Green Party to Make Its Presidential Pick [View All]

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - The Green Party holds its presidential convention in Milwaukee this week to decide whether to field a candidate or go without one and endorse the independent bid of Ralph Nader, who headed its White House ticket in 2000.

Nader is not seeking the Green nomination this time, and it is unlikely he will attend the June 23-28 meeting, but he is seeking the party's endorsement.

To win that, he will have to get past Green Party activist David Cobb, a California lawyer actively seeking the party's nomination. He leads its national delegate count by a clear margin and has spent the last eight years visiting 40 states, working at the grass-roots level to build ties between its environmental and labor wings.

"David Cobb has a long history with the party," says Ben Manski, a third-year University of Wisconsin law student and co-chairman of the Green Party of the United States. "He's a democracy activist centering around election reform and fighting corporate power. His appeal is that he is charismatic, articulate, working-class, and he's a Green."

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