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Cast your vote in Green Party nominations for President and US Senate at the St. Paul and 4th Congressional District Caucus. Our caucus is on the traditional night in March, rather than February as some parties are now doing.
Hamline-Midway Library
1558 W. Minnehaha Ave.
Midway, St. Paul
All state Senate districts within the 4th Congressional District will caucus together at the Hamline Midway Library, 1558 W. Minnehaha Ave., St. Paul. Greens will meet on the traditional day, Tuesday, March 4, 7pm-9pm. There will be a straw poll of presidential candidates, and resolutions will be forwarded to the state biennial meeting in June. All party members may be delegates.
Candidates presently announced for the Green Party nomination for president are:
Cynthia McKinney --
McKinney served six terms in Congress as a Democrat from Georgia. She consistently opposed funding for the military and the secret intelligence forces and introduced Articles of Impeachment for Bush, Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice. She was defeated by gerrymandering of her district and has quit the Democrats to become a Green. She visited Minnesota earlier this winter and spoke in both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Ralph Nader --
Nader has now announced that he will run for president, but has not announced that he is seeking the Green Party nomination. There is an active "draft Nader" movement, and he is expected to announce his intentions very soon.
Kent Mesplay --
A long-time member of the California Green Party, Mesplay has a PhD in biomedical engineering and is an active environmentalist. He sought the Green Party¹s nomination for president in 2004 but was edged out by David Cobb.
Jesse Johnson
Johnson is a member of the Mountain Party of West Virginia and is campaigning chiefly on a platform of ending the environmental devastation created by mining that destroys whole mountaintops in his native state. He spoke at the winter membership meeting of the Green Party of Minnesota on January 2.
Kat Swift --
Swift is from Texas and works as a bookkeeper for two nonprofit organizations. She claims to be barely old enough to run for president and says: "If you were ever a youth and thought you could do a better job than those in power, then Vote for Kat in 08." Like Johnson, she spoke at the GPMN winter membership meeting.
Web sites for all of these candidates can be accessed through the state party Web site at www.mngreens.org and the national party website at gp.org.
