<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Cobb also announced it at the plenary in San Diego (I believe) that allowed the presidential candidates to express their ideas. <DIV>Too many witnesses to deny it.</DIV><DIV>Andrea</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Bob Alavi wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>If someone has an answer to the question: "How does the concept of *safe state* relate to 10 Key Values", I appreciate hearing it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I can't quote Cobb, but I too went to his lunchtime presentation on the Campus of Stanford in 2004. Then, at least I came off feeling that he did support something like a "safe state". </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>ba<BR><BR><B><I>Tian Harter <<A href="mailto:tnharter@greens.org">tnharter@greens.org</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:<BR><BR><BR>>It seems to me that's pretty close to proof by default<BR>>that the Cobb campaign didn't actually pursue the<BR>>"safe states" strategy that the corporate media<BR>>*projected* onto it. It's one of those things<BR>>that "everybody knows" that just isn't true.<BR>>And the belief has done more damage to our party and<BR>>movement than anything since the GPUSA chicanery.<BR>> <BR>><BR>I think that safe states strategy was a brainchild of<BR>John Rensenbrink of Maine. He's good enough at<BR>putting a message out that people took up the call.<BR>There was plenty of demand for the idea.<BR><BR>When he spoke in San Jose, David Cobb said<BR>something like "I haven't voiced support for that<BR>strategy since last year but it's still following me<BR>around." It's very hard for a candidate with little<BR>access to the public eye to change perceptions.<BR><BR>I myself told quite a few people that Cobb was<BR>running a safe states campaign. Sorry about that...<BR><BR>-- <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1">Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com"> Great rates starting at 1˘/min.</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sosfbay-discuss mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@marla.cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@marla.cagreens.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss">http://marla.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>