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Message from Presidential Candidate Carol Miller

Carol Miller Seeking Favorite Daughter Status in Green Party of New Mexico Presidential Primary

“FAVORITE SON” - Noun: A man favored for nomination as a presidential candidate by his own state delegates at a national political convention. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (NOTE: Favorite Daughter is not in the dictionary.)

A year of decisions

In February 2003, I was honored to receive a letter from the USGP Presidential Exploratory Committee stating that I had been among the names submitted by the states as a potential candidate for President of the United States. Since that time, I have been thinking about how I might best serve my party in the 2004 Presidential Election.

In May of 2003, I announced to the statewide Green Council of the GPNM that I was considering a ‘favorite daughter’ run in the NM Presidential Primary. I grew up in a state that often sent a favorite son to presidential nominating conventions. Favorite son delegates were used to leverage the selection of the President and Vice-President nominees, revisions to the platform, and committee chairmanships. Since the money primary has become the deciding factor by the duopoly, the practice of sending favorite sons and daughters has died out.

Favorite child campaigns are good for the Green Party. I encourage other states to run and send favorite sons and daughters to the Presidential Nominating Convention in Milwaukee in June 2004.

Each state has the opportunity to kick off a presidential delegate campaign today, get our platform and values out into the public, to stand up for the national and global vision of the Green movement. Not in June, but today.

Under New Mexico law, the Presidential primary is actually an election for convention delegates with the percentage of votes won being equal to the percentage of the delegates each candidate will have at the convention for the first ballot. After the first ballot, those votes are in play and can go to any candidate or to no candidate (NOTA, or None of The Above). By running as a favorite daughter, I am asking members of the GPNM to trust me to represent their votes at the Convention.

Running in one state versus running nationally

Many wonderful Greens throughout the country have been urging me to become a national candidate and run for the nomination in every state. It is hard to describe what a great an honor it was to receive the paperwork to become a candidate in Washington, DC, - a city where I have lived and still spend months every year. A city, which as the DC Statehood Green Party grows, will become the 51st state in these United States.

I am running on the principle that in order for the Green Party to become the new political force this country so desperately needs, we have to run full out, all out in every election cycle including 2004. I am available to debate this issue, to make the case for running and to articulate our values.

However, for a variety of personal, political, and work-related reasons, I will not be expanding my campaign for convention delegates outside of the state of New Mexico. This is not the year for me to run a national campaign.

I am willing to help form a Favorite Child committee.
Contact me: carolmiller@newmexico.com.