Green Party presidential candidates

[proud2BlibKansan]

Mods, this is not meant as a supportive post of the Green party or its candidates. I am not including links to websites or more info on the Green party. I merely thought DUers may want to know what Green candidates are running. Thanks!


Jared Ball, independent journalist; radio host (WPFW 89.3 FM Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC), hip-hop scholar, assistant professor of communications studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland

Elaine Brown, 2005 Green candidate for Mayor of Brunswick, Georgia; former leader of the Black Panther Party; organizer of Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice and National Alliance for Radical Prison Reform

Jesse Johnson, 2006 US Senate candidate and 2004 gubernatorial candidate for the Mountain Party in West Virginia (now affiliate state party of the Green Party of the United States); filmmaker

Cynthia McKinney, former member of the US House of Representatives (Georgia), 1993 to 2003, 2005 to 2007; former member of the Georgia House of Representatives, 1988-1992

Kent Mesplay, 2004 candidate for the Green presidential nomination; former president of Turtle Island Institute; environmental engineer, alternative energy activist; California Green organizer

Ralph Nader, 1996 and 2000 Green candidate for President; 2004 independent candidate for President; consumer advocate (Howie Hawkins of the Green Party of New York State has consented to serve as a 'placeholder' candidate until Mr. Nader announces his intentions for the 2008 election)

Kat Swift, Texas Green organizer; former Campus Greens leader; activist with Clean Money San Antonio and San Antonio Democracy Now

[MADem]

1. Ralph "Bad Penny" Nader. I hope he gets beaten by, say,

Jesse "Who the Hell" Johnson, or Kat "Never heard of her" Swift.

It would serve his hubris-laden, irritating ass right.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. He's like a bad penny, isn't he?

Just keeps on coming back.

[flvegan]

2. Hulk/Smash '08

[FlyingSquirrel]

4. What we need is a Purple party.

[onehandle]

5. The Greens need to fold in the U.S. They'll never live down 2000.

I'm not against a progressive party. I just don't that one.

[anakie]

6. Why keep blaming the Greens for 2000

when up to 30 to 40% of Americans didn't even vote.

Peace

[mmonk]

16. It's easier for them I guess than blaming the Supreme Court

and their unprecedented interference.

[Hippo_Tron]

19. Because we expect them to know better

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Look at the numbers

Gore didn't lose because of the Greens. They didn't help him any, but they aren't the reason he lost.

[onehandle]

12. 90,000 votes in Florida. Nader and the Greens were down there begging voters not to trade...

...their votes in the final weeks for votes in "safe" states.

Only would have taken 1/2 of one percent of them to save us from Bush.


I used to participate in Green functions locally and have donated to them in the distant past.

Never again. Nobody will ever take them seriously again.

[anakie]

20. or

that amount of people who didn't vote at all to get out and give 30 mins of their time to participate in the election. Sorry to harp on this point but American apathy towards your great democratic tradition is more to blame than those who participated and voted the way you didn't want.

There is something in compulsory voting.


Peace

[RandmXs]

25. what about Dems in FL who voted for Bush?

People have the right to vote for anyone they wish to but when they're registered Democrat
don't you think they ought to vote for the Democratic candidate??

But tens of thousands of Democrats in FL voted FOR Bush!!
I don't see you tarring and feathering them!!
Now those are the people you ought to be tagging as spoilers and unleashing your vitriol against,
NOT Greens.
Greens are NOT Dems for a reason and nobody owns anybody's votes.
Dems should do something to rein in registered Dem voters next time instead of trying to engineer wacky switcheroo schemes. Maybe there should be consequences for Dems who vote Republican???

[RandmXs]

29. you don't have much of a choice . . .

the Democratic Party is certainly not a progressive party so where are you looking?
Why are you so dead set against the Greens existence if you are looking for another party to
challenge the Dems and serve as an opposition? As soon as they do something that makes you and the rest of the hatters mad, like "take votes away," you'll be spewing hate and vitriol their way as well!

2000 was the result of the Supreme Court.
There is nothing to live down except that new ideas, especially the one that says that US politics is NOT the exclusive domain of two parties, were refreshingly presented.
Is that something to fear?

[mmonk]

7. Hasn't Nader endorsed Edwards?

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. I think he said if Edwards is the candidate, he won't run

[onehandle]

10. Sort of.

He said he wouldn't run if Edwards is the nominee.

[snowbear]

13. I'll bet it was about as close to an endorsement as Nader has ever made..

Considering the fact that he likes Kucinich too.

You're right though.. he's pulling for Edwards.

[Blue-Jay]

11. Oh no. There's no WAY that an endorsement is even implied!

hahahaha

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Believe what you want

Many of us come to DU for news, information. That's all this is.

[Rowdyboy]

14. Self-absorbed, holier-than-thou assholes who haven't suffered enough.....8 MORE YEARS!!!

[sniffa]

17. mkay

[BootinUp]

22. lol nt

[RandmXs]

26. That's not a nice . . .

way to characterize your fellow Democrats, amigo!

[IndianaGreen]

18. Cynthia McKinney was driven out of the Democratic Party by the DCL and the War Wing

Cynthia's biggest crime was to say that Bush had been forewarned about 9-11. She was accused of being insane for making such a charge, by Republicans and their allies in the Democratic Party establishment.

As it turned out, Cynthia was right! When the MSM published the astonishing news that Bush had been fully briefed in early 2001 about bin Laden's plans to attack the US, including crashing hijacked passenger jets into national landmarks, the Democratic establishment resisted the calls for a full investigation.

Had Al Gore been President on 9-11, and he had done nothing on the same information Bush was given that May. he would have been impeached on 9-13.

Both major political parties are agents of the powerful economic interests that control this country. Both have failed to protect the American people from our enemies, at home and abroad. Both have been complicit in the dismantling of our beloved Constitution and the Republic for which so many have shed their blood to defend and protect. Both are in cahoots in pursuing an imperialist policy to protect Wall Street. None care about the working class!

[hayu_lol]

21. Of these candidates, Cynthia McKinney is the heavylifter...

Might be good for her to get some experience in a presidential run and then return to the Dems for a real run.

She is a most forceful speaker. She really nailed BushCo in her last public speech.

[RandmXs]

27. anti-christ II

You think?
I would think that the Dems have drummed her out of that party and, having joined the Green Party,
would be branded as the second coming of the Anti-christ and heir apparent to Ralph Nader as
<insert your favorite overused obscenity> judging from past etiquette at least!
Would you guys respect Kucinich more if he ran as a Green?

[mzmolly]

23. Has Nader even joined the Green Party yet?

:eyes:

[fujiyama]

24. LOL

Wow, a selection of kooks. McKinney is nuts. Nader can go drive a Corvair off a cliff. Haven't heard of the rest of them...but they can't be as bad as those two.

[RandmXs]

28. None of these "kooks" voted for war, patriot act, etc.

If you haven't heard of them, how do you characterize them as kooks?
You guys have a bunch whose kookiness has actually killed!!!