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[Tian Harter]

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Subject: [GPCA-CCWG] CORRECTED RELEASE  LAURA WELLS ARRESTED
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:40:30 -0700
From: civillib <civillib at comcast.net>
To: gpcamedia <gpca-mediawg at cagreens.org>, Greens - GPCA CCWG Greens - 
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  * GOVERNOR DEBATE NEWS ADVISORY *

Tuesday,  October 12, 2010
Contact:  Hank Chapot, 510.504.3538 hchapot at igc.org
       Cres Vellucci, 916.996.9170 cvellucci at cagreens.org
       Marnie Glickman 415-472-2859 marnie.glickman at gmail.com


GREEN PARTY GUBERNATORIAL
CANDIDATE ARRESTED at GOVERNOR'S
DEBATE; COURT ON ... ELECTION DAY

SAN RAFAEL – Green Party gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells was
arrested here Tuesday as she was attempting to legally enter – with a
ticket –  the Governor's Debate at Dominican University. Private
security arrested Ms. Wells, handcuffed her and held her against her
will until San Rafael Police intervened.

Ms. Wells, based on the citizen arrest by Barbier Security agents for
allegedly trespassing, now must appear in court.....ironically, on
Election Day, Nov. 2.

"Republicans and Democrats will go to any lengths, even arresting
candidates, to keep the truth from California voters. There are
solutions, but voters aren't being allowed to hear from independent
candidates.  Meg and Jerry will spend tens of millions of dollars in
advertising but still won't address the problems plaguing us," said Ms.
Wells, after being released on her own recognizance.

Ms. Wells, 62, a financial and business analyst, and political activist
who resides in Oakland, polled more than 400,000 votes as a candidate
for controller in 2002, the most ever polled by a Green Party partisan
candidate in California.

With green gags covering their mouths, protestors from the Green Party
of California picketed  the Governor debate here Tuesday – upset that
although billed as a "eco debate,"  the affair unfairly excludes
ballot-qualified Green Party candidate Wells.

"The debate is a fraud. Limiting it to Whitman and Brown is not just
anti-green, it is anti-democratic and anti-republican," said Ms. Wells,
noting polls that would qualify a candidate to participate in the debate
were invalid because they didn't even ask voters if they favored Laura
Wells. The only choices given to those polled were Whitman or Brown.

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