{news} GP RELEASE Seven candidates for 2008 Green pres. nomination on primary ballots

Mon Dec 17 17:13:08 EST 2007

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From: DC Statehood Green Party <dcsgpnews at yahoo.com>
Subject: GP RELEASE Seven candidates for 2008 Green pres. nomination on primary ballots
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, December 17, 2007

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell
202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805,
starlene at gp.org

Seven candidates for the 2008 Green nomination will be
on state ballots for the primaries

• The candidates: Jared Ball, Elaine Brown, Jesse
Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, Ralph Nader,
Kat Swift

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party will have up to
seven candidates for the party's presidential
nomination on state ballots for the primary elections
in 2008.

"The Green Party, in most states where Greens have
ballot status, participate in the primaries just as
Democrats and Republicans do," said Jim Coplen,
co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. 
"Green voters will vote in the primaries the same way
registered Democrats and Republicans vote."

Among other primaries, the Green Party will
participate primaries in four states on February 5. 
The Green Party has vowed to achieve 51 ballot lines
in 2008 in all the states and the District of
Columbia, and has committed party resources for this
purpose. Greens currently have ballot access in 21
states Green Parties (including DC)
..

"We're especially proud of the diversity and depth of
political experience represented by our candidates. 
We look forward to a vigorous and friendly competition
for the nomination," said Ruth Weill, co-chair of the
Green Party's Annual National Meeting Committee.

The list of Green presidential hopefuls includes three
women (two of them African American), one African
American man, at least two candidates with Native
American ancestry, one of Arab ancestry, a former
member of Congress, two former Green presidential
candidates, the former leader of the Black Panther
Party, an environmental engineer, a college professor,
a candidate who will turn 35 in June 2008, and a
73-year-old.

The nomination will be decided by about 800 delegates
from state parties who will gather at the Green Party
national convention in Chicago, Illinois, July 10-13.

The candidates:

• Jared Ball, independent journalist; radio host (WPFW
89.3 FM Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC), hip-hop
scholar, assistant professor of communications studies
at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland
http://www.jaredball.com

• Elaine Brown, 2005 Green candidate for Mayor of
Brunswick, Georgia; former leader of the Black Panther
Party; organizer of Mothers Advocating Juvenile
Justice and National Alliance for Radical Prison
Reform
http://www.elainebrown.org

• Jesse Johnson, 2006 US Senate candidate and 2004
gubernatorial candidate for the Mountain Party in West
Virginia (now affiliate state party of the Green Party
of the United States); filmmaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxgYnmdHfg

• Cynthia McKinney, former member of the US House of
Representatives (Georgia), 1993 to 2003, 2005 to 2007;
former member of the Georgia House of Representatives,
1988-1992
http://www.runcynthiarun.org

• Kent Mesplay, 2004 candidate for the Green
presidential nomination; former president of Turtle
Island Institute; environmental engineer, alternative
energy activist; California Green organizer
http://www.mesplay.org

• Ralph Nader, 1996 and 2000 Green candidate for
President; 2004 independent candidate for President;
consumer advocate (Howie Hawkins of the Green Party of
New York State has consented to serve as a
'placeholder' candidate until Mr. Nader announces his
intentions for the 2008 election)
http://www.draftnader.org

• Kat Swift, Texas Green organizer; former Campus
Greens leader; activist with Clean Money San Antonio
and San Antonio Democracy Now
http://www.bexargreens.org/katforprez

Contact information, photographs, video clips, and
bios of the candidates can be found on the candidates'
own web sites. Video clips of many of the candidates
are also linked at
..

Not all seven of the candidates will be on the ballot
in every state where Greens are participating in
primaries. In states where deadlines have already
passed, most but not all of the campaigns have
submitted required petitions with valid signatures to
their respective elections offices.

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
• Green Party News Center
http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
• Green Party Speakers Bureau
http://www.gp.org/speakers
• Green candidate database for 2007 and other campaign
information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml

Media credentialing
http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml

Green Party Presidential Campaign Support Committee
http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml

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