46Woo!

01:21:48Fifty-eight percent for the incumbent Democrat.

01:21:50His challenger, Republican Catherine Enns, is pulling in 40 percent of the vote right now.

01:21:55It looks like 42 percent reporting in that race.

01:21:57They're voting for a party.

01:21:59If I was Republican, I would be 46 percent.

01:22:02Instead, I'm a Libertarian.

01:22:04They think I'm a wacko.

01:22:05One percent.

01:22:06They're trying to save Social Security.

01:22:09They're trying to get better jobs and better wages.

01:22:12They're trying to improve this economy.

01:22:14They're trying to get fair trade laws instead of unfair trade laws,

01:22:19and to try to make this country greater and better than it's ever been.

01:22:24Thank you, and God bless all of you.

01:22:30I think what you've seen in this campaign is the tremendous influence of special interest money.

01:22:37We had campaigns where their candidate was backed up by the pharmaceutical companies,

01:22:43by all kinds of special interests.

01:22:46In some campaigns, they were spending $6 million on a House race,

01:22:51and our candidate was hardly able to come up with $2 million.

01:23:06I think what you've seen in this campaign is the tremendous influence of special interest money.

01:23:11We had campaigns where their candidate was backed up by the pharmaceutical companies,

01:23:15and our candidate was hardly able to come up with $2 million.

01:23:18In some campaigns, they were spending $6 million on a House race,

01:23:21and our candidate was hardly able to come up with $2 million.

01:23:24Politics is big business.

01:23:26Just one guy in a truck with 60 signs isn't going to accomplish a whole lot.

01:23:36Okay, so there was no nail-biting finish holding your breath for your underdog high school team

01:23:59to come from behind to beat the frontrunner.

01:24:02Dan or Mike may not have been the best candidates in the race.

01:24:05But given the obstacles put forth in the electoral system, the two-party organization,

01:24:09the media, special interests, and the amount of money,

01:24:12it is doubtful that the best candidate will ever be found.

01:25:05Black.

01:25:10White.

01:25:14Yellow.

01:25:18Pink and green, orange and purple.

01:25:20Time goes by, we double our trouble.

01:25:22People.

01:25:30Red.

01:25:34Black.

01:25:38White.

01:25:42Yellow.

01:25:46Pink and green, orange and purple.

01:25:48Time goes by, we double our trouble.

01:25:50People.

01:25:54People.

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