GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org
November 2, 2004
Contact: Blair Bobier, Media Director at
541.929.5755 or 414.364.1596
COBB-LAMARCHE CAMPAIGN A SUCCESS
The Green Party’s presidential campaign has
already achieved many of its goals for this election.
“This campaign has always been about building and
growing the Green Party and that’s just what we’ve succeeded in
doing. We’ve registered more Green voters, we’ve boosted local
campaigns, we’ve garnered fantastic media coverage and we’ve put
Instant Runoff Voting in the forefront as a solution for the
‘spoiler’ voting dynamic. When our local candidates win election in
record numbers today, that will be the icing on the cake,” said Cobb-LaMarche
Media Director Blair Bobier.
The Cobb-LaMarche campaign has been the subject of
front page news stories across the country and has helped the Green
Party grow in places as far flung as Nebraska, Oklahoma, Corvallis,
Oregon and San Luis Obispo, California. In Arkansas, Green Party vice
presidential candidate Pat LaMarche’s visit produced truckloads of
donations of food and essentials to the Salvation Army Shelter. In
Wisconsin, David Cobb’s campaign swing there generated dozens of news
stories and a rousing speech to over three thousand people.
Cobb also campaigned with two Green candidates who
have broken barriers by being endorsed by major newspapers. The Fort
Collins Coloradoan has endorsed Green Party 4th Congressional candidate
Bob Kinsey and the Iowa City Press Citizen gave its endorsement to U.S.
Senate candidate Daryl Northrup.
The Cobb-LaMarche campaign has also made great
strides towards reforming the archaic U.S. election process by focusing
on the need for Instant Runoff Voting and unrestricted debates open to
more than just two presidential candidates. Numerous editorials and
columns including one by David Broder, the dean of Washington political
columnists, were published during the campaign supporting more inclusive
debates. A number of commentaries and editorials about instant runoff
also appeared, including two within the past several days in The
Oregonian:
http://www.oregonlive.com/...
and
http://www.oregonlive.com/...
Today’s election will produce a number of firsts for the Green Party,
including the first Green elected to office in Mississippi.
For Election Night interviews with David Cobb, contact Media Director
Blair Bobier at 541.929.5755 or 414.364.1596. To schedule an Election
Night interview with Pat LaMarche, contact Derek Mitchell at
207.712.8990.
For more information about the Cobb-LaMarche campaign, see http://www.votecobb.org.
Information about the Green Party of the United States can be found at http://www.gp.org.
