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Texans can vote for McKinney/ClementeDistributed by the Green Party of the United States http://www.gp. org McKINNEY/CLEMENTE POWER TO THE PEOPLE COMMITTEE For Immediate Release: Contact: Green nominee Cynthia McKinney to speak in online presidential • Web site for the broadcast: http://www.breakthe matrix.com/ channels/ 1 WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney Cynthia McKinney will join other candidates who've been invited to "We invite everyone to go online, tune in to BreakTheMatrix. com, and listen to Cynthia McKinney and the other candidates debate real issues. We'll hear Ms. McKinney offer ideas that have been censored from the McCain-Obama debates -- ideas that most Americans support, like bringing our troops home now, health care for everyone, and help for working Americans facing financial difficulty instead of a $700 billion bailout package for Wall Street," said John Judge, media secretary for the McKinney/Clemente Power to the People Committee. Cynthia McKinney and running mate Rosa Clemente were nominated by the Green Party at the Green National Convention in Chicago this past "A vote for Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente is an investment in a Greens and other Americans have objected to the format of the McCain- The CPD, which sets rules for candidate participation, is owned and MORE INFORMATION Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 'Power to the People' Campaign for the "Where's Kenny Rogers When You Need Him? The Big Boys Got Their Cynthia McKinney on video Rosa Clemente on video Green Party of the United States http://www.gp. org ~ END ~ For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 MORE VOICES, MORE CHOICES! Joint Press Conference, Tuesday, August 26, noon: Filing of Write-In Candidacies of McKinney/Clemente (Green Party) & Nader/Gonzalez (independents) at the Texas Secretary of State, Rusk Building plaza, 208 E. 10th St. (at Brazos). Texas has arguably the worst ballot access laws in the country. The "primary screen out" rule prevents anyone who voted in the presidential primary from signing a nomination petition and Texas requires an inordinate amount of signatures to be filed by the earliest deadline in the country (May 12).* Despite these burdens designed by the two-party system to keep out challengers, two more presidential campaigns will officially file today to be included on the ballot as write-in choices. Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez will file as independents and are proud to share this moment with the first double women-of-color presidential ticket in U.S. herstory, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente for the Green Party. McKinney was the first African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives in GA, where she long addressed issues most others wouldn't, like taking leadership on the crimes against humanity following Hurricane Katrina. Rosa Clemente, a journalist, a tireless community activist from the South Bronx and an academic on liberation struggles in the U.S., is known as "one of this generation's most important political voices" (Chuck D). Nader is one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential Americans of the 20th Century" having affected countless reform measures in his 40+ years as a consumer and good-government advocate. Gonzalez, a Texan by birth, is an attorney and former member and president of the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors, where he was elected as a Green Party candidate and led to passage key reforms such as instant run-off voting and a gentrification protection measure for small businesses. The two campaigns are aligned on several issues, both calling for an immediate and orderly withdrawal from Iraq and for a single-payer national health insurance system. Further, McKinney and Gonzalez have in common their respective retreats from the Democratic Party to the Greens, Gonzalez calling his a "political and moral epiphany." In Denver yesterday following the “Recreate 68” rally, McKinney said about no longer being inside the convention, “I’m free. I have liberated myself from the shackles of the two-party paradigm and now I’m free to advocate the policies that I know the American people really want.” Both campaigns contend that our democracy is not compromised by additional candidates in the running, quite the contrary. To detractors that accuse those seeking ballot access of attempting to "steal votes," Nader is calling "political bigots" who are attempting to relegate seekers as "second class citizens" not worthy of access. McKinney points out our country's real electoral problem is voter disenfranchisement as we saw in 2000 and 2004. "...The truth is elections, especially one as volatile as 2008, are decided upon by thousands of variables that can cut both ways. Nobody's entitled to votes. However, they are entitled to a level playing field which does not exist today for third party and independent candidates..." -Ralph Nader Both write-in campaigns will be mobilizing statewide to get the word out that Texas now has MORE VOICES and MORE CHOICES. That not only do we have the opportunity to support candidates who TRULY represent our values, we have a democratic mandate to do so. As Clemente put it for her party: "The Green Party is no longer the alternative. We are the imperative." "If we want our government to be truly committed to peace and justice, we must vote for candidates who are. Ralph Nader is the only such independent candidate in this race. And the Green Party is the only progressive opposition party in this country now, genuinely committed to a just, green and humane future." –kat swift, Green Party of Texas APPEARANCES: --Nader and Gonzalez were both here in Austin a month ago today and would have been back, along with McKinney/Clemente for the Ft. Hood presidential debate last week, but it was canceled because Sen. Obama declined, saying there wasn't enough time to fit this in with the other three narrowly-scripted debates (McCain was ready and willing). --McKinney and Clemente will be coming to Texas before November (TBA). --Both campaigns are calling for open debates, and tomorrow in Denver, Sean Penn, Val Kilmer, Cindy Sheehan and more are joining Nader/Gonzalez AND Rosa Clemente to protest the corporate lockdown on the debates in a super-rally adjacent the Democratic Convention. RESOURCES: McKinney/Clemente's Power to the People campaign platform: Nader/Gonzalez on the issues: *Additional litigation (to 2004's) against these unique burdens is under review by Nader/Gonzalez. ### |
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