{news} David Cobb in Stamford Advocate

[David Bedell]

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-29185719.apds.m0758.bc-ct--traioct29,0,4862281.story

News and notes from the Conn. campaign trail

Associated Press

October 29, 2004

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - David Cobb, the Green Party candidate for president, 
campaigned in Connecticut on Friday, visiting a state skipped by President 
Bush and Senator Kerry.

Cobb, who is on the ballot in Connecticut and 29 other states, according to 
a spokesman, hopes to boost his campaign and those of local candidates.

Among his stops in Connecticut was a speech at Connecticut College in New 
London, a fund-raiser in Bridgeport and a meeting with Milford middle school 
students who are not old enough to vote.

"We're about growing the party for the future," said Tom Sevigny, Cobb's 
Connecticut coordinator. "We are an option when they're old enough to vote."

The party, which opposes the war in Iraq and proposes single-payer health 
insurance, broader use of renewable energy and hopes to serve as an 
alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties, needs 1 percent of 
votes to maintain ballot access in many states, Sevigny said.

Cobb hopes his visit will boost the candidacies of local Green Party 
office-seekers, Sevigny said. In Connecticut, voters have elected Green 
Party candidates to the New Haven Board of Aldermen, Willimantic and 
Cornwall board of selectmen and several municipal boards and commissions.


Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press

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