Ralph Nader appeared on Curtis Sliwa’s New York city radio talk show, on the morning of March 9. Here is the recording, which lasts 13 minutes. Nader, who is celebrating his 76th birthday, was asked if he might run for office in the future. He merely said, “I wish someone else would take up that agenda.”

Nader was asked about the Tea Party movement. He said, “Anything in the citizenry that has a pulse is good…the more the merrier, as far as I’m concerned.” He also brought up the Coffee Party movement.

About the health care bill, he seemed to acknowledge that it is an improvement on the status quo, but said it still leaves in place perverse incentives that motivate private health insurance companies to treat their customers badly. He urged people to visit www.singlepayeraction.org.

On Iraq, he said that the cost to the people of Iraq, and the people of the United States, has been staggering, and that “We have to pay attention here, to our country.” Thanks to Frank Morano for the link.

On March 5, two Montana corporations filed a lawsuit in state court to overturn a 1912 state law that makes it illegal for corporations to make expenditures in election campaigns. The lawsuit does not attack the law that makes it illegal for corporations to make contributions. The new Montana lawsuit is, of course, based on the January 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Citizens United v Federal Election Commission. Here is the Montana complaint, which is Western Tradition Partnership v Attorney General, Montana First Judicial District, Lewis and Clark County, BDV 2010-238.

On March 5, a debate was held among six candidates who are running in the North Carolina 11th U.S. House Republican primary. Afterwards, the sponsors of the debate conducted a straw poll, using Range Voting. This blog post explains how it worked.