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Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 12 -- April 13, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,819)
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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
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1) JOIN THE GREEN
PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP AT 352!
2) THE DODEN CAMPAIGN IS UP AND RUNNING!
3) AMSTUTZ FOR OHIO HOUSE, DISTRICT 22
4) FORMER DEM (NOW GREEN):
WEAVER FOR OREGON GOV.
5) MAINE GREEN SUBMITS FOR PUBLIC FINANCING
6) LAWSUIT FILED ON BEHALF OF PENNSYLVANIA GREENS
7) NH GREEN
GARNERS 37.6% FOR STATEHOUSE SEAT
8) MAYNARD RUNS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
IN COLORADO
9) NADER PROMOTES GEORGIA GREEN CANDIDATES
10) DIRECTOR
QUITS BLAIR CAMP TO TURN GREEN
11) MCKINNEY PRESSES FOR INVESTIGATION OF SEPT.
11
12) VENEZUELA IN UPHEAVAL THIS WEEK
13) FOLLOW-UP ON DAVIS-BESSE
14) MISCELLANEOUS STORIES OF INTEREST
15) UNION-BACKED NOMINEE FOR BOARD HAS
YALE UPSET
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1) JOIN THE GREEN PARTY: OHIO MEMBERSHIP AT 352!
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352 Ohio citizens have registered as members of the
Green Party of Ohio (GPO)
since Feb. 24. Since issuing
our newsletter of last weekend, 35 new people
have
registered their membership with the GPO. Add your
name to the list
at: http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/.
Join
the Green Party of Ohio today by completing the
form at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/register.html
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2) THE DODEN CAMPAIGN IS UP AND RUNNING!
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Frank Doden is the Green Party candidate for U.S.
Congress in Ohio's (now
sprawling) 7th district
running against six-term incumbent David Hobson (R).
Mr. Doden is currently in the signature phase of the
ballot qualifying process
and needs about 1,800 valid
petition signatures by May 6 to get on the ballot.
Mr. Doden believes that the other two major political
parties are ignoring
important issues, and he wants
to bring draw attention to issues like fair
trade and
real environmental protection. He is a resident of
Yellow Springs,
Ohio, and teaches English at The
Columbus School for Girls in Bexley, Ohio.
To
help Frank Doden on his campaign, write him at:
frank@dodenfordemocracy.com.
Visit
the DODEN FOR DEMOCRACY Web site at:
http://www.dodenfordemocracy.com
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3) AMSTUTZ FOR OHIO HOUSE, DISTRICT 22
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Dublin, Ohio resident Alan Amstutz is a local Green
candidate for political
office. Mr. Amstutz is in the
process of collecting signatures to get on the
ballot
for the Ohio House's 22nd district. Alan is a self-
employed contractor
based in Dublin and believes that
improving health care and education should
be the
highest state priority at this time. He holds an M.B.A.
degree
from Ashland University.
To
help Alan Amstutz on his campaign, write him at:
aamstutz@columbus.rr.com.
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4) FORMER DEM (NOW GREEN): WEAVER FOR OREGON GOV.
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Former U.S. Rep. Jim Weaver, 74, who served as a
Democrat from Oregon in the
U.S. House from 1975 to
1987, says he may run for Oregon governor as a
Pacific Green Party candidate.
Weaver
was an outspoken populist who frequently
tangled with business interests and
played a big role
in energy and environmental issues. Congressional
Quarterly
once described him as a "man of conviction
on a multitude of issues"
who "often responds to
criticism simply by arguing more loudly."
Weaver, who
ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Eugene in 1996, said
he will
decide what to do after the May 21 primary.
Although he's critical of the
field, he does draw
some distinctions.
Read
the Oregonian article of 4/9/02 at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020413/oregon.html
Visit
the Pacific Green Party at:
http://www.pacificgreens.org
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5) MAINE GREEN SUBMITS FOR PUBLIC FINANCING
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Maine's Green Independent Party candidate Jonathan
Carter turned in a stack
of checks and petitions
Thursday he believes will qualify him to become one
of the nation's first publicly funded gubernatorial
candidates.
Carter
said he will also become the most highly funded
Green Party candidate in the
country if the petitions
and $5 donations pass muster with state officials
who
oversee Maine's Clean Election Act.
