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Pat LaMarche Completes "Left Out" Tour: Press Conference Scheduled in Portland, Maine on October 7.

Cobb/LaMarche
http://www.votecobb.org

October 4, 2004

Contacts: Pat LaMarche 646-202-0826(cell)
Jacqui Deveneau 934-1911
Nancy Allen 326-4576

PAT LaMARCHE TO HOLD MAINE PRESS CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 7

Pat LaMarche, the vice presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States, has completed her 14 day Left Out Tour where she has tried to bring attention to the issues of homelessness, affordable housing and the needs of people for whom poverty and despair are a daily struggle.

She will hold a PRESS CONFERENCE to highlight events of the Left Out Tour at 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, October 7, 2004 at the Maine Green Independent Party Office at 1 Pleasant St. in Portland, Maine. The office is on the fourth floor of the building that houses the Indian Restaurant, Hi Bombay, on the west side of the Old Port. ( Please enter on the Center St. side for the elevator).

LaMarche and D.C. area Green Party members held a 16 hour overnight vigil outside vice president Dick Cheney's official Washington D.C. residence last Saturday. While LaMarche and other activists protested the Bush-Cheney administration's refusal to act on the affordable housing crisis, construction was taking place to build an additional residence for Mr. Cheney-8 stories underground.

"The real problem with the Bush administration is they act as if poverty in this country doesn't even exist. They are far more interested in giving tax cuts to the very wealthy than in helping provide a safety net for the very poor", she said.

Since September 21, LaMarche has slept in shelters in Maine, Boston, New York City, Tennessee, Arkansas and Colorado. She slept in a tent city in Rhode Island and spent a night with Mexican migrant workers in Sonoma, California. All along the way, LaMarche and local Green Party members have been raising donations of food, books, blankets and toiletries for shelters.

Some Maine Green Independent Party candidates will join LaMarche at the press conference and some Maine members of the Green Party's forming National Women's Caucus, which just elected two Maine women as officers, will be there.

She will take part in a debate between 4 vice presidential candidates in Cleveland on Oct. 5 before returning to Maine. Mr. Cheney will not be there.

 

MORE INFORMATION:
Left Out Tour
http://www.votecobb.org/leftouttour
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Cobb-LaMarche campaign
http://www.votecobb.org

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org

 

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