Maine Green Candidate Pat LaMarche Wins Awards and Recognition for Website

Green Party of the United States
www.gp.org

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org 
Pat LaMarche, 207-671-0190, PatLaMarche@hotmail.com

2006 Maine Green candidate Pat LaMarche wins awards and recognition for her campaign website

• The Green Party's first national award in a competition with all other political parties 

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders congratulated Pat LaMarche, Green candidate for Governor of Maine in 2006, for awards and recognition she received for her online campaign. 

The Pat LaMarche campaign's web site <http://www.pat2006.com> was designed and administered by Emilienne Ireland & Phil Tajitsu Nash, authors of 'Winning Campaigns Online: Strategies for Candidates and Causes' <http://www.campaignadvantage.com>. 

Ms. LaMarche credited Ms. Ireland and Mr. Nash for the success of the site: "Phil and Emi were the best ever. There was never a time that I called them needing anything that they weren't by the phone and the computer making it happen. I guess that's how you get to be number one." 

"This is our first national win over all other political parties!" added Ms. LaMarche, whose site won a national competition in the 'Best Local Campaign Website' category. Ms. LaMarch lost the race but helped expand the Maine Green Independent Party, which has the highest percentage of registrants of any state Green Party. 

The LaMarche web site won the following awards: 

• The Golden Dot Award as Best Local Campaign Website of the 2006 campaign at the annual Politics Online conference held in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2007 
  http://www.campaignadvantage.com/services/websites/golden_dot/pat2006/ 
  http://polc.ipdi.org/GoldenDots/shortlist.htm 
  http://polc.ipdi.org/GoldenDots/default.aspx 

• A Pollie Award from the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) in the gubernatorial websites category http://www.theaapc.org/content/pollieawards/2007/2007_Winners.pdf 

• An Honorable Mention from AAPC for mobile technology used in the LaMarche campaign 

• Permanent inclusion in the Library of Congress archives because of its historic value as one of the best web sites and campaigns of 2006 

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