{news} FW: Green Presidential Candidates Compete for Party Nomination

Fri Dec 21 13:16:26 EST 2007

From: Green Party of the United States [mailto:office at gp.org] 
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:42 AM
To: chapillsbury at igc.org
Subject: Green Presidential Candidates Compete for Party Nomination

December 2007

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News Headlines

Green Party Co-Chair receives
award for leadership in drug law reform

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The Green Party congratulates Connecticut Green and newly elected Green
Party of the United States Steering Committee Co-Chair Clifford Thornton on
an award he received from the Drug Policy Alliance http://www.drugpolicy.org
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ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.drugpolicy.org%2Fhomepage.cfm> for his leadership in the
movement to reform drug laws.

Mr. Thornton, co-founder of the drug law reform organization Efficacy, Inc.
http://www.Efficacy-online.org
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ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.efficacy-online.org%2F> , is a national co-chair of the
Green Party of the United States. In 2006, he ran on the Green Party ticket
for governor of Connecticut.

"Cliff Thornton's work for the reform of US drug policy is in line with
Green opposition to the War on Drugs, unjust and draconian drug laws, and
the use of drug laws to fill up prison cells with black, brown, poor, and
young Americans. We're proud that Cliff is a member of the Green Party,"
said Alfred Molison, co-chair of the Green Party's national Black Caucus
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ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.gp.org%2Fpress%2Fpr_2007_12_02.shtml> .

Seven Green Presidential Candidates to Compete in State Primaries 

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."

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. "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 Candidates:

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 http://www.gp.org/audio_video.shtml
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http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gp.org%2Faudio_video.shtml> .

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.

Ballot Access Arizona

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Arizona is the next state on the Ballot Access Committee list. Arizona has
been working to get signatures for many months and has until March 1st to
turn them in to the various County Election Offices. The committee sees two
ways to help Arizona: 1) help mobilize and coordinate volunteers to go to
Arizona to physically help get signatures and 2) raise revenue to help pay
for professional signature gatherers. The signature goal is 28,000 and
Arizona currently has approximately 8000 in hand.

If you are interested in a warm sunny vacation in Arizona during the Winter
break, contact Richard Scott in the Phoenix area(scotty at azgp.org) or Claudia
Ellquist in the Tucson area(ellquist.co.atty at juno.com). They will arrange
housing and petitioning opportunities for you. Out of State people can help
petition but they must be paired with an Arizona petitioner.

You can donate to the Ballot Access Committee and designate Arizona as the
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You can download a copy of the petition and complete instructions by going
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