FRANK MOORE FOR PRESIDENT 2008 BLOG

Susan Marilyn Block, Ph.D.

Part philosopher, part therapist, part humorist and part-time horny housewife, Dr. Susan M Block is a world-renowned sex educator, best-selling author, award-winning documentary filmmaker, art dealer, cable TV host and political activist running for Vice President on the Frank Moore Presidential ticket. A familiar face on HBO’s late-night programming through her #1 Nielsen-rated show, Radio Sex TV and her episodes on Real Sex, she also hosts The Dr. Susan Block Show, rated by The LA Weekly as “The Best of LA Phone-In Shows,” airing weekly on cable TV stations around the world, from Hollywood to the Holy Land.

“One of the nation’s leading sexologists, and a very bright and funny woman to boot,” according to Robert Scheer in The LA Times, “our favorite boudoir revolutionary…a cross between Camille Paglia and Oprah Winfrey,” opines LA New Times, and a “genius” according to Penthouse, Block is a dedicated sex therapist with one of the world’s largest private practices, in addition to her roles in front of and behind the camera. She is executive director of the Dr. Susan Block Institute, located in a 17,000 square foot LA facility, including offices, seminar areas, movie theater, broadcast and editing suites, film and art studios, Dr. Suzy’s Speakeasy and the Speakeasy Gallery of Erotic Art. “Dr. Block’s cult status as an educator is enormous” writes Cosmo. “Frank, funny, thoughtful, sensual…Dr. Suzy always bases her explicit patter on a foundation of academic reasoning and considerable experience,” writes Tom Quinn in Entertainment Today . “And…she makes you feel good.”

A magna cum laude graduate of Yale University (BA, Theater Studies, With Distinction), Block went on to study at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State, receiving her masters and doctorate in philosophy with an emphasis in psychology from Pacific Western. Her first book, Advertising for Love, forecast the current online dating explosion. Her second book, Being A Woman, a popularization of her doctoral thesis on Dr. Toni Wolfe’s theory of feminine psychology, became a NY Times bestseller. Her third book, The 10 Commandments of Pleasure has been published in 15 countries (coming soon to Israel, where her cable TV show is a big hit). Creator of the award-winning documentary series, Encyclopedia of Sex, Block is an active member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She has been featured in numerous documentaries and appeared on multiple radio and TV shows, from Oprah to Today. Her TV series “Dr. Suzy’s Squirt Salons” was featured in the Barcelona Erotic Film Festival and the Cinekink Film Festival, and her music video “Blonde Island: Funk Me” recently held its World Premiere at the LA Erotica Film Festival, and will have its East Coast Premiere at Cinekink this February. She is now making a documentary called “Speakeasy” with award-winning filmmaker (“Ears Open, Eyeballs Click”) Canaan Brumley, First Prize winner at the Marseille Film Festival.

Chosen as one of “America’s Greatest Thinkers” (twice) by the Great American Think-Off, and dubbed “the Erin Brockovitch of the Bonobo” by Salon, Block is an active advocate of the extremely endangered bonobos, using their highly sexual, non-violent and gender-egalitarian “lifestyle” as a prototype for her philosophy of Peace through Pleasure. She is a visiting lecturer in the Human Sexuality Department at University of Southern California (USC), and at her alma mater Yale University, as well as a founder, coordinator and regular lecturer at “Sex Week at Yale” (now in its fourth season). Also a consultant to the LA Public Defenders’ Office (Sex Crimes Division), her columns on sex, health, politics and culture are published in various print and online magazines, from Counterpunch to Perfect 10, besides appearing in her own online Journal, and are touted as “among the most readable to come out of LA” by Steve Mikulan in The LA Weekly. Championed as a freedom fighter by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jimmy Breslin in NY Newsday, Dr. Block (acting in pro per) won an extremely important legal battle over First and Fourth Amendment Rights with the LA Police Department (screenplay in development). Recently profiled in The LA Weekly’s famous 2007 “People Issue,” she also won a major battle for Freedom of Speech on cable TV with former Adelphia CEO, John J. Rigas, recently sentenced to 15-20 years in prison for fraud.

