Colorado Green Party State Meeting This Saturday
From today's Rocky Mountain News.
Candidates seeking nominations include Bob Kinsey, U.S. Senate; Tony D'Lallo, State House district 34; Art Goodtime, San Miguel County Commissioner; Scott Zulauf, Jefferson County Commissioner; and Jerry Lacy, Custer County Commissioner.
Link: Green Party to Kick Off Colo. Convention Season | The Rocky Mountain News
Colorado's Green Party -- at times dubbed "The Spoilers" by Democrats - hosts its statewide convention this weekend, the first of several political conventions to be held in Colorado this year.
The Green Party will nominate Bob Kinsey, a 70-year-old retired teacher, as its U.S. Senate candidate.
Green Party co-chairman Dave Chandler said the party also will nominate four other candidates, including colorful San Miguel County Commissioner Art Goodtimes, who is seeking a fourth term.
The Green Party bills itself as a "political alternative for those committed to building a sustainable and just society." About 4,800 Coloradans are registered as Green Party members, according to the secretary of state's office.
Kinsey, of Denver, said the continued funding of the Iraq War is one of his concerns.
"Americans are dying for bad reasons and for an unwinnable cause," he said.
Some Democrats fear that a Green Party candidate in the Senate race helps Republican Bob Schaffer and hurts Democrat Mark Udall.
"It can't be a good thing," said Democrat Mike Feeley, of Lakewood, who lost his 2002 congressional bid by 121 votes.
The Green Party candidate in his race, Chandler, got 3,274 votes, which Feeley said "probably made a difference."
Asked if he has been called a spoiler, Chandler responded: "Only a million times."
"There is this assumption among Democrats that every left-of-center vote somehow belongs to them," Chandler said. "It's the usual third-party kind of spoiler argument that you hear. It's the same with Republicans and Libertarians."
Chandler said he believes there are only "marginal" differences between Udall and Schaffer, and both are likely to do the bidding of lobbyists once they are elected.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Colorado Green Party Will Nominate U.S. Senate Candidate
(Arvada) Denver resident Bob Kinsey will be nominated by the Colorado Green Party to run for the United States Senate at the party's 2008 state nominating convention.
Kinsey is seeking the seat being vacated by Wayne Allard; Democrat Mark Udall and Republican Bob Schaffer are also vying for the U.S. Senate position this year.
Greens will also nominate candidates for legislature and local offices during the afternoon session of the convention.
Members of the press are invited to the event -- as are registered voters of the Colorado Green Party.
State party business will be conducted during the morning session from 9:30 A.M. to noon. The state nominating convention gets underway starting at 1:00 P.M.
Green Party of Colorado State Meeting and Nominating Convention
Saturday, May 3, 2008
9:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Littleton Preparatory Charter School
5151 South Federal Boulevard, Suite 1
Littleton, Colorado 80123
An excerpt from The Progressive, May 2008.
... In recent years you've allotted the Republican and Democratic Parties a great deal of ink, if only to rage at them for their misbehavior. Yet, America's most unabashedly progressive political party--the Green Party of the United States--has been conspicuously absent from these pages.
While Greens are still excluded from ballots, debates, newspaper pages, and television shows across America, a circumstance that compounds the difficulty of challenging the Democratic-Republican power trust, they have nevertheless managed to strike important blows for democracy, social justice, environmental sustainability, and peace through grassroots democratic action.
Greens don't expect to be covered by corporate media conglomerates like Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, GE, or Time Warner, but the blackout that independent and third party candidates face in the independent media is frustrating to many sincere progressives working outside the two-party system. A publication that shines a spotlight on growing problems in our society while leaving progressive political movements in the darkness can only blind us to our real strength.
The founder of your magazine, Fighting Bob La Follette, left the established parties in his pursuit of justice--yet today The Progressive ignores the Green Party, even as you curse the Democrats for their timidity, conservatism, and cynical gaming of the American people for electoral advantage.
(signed by David C. Schwab; Glenmont, New York)
Posted by: Mag Seaman | May 02, 2008 at 06:50 AM