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Cynthia McKinney Wins Big in Wisconsin Primary

29 March 2008

(Oshkosh) The Wisconsin Green Party Spring Gathering and Presidential Preference Convention was held today at the River Center at the Gruenhagen Conference Center, UW Oshkosh.

Cynthia McKinney received an overwhelming majority of the votes cast in the Wisconsin Green Party Presidential Preference Primary. McKinney received 79% of the vote; Kent Mesplay received 10%, Write-Ins for Ralph Nader 5%, Kat Swift 2%, Uncommitted 2%, and Jesse Johnson 1%.

Ralph Nader is not seeking the nomination of the Green Party of the United States.

Both McKinney and Mesplay campaigned in Wisconsin this past fall.

Wisconsin is allotted 24 delegates to the Green Party of the United States Presidential Nominating Convention, July 10-13, 2008 in Chicago. There, 836 delegates from around the country will determine the Green Party’s nominee for President of the United States.

In Oshkosh Green Party members chose 24 delegates to the national convention representing the ballot results. Nineteen delegates were allotted to Cynthia McKinney, two to Kent Mesplay, one to Ralph Nader, one to Kat Swift, and one for Uncommitted.

Delegates are pledged to vote for the candidates to whom they are allotted for the first round in Chicago. For the second and subsequent rounds, candidates are instructed to vote only for candidates who have agreed to accept the nomination of the Green Party of the United States, and have agreed to run on all Green Party ballot lines.

The dedicated membership of GPWI stepped up, there were more volunteers than needed. Thus alternates are already assigned, and the Delegate Selection Committee is being expanded to include these volunteers.

Wisconsin is the first state to have met the GPUS proposed April deadline, despite twice having set back the timetable to give Ralph Nader time to declare, which was done soon after our ballots went out.

The Green Party currently has 21 state ballot lines, and is working to obtain more.

“Wisconsin Greens have a lot of respect for the work that McKinney has done in Congress, particularly her persistent opposition to the war, her fight for social justice, and her concern for our environmental health,” said Ronald Hardy, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party.

An excel spreadsheet of the votes, tallying the totals of each incidence and ranking, is published here: WIGP 2008 Primary Results Spreadsheet

OFFICIAL LIST ON GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SUPPORT COMMITTEE PAGE:

GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CURRENTLY RECOGNIZED BY GPUS:
Jesse Johnson – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxgYnmdHfg
Cynthia McKinney – http://www.runcynthiarun.org/
Kent Mesplay – http://www.mesplay.org/
Kat Swift – http://www.bexargreens.org/katforprez/

DRAFT CANDIDATE?:
Ralph Nader – http://www.draftnader.org/

Retired Candidates' Explanations:
Jared Ball – http://www.voxunion.com/jaredball/
Elaine Brown - http://www.elainebrown.org/
Jan 12, San Fran Debate of Green Party presidential candidates' video links
Wiconsin for Mckinney Creates a Blogspot Site: http://wisconsinformckinney.blogspot.com/

Super Tuesday Results:

Arkansas results 93% in:

Uncommitted41055.63 %
Cynthia McKinney15020.35 %
Jared Ball*7610.31 %
Kent Mesplay598.01 %
Kat Swift425.70 %

California results 100% in:

Ralph Nader17,20861.2 %
Cynthia McKinney7,23625.8 %
Elaine Brown*1,2884.6 %
Kent Mesplay5702.0 %
Kat Swift8663.0 %
Jesse Johnson5171.8 %
Jared Ball*4531.6 %

Illinois results Unofficial:

Cynthia McKinney146857 %
Howie Hawkins**44617 %
Kent Mesplay37614 %
Jared Ball*30712 %

Massachusetts Results Yet Pending

* Although their names remain on the ballot in some states, Dr. Ball and Ms. Brown have withdrawn from the Green presidential race.
** Mr. Hawkins is serving as a placeholder candidate on the ballot for Mr. Nader in some states until Mr. Nader announces his intentions for the 2008 election; in other states, Mr. Nader is on the ballot.

Power to the People Tour - Cynthia McKinney comes to Milwaukee

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney comes to Milwaukee
Tuesday December 11th at 7pm on the UWM Campus. Bolton Hall 150; Directly connected to the Union.

Champion of Impeachment, Universal Health Care and Bringing the Troops Home.
The scourge of the Bush administration, the thorn in Pelosi's side,
and Green Party candidate for President.
runcynthiarun.org

Kent Mesplay attended the Nov. 10th Wisconsin GP gathering, held in Milwaukee,
to introduce himself to our membership, and discuss his vision for the party and the presidency.
www.mesplay.org/

Last years Green Party presidential candidates' video links

Several candidates were at the last national meeting in Reading, PA.
There is a list of candidates, at that time, in this press release from prior to the meeting: http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2007_06_27.shtml.
These news articles on the meeting in The Nation and the Reading Eagle predictably focussed on Cynthia and Ralph.

Youtube videos of 9 or 10 prez candidate hopeful's speeches, at the Reading convention,
can be found via this official GP.org page.

Other news of the candidates and the Green Party can be found at gp.org/newscenter.shtml and gp.org/press.shtml.
Also listed at gp.org/press is this article on Green Party successes in the Nov. 6 2007 elections.

There is also an unofficial list of Green Party candidates on Wikipedia found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_presidential_candidates,_2008

Green and Growing!

Pray for Peace
Work for Peace

The Green Party is the third largest political party in the United States, and growing. We intend to keep our promise to act as a watchdog on the two major parties and to fight for progressive issues both locally and nationally.

Read a brief history of the Greens and a description of our Four Pillars

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We invite you to join us in the fight to:

  • Get corporate money out of elections, and reform the electoral process 
  • Establish a living wage, end child poverty, and rebuild the cities 
  • Guarantee affordable health care and education for all 
  • Develop clean, renewable sources of energy 
  • End the war on drugs 
  • Abolish the death penalty 
  • Expand civil, labor, and human rights 
To work toward these goals, we plan to organize and participate in ongoing campaigns, conferences, and actions. Please join us. Together we can make real changes in this country.

“The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

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