Though a woman of deeply held “Blue Values,” Block is remarkably popular in the so-called “Red States.” N. Carolina’s QZ Magazine, in a recent cover story on her, calls Block “a modern-day Queen Esther” and “sex pioneer whose work has put the topic of pleasure on the table, one of the most important social developments on this continent ever, saving us from sexual repression.”

Block can be reached at her office at 213.749.1330, or via e-mail at drsuzyb@blockbooks.com

From: Sue Supriano
To: Frank Moore
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: hi, sue!

Hi Frank-

Your platform sounds fabulous to me! I happily endorse you. Good luck and thanks for all you do!

Love,
Sue

Sue Supriano – Steppin’ Out of Babylon: Audio Interviews
http://www.suesupriano.com

Frank Moore wrote:
great, sue! we will put you on the endorsers list.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

From: “Paul Griffin”
To: “Frank Moore”
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: ampb report #82

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:37:24 -0800

“Frank Moore” wrote:

hey, captain, how about me?!

Hey Frank!

yeah! how about you? how are you doing? I’m fine except some hit-and-run asshole totalled my car. I wasn’t in it at the time, but did stand there and watch it happen. have relayed your platform on BLR and I also played segments from your holiday spectacular on the Crack “o Dawn show. Loved the singing! So you still got my vote, Frank.
No need to worry about that! -c’fred

Frank Moore wrote:
thanks, captian! i value your vote! [we’ll add you to my endorsing list.] please keep telling people they can vote for me!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Here is the text of Tom’s introduction at thye recent campaign stop at Cafe Leila in Berkeley, CA on January 22, 2008.

Why I Support Frank Moore for President
by
Tom Sanders

I’m here to speak for the largest political group in the U.S.–those who don’t register to vote–who prefer a vote on the board of directors of the big corporations instead of candidates for government offices.

All the candidates for U.S. President seem to be trying to become the leader of the campaign against the 10 commandnents–except for Frank Moore–who thinks that they should be cut down to only 9-and above all–to leave out the one against adultery.

I also agree with Frank that all the candidates should be medically treated for assification of the heart and fatty degeneration of the mind.

Frank says that it’s been claimed that “mankind” (note the word) took “its first giant step” on the moon & he asks why they couldn’t have taken that “giant step” here on earth?

Frank Moore is fully aware that elections in this country serve as fever thermometers that tell our owners and rulers how near death we are–or how close to revolution we are.

Mr. Moore is under no illusions about the U.S. Presidency. In fact, he pities the poor presidents who have to attack Grenada, Panama, Libya, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq–etc. So he won’t be forced to ride slowly in an open car, with the motorcycle cops pulled back away from it, in some Dallas Dealy plaza somewhere.

Frank & I agree that voting for a liberal democrat for any office is like voting for the liberal wing of the german Nazi party. We are both amazed that some so-called leftist democrats claim to support the Cuban revolution since the Democratic Party is the largest U.S., devoted since 1960, to destroying the Cuban revolution.

And, then there’s the war on drugs to make the world safe for alcoholism–led by the current religious nut alcoholic President.

Every day has been white collar crime day since this country was stolen from the Native Americans, but it seems to have gotten worse with a never ending march–resulting in a new # 1 growth industry: prisons.

Thus, we now know we suffer from the modern plague of spiritual emptiness. A capitalist faith that has deformed the human spirit.

All of this seems to be from some other hour, stolen from the clock of some other place. An echo calls out to Frank from across time-demanding justice now! He’s fully aware that when it’s 12 noon in Washington, D.C. It’s still the year 1860 in the African American communities, that they are owed reparations for both slavery and segregation, that the biggest temples are the office work skyscrapers, that there are no cathedrals there because the true religion of today is money, that terrorism is the weapon of the poor & a surface symptom of disorder in civilization, that we still worship the golden calf–the system of capitalism is our golden calf.

Our poor have been trampled into the dust of the earth that is polluted by poisons. Our rulers have broken the everlasting covenants & made a new one with death.

