{news} Fw: [usgp-media] Fw: Please forward to national media: Green Congressional candidate endorsed by district's largest newspaper!

[Tom Sevigny]

Folks,

A race to watch on election day.

Tom


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eric Fried 
To: Nancy Allen ; Kirstin Marr 
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:35 AM
Subject: Please forward to national media: Green Congressional candidate endorsed by district's largest newspaper!



***MEDIA ADVISORY***For Immediate Release***October 27, 2004

Northern Colorado's Largest Newspaper Endorses Green Candidate in 4th Congressional District

Contact information:  Bob Kinsey for Congress Committee (970) 224-5683

The Fort Collins Coloradoan, the largest general circulation newspaper in Colorado's sprawling 4th Congressional District, today endorsed Green Party candidate Bob Kinsey for Congress.

According to the lead editorial in the October 26, 2004 issue,  "An honest approach earns Green Party Bob Kinsey an endorsement for the Fourth Congressional District... his campaign's goal to get people to pay attention to the issues rather than the candidates deserves merit. Kinsey doesn't couch his responses, nor did he rely on attack ads to blast away at his opponents."

Kinsey, a former schoolteacher, minister and Marine who was the first candidate to announce back in Februay, is opposed by Democratic attorney Stan Matsunaka and the incumbent Republican Congresswoman, Marilyn Musgrave. Musgrave has garnered national attention for her sponsorship of the Federal Marriage Amendment to deny marriage rights to same-gender couples.

In an e-mail to supporters, Kinsey celebrated the endorsement and thanked his campaign volunteers. "We have held high the Green Party Values and people have connected with them," he stated. "I am deeply grateful for the work and support which has made it all possible. Now is the time to move beyond the campaign and into future Green organizing.  We should become the replacement for the failed Democratic Party and capture the imagination of the progressives in Northern and Eastern Colorado.  

The Coloradoan endorsement may be the first endorsement of a Green Congressional candidate in a three-way race by a major newspaper in Colorado history.

Kinsey for Congress, PO Box 1097, Fort Collins, CO 80522, www.kinseyforcongress.org, media at kinseyforcongress.org
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Link to the Coloradoan website and full text of the editorial:

http://www.coloradoan.com/news/coloradoanpublishing/endorsements/102604kinsey.html

 An honest approach earns Green Party Bob Kinsey an endorsement for the Fourth Congressional District. 
This is an unusual endorsement for the Coloradoan editorial board. Kinsey, being a third-party candidate, likely won't win. But his campaign's goal to get people to pay attention to the issues rather than the candidates deserves merit. Kinsey doesn't couch his responses, nor did he rely on attack ads to blast away at his opponents.

This was the race in which the opinions were most strongly held on the editorial board. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, the Republican incumbent, and Stan Matsunaka, the Democratic challenger, both received strong support, but neither impressed the board enough for an endorsement.

Kinsey wants to eliminate corporate tax breaks and provide relief to the lower and middle class. His Green Party is the only party questioning Israel's dominant place in U.S. foreign policy and the U.S.'s nuclear proliferation despite signing treaties to reduce arms. He is correct that lawmakers must demand higher fuel efficiency from automakers and support alternative fuels. Reflecting the district's agricultural roots, Kinsey wants to encourage small farmers, particularly organic producers, to return to the farm. 

Musgrave earned respect for taking on the powerful Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, over the amount of gas-tax money being returned to states. The challenge revealed an independent, if not courageous, streak that also surfaced in Musgrave's 'no' vote on the Medicare Reform legislation. She noted that she would have voted against the president's No Child Left Behind legislation had she been in office. She has consistently voted against legislation that would increase the deficit.

But it was Musgrave's decision to become the House sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment that prevented an endorsement. Seeking to write discrimination into the U.S. Constitution via the amendment was an embarrassment. Time spent on the proposal, which served as a diversion to more important issues, should have been focused on bringing more federal money back to Colorado. 

Matsunaka showed that he can work both sides of the aisle when he was president of the state Senate. And his proposal to increase Colorado State University's research scope is admirable. He has a strong grasp of the problems of this district, including the need to boost transportation dollars and strengthen educational opportunities.
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