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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- Reuters June 26, 2004Green Party Refuses to Back Nader for President By John Rondy MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) - The Green Party on Saturday refused to back Ralph Nader (news - web sites) in his independent run for the White House, a move that could reduce his chances of being a factor in this year's election. Delegates to the half-million-member party's presidential convention voted to nominate party activist David Cobb, a California lawyer who led the delegate count going into the meeting. On the second round of voting, Cobb captured 408 delegates, more than the 385 needed to gain the nomination. "What you have here before you are working class people who have demonstrated that it is possible to build a political party on principles and values -- without corporate money and without selling out," he told a lively crowd after he won the nomination. "Ralph Nader has had more influence on my life than anyone who is not a direct relative. I am a lawyer because of Ralph Nader. Without Ralph Nader, this nomination wouldn't have happened," Cobb added. Nader had not sought the party's nomination but said he would have accepted either that or an endorsement as a possible route to getting on the ballot in 22 states and the District of Columbia. The party earned those ballot positions as a result of its showing in 2000 when Nader headed its ticket. The consumer rights advocate just days ago chose veteran Green Party politician Peter Camejo (news - web sites) as his vice presidential running mate in an attempt to attract support from the party. As an independent, Nader has been trying to consolidate support from third parties as well as disaffected Democrats and Republicans. He had already been endorsed by the Reform Party, giving him potential access to ballots in seven states where it won access. Losing the Green Party's support could make it all the more difficult for him to get on the ballot in every state. He has been trying to round up signatures in as many states as possible and Democrats have indicated they will scrutinize those efforts and challenge them when validity questions arise. In choosing Cobb, the Greens picked a candidate who spent the last eight years visiting 40 states, working at the grass-roots level to build ties between environmental and labor movements. As the Green candidate in 2000, Nader drew 2.7 percent of the popular vote, but Democrats saw him as a spoiler who sapped strength from former Vice President (news - web sites) Al Gore (news - web sites) in battleground states, including Florida, where Nader drew 97,488 votes. Gore won the popular vote nationally but lost the weighted electoral college vote -- and the election -- to President Bush (news - web sites), losing Florida by 537 contested votes. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040626/pl_nm/campaign_greens_dc_4 June 26, 2004 Greens Reject Endorsement for Ralph Nader By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:14 p.m. ET MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Green Party nominated Texas attorney David Cobb as its candidate for president Saturday, dealing a blow to independent Ralph Nader's campaign. Nader, the party's candidate in 1996 and 2000, had hoped for the party's endorsement and access to the ballot Greens have in 22 states and Washington, D.C. Instead, he will have to find another way to get on the ballot in those states, including Wisconsin and California. Nader told party officials months ago he would not accept the party's nomination for president, openly courting their formal endorsement instead. But 408 delegates voted for Cobb on the second ballot to give him the nomination. Maine radio personality Pat LaMarche was the party's nominee for vice president. Cobb has walked a line between praising Nader and questioning what his candidacy as an independent offered the Greens as they try to expand their status as a third party. Had Nader won the party's endorsement, it would have been up to the state parties to decide whether to present him as their candidate for president to local election officials. Getting on the ballot in some of those states as an independent could now require him to gather thousands of signatures and meet other requirements. Nader already has the backing of the Reform Party, which has ballot access in seven states, but he has yet to be placed on any state ballots. The delegate vote at the party's national convention in Milwaukee underscored the deep divide among party members over who serves their cause best -- Cobb, a little known party activist, or Nader, a prominent national figure, but someone who has never joined the party and does not plan to. Nader tapped longtime Green activist Peter Camejo as his running mate this week, a step that was expected to bolster his chances of winning the party's endorsement. In speeches before the vote, Camejo, who ran for the Green Party's presidential nomination as a Nader backer, and Cobb tried to stress what they shared, not what divided them. Still, their addresses illustrated the split within the party over Nader's candidacy. Camejo portrayed Nader as the only option who could truly give voters an alternative to the George Bush and John Kerry campaigns. He said Nader would give the party the profile it needed to successfully build its base. Cobb promised to support whatever decision the delegates made but warned them many state parties could lose their ballot access without a nominated candidate, an obvious warning about the possibility of endorsing Nader. Copyright 2004 The Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Green-Party.html _______________________________________________________ portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. 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