[statecom-discuss] [candidate-development] What does GP endorsement imply?

[Yarden]

Wanda,
People's brains are so stuck in 2004, that they do not know how to 
value what was achieved.  Endorsement was finished by the Cobb 
nomination, and the ability of the GPUS and the state parties, with few 
exceptions, hold together.  But the quarrels were so bitter -- outside 
Massachusetts -- as to produce factionalism within the party in some 
places.  We were relatively free of this, until a very few people began 
to distort the positions of others for motives than can be loosely 
characterized as personal rivalries, that showed their face in 2006.  
This is unfortunate.

There is no possibility for a GPUS endorsement in 2008.  There is the 
opposite, a campaign put Nader forth as a nominee of the GPUS.  The 
likelihood of his getting a sufficient number of delegates is very 
poor.  The only way this can happen is if enough Green parties place 
him on their state ballots.  Ballot access is not a game that he is 
willing to do without strong support; hence the Exploratory campaign.

What Nader says is much less important than the fact that if he decides 
not to run, he will not be a candidate.  If the Green Party group that 
wants Nader as a candidate is allowed to act it can only be to nominate 
him at the convention.  I have met no-one in the Green Party who 
considers an endorsement of Nader.
Elie Yarden
MRGRA

On Friday, February 1, 2008, at 06:02  PM, Wanda Boeke wrote:

> Grace,
>
> Yes, you are right that in 2004 Nader/Comejo sought endorsement by the 
> GP.
>
> However, it is not clear what is entailed in such endorsement. We know 
> very
> well what nomination means - ballot line, among other things - which 
> is why
> I considered Nader's Democracy Now! statement(s) to refer to 
> nomination.
> Does anybody know what GPUS endorsement would come down to?
>
> Wanda
>
>
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