The Green-Rainbow Party is proud to announce that we will have our primary elections on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, with a fantastic lineup of candidates running for the Green Party's nomination.

You can vote in the Green-Rainbow Party primary if you are a voter who is either registered in the Green-Rainbow (designated J) Party or registered "unenrolled". The last day to register to vote and be eligible to participate in the primary is Wednesday, January 16, 2008. To find out where you vote, visit www.wheredoivotema.com.

Here are the 6 candidates, in the order they will appear on our ballot:

1. Jared Ball [Withdrawn, announced support of Cynthia McKinney]
2. Ralph Nader [Draft candidate]
3. Elaine Brown [Withdrawn, resigned from the Green Party]
4. Kat Swift
5. Cynthia McKinney
6. Kent Mesplay

Here is some more information on the candidates:

Ralph Nader
1996 and 2000 Green candidate for President; 2004 independent candidate for President; consumer advocate.
www.draftnader.org

Kat Swift
Texas Green organizer; former Campus Greens leader; activist with Clean Money San Antonio and San Antonio Democracy Now.
www.bexargreens.org/katforprez

Cynthia McKinney
Former member of the US House of Representatives (Georgia), 1993 to 2003, 2005 to 2007; former member of the Georgia House of Representatives, 1988-1992.
www.runcynthiarun.org

Kent Mesplay
2004 candidate for the Green presidential nomination; former president of Turtle Island Institute; environmental engineer, alternative energy activist; California Green organizer.
www.mesplay.org

Contact information, photographs, video clips, and bios of the candidates can be found on the candidates' own web sites. Video clips of many of the candidates are also linked at www.gp.org/audio_video.shtml.

Note: Jesse Johnson, who is also running for the Green Party nomination, will not appear on the Green-Rainbow Party ballot.

If you have any questions about the Green-Rainbow Party February 5th primary, you can write to presidential.candidates@green-rainbow.org.