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Green Party Nominates Rep. Cynthia McKinney for Presidential Candidate
12-Jul-2008
Written by: Justin Zaremba
The U.S. Green Party has selected Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who is a Democrat, as their candidate for president.
Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney was selected as the U.S. Green Party’s presidential candidate at the Party's 2008 nominating convention on Saturday, Reuters reports.
McKinney, who has served six terms in Congress and lost her 2006 bid for re-election, will be joined on the ticket for the November election by vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente, a hip-hop artist and activist.
McKinney was the first black woman to represent Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Party spokesman Scott McLarty said that McKinney received 313 out of 532 votes cast at the party’s convention in Chicago.
The Green Party received 2.7 percent of the total vote when Ralph Nader headed the ticket in 2000. During the 2004 election, the Green Party received 0.1 percent of the total, finishing in sixth place behind the two major parties and three other third-party tickets.
The party said in its proposed platform for the 2008 election, "Green parties are the first parties to recognize that our role in the world is stewardship of Earth's natural resources rather than domination and unrestrained consumption of the goods of the Earth."
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