[GPCA Updates] CA GOVERNOR CANDIDATE campaigns for votes...and to stay out of jail

[Green Party of California Updates]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010
Contact: Laura Wells, 510-504-4254 or 916-996-9170

ATTENTION WEEKEND EDITOR


GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE SPENDS WEEKEND
CAMPAIGNING FOR VOTES...AND PETITION
SIGNATURES TO KEEP HER OUT OF JAIL

SAN RAFAEL, Ca. – While Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman will be campaigning
this weekend to become California governor, Green Party gubernatorial
candidate Laura Wells will be asking people Sunday not just for votes,
but for petition signatures to keep her out of jail.

Wells (www.laurawells.org), who was arrested here Oct. 12 just trying to
watch a Governor Debate (she was already banned from participating),
will be at the MARIN COUNTY FARMERS MARKET Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
(3501 Civic Center Dr., Main Entrance).

Wells will be campaigning and trying to get signatures on a petition
urging Marin County District Attorney Edward Berberian to dismiss her
misdemeanor charges.

She is due in Marin County Criminal Court on Election Day, Nov. 2 to
face those charges.

The petition states:  "Laura Wells, the Green candidate for Governor of
California, was arrested on Oct. 12, 2010 at the California Governor's
Debate. Her arrest is a violation of her civil rights. She had a ticket
and the right to attend the debate. We request that you dismiss the
criminal charge against Ms. Wells and launch an investigation into why
she was arrested."

Wells, who garnered more than 400,000 votes when she ran for Controller
in 2002 on the Green ticket, is a financial analyst who talks about
solutions – not politics – to California's budget mess.

Wells wants to "reform" Prop. 13 so it benefits individuals, as was
promised, but large corporations. She is promoting the concept of a
"State Bank" that would make loans to residents, including student
college loans and profit California, not private bailed-out banks.

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