Green Party to Make Its Presidential Pick

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - The Green Party holds its presidential convention in Milwaukee this week to decide whether to field a candidate or go without one and endorse the independent bid of Ralph Nader, who headed its White House ticket in 2000.

Nader is not seeking the Green nomination this time, and it is unlikely he will attend the June 23-28 meeting, but he is seeking the party's endorsement.

To win that, he will have to get past Green Party activist David Cobb, a California lawyer actively seeking the party's nomination. He leads its national delegate count by a clear margin and has spent the last eight years visiting 40 states, working at the grass-roots level to build ties between its environmental and labor wings.

"David Cobb has a long history with the party," says Ben Manski, a third-year University of Wisconsin law student and co-chairman of the Green Party of the United States. "He's a democracy activist centering around election reform and fighting corporate power. His appeal is that he is charismatic, articulate, working-class, and he's a Green."

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If they endorse Nader again, they've shown they really aren't serious about being a viable political party in this country. Cobb has the right idea-build up the Greens from the grassroots on up. If this is done, and Greens start winning seats in Congress, it can be a progressive force to help keep the Democrats from sliding too far to the right.

I don't think they're that serious anyway. I think most Greens just want attention.

threw in the towel in favor of Nader. :(

Still, an awful lot of Greens are going to vote for Kerry this time around in order to get * out of the WH. SO not sure how much difference it will make who heads up the GP ticket in Nov.

and he states that he will not run in swing states or will choose the same electors as Kerry (however that is done, I have no idea)then I would feel much better about the party actually giving a damn about the issues they claim to care about.