[GPCA Updates] Release: Midge Potts, Mo. Green for US Senate, ends walk across state after injury (fwd)

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

Contact: Midge Potts
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 19th, 2010


Midge Potts Ends Walk Across Missouri Due to Injury

US Senate Candidate Walked 65 Miles for Nuclear Disarmament Awareness


Columbia, MO - Midge Potts, Progressive/Green Candidate for US Senate, who
began walking from Missouri 's only nuclear power reactor in Callaway County
on April 10th, announced on Monday that she had to end her trek early because
of a pulled tendon she suffered during her attempt to reach the Honeywell nuke
bomb parts factory in Kansas City . She had intended to conclude her walk on
May 1st, the anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The
Springfield native said in a release that she had struggled with a tire on her
hand cart that was persistently going flat since the third day out; she
apparently pulled a tendon in her right leg on the 5th day, then decided to
stop walking on Thursday evening because her tire would no longer hold air and
her injury was growing worse with each step. Her walk came to a conclusion
about a third of the way to Kansas City , near the spot where I-70 crosses the
Missouri River .

Midge Potts said, "I walked 65 miles in 6 days, and I talked to lots of folks
in central Missouri about converting the $50 billion America spends annually
on maintaining a nuclear weapons arsenal to retool factories for the
production of green technologies. From my point of view, this walk was a
success; not trying would have been the failure."

Potts is now at home recuperating. She said she plans to continue "walking for
senate" throughout her campaign to dramatize many of the issues listed on her
website at electmidge.com.

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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