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Subject: 	USGP-INT Advisory: Progressive/Green candidate for US Senate 
to walk across Missouri for nuclear disarmament; press conference in 
Columbia, Apr. 10
Date: 	Thu, 8 Apr 2010 15:03:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at yahoo.com>
To: 	usgp-int at gp-us.org, outreach-cmte at gp-us.org



(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org)

Midge Potts for Senate 2010
http://www.electmidge.com

MEDIA ADVISORY

Contact:
Midge Potts, 417-893-1398, midge at electmidge.com
Jay Marx, Proposition One Committee, 202-368-4690, marxjay at gmail.com


Midge Potts to Hold Press Conference in Columbia

Progressive Party US Senate Candidate to Outline Details of Walk across Missouri

WHEN: April 10th, 2010, 3:30 PM
WHERE: Commission Chambers of the County Government Building
801 E. Walnut, Columbia Missouri


Columbia, MO - Saturday April 10th, Midge Potts, Progressive/Green Candidate for US Senate, will hold a press conference at County Government Building in Columbia Missouri to explain why she is walking for nuclear disarmament, and to announce the details of the route and tentative schedule of her walk that will take her from the Ameren nuclear reactor in Callaway County to the Honeywell nuke bomb parts factory in Kansas City. After the press conference, she will begin her walk in the Reform Conservation Area which surrounds the nuclear power plant. She said she intends to conclude her walk on May 1st, the anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Potts' walk will coincide with the Proposition One Nuclear Disarmament Walk that will leave the nation's capitol on April 8th and will arrive in New York City on May 1st where there will be a conference renegotiating the NPT this year at the United Nations.

"We are thankful that Midge will be walking in solidarity with our trek to raise awareness about the need for complete global nuclear disarmament," said Jay Marx of the Proposition One in 2010 campaign based in Washington DC.

"I feel it is important to raise awareness about nuclear disarmament at this time when the Obama administration is offering the American people rhetoric claiming the US and Russia have reached an agreement to reduce nuclear stockpiles," Said Potts, "The United States has over 4000 excess weapons waiting to be dismantled, in addition to the 2400 nukes on high alert. If President Obama is sincere, I would like to know why the Department of Energy budget for dismantling these weapons is being cut by 38 million dollars which is one third of the current budget for this operation. The budget for dismantling Americas massive nuclear stockpile should be increasing in anticipation of the possible reductions being heralded by the White House. To make matters more confusing, the budget for developing nuclear weapons is being increased by 5 billion dollars over the next 5 years. The US currently spends over 50 billion dollars a year to maintain and secure nuclear
  weapons."

Potts Added "The money being wasted on America 's nuclear arms program should be diverted directly to dismantling these barbaric weapons and to cleaning up the radioactive sites where they have been built and housed. Over half a trillion dollars has been spent in the last ten years on US nukes. I believe this money would be better spent to save lives by providing funds for universal health care for all Americans; this would put us much closer to being able to achieve balanced budgets without raising taxes. If elected to the US Senate, I will introduce the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act, currently submitted by DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton in the House of Representatives as HR 1653. If enacted, this bill would help nuclear arms production facilities, such as the Honeywell plant in Kansas City , to be retooled in order to make products such as windmills and solar panels in Americas 21st century green economy."

Potts released a statement on Tuesday saying that her disarmament walk will take her from Missouri 's only nuclear energy production facility to Jefferson City , then onward through California , Tipton, Sedalia , Knob Noster and Warrensburg along highway 50 before arriving in Kansas City on May 1st. She said that she will also walk a circle around Whiteman Air Force Base where America 's nuclear capable B-2 bombers are stationed.

Midge Potts, co-chair of the Progressive Party of Missouri, is the party's candidate for U.S. Senator in 2010. She and other party members are circulating petitions to get Ms. Potts and other Progressive Party candidates on the Missouri ballot this year.


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