GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PRESS RELEASE
Attention: News Editor
For Immediate Release
For More Information Contact:
Hillary Aisenstein, GPPA Chair, 267-971-3559
Blyden Potts, GPPA Secretary, 717-377-9638
Skip Mendler, Wayne County (PA) GP Committee Chair, 570-251-3637
PA GREEN PARTY CHOOSES MCKINNEY
Former Congresswoman gets Presidential nod
CARLISLE — On Sunday, May 18, Green Party of Pennsylvania delegates confirmed former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as the winner of their party’s Presidential caucuses. McKinney, who served six terms as a Democratic Representative from Georgia, changed her registration to the Green Party when she moved from Georgia to California last year, and soon after threw her hat in the ring for the party’s nomination for President.
As a Congresswoman, McKinney made a name for herself by vigorously challenging the Bush Administration, and consistently opposed funding for bloated military and secret
intelligence budgets. She also made headlines when she introduced Articles of Impeachment for George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice for their illegal handling of the events leading up to the invasion of Iraq.
“Cynthia McKinney is the embodiment of Green values,” said Pennsylvania party chairwoman Hillary Aisenstein. “Cynthia McKinney represents real change for American voters and you can tell it by looking at her record in Congress.”
Pennsylvania’ s Green Party will send up to 32 delegates to the party’s National Nominating Convention, which will take place in Chicago July 10-13. Green Party county chapters across Pennsylvania held caucuses between April 20 and May 10 to determine how those delegates would be proportionally allocated McKinney received 53% of caucus first-place votes for a total of 17 delegates. The “No candidate” option received 5 delegates; consumer advocate and former Green Party nominee Ralph Nader received 4; Jesse Johnson received 3; and Kent Mesplay and Kat Swift each received one. One delegate will be uncommitted.
The Green Party of Pennsylvania is an independent political party that stands in opposition to the two corporate parties. The Green Party of Pennsylvania believes in grassroots democracy, sustainable economics, nonviolence, and ecology. The Green Party of Pennsylvania opposes the War in Iraq and calls for immediate troop withdrawal.
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for more information:
Cynthia McKinney for President
http://www.runcynth iarun.org
Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp. org
National Nominating Convention
http://www.greenpar ty2008.org
Media Credentialing for National Nomination Convention
http://www.gp. org/press/ pr-national. php?ID=60
Green Party of Pennsylvania
http://www.gpofpa. org
Wayne County (PA) Green Party Committee
http://www,greenway ne.org