Read
the AP article of 4/1/02 at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020413/maine.html
Also,
Jonathan Carter and the Maine Green Independent
Party, once dismissed
as on the fringe, have become
enough of a threat that Democratic officials
are asking
the state Ethics Commission to investigate some of
Carter's
spending.
Read the
Portland Press Herald article of 4/9/02 at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020413/maine2.html
Visit
the Maine Green Independent Party at:
http://www.mainegreens.org
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6) LAWSUIT FILED ON BEHALF OF PENNSYLVANIA GREENS
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A lawyer representing the Green Party of Pennsylvania
candidates argued in
federal court Wednesday that
state laws governing the collection of nominating
signatures are restrictive and unfair to smaller parties.
Glenn
Moramarco, a lawyer from the Brennan Center for
Justice at the New York University
School of Law, filed
the lawsuit on behalf of five Green Party candidates.
They are challenging a state law that says people
collecting nominating signatures
for a political can-
didate must live in the district where the candidate
is running.
Read
the AP news wire of 4/11/02 at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020413/pennsylvania.html
Visit
the Green Party of Pennsylvania at:
http://www.pagreenparty.org
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7) NH GREEN GARNERS 37.6% FOR STATEHOUSE SEAT
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Democrat Peter V. Kocot defeated Green Party candi-
date Michael E. Aleo,
4,094 to 2,471, in the race to
represent the 1st Hampshire District at the
Statehouse.
However, Aleo's 37.6% was a strong showing. Aleo's
totals
represent the highest percentage for a Green
Party candidate running for a
state-level office in
New Hampshire.
Read
the Hampshire Union News article of 4/10/02 at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020413/new_hampshire.html
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8) MAYNARD RUNS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL IN COLORADO
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Colorado's state government isn't doing the job look-
ing out for taxpayers
and is allowing the sale of
public lands to developers at "giveaway"
prices,
according to Alison Maynard, the Green Party candi-
date for state
attorney general.
Maynard,
48 and a Denver-based water and land-use
lawyer, said she decided to run for
attorney general
after having sued both the Colorado State Board of
Land
Commissioners and the Colorado Water Conserva-
tion Board on behalf of environmental
and public-
interest groups.
Read
the Pueblo Chieftain article of 4/9/02 at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020413/colorado.html
Visit
the Green Party of Colorado at:
http://www.greens.org/colorado/
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9) NADER PROMOTES GEORGIA GREEN CANDIDATES
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Dismissed as a has-been after his failed presidential
run a year and a half
ago, Ralph Nader suddenly finds
his message of political reform in vogue again
--
thanks to the scandal surrounding the financial melt-
down of energy
giant Enron. Among the Green Party
candidates in Georgia are Atlanta lawyer
Nannette
Garrett for governor and a real-estate title examiner
from Oxford,
Roy Evritt, for state Senate from the
newly drawn District 25 east of Atlanta.
Nader is not
worried that a Green challenge means a two-front war
for
Democratic candidates in those races.
Read
the Atlanta Constitution article of 4/12/02 at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020413/georgia.html
Visit
the Georgia Green Party at:
http://www.greens.org/georgia/
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10) DIRECTOR QUITS BLAIR CAMP TO TURN GREEN
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The Morning Star in England has reported that "film
maker Jack Price,
who directed one of Labour leader
Tony Blair's general election broadcasts,
defected
to the Green Party [April 5]. Mr. Price said that he
had been
a 'lifelong Labour supporter,' whose father
had been a party agent.
"But
he declared: 'I can no longer support a party
that refuses to stand up to
big business and refuses
to protect our children's future.'
"Mr.
Price intends to use his talents to help the
Greens in next month's local
elections."
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11) MCKINNEY PRESSES FOR INVESTIGATION OF SEPT. 11
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Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is calling for an
investigation into whether
President Bush and other
government officials had advance notice of terrorist
attacks on Sept. 11 but did nothing to prevent them.
She added that "persons
close to this administration
are poised to make huge profits off America's
new war."
In
a recent interview with a Berkeley, Calif., radio
station, McKinney said:
"We know there were numerous
warnings of the events to come on September
11th. . . .
