FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For Further Information: <br>Wednesday, July 14, 2004 Kevin Zeese 202-265-4000 <br><br>
Green Leaders Endorse Nader-Camejo Ticket<br>Camejo, Gonzalez condemn attacks by the Democratic Party on Nader, call for fair elections<br>SAN FRANCISCO -- Vice-presidential Candidate Peter Camejo and San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez defended Ralph Nader’s right to run for president at a news conference in San Francisco Tuesday morning. <br><br>...<br><br>More than 500 Green Party leaders signed a statement of support drafted by Camejo, Gonzalez and Jason West, Mayor of New Paltz, NY. Among the signers are Green presidential candidates Carol Miller and Lorna Salzman, former Lt. Governor Candidate Donna Warren, Kevin McKeown, Mayor Pro Tem of Santa Monica, CA and many Green elected officials, party leaders and activists from across the United States. The list of signers is at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?glfn <br><br>"It is frustrating to me the lengths the Democrats will go, to attack Nader for wanting to run and express their views," said Gonzalez. Yet they won’t put the same energy into trying to reform the two party system that is clearly the culprit in the dilemma that faces Americans. I want to remind people the facts are overwhelming," Gonzalez said. "At least 7 million Democrats voted for Bush in the 2000 election." <br><br>"The mystery of the 2004 campaign is that tens of millions of Americans oppose the war in Iraq, possibly a majority of Americans oppose the Patriot Act, and yet John Kerry and John Edwards, who are for the Patriot Act and for the war, are about to become the recipient of these tens of millions of votes of people who disagree with them," said Camejo. <br><br>"Everyone knows that the majority of registered Democrats oppose the politics of their party’s candidates and are closer to the politics of the Nader/Camejo ticket," added Camejo. "So why aren’t these tens of millions of people saying they will vote Nader/Camejo, for peace, and to abolish the Patriot Act? <br><br><br><br><br><br>