[ComCom] Fwd: GP RELEASE Seven candidates for 2008 Green pres. nomination on primary ballots

Mon Dec 17 11:24:18 EST 2007

Hi, folks - some one is getting the run around - the national just sent this 
out - did not wait till the deadline we were given - why couldn't we send out 
a press release????????

Can someone figure out why we were told no but the national did it anyway?   
Love, grace
In a message dated 12/17/07 3:10:53 AM, dcsgpnews2 at yahoo.com writes:

> 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)
> <http://www.gp.org/statelist.shtml>.
> 
> "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
> <http://www.gp.org/audio_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.
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> ~ END ~
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       
> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> Be a better friend, newshound, and
> know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.  Try it now.  
> http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
> 
> 
> 

**************************************
See AOL's top rated recipes 
(http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)