The Pacific Green Party of Oregon currently has a “peace slate” which includes candidates for 4 out of 5 congressional seats. All of these candidates have expressed their commitment to ending the war in Iraq, and none of those who are elected will be as vulnerable to the pressures to conform to the Democratic congressional leadership’s programs.

The candidates are:
John Olmsted, District 1
Tristan Mock, District 2
Mike Beilstein, District 4
Alex Polikoff, District 5

For more information on these candidates, see www.youtube.com/user/mikevanh.

Ralph Nader announced his third bid for President of the United States today on Meet the Press.  Nader will run as an Independent.
View Nader's campaign site

From today's Washington Post:

Consumer advocate Nader starts presidential bid

Reuters
Sunday, February 24, 2008; 10:02 AM

Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 04:06 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

She’s baaaaaaack! But not to run for Congress.

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, now seeking the presidential nomination of the Green Party, was campaigning in Washington Tuesday and told our colleague Scott MacFarlane of Cox Broadcasting that she’s working to get her name on Georgia’s 2008 presidential ballot.

McKinney, a former Democrat, lost her bid for a seventh congressional term in 2006 after she got into an altercation with a Capitol police officer. She left Georgia shortly after that, bound for California.

Still, there were those in Dekalb County who wondered - Hoped? Feared? - if she’d return to Georgia to challenge the man who took her seat, Rep. Hank Johnson. But McKinney now says that’s not going to happen.

“There are a lot of people in the state of Georgia who’d like to see me go back to Congress,” McKinney said. “But what I’m learning is that there are a lot of people in New York, Massachusetts, California, and Wisconsin who’d like to see me do this job first.”

The Green Party needs 40,000 petition signatures to get its nominee on Georgia’s ballot. So far, it has fewer than 3,000.

Scene and Heard: Seeing Green in Nyumburu

Chidinma Okparanta

Leading Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney urged a small but enthusiastic crowd of students and faculty to exercise political freedom in the upcoming presidential election and vote for "real change" at a talk Tuesday in the Nyumburu Cultural Center.

During her approximately 30-minute appearance, the former Georgia Congresswoman criticized the current two-party system, the Iraq war, the high cost of education and advocated the need to protect the environment. She spoke for about 15 minutes before opening the floor to audience questions.

"The two-party system has failed to serve the needs of the internally displaced," McKinney said, referring to the government's negligence in dealing with Hurricane Katrina of which she is especially critical.

 

 

The Green Party of Utah (Desert Greens) has been working to achieve ballot access.  The deadline was February 15.  Despite several paid petitioners and loads of volunteers, we came close but did not obtain the required amount of signatures to be able to have a ballot line in the 2008 elections.  Therefore the Green Party of Utah will not appear on this year's ballot.

The Green Party of Utah will still run the GPUS Presidential Candidate in Utah, but as an Independent.  That nominee will be voted on at the GPUS National Meeting in Chicago in July.  After that time we will need to collect 1,000 signatures for that candidate, with the deadline of September.

Although it helps financially and educationally to grow the party with a ballot line, it's not significantly detrimental at this point in time in Utah, the reddest state in the nation.  There are other ways to get the party's name and values out in the public.  With new locals being formed and other activities, the Green Party of Utah will continue to work towards rebuilding itself and educating the public on the values upon which its platform is built.

Thanks to CA Green Party member Mike Feinstein for supplying these links:

http://www.fogcityjournal.com/news_in_brief/es_crackberry_chronicles_080114.shtml
http://picasaweb.google.com/victronix01/Green_Debate_2008?authkey=iwtbPN9rSTE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/13/18472264.php
http://tian.greens.org/GreenParty/PrimaryDebate08/index.html
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/07/18470918.php
http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/01/14/green-party-debate-2008-and-the-nader-factor/
http://melaniemullen.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/video-melanie-mullen-speaks-at-us-green-party-presidential-debate/
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=8071416222&view=all

and of course the videos

http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/president/sf_debate.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3S4LJyfAPw

Illinois Green Party http://www.ilgp.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, FEBRUARY 5, 2008

CONTACT:
Patrick Kelly, ILGP Media Coordinator,
773-203-9631, media@ilgp.org
Phil Huckelberry, Chair, ILGP Government &
Elections Committee, 309-268-9974,
phil.huckelberry@ilgp.org
Tom Abram, Media Committee, 847-814-6947,
tabram@gmail.com


GREEN PARTY FIELDS NUMEROUS REPORTS OF VOTING
IRREGULARITIES IN CHICAGO, ELSEWHERE


Voters who hoped to participate in the Illinois' first ever statewide Green Party primary are receiving a very rude reception at many polling places, especially in Chicago.

In the early hours of voting, Green Party officials began receiving reports from frustrated voters across the state who, in many cases, had been told by pollworkers that there are no Green Party ballots available at their polling places, or that they had to vote on suspect electronic
voting machines, even while other parties use paper ballots.

Some of the most outrageous incidents, however, occurred across the wards of Chicago, where Green Party ballots have been apparently tampered with so they can't be read and accepted by voting machines, voters are given Democratic ballots despite requesting Green ballots.

What follows are a few examples of reports. Check http://www.ilgp.org for more reports as they are received. More information will also be available at the Green Party gathering tonight at Decima Musa Restaurant, 1901 S. Loomis, Chicago (in Pilsen).


1st WARD, 26th PRECINCT

A voter reports that all of the Green Party ballots had been folded in half, causing them to not feed through the machine properly. The Republican and Democratic ballots were not folded. Because his first ballot kept getting rejected by the machine, the voter was asked by pollworkers to fill out another Green Party ballot, which also had been previously folded. That ballot was not able to be read and was rejected as well.

Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney Seeks Presidency as Green Party Nominee

Jared Ball has ended his campaign to support the Presidential Campaign of Cynthia McKinney

From the Jared Ball Campaign Website:
At the closing of the recent Green Party Presidential Debate, Jared Ball announced that his campaign would yield to and support Cynthia McKinney’s bid for the Green Party Presidential Nominee. The “Capitol Resistance” component of the “Jared Ball for President” campaign will join the McKinney team and serve as the outreach and presentation arm of the her campaign.Please accept our thanks for your support and encouragement during our campaign - with special thanks to the volunteers and donors who made our work possible. Supporting the Green Party and any Presidential Candidate the party chooses is one basic step that any concerned citizen should take to bring about positive change in our nation today. Our campaign has been about building the Green Party and opening its doors to the true majority in this nation – women, the indigenous, the Hispanics, African-Americans and all poor and working class residents of our country without representation. We hope you will to join us in supporting the McKinney campaign to bring about this reality for the benefit of our communities.Peace,
Jared Ball for President Campaign

ps. You can continue to support Jared Ball’s work by visiting Voxunion Media home of FreeMix Radio, the Original Mixtape Radio Show and other potent media.

Thank you to California Green Mike Feinstein for taking and editing video and posting on his You Tube site!




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