Kucinich Supports Green Party Demand for Ohio Recount

[sarahlee]

Kucinich Supports Green Party Demand for Ohio Recount
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1118-02.htm

WASHINGTON -- November 18 -- Support for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb’s demand for a recount of the Ohio presidential vote continues to grow. Ohio Congressman and former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has joined a growing list of individuals and organizations calling for a recount.

“I strongly support the request for a recount in Ohio,” Kucinich said in a statement sent to the Cobb-LaMarche campaign.

Kucinich said that a “recount is an appropriate response to officials who tried to suppress the vote” and that the “highly partisan activities of state election officials cast doubt on the integrity of the elections process.”

Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik, who intend to file jointly for the recount, have demanded that Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican who chaired the Ohio Bush campaign, recuse himself from the recount process.

“We need an election system and election officials we can trust. The problems in Florida in 2000 and the problems in Ohio in 2004 will repeat themselves in 2008 unless we do something about it. Our elections should be administered by an independent non-partisan commission, and not by the state chairs of the Republican presidential campaign,” said David Cobb. The Secretary of State in Florida in 2000, Katherine Harris, was also the state chair of the Bush campaign and the person responsible for counting the presidential ballots.

Kucinich’s support of Cobb’s recount demand comes on the heels of another prominent endorsement of this effort. On Monday, Common Cause, the National Voting Rights Institute, Demos, the Fannie Lou Hamer Project and People for the American Way Foundation issued a joint statement in support of the Cobb and Badnarik demand for an Ohio recount.

Kucinich expressed his appreciation of the growing movement demanding accountability for the 2004 election.

“Thank you to the Greens and all others whose support for a recount will rescue a shred of honesty in the conduct of the 2004 Ohio election,” said Kucinich.

The Cobb-LaMarche campaign is now in the process of recruiting volunteers and raising funds for monitoring the actual recount process which is expected to take place in early December. Volunteers and donors should visit the campaign website, http://www.votecobb.org, for more information.

[Zorra]

1. Yay DK!

[MuseRider]

2. Whoops!

Here it is. An actual Democrat out working for the party and the American people. Where are all those who only hear The One speaking? Perhaps by ignoring threads and news about others leads to the constant wailing we hear here every day about how all the others have turned their backs on us. An actual report on a Democratic leader doing something and it sinks off the front page in an hour without response. Thanks DK.

[JohnKleeb]

6. The One?

I know exactly what you're saying, people are too busy fighting about who should be DNC head and calling the dems pussies for not favoring who they want to head the party and they ignore stuff like this, really proud of him, hopefully some of those other Ohio Dems will step in.

[MuseRider]

7. It is so very hard

to get news of any Democrats doing anything these days but to ignore what we do have makes it easy to say that no one else is doing anything. So lets keep this kicked for a while and perhaps after everyone tires of fighting (me included) it will be read and appreciated for what it is. A member of our party working for all of us.

[JohnKleeb]

8. yeah I am so tired of the fighting

the action he took is what some one wit backbone takes, he really does walk the talk.

[charlie]

3. El Kicko

for my man Dennis!

[DireStrike]

4. Yay Dennis!

One of my favorite dems.

[MuseRider]

5. Kick back to the front page.

[The Flaming Red Head]

9. Front page news

[MuseRider]

10. One more kick for

the evening crowd.

[LimpingLib]

11. We raised record campaign funds ( Democrats werent supposed to be able too

Yet we spared NOTHING for electoral reform measures over the past 2-3 years of hyper fund raising we previousilly thought was just in our dreams.NOTHING for voter education of any kind of reform whatsoever.

Maybe had we spared a few cents of the $100,000+ we sent to Ken Stars law firm to keep Nader off the ballot..... AND INSTEAD used it to help pass electoral reform ballot initiatives and the like then maybe we would have gotten enough voted counted (among many other reforms) to be have won the election.

I want to send a special thank you to Nader , Greens , Libertarians for fighting for the structural reform that benefits us all.The list of partisan weblogs and Democrats to thank however is too short (or none existant) to even be worth mentioning so Ill pass.

(Ill remind everybody that Hugo Chavez of Venezuela required voting machines to dispense a paper receipt so not a damn vote could be stolen or erased , maybe had we used our heads and been smart enough to not be fooled by the GOP vipers , then we could have put our hyper partisanship aside and wrked on some REAL reforms that could have helped us "D"s)

[rhite5]

12. well said, LimpingLib!