TheGreenPapers.com: Preview Week of 27 June to 3 July 2004
What is new and what has changed at TheGreenPapers.com ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events - Sunday 27 June through Saturday 3 July 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 29 June 2004 ========================= Alabama - Run-off from 1 June Primaries (U.S. House CD 5) Polls close at 7 PM local time (0000 UTC) No candidate having received 50% or more of the vote in the 1 June 2004 Republican Primary, the two top vote getters- Gerald "Gerry" Wallace (45.18%) and Stephen P. Engel (40.20%)- face off in a runoff. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/AL.phtml#H05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recap of the past week ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday 26 June 2004 ========================= Green Party of the United States Presidential Nominating Convention Milwaukee, Wisconsin Wednesday 23 June thru Monday 28 June 2004 http://www.thegreenpapers.com/T04/#Gre NOTE: 'The Green Papers' is not in any way affiliated with the Green Party of the United States, its Presidential Nominating Convention or any other organizations which might otherwise be associated with the Green Party of the United States. ------------------------- Green Party chooses Cobb nomination over Nader endorsement In what is viewed as a major blow to Ralph Nader's independent candidacy for President, the Green Party nominated David Cobb of Texas, a long-time Green Party activist, instead of endorsing Nader and his running mate for Vice President, Peter Camejo; Camejo had been a candidate for the Party's presidential nomination. Had the Nader/Camejo ticket been endorsed, it would have been automatically on the ballot in 22 States plus the District of Columbia; currently, Nader is automatically on the ballot in 7 States as the result of an earlier endorsement by the Reform Party, although 6 of these would have been States in which a Green Party endorsement would have also put Nader on the ballot. Nader had already said- well before the Party's Convention- that he was not actively seeking the Green Party's presidential nomination but would not turn away an endorsement by that Party. Cobb, meanwhile, actively sought that nomination and, further, argued that the future of the Green Party as a viable Third Party was much brighter with his, rather than Nader's, candidacy as the Party's standard-bearer. Cobb's running mate for Vice President is Maine radio personality Pat LaMarche. ------------------------- Green Party Nominating Convention Roll Call vote for President David Cobb wins Green Party Nomination for President on Second Ballot taken at Party's Milwaukee Convention. Round 1 of Presidential Nomination Voting: No candidate received a majority of the vote. 770(?) delegates credentialed; majority = 385 votes. 727 votes cast. David Cobb: 308 Ralph Nader: 117.5 Peter Camejo: 118.5 No Nominee: 74.5 Kent Mesplay: 23.5 Lorna Salzman: 40 None of the above: 35.5 Carol Miller: 9.5 Peter Camejo and Ralph Nader were eliminated because they did not indicate, in writing, that they wanted the nomination. None of the Above, Lorna Salzman and Carol Miller did not meet the 70 needed to proceed. Round 2 of Presidential Nomination Voting: David Cobb nominated for President. 770(?) delegates credentialed; majority = 385 votes. 770 votes cast. David Cobb: 408 (nominated) No Nominee: 308 Kent Mesplay: 43 Bier Beeman (late entry): 8 Abstain: 3 http://www.thegreenpapers.com/T04/Gr-Nom.phtml ------------------------- "Soft" pre-Convention count of the presidential preferences of delegates to the GREEN PARTY National Convention (as reported by the Green Party of the United States) http://www.thegreenpapers.com/T04/Gr-Soft.phtml ------------------------- Number of delegates per State at the GREEN PARTY National Convention http://www.thegreenpapers.com/T04/Gr-Del.phtml (delegate count overview) http://www.thegreenpapers.com/T04/Gr-Alloc.phtml (allocation details) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday 25 June 2004 ========================= GOP candidate Ryan drops out of IL Senate race Jack Ryan, the wealthy ex-husband of actress Jeri Ryan, will be ending his bid for the Class 3 U.S. Senate seat from Illinois up for election this coming November. Ryan has recenly been weathering a storm of controversy regarding sexually-charged allegations stemming from the public release of records related to his divorce from the actress. Under Illinois law, the Illinois Republican Party itself can replace Ryan, who was nominated in the Illinois Primary this past 16 March, with another candidate but must do so no later than 27 August. The 19-member Republican State Central Committee (one from each of the State's Congressional Districts) would be choosing a new candidate through a voting procedure under which each committee member's vote is weighted relative to the percentage of the GOP Primary vote cast in his or her Congressional District in the 16 March Primary. Indications are that the Committee's search for a new Republican Senatorial candidate will get underway after the 4th of July holiday weekend. Ryan had been running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama for the seat being vacated by single-term Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald who is retiring at the end of his term this coming 3 January. