2010 CAMPAIGNS
Midge Potts Announces She Will Run For Missouri's US Senate Seat
VIDEO OF ANNOUNCEMENT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eci74plxVtc
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Springfield News-Leader
KYTV Political Blog
Kansas City Star
PRESS RELEASE:
Midge Potts for U.S. Senate 2010
June 27th, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Midge Potts 417-569-6422
Peace Activist Officially Announces Candidacy for Missouri's US Senate Seat
Converting America's Nuclear Arsenal into Economic Growth will be major priority of Progressive Party Candidate
SPRINGFIELD, MO – Midge Potts, who previously ran against Representative Roy Blunt in Missouri's 7th Congressional district 2006 Republican Primary, made an official announcement on Thursday June 25th that she intends on entering the race to fill Missouri's US Senate seat currently held by Senator Kit Bond who is retiring. Ms. Potts, who is the state co-chair of the Progressive Party of Missouri, said she made the announcement in conjunction with the Proposition One Nuclear Diarmament Tour so that she could highlight Nuclear Disarmament as the center piece of her campaign platform. The announcement, made in front of a substantial crowd of supporters, took place at a local coffee house across from Missouri State University Campus in Potts' hometown of Springfield, MO.
"I fully support the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act that was first introduced into the House of Representatives by Washington DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton." said Midge Potts, If elected, I intend on introducing a version of the bill in the US Senate." The bill would essentially dismantle the nuclear arsenal kept by the United States in proportion to the weapons maintained by other countries with nuclear capability, and would convert the money spent on maintaining America's nuclear missle program on healthcare and other essential social programs. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists the United States currently has over 5,000 nuclear weapons.
"As a fiscal conservative, I would also like to see a significant portion of the money saved by disarming American nukes used to pay down our 10 trillion dollar debt." Potts said, "Other issues that will play an intregal part of my platform include cancelling America's participation in NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, withdrawing all US troops from the Middle East, balancing the federal budget, abolishing the IRS and the Federal Reserve, as well as making it legal for American farmers to grow hemp and marijuana. I will also be talking about not-for-profit healthcare as a defense issue that could save countless lives in the United States."
Midge Potts, who has twice run for the House of Representatives, is best known for the 2007 protest in which she was standing behind former CIA operative Valerie Plame in a House Government Oversight Committee hearing with an Impeach Bush Now t-shirt. Other protests with signs behind Bush administration officials, including Alberto Gonzales, Condoleeza Rice, and Robrt Gates, have landed photos of Potts in the New York Times, USA Today and other major news publications.
The Progressive Party of Missouri, affiliated with the Green Party of the United States, currently does not have ballot status in Missouri. PPMO will have to gather 10,000 verified signatures statewide to put Potts on the ballot in 2010.
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Progressive Party Co-Chair Supports Candidacy of Nicholas Ladendorf for US Representative in Missouri's 7th Congressional District
Midge Potts for Senate 2010
Contact: Midge Potts
midgepotts4congress@gmail.com
Nick Ladendorf
nilvsdcbs@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18th, 2009
Springfield, MO - Midge Potts, who announced in June that she would be seeking the Progressive Party of Missouri nomination for US Senate in 2010, released a statement on Friday declaring her support of Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf's campaign to seek southwest Missouri's seat in the US House of Representatives being vacated by Republican Congressman Roy Blunt. A comic book artist who says he wants to replace Mickey Mouse as "a protest vote", Nick has a very unique website describing his political views at http://www.nilvsdcbs.com
"Nick Ladendorf will be a good candidate for the 7th district, whose residents have traditionally voted Republican, but have increasingly grown concerned about their party after nearly a decade of deficit spending by the Bush Administration," said Midge Potts of Springfield Missouri, who herself first ran for office in the 7th district Republican Primary in 2006. "I believe that Nick Ladendorf is the only progressive candidate for US Representative in southwest Missouri to announce his intention to run, and am grateful that he will be talking about important issues such as reducing corporate welfare, supporting family farms, encouraging sustainable agriculture, re-evaluating drug policy, creating legislative reform, and defending the entire Bill of Rights."
Nicholas Ladendorf is a member of The Progressive Party of Missouri. The Progressive Party of Missouri is in the process of getting the ten thousand petition signatures they will need to get on the 2010 general election ballot. They will officially nominate their candidates at a statewide meeting of their membership on a date to be announced sometime next year. PPMO encourages progressive minded people to seek their nomination for any and all offices being filled next November 2nd. http://www.progressivepartymo.org
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2008 Campaigns
Write-in Cynthia McKinney for President
Green Party Presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney is a certified write-in candidate in Missouri. She is a former six-term Congresswoman from Georgia. Nominated at the July Green Party convention in Chicago, Representative McKinney chose progressive journalist, and hip-hop activist, Rosa Clemente as her running mate.
Check out VoteTurth08.com to find out more about Cynthia McKinney's Power to the People campaign.
Write-in Midge Potts for US Representative
Midge Potts is a transgender anti-war activist living in Springfield Missouri. Best known for her creative protest work with CODEPINK, she is running as a write-in candidate in southwest Missouri's 7th Congressional district.
Check out www.midgepotts.com for more information about her campaign.
Created on 06/17/2007 03:53 PM by ebarr
Updated on 12/18/2009 10:50 PM by mpotts
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