[Sosfbay-discuss] McKinney on possible Green run

[alexcathy at aol.com]

 Dear Green Friends, 



I am disappointed with this statement by Cynthia McKinney.  Frankly, I do not know why Cynthia is being so coy
about this.  I can't believe that after all she has been through she's still mulling a "relationship" with the Democratic Party.  


Get a divorce, Cynthia!  


Each individual must travel her or his own path and we all understand this.  Nevertheless, at this stage of the game I am starting to get impatient even with some people inside the Greens who can't quite get their brains around the fact that WE ARE an independent political party.  I fear that some of our messy internal disputes have something to do with people thinking of us as an "interest group" rather than a "political party."  If you are an "interest group" then you fight like hell over policy details because influencing policy is the main thing interests groups do.  Thus, for example, when I was active with the San Jose Peace Center, we had intense debates over how to handle the Palestinian-Israeli question.  Early in the war we had fights over the relationship of the San Jose Peace Center with International A.N.S.W.E.R.  Those fights were painful but necessary because, after all, agitating for peace is the main work of a peace center.  

On the other hand, if you are a "political party", then recruiting and training good candidates, contesting elections, framing your differences with the other guys, and ACTUALLY GOVERNING is the main thing.  If you are the Green Party it's not important that some people like bicycles and some people like electric cars.  The main thing is getting people into office committed to breaking the addiction to oil.  


For six months I've been saying "It's too early to talk about 2008!"  Well, as we go into a summer of heavy politicking it is no longer too early.   I like Cynthia McKinney so I guess I need to write her a letter urging her to quit the Democrats, register Green, and make a commitment to the Green Party. I would like her to come back to Los Angeles and campaign for Daniel Brezenoff in California's 37th Congressional District.  

Get a divorce, Cynthia!



Alex Walker 



 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
To: gplac-forum at cagreens.org
Sent: Tue, 29 May 2007 7:22 am
Subject: [GPLAC-Forum] McKinney on possible Green run in 2008; Memorial Day speech in  Georgia











>Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 06:30:31 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at yahoo.com>
>Subject: McKinney on possible Green run in 2008; 
>Memorial Day speech in Georgia
>
>
>Cynthia McKinney Radio Interview Asks About
>Potential of Her Being Green Candidate for
>President
>
>Ballot Access News
>Edited by Richard Winger
>May 28th, 2007
>http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/05/28/cynthia-mckinney-radio-interview-asks-about-potential-of-her-being-green-candidate-for-president/
>
>On May 25, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
>participated in a 23-minute interview on Radio
>Station WBAI. The hosts asked her about the
>possibility that she may seek the Green Party
>presidential nomination in 2008. She said, “With
>the failure of the Democratic Congress to repeal
>the Patriot Act, the Secret Evidence Act, the
>Military Tribunals Act, I have to seriously
>question my relationship with the Democratic
>Party. The idea has not been ruled out. All the
>current Democrats running for president support
>the principle of potential military action
>against Iran; none of them is for impeachment of
>the President. They can’t speak for me. I am open
>to a lot of ideas in 2008.” Thanks to Darcy
>Richardson for this news.
>
>
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>




 


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