Kucinich gets Green support

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=080103n_greens

By Adriel Hampton
Of The Examiner Staff
[e-mail]
Published on Friday, August 1, 2003

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich supports legalizing gay marriage, repealing the death penalty and the Patriot Act, withdrawing from the World Trade Organization and scrapping the North American Free Trade Agreement, implementing national ranked choice voting and publicly financed political campaigns, ending the occupation of Iraq, creating universal single-payer health care, forming a Department of Peace, cutting the Pentagon budget by 15 percent, legalizing medical marijuana and upholding legalized abortion.
Those positions may not land the Ohio Democrat his party's presidential nomination, but they have a number of third-party and independent progressives solidly behind his candidacy.

Thursday in San Francisco, three of California's most prominent Green Party members voiced support for Kucinich, though stopping short of formal endorsements because of the party divide.

"If Kucinich is the Democratic nominee, I am sure the Democrats and the Greens will work collaboratively to oust George Bush in next year's election," said Matt Gonzalez, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who introduced the candidate at a breakfast for his supporters.

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink Women for Peace and U.S. Senate candidate for the Greens in 2000, told The Examiner that Kucinich is "as green as you can get."

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[Heddi]

1. uh, you may want to edit your article

DU rules state that you can only cut-n-paste 3 or 4 pargraphs from the article (It's a copyright thing)

We're not allowed to copy entire articles

[Rainbowreflect]

2. I will be seeing/listening to him in just over 5 hours.

I think he is awesome.
Welcome to DU and thanks for the post.

[dpbrown]

3. Good news

Thanks for the post.

Better cut it down, though, or you'll get a wrist slap from the moderators.

DK in '04!

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

[leftyandproud]

4. yet another reason..

we need to support him. If the entire democratic party throws their weight behind him, and 98% of the greens support him, we can win this thing. Kucinich speaks his mind and stands on principle. He will not compromise with the right.