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NOTE: The
views and policy positions expressed by the candidates may not be shared
by other Greens nor do they necessarily reflect the views expressed in the
Green Party Platform.
The national Platform is formulated and ratified every four years at the
Green Party National Convention.
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David
Cobb
cobbweb@greens.org
http://www.votecobb.org/
722 Ninth
St. Apt #1
Eureka, Ca 95501
707-269-0984 (home/office)
713-444-6592 (cell)
State party affiliation: previously TEXAS (recently relocated to
CALIFORNIA)
(biography provided by the candidate)
David Cobb serves as the General Counsel for the Green Party of the United
States (GP-US) and helped to found the Green Party of Texas (GPTX) in
1999. He was the GPTX candidate for Attorney General in 2002 and is
seeking the Green Party nomination for President in 2004. David had a
successful law practice until early 2000, when Ralph Nader asked him to
manage the Green Party effort in Texas. He coordinated the ballot access
drive in Texas, helping to collect over 76,000 signature in 75 days! When
he ran for Attorney General in 2002 there were only 4 local chapters of
the GPTX. At the conclusion of David's campaign, there were 26 chapters.
David proposes that the Green Party run a presidential campaign in 2004
that is dedicated to helping to build the state parties. He serves on the
Steering Committee of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County ( www.monitor.net/duhc
) and as Campaigns Director for Reclaim Democracy.org which are both
citizen's groups dedicated to contesting and challenging the illegitimate
corporate usurpation of our Constitution and our government. David
lectures and facilitates "Rethinking Corporations/ Rethinking
Democracy" seminars and workshops across the country, which explore
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.
Liaison for
purposes of primary:
Lynne Serpe
Phone: 646.284.2759
Email: Lynneserpe@aol.com
Address: 210 First Avenue #7 New York NY 10009
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Paul
Glover
www.ithacanews.org/greenpresident.html
http://www.ithacanews.org/greenpresident.html
Box 365, Ithaca, NY 14851
(607) 2727-4330
paglo@lightlink.com
State party
affiliation: NEW YORK (biography provided by the candidate)
Paul Glover
is prime founder of Ithaca HOURS, http://www.ithacahours.com,
a local currency, the Ithaca Health Fund, http://www.ithacahealth.org,
Whole Ithaca Stock Exchange (WISE), http://ithacanews.org/wise.html,
the Ithaca Trolley Authority, http://ithacanews.com/9208.html,
Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, and other groups. He is author of
Hometown Money, http://www.ithacahours.com/hometown.html,
Ithaca Power (fuel system), http://www.http://ithacahours.com/archive/ithacapower.
He is publisher of Ithaca Community News, http://www.ithacanews.org,
and is employed by the Ithaca Health Fund. He was declared
"Ithaca's Hero" by the Ithaca Times Readers' Polls of 1995 and
2000, and its "Best Mayoral Candidate" 2003. He received an
award from the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission in 1996 and
received a Cornell Civic Leaders Fellowship in 2001. During 1978 he walked
across the United States, entirely on foot, from Boston to San Diego. He
is 56 years old. He holds degrees in Marketing and in City Management.
Here is his resume:
http://www.ithacanews.org/glover.resume.html.
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Kent
Mesplay
kentmesplay@presidency.com
www.presidentkent.org
8556 Lynx Rd, San Diego, CA 92126
State party affiliation: CALIFORNIA
(biography
excerpted from one provided by candidate)
Kent Mesplay, 41, is the fourth-generation descendant of a Blackfoot/Irish
couple. A natural-born U.S. citizen he grew up among indigenous people in
the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea, speaking one language and
culture outside the house and another inside. He was home-schooled during
his first eight years of life and then attended boarding school for two
years before returning with his family to his father's home state of
Colorado. Kent values education, having earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical
Engineering (biomechanics; prosthetic science) from Northwestern
University. A long-time California resident (since 1977), Kent first
became active with the Greens in 1995, serving as appointed Treasurer to
the San Diego Green Party County Council and, as co-chair of their
Communications Committee, he put on a press conference for Ralph Nader at
the Hotel del Coronado. Kent helped place Ralph Nader on the California
ballot, voting his support at a Green Party State Meeting in Berkeley in
1996. Currently, he works as an Air Quality Inspector with the San Diego
Air Pollution Control District, acting to enforce and ensure business
compliance with Federal, State and Local air quality standards in a manner
tailored to balance economic and environmental concerns.
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Carol
Miller
carolmiller@cybermesa.com
Ph. 505-660-5988 (day), 505-689-2361 (evening)
State party affiliation: NEW MEXICO
(biography
excerpted from Politics1.com at www.politics1.com/greens04.htm)
Carol
Miller, a public health administrator, first rose to prominence in the
Green Party in 1997 as a Congressional nominee in a special election. In
that race, she captured an astounding 17% of the vote (one of the highest
percentages in GPUS history) . . . . She ran again in 1998, but her
numbers fell (3rd place - 4%) . . . . Since then, Miller has remained
active within the Green Party and in the 2000 Nader for President
campaign. She briefly was a Green candidate for State Treasurer in 2002,
but withdrew from the race. Miller was a commissioned officer in the US
Public Health Service in the 1980s and in 1993 served on the White House
Health Care Task Force. She also served two terms as President of the New
Mexico Public Health Association and served six terms on the Governing
Council of the American Public Health Association. An advocate for rural
communities, she founded the Frontier Education Center -- a group for
which she now serves as Executive Director. Miller has expressed an
interest in the 2004 Presidential race and has recently started speaking
to Green gatherings around the nation. In addition to health care reform,
Miller has also focused much of her activism on environmental and peace
issues.
