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| Alaska Greens Ask Voters to Send a Message to Washington. |
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GREEN PARTY OF ALASKA September 22, 2004 Contacts: ALASKA GREENS TO VOTERS: SEND A MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON The Green Party of Alaska is offering the state's voters principled candidates who provide a refreshing change from the business-as-usual duopoly: David Cobb and Pat LaMarche for President and Vice-president, and Jim Sykes for U.S. Senate. Cobb and LaMarche have been placed on the Alaska ballot, bringing to the forefront of their campaigns issues ignored or downplayed by the two main parties. "The dominant parties are moving farther and farther away from the people's interests to side with corporate interests," said Soren Wuerth, Alaska Green party co-chair. "With Cobb and LaMarche's courageous campaign, the Alaska Green party is sparking an exciting electoral revolution." Both the Cobb and Sykes campaigns focus on empowering and protecting the people of the United States by supporting: a universal single-payer health care program; blue-collar workers and small businesses with living wages and fair taxation and subsidies that do not unfairly benefit large out-of-state or transnational corporations at the expense of local businesses; protection of human rights for all people, including lesbians and gays; bringing our troops home from Iraq and ensuring all veterans receive the benefits and health care they were promised; energy independence and a rapid transition to clean, renewable energy sources; voting and electoral systems that empower people rather than transnational corporations; and protection of humanity's health and livelihood by slowing global warming and working toward sustainable, prosperous economies. These approaches offer alternatives as-yet unattempted by the Democrats or the Republicans. Tom Macchia, one of Alaska's delegates to the Green Party of the United States, said of the 2004 election season, "The Democrats and Republicans are once again, like a cheap grade-B movie, playing good cop, bad cop with the American people. The Green Party offers David Cobb and Pat LaMarche to those who understand the electoral college, as an opportunity to say enough of these insults to our sincerity, intelligence, and patriotism." The Green Party of Alaska is pleased to have candidates such as David Cobb and Pat LaMarche on the ballot, people who recognize that voting for the lesser of two evils is no longer a viable option if the lot of the Alaskan voter is truly to change for the better. "Voters need to send a message to Washington that the people's needs have to take priority all year round, not just during election season," said Deirdre Helfferich, also a delegate to the national Green party and the Cobb campaign's state contact. David Cobb served as the General Counsel for the Green Party of the United States until declaring his candidacy and was the Green Party of Texas candidate for Attorney General in 2002. Cobb lectures and facilitates "Rethinking Corporations/ Rethinking Democracy" seminars and workshops across the country, exploring the social, legal, and historical context of how corporations have become the dominant institution of our times. These seminars focus on how corporations have become unelected governing institutions, and how we can provoke (and win) a nonviolent democratic revolution in response. He currently serves on the Steering Committee of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County, a citizen's group dedicated to contesting and challenging the illegitimate corporate usurpation of our Constitution and our government. Patricia LaMarche is employed at a radio station in Maine's capital under the pseudonym Genny Judge, which she borrowed from her late mother. Genny Judge is known throughout central Maine as an altruist in the truest sense of the term. She has found kidneys for dying children, raised money for poverty-stricken youth, and helped to garner support for the relief crew after September 11. In 1996 LaMarche took a job in Portland, Maine, as the first and only female host at the venerated heritage talk radio station, WGAN. She ran for governor of the state of Maine in 1998 on the Green Independent Party ticket. She became the first woman in the history of the state of Maine to gain ballot access for a political party due to her campaign. Tanana-Yukon Green Rich Seifert is glad there is a nationally nominated Green candidate for president. "Many voters still think Ralph Nader is running as a Green. He is not, and is not endorsed by the Green Party, and it is important that people know that." For more information:
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