What did this administration know and when did it know
it,
about the events of September 11th? Who else knew,
and why did they not warn
the innocent people of New
York who were needlessly murdered? . . . What do
they
have to hide?"
Read
the Washington Post article of 4/12/02 at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34565-2002Apr11.html
Read
McKinney's statement 4/12/02 on her comments in
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0402/12mckinneytext.html
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12) VENEZUELA IN UPHEAVAL THIS WEEK
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Venezuela has experienced intense times this week.
Below are some links from
the mainstream media
(Washington Post and New York Times) and non-main-
stream media (International Action Center and The
Narco News Bulletin) outlining
what has transpired:
Venezuelan
Military Overthrows Government (4/12/02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37063-2002Apr12.html
Military officers forced fiery populist Hugo Chavez
out as Venezuelan president
in a coup Friday.
Turmoil
in Venezuela Causes Jitters at Citgo Home (4/13/02)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/business/13CITG.html?todaysheadlines
No company in America has as much at stake in the toppling
of Venezuela's
mercurial president and the renewed flow of
oil from Venezuelan fields as
Citgo Petroleum.
Venezuelan
President, Ousted 2 Days Ago, May Be Back (4/14/02)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/international/americas/14POOR.html?todaysheadlines
Thirty hours after an interim government forced Hugo
Chávez from power,
loyalists to him seemed on the
verge of staging a comeback.
Chavez
Freed, Returns to Power in Venezuela (4/14/02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45721-2002Apr14.html
Hugo Chavez was freed by his military captors and
returned to reclaim the
Venezuelan presidency Sunday,
in a dramatic restoration of power two days
after he
was forced from office by army commanders.
U.S.
Anti-War Group Denounces U.S.-Backed Coup in
Venezuela (4/12/02)
http://www.iacenter.org/venez_041202.htm
The International Action Center, founded by Former
U.S. Attorney General Ramsey
Clark, says "the U.S.
government working with Venezuelan reactionaries,
the
wealthy classes of that South American country and the
international
pro-U.S. media, has fomented and carried
out a military coup against the popularly
elected leader,
President Hugo Chavez."
Additionally,
The Narco News Bulletin
(http://www.narconews.com),
one of 924 affiliates of
The Media Channel (http://www.mediachannel.org),
has
extensive coverage of the events.
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13) FOLLOW-UP ON DAVIS-BESSE
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U.S. Questions Nuclear Plant's Repair Plan (NY Times, 4/11/02)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/national/11NUKE.html?todaysheadlines
Officials from an Ohio nuclear power plant said they
could repair corrosion
that damaged a reactor lid, but
still faced questions from authorities.
Nuclear
fix's cost hiked by millions (Akron Beacon-Journal, 4/10/02)
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/3041021.htm
FirstEnergy's groundbreaking attempt at high-tech
dentistry to fill a cavity
in its damaged Davis-Besse
nuclear plant will cost at least $16 million, $6
million
more than its previous highest estimates, the company
said yesterday.
The
Hole in the Reactor (NY Times, 4/13/02)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/opinion/13FORD.html?todaysheadlines
This is a N.Y. Times editorial by Daniel F. Ford, executive
director of the
Union of Concerned Scientists from 1971
to 1979 and author of "Three
Mile Island" and "The Cult
of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the
Atomic Energy Commission."
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14) MISCELLANEOUS STORIES OF INTEREST
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CBS News | The Mysterious Death Of An Enron Exec
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/10/eveningnews/main505845.shtml
Ashcroft
Charges NY Attorney With Aiding Terrorism
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/nyregion/10INDI.html
Environmentalists
Had 48 Hours to Comment to Energy Dept. (NY Times, 4/11/02)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/politics/11CHEN.html?todaysheadlines
Energy Department officials gave 11 environmental
groups just 48 hours to
submit their proposals for
consideration in Vice President Dick Cheney's national
energy report last year.
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15) UNION-BACKED NOMINEE FOR BOARD HAS YALE UPSET
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A 37-year-old minister, who has raised more than
$60,000 for his campaign,
is aggressively seeking a
seat on Yale University's board.
Read
the 4/11/02 N.Y. Times article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/education/11YALE.html?todaysheadlines
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