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/IL.phtml#S3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 24 June 2004 ========================= Democratic Delegate Allocation update California (441 delegates): +1 Distinguished Party Leader Colorado (63 delegates): -1 Distinguished Party Leader Georgia (101 delegates): -1 Democratic National Committee member Iowa (57 delegates): +1 Democratic National Committee member Kentucky (57 delegates): +1 Democratic National Committee member Michigan (155 delegates): +1 Democratic National Committee member New Jersey (128 delegates): -1 Democratic National Committee member New York (284 delegates): -1 Democratic National Committee member Oregon (59 delegates): +1 Democratic National Committee member South Dakota (22 delegates): +1 Member of Congress. Congressman Stephanie Herseth was elected 1 June 2004 in a Special Election to fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Republican Congressman William Janklow. She will attend the Democratic National Convention as an unpledged PLEO delegate. Texas (232 delegates): -1 Democratic National Committee member Virginia (97 delegates): +1 Democratic National Committee member Unassigned (0 delegates): -2 Democratic National Committee member. The total number of delegate votes to be cast at the Democratic National Convention is 4,322. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/D-Del.phtml (delegate count overview) http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/D-Alloc.phtml (allocation details) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 22 June 2004 ========================= South Carolina Primary Runoff for the 109th Congress U.S. Senate (Class 3 seat) Results: Congressman Jim DeMint [CD 4] (59%), former Governor David Beasley (41%). http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/SC.phtml#S3 ========================= Utah - State/Local Primaries Results: All incumbents running for office (Republican Senator Robert F. Bennett, 2 Republican and 1 Democratic Congressman, Attorney General, Treasurer, and Auditor) received their party's nomination. Republican Governor Olene S. Walker failed to qualify for today's primary and is not running for re-election. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/UT.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday 21 June 2004 ========================= Connecticut Governor John Rowland (Republican) announces Resignation, effective 1 July; Lt. Governor Jodi Rell to then become State's second woman Governor In a speech only about six minutes long, delivered outside the Governor's Mansion in the State Capital, Hartford, Governor John Rowland (R-Connecticut) announced earlier this evening that he will resign his office, said resignation to take effect at Noon Eastern Time (1600 UTC) on Thursday 1 July, at which time Lieutenant Governor M. Jodi Rell- also a Republican- will be sworn in and officially succeed to the Governorship, becoming only the second woman to hold Connecticut's highest office. In his remarks, Rowland gave no reason for his resignation, saying simply that it was now time to take a "new path" in his life, but the combination of recent testimony damaging to Rowland- who has been investigated in relation to gifts made to the Governor by state contractors and state employees- before the Select Committee of Inquiry, set up by the Connecticut House of Representatives to determine if impeachment of the Governor was desirable, as well as last Friday's decision by the State Supreme Court that Rowland was constitutionally required to answer to a subpoena from the Select Committee, is believed to have been a main impetus to the Governor's decision to now step down. Now that the Governor has formally announced his resignation, impeachment by the lower house of the State's General Assembly followed by a trial in the State Senate is a moot point. The resignation of the 47-year-old Governor not only closes a difficult chapter in the political history of the Constitution State but also brings an abrupt end to a career in which Rowland started off as something of a political wunderkind, a graduate of Villanova University's Class of 1979 who, as a 23-year-old insurance agent only a year later, was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in the wake of Ronald Reagan's first Presidential Election victory. After two 2-year terms as a state legislator, Rowland was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the wake of Reagan's second Presidential Election victory; he would serve three 2-year terms in Congress. Rowland first ran for Governor in 1990, winning the Republican nomination but losing in a three-way race in which former Senator Lowell Weicker, running as an Independent under the banner of "A Connecticut Party", bested both Rowland and Democratic Congressman Bruce Morrison. Rowland, however, was renominated for Governor four years later and, this time, was elected; he would be elected twice more and, at the time of his resignation, is in the midst of his third 4-year term. The State's next Governor, 58 year old Jodi Rell, was first elected to her current post of Lieutenant Governor as the second half of the GOP ticket in Rowland's first gubernatorial victory back in 1994. Prior to that, she served in the State House of Representatives. