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State News Release - October 30, 2002 |
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Georgia Green Party |
| Flagpole Editor Endorses Green Party Statewide Candidates. |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today's City Dope featured a "Cheat Sheet" for readers to take with them to the polls on Tuesday, which recommended all three of the Green Party's statewide candidates. The endorsement by Aaron, coming as it does in a publication serving the environmentally-conscious Athens-Clarke County area, could help the Green Party obtain the 40,000 write-in votes it needs to overcome Georgia's regressive ballot access laws and gain statewide ballot access for the 2004 elections. "It's not the lesser of three evils," said Aaron of his decision to endorse Garrett, a former Clayton County judge, over incumbent Governor Roy Barnes and Republican challenger Sonny Perdue. "It's more like we have an alternative. I don't think Roy Barnes is much different from the Republicans. "Any governor [candidate] supported by the Green Party I would support over those two." Aaron said Flagpole as an entity does not endorse candidates the publishers and editorial staff make endorsements separately but the support for Green candidates was reflective of the edition's emphasis on environmental and land use issues leading up to Tuesday's elections. The cover of today's Flagpole depicts a bulldozer clearing a land development, with a "VOTE Tuesday, November 5" sign in the foreground. "It all comes down to this: developers vs. citizens," wrote editor Pete McCommons in the "Pub Notes" section. "Citizens are fed up with the destruction of neighborhoods, trees, streams, air quality and traffic flow wrought by developers." # # # |
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