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Lorna
Salzman
Campaign
website address: www.lornasalzman.com
Email: LSALZMAN@RCN.COM
Phone: 631-653-3387 / 718-522-0253;
Address: PO Box 775,
East Quogue, NY 11942 through 10/30/03...then:
29 Middagh St., Brooklyn, NY 11201
State party
affiliation: NEW YORK (member, state committee until November)
(excerpted
from biography provided by candidate)
A graduate of Cornell University, Lorna Salzman has been an environmental
activist, writer, lecturer and organizer since the mid-1960s. She was
hired by the late David Brower, founder and president of Friends of the
Earth (FOE), as the regional representative of FOE and held that position
for nearly ten years, concentrating on anti-nuclear work and on coastal
zone and wetlands protection on eastern Long Island. In the mid-1980s she
was an editor at American Birds magazine, published by the National
Audubon Society, and soon after became Executive Director of Food &
Water Inc., an anti-food irradiation group. From 1992 to 1995 she was a
natural resources specialist in the Natural Resources Unit of the NYC
Dept. of Environmental Protection. In 1985 she co-founded the New York
Greens, later called the NY Green Party, and in the late 1990s she ran for
Congress and the US Senate on the Peconic Greens and Green Choice parties
respectively. In 2002, she was the Green Party candidate for the US House
of Representatives in the 1st CD, Suffolk County, Long Island NY. She is a
member of the State Committee of the Green Party of New York State. Her
top priorities are: carbon taxes to start reducing fossil fuel
consumption; universal single payer health care funded through the income
tax; ending corporate subsidies and tax breaks; moving to full cost
pricing of all goods; abolishing NAFTA and WTO and drastically reforming
IMF and World Bank; reviving a nationalized rail and freight system;
promoting maximum biodiversity; shutting down nuclear power plants;
protecting women's rights globally; redefining national security as
security in energy, transportation and public health. She is a member of
the New York Academy of Sciences, and in 2000 she received the
international Earth Day Award from the Earth Society Foundation for her
committed environmental work.
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Peter
Camejo
Peter Camejo,
Green Party of California's candidate in the recent gubernatorial recall
election, has announced his intention to participate in the national Green
Party primaries. Camejo has stated that he would prefer to see Ralph
Nader as the Green nominee in 2004. It is unclear at this point
whether Camejo would accept the party's nomination if he were to win it
himself.
A draft
Camejo campaign, urging Camejo to seek the nomination for himself, is
based at:
www.DraftCamejo.org and http://www.petitiononline.com/pcfp1234/petition.html
Liaison for
purposes of primary:
Rachel Odes
Phone: 510-587-0800 (T,Th, F after 1pm PST)
Address: 520 3rd Street, Suite 201, Oakland, CA 94607
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Sheila
Bilyeau
PO Box
220210
Chantilly, VA 20153
202-679-5171
310-804-1414 (day)
sheilabilyeu@yahoo.com
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Ralph
Nader
Ralph
Nader has formally withdrawn his candidacy. However, there is a
movement to draft him as the nominee and he has collected delegate
commitments in state primaries.
Draft Nader
Committee www.draftnader2004.com
Nader 2004 Official Website www.votenader.org
PO Box
190753
San Francisco, CA 94119-0753
Ph. 415-835-4778
Email: contact@draftnader2004.com
(biography excerpted from Politics1.com at www.politics1.com/greens04.htm)
Famed consumer advocate, liberal activist and Harvard-educated attorney,
Ralph Nader is likely to make a fourth Presidential run in 2004. [He] ran
as a write-in candidate in the 1992 NH Democratic primary, and was the
Green nominee for President in 1996 and 2000. Spending just over $5,000 (a
self-imposed limit), . . . Nader was on the ballot in 22 states and
carried over 700,000 votes (4th place - 0.8%) in 1996. In 2000, Nader
raised millions of dollars, mobilized leftist activists and grabbed
national headlines with his anti-corporate campaign message. . . . Nader
was on the ballot in 44 states and finished third with 2,878,000 votes
(2.7%) . . . . In mid-2003, Nader finally confirmed . . . that he was
willing to run again in 2004. . . . [In] a 2003 news interview: If the
Dems agree not to go negative on his Presidential campaign (so he has a
shot at hitting the important 5% mark), Nader promises to encourage all
the voters who show up to vote for him to also vote for Dems for Congress
and all the other down-ballot offices to help them recapture majority
status in those legislative bodies. Unlike most of the other Green
candidates, Nader is not a registered member of the party -- he's a
registered independent. Nader, who will be 70 in 2004, . . . a former Army
reservist, and a multi-millionaire . . . . As in 2000, Nader vows that his
campaign will again "emphasize the problems of, and remedies for, the
excessive concentration of corporate power and wealth in our country, by
highlighting the important tools of democracy needed for the American
people as voters/citizens, workers, consumers, taxpayers, and small
savers/investors."
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Thanks and
recognition to Rudy Perkins of Massachusetts for his work in compiling
this information.
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Office: PO Box 57065 Washington, D.C. 20037 202-319-7191 or
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