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GREEN PARTY HOLDS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
SF CHRONICLE - Withdraw from Iraq immediately. Eliminate the No Child
Left Behind law. Legalize marijuana. Those were just some of the goals
stated by candidates at the Green Party presidential debate Sunday in
San Francisco.
About 800 people of varying ages, economic backgrounds and political
parties attended the "Presidential Debate that Matters" at the Herbst
Theatre, where the five Green presidential hopefuls spent more time
agreeing with one another than actually debating. . .
"Please. This is serious. This is not a joke. This is about starting a
real movement in this country," said candidate Cynthia McKinney to a
standing ovation. The former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia who
converted to the Green Party last year was, at one point during the
debate, acknowledged as the front-runner. The party's presidential
nominee will be selected in July in Chicago.
The other three candidates included Jared Ball, a hip-hop scholar and
assistant professor of communications at Morgan State University in
Baltimore; Kat Swift, a 34-year-old dread-locked activist from San
Antonio who said she will "be just old enough to be president by the
time of the next election"; and actor and filmmaker Jesse Johnson from
West Virginia.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNMOUEQ25.DTL
DEMOCRACY NOW - Ralph Nader, who ran on the Green ticket in 2000, spoke
at the event but did not take part in the debate. Nader has not yet
announced whether he will run for president again.
Ralph Nader: You want healthcare for all? Who says no? It's the health
insurance industry, the drug companies and the HMOs. You want living
wage? Who says no and makes it stick? It's McDonald's. It's Burger King.
It's Wal-Mart. You want peace in the world, and you want a country to
wage peace and become a humanitarian superpower? Who's opposed to that?
The Lockheed Martins. What Eisenhower condemned is a military-industrial
complex. Just ask: Who keeps saying no? And you know what the focus of a
Green Party and an alternative party political movement has to be.
Cynthia McKinney cited Ralph Nader as part of why she was running on the
Green ticket.
Cynthia McKinney: Mr. Nader, in a recent piece, asked us to take the
next step if we don't like what's happening in our country. I've heeded
his advice: I've joined your party. I'm helping Green candidates, and
I'm here with you today. I ask you to take the next step with me.
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GREEN PARTY HOLDS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
SF CHRONICLE - Withdraw from Iraq immediately. Eliminate the No Child
Left Behind law. Legalize marijuana. Those were just some of the goals
stated by candidates at the Green Party presidential debate Sunday in
San Francisco.
About 800 people of varying ages, economic backgrounds and political
parties attended the "Presidential Debate that Matters" at the Herbst
Theatre, where the five Green presidential hopefuls spent more time
agreeing with one another than actually debating. . .
"Please. This is serious. This is not a joke. This is about starting a
real movement in this country," said candidate Cynthia McKinney to a
standing ovation. The former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia who
converted to the Green Party last year was, at one point during the
debate, acknowledged as the front-runner. The party's presidential
nominee will be selected in July in Chicago.
The other three candidates included Jared Ball, a hip-hop scholar and
assistant professor of communications at Morgan State University in
Baltimore; Kat Swift, a 34-year-old dread-locked activist from San
Antonio who said she will "be just old enough to be president by the
time of the next election"; and actor and filmmaker Jesse Johnson from
West Virginia.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/14/MNMOUEQ25.DTL
DEMOCRACY NOW - Ralph Nader, who ran on the Green ticket in 2000, spoke
at the event but did not take part in the debate. Nader has not yet
announced whether he will run for president again.
Ralph Nader: You want healthcare for all? Who says no? It's the health
insurance industry, the drug companies and the HMOs. You want living
wage? Who says no and makes it stick? It's McDonald's. It's Burger King.
It's Wal-Mart. You want peace in the world, and you want a country to
wage peace and become a humanitarian superpower? Who's opposed to that?
The Lockheed Martins. What Eisenhower condemned is a military-industrial
complex. Just ask: Who keeps saying no? And you know what the focus of a
Green Party and an alternative party political movement has to be.
Cynthia McKinney cited Ralph Nader as part of why she was running on the
Green ticket.
Cynthia McKinney: Mr. Nader, in a recent piece, asked us to take the
next step if we don't like what's happening in our country. I've heeded
his advice: I've joined your party. I'm helping Green candidates, and
I'm here with you today. I ask you to take the next step with me.
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