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June 20, 2004
Nader | Green Party to Make Its Presidential Pick

REUTERS: Green Party to Make Its Presidential Pick

The Green Party holds its presidential convention in Milwaukee this week to decide whether to field a candidate or go without one and endorse the independent bid of Ralph Nade, who headed its White House ticket in 2000.

Nader is not seeking the Green nomination this time, and it is unlikely he will attend the June 23-28 meeting, but he is seeking the party’s endorsement.

To win that, he will have to get past Green Party activist David Cobb, a California lawyer actively seeking the party’s nomination. He leads its national delegate count by a clear margin and has spent the last eight years visiting 40 states, working at the grass-roots level to build ties between its environmental and labor wings.

“David Cobb has a long history with the party,” says Ben Manski, a third-year University of Wisconsin law student and co-chairman of the Green Party of the United States. “He’s a democracy activist centering around election reform and fighting corporate power. His appeal is that he is charismatic, articulate, working-class, and he’s a Green.”



Posted by Laurence Simon at June 20, 2004 04:48 PM | TrackBack
Comments

With a Nader and a Cobb running, the liberal vote will be split even more

The Republicans best weapon is the green Party. Thanks guys!

Posted by: Nick M. at June 20, 2004 06:39 PM

LOL. At least the left can get a showing in an election. That is more than I can say about the Libertarians.

Posted by: Roger at June 20, 2004 07:22 PM

Remember those Monty Python skits about the British elections: Reginald digby vaine trumpington smythe-smythe: the slightly silly candidate.

That’s what we have here, the slightly silly candidates.

The Greens are muy mucho big deal in Germany, which is why we have to deal with that numbskull Joscha Fischer, but in America, I just can’t see it.

The environmentalist have become passe, we’ve somehow managed to save the planet (not that it was ever really threatened) Now we just have to figure out a way to rid our lives of all the idiot laws the enviroweenies got passed.

Posted by: skip at June 21, 2004 11:51 AM

Roger,

As a twenty-year member of the Libertarian Party I can tell you that one of the main reasons that the LP doesn’t get a big showing in Presidential elections is that the Party refuses to accept Federal matching funds even though they’ve been qualifing for them over the last ten years or so.

The Party considers it unethical to take money from taxpayers who don’t support it, and since it’s tax dollars they more or less consider accepting Federal matching funds the moral equivalent of taking stolen money anyway.

Compare this to the Green/Nader attitude towards matching funds…

:jackson

Posted by: jackson zed at June 21, 2004 03:37 PM

Good point, jackson.

Posted by: Indie2004 at June 23, 2004 05:07 PM

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