Bob Kinsey announces his candidacy for the Colorado Green Party's nomination for the United States Senate.
WHEN
4:00 P.M.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
WHERE
At the Denver Peace Pole -- Bannock Street and Colfax Avenue on the north side in MacIntosh Plaza. The Denver Peace Pole is in a triangle between the City and County Office Building, the Denver Newpaper Agency Building and Colfax.
MAP
Following the announcement there will be a reception/rally at 12th Avenue and Gallapago Street at the Parkway Club House (1170 Gallapago Street, Denver - MAP). 5:00 to 7:00 P.M.
WHY
Bob Kinsey believes that the Green Party is the only party not beholden to corporate interests that include the military, industrial, congressional, university and crusader oriented religious complex.
The argument that a Green vote is a wasted vote is a self-fulfilling prophesy and can best be overcome by the party achieving a registration that equals the two corporate parties. His effort will be to get people to change their registration to Green as a way of voting for the Green Party values before November.
He believes people want the opportunity to support the Green Values.
He believes people should have a vote for someone pledged to immediately end the occupation of Iraq; who will work to rejoin the international community; repudiate U.S. imperialism and seriously address Global Warming issues now in a crisis status; Single Payer Health Care; and protection of the Constitution, including its impeachment clauses and individual liberties.
It's time to move the largest burden of paying for our common life to those who have the most to lose by its breaking apart. The economy must be turned in a sustainable and just direction. The government must become the vehicle by which the people move their common life in positive sustainable directions, repudiating the anaarchy of the free trade globalization that is destroying the lives of so many on the planet.
We must recognize that uncontrolled growth is the Ideology of the Cancer Cell, and that diversity is a survival principle in nature and the substance of its beauty.
Bob Kinsey for U.S. Senate
A Green Party Candidate
A Real Choice!
Register Green!
WEB SITE
www.KinseyForSenate.org
CONTACT
Bob Kinsey
303-949-4073
Email
Link:
Senate Race Draws a Green Bid | Denver Post
Bob Kinsey, a Denver peace activist who in a 2004 congressional race was able to peel off significant votes from the major parties, says he'll run as a Green Party candidate for Colorado's open Senate seat.
Kinsey's entry throws a potential curve into what's shaping up as a close battle between political heavy-hitters — former Republican Congressman Bob Schaffer and Democratic Congressman Mark Udall.
Kinsey declared that he'll focus on a core of issues he says are being skirted by the major candidates — immediate withdrawal from Iraq and the impeachment of President Bush among them. Both issues are top concerns for a narrow group of progressive voters who otherwise would likely support Udall.
Mark Benner, an art teacher from Anton, has also embraced those issues, challenging Udall within his own party.
Based on previous Green Party success, Kinsey is almost certain to be on the ballot in November, giving him a greater chance to tilt the electoral math.
"I know the whole spoiler issue," said Kinsey. "But we have to turn things around fast and neither Bob Schaffer nor Mark Udall nor the Democrat and Republican parties seem to catch onto that."
In the 2004 race for the 4th Congressional District, Kinsey managed to garner slightly more than 4 percent of the vote and win the endorsement of the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the region's biggest newspaper. Early polls show Udall and Schaffer neck and neck, within a 4 percent spread.
A statewide Senate race is bigger by orders of magnitude, however; the two major candidates together have raised $6 million with 10 months to go before the vote.
Kinsey, 70, declared he'll run a "low-carbon footprint" campaign and is asking supporters who sign up on his website to give $5 each and commit to contacting five friends about the Green Party and its agenda.
Mike Melanson, Udall's campaign manager, said that historically, minor-party candidates in Colorado have garnered between 2 and 2.5 percent of the vote, but he doesn't expect them all to come from Udall's base.
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