Green Party Peace Slate
jim/suzia, 29.08.2008 08:58
Pacific Green Party of Oregon completes congressional Peace Slate nominations. So far "Every member of Oregon's Congressional delegation has voted to fund the war in Iraq," the Green Party offers a better option.
PACIFIC GREEN PARTY OF OREGON COMPLETES
CONGRESSIONAL PEACE SLATE,
NOMINATES WALTER BROWN FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
EUGENE - (August 28, 2008) - The Pacific Green Party filled its Congressional Peace Slate in advance of Tuesday's candidate filing, and nominated former State Senator Walter Brown for Attorney General, the PGP said.
The nomination of Chris Henry, a Teamster and Portland State University student, as its candidate for U.S. House District 1 makes 2008 the first time in the PGP's history that the party has nominated candidates to all five of Oregon's Congressional Districts.
"Every member of Oregon's Congressional delegation has voted to fund the war in Iraq," said Henry, who will be challenging incumbent David Wu. "Now, every voter in the state will have the opportunity to vote for a Congressional candidate who will refuse to fund this war."
The PGP also nominated Walter Brown for Attorney General. Brown is a 25-year Navy veteran, former law professor, and served as a State Senator from 1974 to 1986. As a State Senator, Probably his greatest victory in the Senate was the world's first ban on ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in 1975, which served as a model for several other governments.
Brown ran four times as a Socialist Party candidate for Congress against Earl Blumenauer between 1998 and 2004, and was the 2004 presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA.
Leading the PGP Peace Slate is former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who was nominated at the national convention of the Green Party of the United States held July 10-13, 2008 in Chicago. McKinney chose hip-hop journalist Rosa Clemente as her running mate.
http://www.runcynthiarun.org
http://www.gp.org
At its June 2008 state convention, the PGP also nominated the following Congressional candidates for its Peace Slate:
In the 2nd district, the PGP nominated Dr. Tristin Mock to challenge incumbent Greg Walden, a staunch supporter of the Bush war policy. Mock is a naturopathic physician who grew up in The Dalles. She has already been active campaigning through the vast 2nd Congressional District, which covers all of Oregon east of the Cascades, as well as southern counties such as Jackson.
http://www.votemock.com
In the 3rd District, the PGP nominated Michael Meo to challenge incumbent Democrat Earl Blumenauer, who has angered progressives in his east-side Portland district by supporting funding for the Irag war, as well as free-trade deals such as CAFTA. In fact, Joe Walsh, Blumenauer's challenger in the Democratic primary, has endorsed Meo in the general election. Meo has tremendous credibility as an anti-war candidate, having served two years in prison as a Vietnam War draft resister. He is the chair of the mathematics department at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland.
http://www.meoforcongress.org
In the 4th District, the PGP nominated Mike Beilstein to challenge incumbent Peter DeFazio, whose inconsistent record on Iraq includes votes to fund the war. Beilstein is a sitting member of the Corvallis City Council, and is the architect of the PGP's Peace Slate strategy. He devotes a month of every summer to travel to Cuba with Pastors for Peace to defy the US trade and travel embargo. He is an active member of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and Citizens for Global Solutions.
http://www.newmenu.org/mikebeilsteinforcongress
In the 5th District, the PGP nominated Alex Polikoff for the seat being vacated by Democratic Congresswoman Darlene Hooley. Like McKinney, Polikoff recently left the Democratic Party after it took over Congress in 2006 and yet failed totally to end the war in Iraq. Polikoff is an electrical engineer in Corvallis. He decries the fact that both major parties seem more concerned with getting elected and appeasing their corporate donors than dealing with the threat of our ballooning public debt, job and health insecurity, world instability, the energy crisis and global warming.
http://www.votepolikoff.org
In addition to the Peace Slate candidates, the PGP also nominated Seth Woolley for Oregon Secretary of State. A software engineer, Woolley will focus on the concerns generated by electronic voting machines, and is an advocate for electoral reforms such as preference voting -- also known as instant runoff voting -- which allows voters to rank all candidates in their order of preference, and solves the "spoiler" problem . Although preference voting is authorized by Oregon Constitution Article 2, Section 16, Democratic Secretary of State Bill Bradbury and his Elections Division head John Lindback have aggressively worked to undermine attempts in Eugene, Ashland, and the Oregon Legislature to implement this constitutional provision.
http://seth4sos.org/