[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [GPCA Update] COBB 2004 RELEASE: Cobb-LaMarche Campaign a Success

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>** Green Party of California Update **
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>NEWS RELEASE
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>For immediate release:  November 2, 2004
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>   COBB-LAMARCHE CAMPAIGN A SUCCESS
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>     The Green Party’s Presidential Campaign has already achieved many of its
>goals for this election.
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>             “This campaign has always been about building and growing the
>Green Party and that’s just what we’ve succeeded in doing.  We’ve registered
>more Green voters, we’ve boosted local campaigns, we’ve garnered fantastic
>media coverage and we’ve put Instant Runoff Voting in the forefront as a
>solution for the ‘spoiler’ voting dynamic.  When our local candidates win
>election in record numbers today, that will be the icing on the cake,” said
>Cobb-LaMarche Media Director Blair Bobier.
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>              The Cobb-LaMarche campaign has been the subject of front page
>news stories across the country and has helped the Green Party grow in
>places as far flung as Nebraska, Oklahoma, Corvallis, Oregon and San Luis
>Obispo, California.  In Arkansas, Green Party vice presidential candidate
>Pat LaMarche’s visit produced truckloads of donations of food and essentials
>to the Salvation Army Shelter.  In Wisconsin, David Cobb’s campaign swing
>there generated dozens of news stories and a rousing speech to over three
>thousand people.
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>             Cobb also campaigned with two Green candidates who have broken
>barriers by being endorsed by major newspapers.  The Fort Collins Coloradoan
>has endorsed Green Party 4th Congressional candidate Bob Kinsey and the Iowa
>City Press Citizen gave its endorsement to U.S. Senate candidate Daryl
>Northrup.
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>             The Cobb-LaMarche campaign has also made great strides towards
>reforming the archaic U.S. election process by focusing on the need for
>Instant Runoff Voting and unrestricted debates open to more than just two
>presidential candidates.  Numerous editorials and columns including one by
>David Broder, the dean of Washington political columnists, were published
>during the campaign supporting more inclusive debates.  A number of
>commentaries and editorials about instant runoff also appeared, including
>two within the past several days in The Oregonian:
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>http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/editorial/109913768849470.x
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>http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/editorial/109896678034940.x
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>             Today’s election will produce a number of firsts for the Green
>Party, including the first Green elected to office in Mississippi.
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>             For Election Night interviews with David Cobb, contact Media
>Director Blair Bobier at 541.929.5755 or 414.364.1596.  For an Election
>Night interview with Pat LaMarche, contact Derek Mitchell at 207.712.8990.
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>             For more information about the Cobb-LaMarche campaign, see
>http://www.votecobb.org.
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>Paid for by the Cobb/LaMarche Committee
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Paul Etxeberri

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