Above all, beware of false prophets, the ones who have great power & speak for the wealthy who cheat the righteous for gold & starve the poor for pennies. No one needs to defend these words themselves. They are unassailable & they will never wear out. Thousands of years will not change them; time will not touch them. Life & death have been set before us–choose life! Vote for Frank Moore!

20 jan. 2008

corey, one of the 6 of us, works at the natural foods store around the corner. one of his co-workers, Tsering, goes to Vista community college, and has a speech class there, where the subject of who are you voting for for president came up the other day. He said that he told the class he was voting for Frank! Nobody knew who he was talking about … everyone seemed to be voting for Obama. He scoffed at them to Corey … they were ignorant … he told them that Frank is local … later, Corey gave him a small stack of platforms to give people …

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

last night we discovered that on the blog/forum of the k.c. chiefs, somebody has put up my whole platform and my campaign videos…and there is a heated discussion! it is surreal! of course most of the football jocks think i’m an idiot…they like big corporations, etc. but they actually read the platform and think! this is very effective…a virus reaching all sorts of people!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

From: Kevin Akin
To: Frank Moore
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:34 AM
Subject: RE: a run-in with someone from the peace & freedom party

Frank,

I received an e-mail from Maureen Smith forwarding your message with the report from Corey and Alexi about running into someone in Berkeley. I am afraid that Norma Harrison may not have been remembering the SEC discussion clearly, so I thought I would pass along to you what the State Executive Committee actually discussed when your name came up late in the summer.

We are required to submit to the Secretary of State a list of people who are generally recognized as candidates for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for president. We reviewed about 20 names, but found that about half were people who did not appear to have any significant support as candidates for our nomination. I think we spent about 3 minutes (more than average) on your candidacy. We thought your campaign sounded interesting, but we thought that you had no significant actual support within the party for our nomination, and that is the basis on which we decided not to list your name. We may have been wrong, but that is what we decided, and why.

I suspect that Norma is confusing you with another possible candidate we discussed, also from the Bay Area, who appears to be a right-wing gentleman of rather intense eccentricity and military background. He is the only one of whom several people said they really didn’t want him on a Peace and Freedom Party ballot.

There are 7 names on our ballot for president, as things ended up, and all but one have clearly significant support from members and at least some activists. (The other one, Stanley Hetz, is a former Senate candidate from Pennsylvania, who appeared at the time to have support, but no longer appears to have much.) It will be interesting to see the results, though the vote is only advisory. The actual nominees will be determined at the State Convention on the first weekend in August, by vote of all those who are elected in the June primary as members of the Central Committee.

I just wanted to assure you that the members of the Peace and Freedom Party State Executive Committee have absolutely nothing against you, in fact wish you well, but left your name off the list purely due to our assessment of actual support from P&F activists. That is what we are supposed to do, to pick those who have some support within the party, not to pick those we favor. (And those selected have sharply varying opinions on all sorts of issues.)

I wish I could say that I remember you from 1968, when I was active in Riverside in forming the party, and busy going to meetings when I wasn’t bird-dogging for registrars, but I am afraid that most of the faces from that period have grown dim in memory. I was a young guy with a rather wispy beard, but that will not distinguish me in your memory from all the other young guys with wispy beards. I do remember lots of meetings with folks from San Bernardino next door, but I don’t remember as much about them as I would like.

With best wishes for you and your campaign, Kevin Akin, South State Chair, Peace and Freedom Party

Frank Moore wrote:
thanks for writing, kevin. it was probably for the best. i have more freedom this way. i have been busy the last couple of weeks….giving a campaign speech in a cafe, writing an article for a british magazine about my campaign, having a swedish tv crew shooting a story about me…and now german radio wants do a story! it is quite overwhelming the response we are getting. but it would have been fun to run for my party.

i want to invite whomever your candidate turns out to be to be on my internet/cable tv show to discuss the issues.

i was the guy in the wheelchair with a head pointer. i went to san bernardino valley j.c., then state. funny, today my philosophy professor from valley emailed me, discovering me on the web!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Dorothy Jesse Beagle wrote:
How forgettable are you? And could you really be mixed up with an old RIGHT WING” gentleman of rather intense eccentricity and military background”

and was it really just a mish-mash of ‘platforms’ with none standing out???? Well, it’s his/their loss – with them you would be nithing but a PEACE AND FREEDOM candidate and without them you are sought so far by four countries of the world and NUMEROUS outstanding sites and publications of this country, as an OUTSTANDING candidate.

bUT OH WELL, how graciously you answered!!!!!!

