Tuesday, November 4, 2008
News Cynthia McKinney's green with ambition
Posted by Rodney Carmichael @Rappin_Rodney on Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Could Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney pull off a victory even if she looses in today's presidential election?
I have to reject your premise that I will not win. As a minor party, we must define for ourselves what our goals are. We are launching a 5 percent campaign, because if the Green Party is able to cross the 5 percent threshold it gets the legal characterization of a national major party, and gets subsidized by the government in the same way as the Democratic and Republican parties are.
Read the full In These Times story, "Dreaming Green."
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