[GPRI] FW: April 11 announcment----Jerry Kann Exploratory Committee for Green Party presidential nomination in 2008

Sat Apr 21 16:47:37 PDT 2007

This is the second person to announce for the GP nomination for president.
We shall discuss Jerry Kann and all the other candidates on next Saturday at
the state meeting.  Hope you will attend. greg
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:44:52 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: April 11 announcment----Jerry Kann Exploratory Committee for Green
Party presidential nomination in 2008

As promised, following is the announcement about my Exploratory Committee
that I sent to the lists in New York and have already sent to some of you
individually.

Please feel free to write back with any feedback or questions.

Jerry

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Everyone:

 <http://us.f357.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=rodino@riseup.net>

Today I am announcing the formation of an Exploratory Committee as a first
step toward running for the Green Party nomination for President in 2008.

The members of this committee are Don Butterfield, Carl Lundgren, and
Virginia Rodino. Please see the end of this message for some information
about each of them, as well as my own political resume.

My primary reason for starting up this campaign is to address one key
question---the question of Green Party independence from the two major
parties.

There is no more important question facing the Greens today. Indeed,
considering how little the Republicans and Democrats really represent the
interests of working people in America, the question of what the Green Party
will do in 2007 and 2008 is vitally important for everyone in this country.

We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. If we reach out the voters
as a political party that does not take corporate contributions, that wants
to represent the interests of working people instead of super-rich people,
that stands **on its own** and represents a true **alternative** to the
hopelessly corrupt Democratic and Republican parties....then I feel very
strongly that we will grow, and grow quickly. There is an enormous hunger in
this country for a politics in which ordinary working people---the vast
majority---can begin to take more and more control over their own
government.

At this early stage of the campaign, I don't feel at all awkward in
launching this campaign,

in spite of the fact that I am more or less unknown even to many Greens
around the U.S., to say nothing of the general public. I think my campaign
can serve the valuable purpose of stimulating debate and discussion within
our own ranks about our own long-term goals. I want us to confront the basic
question of what is the **mission** of the Green Party---not just this year
and next year, but over the next five, or ten, or twenty years.

I would like to see the Green Party contest for **majority** status over the
long-term. I don't think this is an unrealistic goal. After all, we are
taking stands that a majority of the people will support---if we step
forward as the party that will take responsibility for those stands, and if
we encourage working people to build **their own** political party. The
goal, of course, is to replace the two parties that are owned and controlled
by the super-rich, so that we can have true democracy in America---the real
thing.

Obviously, I would like to see other candidates enter the race. I feel very
strongly that right now there are really only **two** candidates of
sufficient stature to be our standard bearer in 2008---Ralph Nader and
Cynthia McKinney.

That's no reflection on any of the other candidates for the nomination,
myself included. I just think those two individuals are by far the best
choices for us in 2008.

I urge those of you who read this to respond to these posts, or to write me
at this e-mail address, or to call me at the number below. Any and all
feedback is most certainly welcome.

Thanks very much,

Jerry Kann

25-60 42nd Street, #1

Astoria, NY 11103

(718) 728-1092

Please take a moment to read about the members of this Exploratory
Committee.

**Don Butterfield** is an architect and engineer who lives and works in New
York City. He is an innovator in the emerging field of Green design and
environmentally sensible building. He is a former member of the State
Committee of the Green Party of New York State.

**Carl Lundgren** is a para-professional in the New York City schools
system. He was a petition coordinator for the Greens' "Peace Slate" of
statewide candidates in the 2006 election. As the chair of the Bronx Greens,
he has overseen the development of the Bronx Greenhouse and electoral
campaigns in the Bronx and citywide. He is a member of the Executive
Committee of the Green Party of New York State.

**Virginia Rodino** is a Senior Communications Campaign Specialist for the
Service Employees International Union in Washington, D.C. She is a former
Central Committee member of the Maryland State Green Party, and ran for
Congress as a Green in 2004 in Maryland's 7th Congressional District. In
2004 she was the National Advance Media Coordinator and Maryland State
Coordinator for the independent Nader/Camejo presidential campaign.

**Jerry Kann** is a freelance proofreader and editor and lives in the
borough of Queens in New York City. He joined the Green Party in 2000 as a
volunteer for Nader for President. He has run for New York City Council
three times, winning 20 percent of the vote in 2003. He was secretary and
later treasurer of the Green Party Office in Manhattan. Kann worked for the
independent Nader/Camejo campaign in New York in 2004. Various versions of
his article, "An Independent Green Party Can Be the Majority Political Party
in the United States in 20 Years," have been published in "Green Pages" and
in such online publications as "Dissident Voice" and the website of Greens
for Democracy and Independence.

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