[statecom-discuss] Green Presidential Candidates Compete for Party Nomination

Fri Dec 21 14:04:50 EST 2007

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From: Green Party of the United States office at gp.org
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:42:13 -0500 (EST)
To: mikeheichman at verizon.net
Subject: Green Presidential Candidates Compete for Party Nomination

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

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 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, 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 http://gpblackcaucus.blogspot.com.

Read the Green Party Press Release here: 
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_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:

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.

Ballot Access Arizona

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
State you wish to share your donation 
with - simply click here to help Arizona gain ballot status.

You can download a copy of the petition and complete instructions by going
to the Arizona web 
site:http://www.azgp.org

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