Comments on: McKinney announces lead with ‘clear majority’

By: Deran

Deran — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:33:12 +0000

I wasn’t quite sure where to mention this, but I see Roseanne Barr bas announced she is voting for Cynthia McKinney

http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/2008/06/since_i_will_vote_for_a_woman.php

By: McKinney receives favorable notice from Workers World Party

McKinney receives favorable notice from Workers World Party — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:51:15 +0000

[...] McKinney, who recently took the lead in pledged delegates for the Green Party nomination, has also been meriting positive interest from [...]

By: Fred Church Ortiz

Fred Church Ortiz — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:00:47 +0000

You got some strange memories there Jeremy. Nader started off saying he wanted just an endorsement, not the nomination. And no way did 22 state GPs give him their lines – my recollection is that none did.

By: Jeremy Young

Jeremy Young — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:34:34 +0000

Here’s my memory of what happened in 2004: Cobb led a valiant effort from the floor to convince Greens that the only way to restore public trust in the Green Party was to run a safe-states strategy, as opposed to Nader’s swing-state strategy. He prevailed with about 2/3 of the vote, after which Nader pulled an Alan Keyes: bolted the party (of which he had never been a registered member) and attempted to get ballot status in other ways. Some of those ways were on the up-and-up — he got the remnants of the Reform Party to endorse him, for instance, which gave him ballot status in seven states where Buchanan had done well enough to retain it, and he conducted successful signature drives in a bunch of other states — but one of the things he did was to encourage state Green Party chapters to give him their ballot line instead of Cobb. I read somewhere that 22 states did so, though I think that’s a bit too high. Needless to say, the folks in charge at the GP aren’t too happy with Nader.

By: Jeff Wartman

Jeff Wartman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:37:30 +0000

Would you be willing to go on behalf of IPR?

Sure.

By: Trent Hill

Trent Hill — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:29:04 +0000

We need to have a correspondant there.

By: G.E.

G.E. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:27:20 +0000

Jeff – I might go. Although, some of my old “friends” might try to run me out of there. Maybe the GP will give IPR press creds, unlike that other party. Would you be willing to go on behalf of IPR?

By: Andy Craig

Andy Craig — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:01:42 +0000

Jeff- please send back some reports to make us Libertarians feel better about our own convention.

By: Jeff Wartman

Jeff Wartman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:50:22 +0000

Anyone planning on attending the GP Convention? I live in the Chicagoland area, so I’m debating wandering over there to see the socialists in action.

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:48:31 +0000

I referred them to my website.

By: Andy Craig

Andy Craig — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:30:38 +0000

Wiki says it was something about him not wanting their nomination, but rather their “endorsement”.

By: Ross Levin

Ross Levin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:17:57 +0000

Andy – I believe that Nader screwed the Green party back in 2004 in some way. Not sure what happened.

By: Andy Craig

Andy Craig — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:59:56 +0000

300k sounds optimistic to me. Cobb only got 120k in 2004, and I have a hard time seeing how 2008 could be anything but worse for the Greens.

By: jerseyreformjake

jerseyreformjake — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:55:38 +0000

In any other year it would have been way easier for McKinney to gain some press because, straight foward, she is an african american woman running for president, but of course that won’t fly this year.

I think she will gain some press if she, and I think she will, eventually decides to attack on Nader. The biggest issue is that her largest state backers are the same as Nader so it kills her buzz. Also, her website is TERRIBLE and CONFUSING.

My opinion is that McKinney will eventually get some much needed press and tally out at around 300k votes.

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:44:55 +0000

Karen Kwiatkowski politely declined, despite my virtual begging, several times. Smith I declined to ask. I’m not that desperate, yet. Evidently Mary Ruwart is too pure to go along with a hybrid mongrel ticket. Nancy Lord Johnson & Jo Jorgensen declined long ago. Crickenberger acted as intermediary between Jorgensen & me. Gives you an idea of how long ago. I even asked ENM.

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:40:25 +0000

Jeff Wartman, well, it would be difficult to blame the Indians for not seizing an opportunity presented to them by a blue-eyed man, wouldn’t it?

By: Andy Craig

Andy Craig — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:36:52 +0000

Though if you’re recruiting candidates in blog comments, I don’t think any one need be too concerned about it.

By: Jeff Wartman

Jeff Wartman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:36:46 +0000

I added that they could combine a signature/petition drive with a voter registration drive.

Are you really this delusional?

By: Andy Craig

Andy Craig — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:36:05 +0000

I love thought train of thought there.

“All these stupid unacceptable third party tickets are splitting the third party vote, so I’ll launch ANOTHER third party Presidential bid!”

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:33:41 +0000

I added that they could combine a signature/petition drive with a voter registration drive.