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/CT.phtml#Gov ========================= It's Nader/Camejo in '04 Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader officially announced his choice for running mate today: it is Peter Camejo of California. Camejo was most recently a Green Party candidate for Governor of California in the 2003 Recall election, as he had also been in the regular Gubernatorial Election in 2002, and had once run for President as the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party in 1976. Camejo had been an active "non-candidate" candidate for the Green Party Presidential Nomination in an attempt to foster a "Draft Nader" movement at the Green Party National Convention, which convenes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this coming Wednesday [23 June]. Nader himself has said he is not a candidate for the Green Party presidential nomination but would welcome that Party's endorsement as he continues to seek 2 November ballot access in as many of the 50 States, along with the District of Columbia, as possible. Nader has already been endorsed by the Reform Party. Should the Nader/Camejo ticket win the endorsement of the Green Party later this week, it would automatically put Nader on the ballot in 22 States plus D.C. Nader is already on the ballot in 7 States thanks to his Reform Party endorsement but 6 of these 7 also happen to be among the 22 in which the Green Party will also be on the ballot. Nader continues to try to get on the ballot in other States via petition as an Independent. As of 21 June 2004, ...the Green Party's Presidential Candidate is assured ballot access in Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin. ...the Reform Party's Presidential candidate is assured ballot access in Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, and South Carolina. Green Party "Soft" Delegate Count (prior to the Nominating Convention) as reported by the Green Party of the United States. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/T04/NaderAnnouncesVicePresident.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reference Pages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major Parties' Presidential Nomination Process (Democrats, Republicans) http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/ Elections for Statewide offices and Congress http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G04/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming 2004 Federal and Statewide Primary and Runoff Elections http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/events.phtml?format=chronological ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 20 July 2004 ========================= North Carolina - Primary (Senate Class 3, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, 13 U.S. House Seats, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Insurance, Commissioner of Labor, Superintendent of Public Instruction) Should no candidate receive 50% or more of the vote in the 20 July primary, the 2 top vote getters will proceed to a 17 August runoff election. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/NC.phtml ========================= Georgia - Primary (Senate Class 3, 13 U.S. House Seats) Should no candidate receive 50% or more of the vote in the 20 July primary, the 2 top vote getters will proceed to a 10 August runoff election. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/GA.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday 26 July - Thursday 29 July 2004 ========================= 44th Democratic National Convention http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/D.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 27 July 2004 ========================= Oklahoma - Primary (Senate Class 3, 5 U.S. House Seats, Corporation Commissioner [term expiring in 2004]) Should no candidate receive 50% or more of the vote in the 27 July primary, the 2 top vote getters will proceed to a 24 August runoff election. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/OK.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 3 August 2004 ========================= Michigan - Primary (15 U.S. House Seats) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/MI.phtml ========================= Missouri - Primary (Senate Class 3, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, 9 U.S. House Seats, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/MO.phtml ========================= Kansas - Primary (Senate Class 3, 4 U.S. House Seats) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/KS.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 5 August 2004 ========================= Tennessee - Primary (9 U.S. House Seats) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/TN.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 10 August 2004 ========================= Georgia - Primary Runoff Should no candidate receive 50% or more of the vote in the 20 July primary, the 2 top vote getters will proceed to a 10 August runoff election. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/GA.phtml ========================= Colorado - Primary (Senate Class 3, 7 U.S. House Seats) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/CO.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 17 August 2004 ========================= Wyoming - Primary (1 U.S. House Seat) http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/WY.phtml ========================= North Carolina - Second Primary (if needed) Should no candidate receive 50% or more of the vote in the 20 July primary, the 2 top vote getters will proceed to a 17 August runoff election. http://www.TheGreenPapers.com/G04/NC.phtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday 30 August - Thursday 2 September 2004 ========================= 38th Republican National Convention http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/R.phtml |