Green Party of New Hampshire
WBZ 4: NH News reports:
NH Green Party endorses Democrat Kucinich
Monday October 27, 2003
By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI
Associated Press Writer
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Dennis Kucinich is running near the bottom of the Democratic primary polls in New Hampshire, but he's tops for the state's Green Party.
``Dennis is one of us,'' party spokesman Guy Chichester declared Monday, as the party endorsed the Ohio congressman.
The party is based on peace, social justice and environmental concerns. Of the current candidates, Chichester said Kucinich is the most closely aligned with those principles. He said the endorsement to help Kucinich win the Democratic nomination will not affect the Green Party's own nominating convention in June.
``Your endorsement sends a signal to everyone in New Hampshire and throughout New England who is really concerned about those environmental issues that relate to protection of the environment, protection of the economy and protection of the natural world, that they have a candidate,'' Kucinich said.
Kucinich said the top priority in his career has protecting the environment. He said he will press that message, with the help of the Green Party, in the Democratic primary.
The Green Party is small in New Hampshire, and not considered an ``official'' political party. To vote for Kucinich in the primary, its members who are listed as Independents need only declare as Democrats on the way in to vote, and ``undeclare'' on the way out. Members who are Republicans must change their party affiliation to Democrat by Oct. 31.
The national party nominated Ralph Nader as its presidential candidate in 2000. He attracted 22,000 New Hampshire votes in the general election.
Chichester could not give an exact number of party members in the state, though he said the endorsement decision was made by six members of its state steering committee.
Kucinich said a candidate's stands on the issues is more important than a party title,'' because that will show you that a candidate may be able to identify with more than one party.''
He hopes the Green endorsement will put more of a spotlight on his environmental record, especially in New Hampshire, which long has complained that coal-burning factories and power plants in the Midwest, Kucinich's home turf, help pollute the Northeast.
``I was thinking of what it would be like to be president to put a stop to those coal-burning plants that are poisoning the streams and the lakes, and are poisoning aquatic life and how we could help restore the economy of the Northeast, which depends on tourism and which depends on fisheries,'' Kucinich said.
Kucinich joked he was in the Democratic Party as a missionary for causes held dear by the Greens.
``I think it's possible to bring Green principles into the Democratic Party, and that's what my goal is: To make the Democrats more responsive on environmental issues, to protect our forests from clear-cutting, to protect our land from having poisons dumped into it, to protect our air and the quality of our water.''
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