Jesse

check this out! they are discussing my platform on the k.c. chiefs’ blog! we do the impossible!

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=178860

my response:

sometimes you need a wack job…even a dipwad…to get things done. i get things done! everything in my platform is doable, practical…except in the political unreality of congress controlled by the big corporations where it is now impossible. i’m used to doing the impossible!

your wack job,
frank moore

Hi Frank Moore,

my name is Steffen, I work for German Public Radio in DC. I’d like to do a radio report about you and your presidental campaign. It’s very interesting! Of course our german listeners would be very interested in your plans on foreign policy. Who would you ask to become your secretary of state?

Kind regards and best wishes,

Steffen

—
Steffen Wurzel
German Public Radio
Südwestrundfunk (SWR)
http://www.swr.de

Frank Moore wrote:
hi, steffen. it’s exciting to hear you are thinking of doing a story on my running for president. when i was 13 we lived in bitburg, germany for 2 years. my dad was in the air force.

for my secretary of state i am thinking of either Kevin Danaher of global exchange or my old friend Godfrey Reggio, best known for his QATSI film trilogy. for my secretary of defense, i’ll tap my high school friend James Fallows. Ralph Nader will make a great attorney general.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Dorothy Jesse Beagle wrote:
fantastic Frank, to hear more about your appointments considered.

And we have, now, four countries? I would understand that any country watching with ‘eyes bugged’ and ‘minds boggled’ and ‘hope barely hovering’ at America’s decline and the ‘parade of fools trying to buy presidency’ embarrassing us all in their debates, in this America still in swaddling clothes, fallen so many times, but trying at time to overcome the genocide, the enslaving of stolen Africans, the constant disappearing of millions to overthrow S. and Central American leaders, ensuring horrible dictators for the American corporations, but yet, my America, your America, we’ve tried in our own lives many ways to save by building different commuities, watching them grow. To be in another country seeing – what – is it Superman — is it……. it is, it’s sanity!!!!!! (not that all other governments are perfect, but America was begining to get Reptilian scales showing along it’s back) – And then these governments took a look, and another look, and found there WAS a plausible candidate………….they can sleep at nights now, in France, England, Germany and Sweden!!!

Jesse

i swear, i’ll die from having a rich life! last night (Jan. 21, 2008) quite a few people showed up for my campaign speech…especially considering it was a rainy holiday night. a guy came with a campaign song he had written for me…i had him sing it. then Tom Sanders read his introduction of me.

here’s what DA BOYZ wrote:
“It was lots of fun setting up for the gig, putting up all the banners, etc., seeing Tom Sanders arrive, Carl Lasagna! … and then before you knew it, it was beginning!

It was very cozy in that little alcove, and Tom’s intro to Frank was fiery, poetic and right on! And then Frank’s “speech”, which, translated into our reality, was more of a journey into an alternative model of reality, through Frank/this life into new governing models, new social models, new approaches to public service, and then back again into Frank and us … What other candidate does, or even could, use his own family/community as an example in this way? It was really deep, and we were saying later that it took a certain special kind of person to be able to grill a candidate presenting such a vision. We felt that most people, including ourselves, were too much overtaken by the feeling/vision of these possibilities to even begin to think critically about them, or maybe also, wouldn’t want to! Carl Bryant or Gerald were people who could do it! It was amazing that the young guy and gal had been following Frank’s campaign, that he had even bought the t-shirt, and came to the event from a flier! And we loved what Stefan said about Frank’s piece, after spending two hours watching the “leading” democratic candidates say nothing, and take a lot longer to say it. It was neat to find out later that there were several other folks sitting in the main eating area who had come specifically for Frank’s campaign stop …”

and tomorrow the swedish tv crew is coming back for more shooting. and now a british disability magazine has asked me to write a piece (for pay!) about my running for president. amazing!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore