[MGP Newsletter] Election 2004

Sun Oct 17 18:44:51 PDT 2004

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A. ELECTION NEWS
     (1) Candidates
     (2) Fundraiser for Keith Salkowski
B. MEETINGS
C. PUBLISHING NOTES
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A. ELECTION NEWS

The 2004 General Election is historic for the Maryland Green Party. 
Thanks to the Party's 2003 court victory, the Party's candidates' are no 
longer saddled with an unconstitutional petitioning requirement to gain 
a place on the ballot.  Consequently, the MGP is fielding seven 
congressional candidates, eight Baltimore City Council candidates, a 
candidate for the Carroll County School Board, and candidates for US 
President and Vice President.

As Election Day approaches, these campaigns are seeking support from 
Green Party members and recipients of the MGP Newsletter.  The Party's 
candidates are:

David Cobb              President
Pat LaMarche            Vice-President
Maria Allwine           Senate
Keith Salkowski         House District 2
Patsy Allen             House District 3
Theresa Dudley          House District 4
Bob Auerbach            House District 5
Greg Hemingway          House District 6
Virginia Rodino         House District 7
David Stysley           Carroll County School Board
Joan Floyd              Baltimore City Council President
Matt Clark              Baltimore City Council District 1
Bill Barry              Baltimore City Council District 3
David Greene            Baltimore City Council District 4
Terrence Fitzgerald     Baltimore City Council District 5
Paul Dibos              Baltimore City Council District 12
Glenn L. Ross           Baltimore City Council District 13
Myles Hoenig            Baltimore City Council District 14

Election Day is the Party's most important outreach opportunity.  By 
locating volunteers outside polling places, the Party will be able to 
disseminate its message directly to confirmed voters.  To assist with 
this effort or to assist one or more of the Party's candidates, please 
contact the campaigns as indicated below.

DAVID COBB AND PAT LAMARCHE FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT

David Cobb and Pat LaMarche will be the Green Party's candidates at the 
top of the ticket this year.  Cobb was one of the Green Party activists 
most responsible for forming the Texas Green Party.  He was a candidate 
for Texas Attorney General in 2002 and now lives in California.  Pat 
LaMarche is the host of a radio show in Maine and has been highlighting 
the country's housing crisis, by staying at homeless shelters on her 
campaign tour across the country.

For more on the campaign visit: http://www.votecobb.org/ or contact 
Steve Kramer at skramer at guisarme.net or phone 240-426-3338.

MARIA ALLWINE FOR SENATE

Maria Allwine was born and reared in Baltimore and has been a long-time 
resident of Baltimore City.  Over the past 3 1/2 years, she has been a 
committed anti-war and peace and justice activist.  She is an active 
member of the Iraq Pledge of Resistance and has engaged in many 
demonstrations and actions, including civil resistance and disobedience. 
She has been arrested several times while exercising her First Amendment 
rights in the course of these actions, including in the office of 
Senator Barbara Mikulski last November.  Maria is passionately committed 
to immediately ending the occupation of Iraq, removing the influence of 
corporations from every aspect of our lives and restoring the meaning of 
"We, the People" to governance at every level.

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/maria_allwine.htm or contact Maria 
Allwine at maria.allwine at mdgreens.org.

KEITH SALKOWSKI FOR CONGRESS -- DISTRICT 2

Keith Salkowski believes strongly that a just and prosperous society 
begins with individuals, not special interests.  That's why he's running 
for Congress.  "There are too many career politicians running our 
government," he says.  "If we truly want a representative government, we 
need more independent, ordinary folk in Congress.  You know, teachers, 
plumbers, homemakers."  As a filmmaker, an independent small business 
owner and a part-time college professor, Keith feels he can bring a 
neglected and very important perspective to government.

For more on the campaign, visit: http://www.keithforcongress.org or 
contact info at keithforcongress.org.

PATSY ALLEN FOR CONGRESS -- DISTRICT 3

Patsy Allen was born and raised in and around Baltimore, and is a 
mother, engineer, and environmentalist.  She graduated from Johns 
Hopkins University, and has worked in State service since 1979.  She is 
a firm believer that a country's strength is measured by its humanity, 
and by its treatment of each of its citizens.  Patsy knows that our 
fragmented society must be brought together again, with mutual respect 
for one another and the earth upon which we live.  We must be sure to 
nurture all of our children through comprehensive public health and 
meaningful, challenging public education.  We need to restore faith in 
the democratic system by electing candidates who do not accept money 
from corporations, PACs, or unions.

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/patsy_allen.htm.  To volunteer, 
visit: http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/volunteer.htm.

THERESA DUDLEY FOR CONGRESS -- DISTRICT 4

Theresa Mitchell Dudley has worked for years as civic activist, in the 
Prince George's County Community of Landover.  Dudley has been a vocal 
advocate for improving the quality of life issues for her community. 
Dudley is wife to Alfred R. Dudley, mother of two Joyce and Alfred III, 
and a 4th grade teacher at Rogers Heights Elementary School in 
Bladensburg.  She is active in several civic groups and boards and is 
currently serving as the Chair of the Citizen's Advisory to the Chief of 
Prince George's County.  She was awarded the Civic Federation's Journal 
Cup Civic Service Award in 1996.  Dudley is respected in the community 
for her integrity, leadership, and her ability to accomplish tasks on a 
grassroots level.  One local media outlet described Dudley as the 
"Unabashed Educator."

For more on the campaign, visit http://www.dudley4congress.org or 
contact Andrew Agostinelli at dudley4congress at aol.com or phone him at 
301-887-0920.

BOB AUERBACH FOR CONGRESS -- DISTRICT 5

Bob Auerbach was born New York City in 1919.  He earned his B.A. from 
NYU in 1948 and his M.A. from Peabody in 1956.  Bob has lived over forty 
years in Maryland.  He is a grandfather and is active in many 
organizations promoting peace, social justice, racial harmony, the 
environment, and pro-democracy reforms.  A former Co-Chair of the 
Maryland Green Party, Bob Auerbach was also nominated by the Green Party 
as its candidate for U.S. Congress in Maryland's Fifth District in 2002, 
but was kept off ballot by a Maryland law that was overturned as 
unconstitutional in 2003 by the highest Court of Maryland.

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/bob_auerbach.htm.  To volunteer, 
visit: http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/volunteer.htm.

GREG HEMINGWAY FOR CONGRESS -- DISTRICT 6

Greg Hemingway is a 34 year old certified public accountant.  Greg holds 
a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University, and a B.S. 
in accounting from Towson University.  He is married and currently lives 
in Lutherville, MD.  Greg has been a resident of Maryland since 1994, 
and an active member of the Baltimore County Local of the Maryland Green 
Party since 2002.  Greg's primary reason for running is to offer the 
voters in the 6th district another choice.  Greg believes we live in a 
nation where we are faced with a daunting multitude of choices for 
almost every decision we make; only in politics do we settle for two 
choices of candidates, or for one choice in the many unopposed political 
contests across the country.

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/greg_hemingway.htm.  To volunteer, 
visit: http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/volunteer.htm.

VIRGINIA RODINO FOR CONGRESS -- DISTRICT 7

Virginia Rodino is the Maryland State Coordinator for the Nader-Camejo 
2004 campaign and is a Baltimore City resident.  The purpose of 
Virginia's campaign is to present voters with another choice that is 
pro-peace and truly democratic in process and platform.  In Maryland it 
is clear to see that both the Republicans and Democrats have 
consistently ignored the interests of the working class, enabling the 
powerful and wealthy to benefit.

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/virginia_rodino.htm.  To volunteer, 
visit: http://www.mdgreensforcongress.org/volunteer.htm.

DAVID STYSLEY FOR CARROLL COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD

David Stysley, 25, chair of the Carroll County Green Party, is a 
graduate student at McDaniel College and a Westminster resident.  He 
will focus the Board's activity on attracting and retaining high-quality 
teachers by improving classroom resources as well as teacher pay to make 
the county "more competitive with other counties around the state.  The 
Board of Education must unify its efforts" to obtain adequate funding 
for initiatives such as full-day kindergarten, he said.  "If we can't 
find the money for it, we would have to do it on our own time until 
Carroll County could raise the money itself," rather than try to meet 
the state's 2007 deadline.

To volunteer, contact David Stysley at dstysley at hotmail.com.

JOAN FLOYD FOR BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

For too long, City government has done business in a vacuum, ignoring 
the needs and concerns of ordinary citizens.  In 2002, the Baltimore 
voters reduced the City Council to 14 members in 14 districts in order 
better to hold it accountable.  But to succeed, the City Council needs a 
citizen leader; someone who is not part of the current City Council 
culture; someone who is not indebted to the old ways of doing business. 
It needs a City Council President who can fulfill the promise for more 
accountable government.  Joan Floyd is the singular, alternative choice 
for President of the Baltimore City Council.  If elected, she is 
determined to lead a citizens' City Council to work smarter and harder 
for Baltimore.

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.baltimoregreens.org/floyd.php.  To volunteer, visit: 
http://www.baltimoregreens.org/election04/jfvolunt.php.

MATT CLARK FOR BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL -- DISTRICT 1

Matt Clark was born in 1969 in Lochearn, in western Baltimore County, a 
half mile from the city line.  He moved to Baltimore City after dropping 
out of high school in 1986.  From the mid 1980's until the mid 1990's he 
worked in restaurants and for two years sang in a local rock band called 
the Matt Clark 5.  Matt married Isabel Lipman in 1996.  Since then, they 
have lived in Southeast Baltimore, buying their house on South Wolfe 
Street in 1999.  Since 1997, Matt has worked in woodworking and 
construction.  He now works for Mark Supik & Company, specialty 
woodworking, in Highlandtown.  Matt has been active in neighborhood 
greening projects for the past eight years.  He is a member and former 
president of the Upper Fell's Point Improvement Association and a member 
of the board of directors of the Friends of Patterson Park.

For more on the campaign, visit: http://www.mattclark.info/.  To 
volunteer, contact Matt Clark at mattclark at charm.net.

BILL BARRY FOR BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL -- DISTRICT 2

Bill Barry has been the Director of Labor Studies for the Community 
College of Baltimore County at the Dundalk campus since April 1997, 
administering a program that provides credit and continuing education 
classes for union members throughout the state of Maryland.  He is a 
full time faculty member and currently the President of the Dundalk 
Campus Senate.  He is also an active member on the organizing committee 
for The American Federation of Teachers campaign for the faculty at CCBC 
and a member of the United Association of Labor Educators.  From 
1992-1997, while he worked as an adjunct at Dundalk, teaching Labor 
Studies and adult education for a succession of programs such as 
Baltimore Reads, Bill was a stay-at-home Dad, with two sons, Willie (now 
11) and Alex (now 9) who attend Roland Park Elementary-Middle School in 
the city.  Previously, he was a union organizer and staff person, 
working in New England, California, the Carolinas, Virginia, and eastern 
and central Pennsylvania.  He is married to Joan Jacobson, a 
self-employed writer and former reporter at The Baltimore Sun.  Bill and 
Joan have lived in Lauraville since 1990 where Bill was the treasurer of 
the Lauraville Improvement Association for six years.

For more on the campaign, visit: http://www.citizensforbillbarry.org, or 
contact Bill Barry at billbarry at verizon.net.

DAVID GREENE FOR BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL -- DISTRICT 4

David Greene is a community activist and holds a Ph.D. in Physics.  He 
has been running an active campaign for City Council, employing two 
tried and true methods of getting his message out.  He has gone door to 
door in his district, meeting voters one on one to find out from the 
voters what there concerns are and to share with them his ideas for 
service on the City Council.  Secondly, he has conducted a "Burma Shave 
style" sign campaign, displaying a sequence of signs along commuter 
routes in his district, expressing a variety of his campaign themes. For 
example:

"Hold Your Water
That Is To Say
Plant a Tree
To Save the Bay
Elect David G.S. Greene"

To volunteer, contact: David Greene at dgreene at all-systems.com.

TERRENCE FITZGERALD FOR BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL -- DISTRICT 5

Terry Fitzgerald is a physician, trained in Internal Medicine and 
Emergency Medicine.  He has practiced medicine in Baltimore for more 
than 20 years, 12 of them in the Emergency Department of Bon Secours 
Hospital in West Baltimore.  He currently practices Addiction Medicine, 
as the Medical Director of a treatment program with 550 patients and as 
the provider of medical and acupuncture services to two other programs.

His community Activities include:

       	* 13 years as an active member of the Mt. Washington Elementary 
School PTO
       	* 8 years as an officer of Fallstaff Middle School PTO
       	* 8 seasons coaching youth soccer
       	* Active member of "Stop Slots Maryland"
       	* Baltimore Physicians of Social Responsibility
       	* Spokesperson on gun control and the death penalty
       	* Member of Social Action Committee of Baltimore Hebrew
     Congregation

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.baltimoregreens.org/election04/dist5/index.html, or email: 
Vote at ElectDrFitzgerald.com.

PAUL DIBOS FOR BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL -- DISTRICT 12

Paul Dibos is an architectural project manager, focusing on sustainable 
school design.  He was born in Mexico City to a Colombian mother and 
Peruvian father and raised in Baltimore since early childhood.  He 
graduate of Gilman; University of Maryland, College Park (BA); and UCLA 
(MA Architecture).  He has studied and lived in Europe, Asia, Central 
and South America and is now a homeowner in Charles Village.  Paul 
believes that the leadership of Baltimore has failed the majority of 
residents in the 12th Council District in providing adequate housing, 
meaningful education, and jobs that pay a living wage.  Instead, they 
have spent the residents' money persuading tourists to stay one night in 
Baltimore.  Paul seeks to look out for the interests of those who spend 
every night in Baltimore.

For more on the campaign, visit: http://www.dibos4bmore.org/, or email: 
volunteer at dibos4bmore.org, or phone: 410-227-5238.

GLENN L. ROSS FOR BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL -- DISTRICT 13

Glenn L. Ross is running a people's campaign for City Council.  Breaking 
the disconnects in communities for over 25 years, he's been an advocate 
for our urban environment and our health, and has fought against the 
destruction of neighborhoods and for empowering communities through 
educational training programs ... and he's been getting results.  Now, 
he wants to bring his know-how to the City Council and the new 13th 
District.  On Nov. 2, you can vote for only ONE candidate for City 
Council to represent your voice.  Make it Glenn L. Ross.

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.baltimoregreens.org/glennross/, or email: glross@ cavtel.net 
or phone: 410-522-2574.

MYLES HOENIG FOR BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL -- DISTRICT 14

Myles Hoenig is working to bring grassroots democracy back to City Hall. 
  He believes that people should determine the future of Baltimore, not 
special interest groups.  He is a man of his word who believes that the 
citizens of the 14th District deserve a representative who will always 
work for what they want and never back down.  Myles has been a community 
activist for ten years, and is currently serving as the president of the 
Waverly Improvement Association.  He listens to residents and has 
improved his community by working on projects like the new YMCA at 
Stadium Place, the new Giant grocery on 33rd St., Waverly's Main Street, 
and new street lights to make Waverly a safer place.  He also works with 
other neighborhood groups, like Charles Village, the Memorial Stadium 
neighborhoods, Greater Homewood Community Corp, and the Woodberry
community.

For more on the campaign, visit: 
http://www.baltimoregreens.org/election04/hoenig/hoenig.html, or contact 
Myles Hoenig at elect_hoenig at yahoo.com.

FUNDRAISER FOR KEITH SALKOWSKI

Baltimore singer SONiA and Disappear Fear will play a benefit concert
for Keith Salkowski, Maryland Green Party candidate for U.S. House of
Representatives (District 2).  The fundraiser will begin at 8:00 PM on 
Sunday, Oct. 17 at the Idylwyde Community Hall in Towson, Md.  SONiA is 
an award winning songwriter from Baltimore who has gained devoted fans 
in countries around the world.  She has released nine CDs.  The doors 
open at 7:00 PM for Sunday's concert.  SONiA and Disappear Fear will 
follow an opening act, Spice, a local political folk artist.  The 
Idylwyde Community Hall is located at 6301 Sherwood Rd., Towson, Md., 
21239.    The Salkowski campaign asks for a donation of $15.

As a filmmaker, an independent small business owner, and a part-time 
college professor, Salkowski can bring a neglected and very important 
perspective to government.  "There are too many career politicians 
running our government," says Salkowski.  "If we truly want a 
representative government, we need more independent, ordinary folk in 
Congress.  You know, teachers, plumbers, homemakers."

B. MEETINGS

Anne Arundel:

Meets each Tuesday at 7:00 in the 49 West Cafe on West Street and for 
brunch on the first Sunday of each month at 11:00 AM at the Ramshead 
Tavern.  For more information contact Erik Michelsen at 410-956-3216 or
erikmichelsen at hotmail.com.

Baltimore City:

Meets at 7:00 PM on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 1443 
Gorsuch Ave.  For more information, contact Mike Shea at 410-662-8169 or 
office at baltimoregreens.org.

Baltimore County:

Meets at 7:00 PM on the 3rd Monday of each month at Ruby Tuesday in 
Towson.  For more information, contact Dave Goldsmith at 410-480-5256 or
dave at baltimorecountygreens.org.

Carroll:

To be decided.  For more information, contact David Stysley at 
410-751-8966 or dstysley at hotmail.com.

Greenbelt:

Meets on the second Monday of each the month at 7:30 PM in the public 
meeting room in the Greenbelt police building near the corner of Ridge 
and Crescent Roads (close to Kenilworth Avenue) and each Tuesday at 7:00 
PM at the New Deal Cafe for an informal meeting.  For more information, 
contact Bob Auerbach at 202-722-4303 or Anya Bull at
goveggie00 at hotmail.com.

Howard:

To be decided.  For more information, contact Mike Cornell at 
HC-Greens at thalia.org.

Montgomery:

The next two Membership Meetings will be Saturday, November 13 and 
Saturday, December 11; both meetings are tentatively scheduled to begin 
at 4:00 PM at Banning & Low in Kensington.  For more information, 
contact Dan Kulpinski at dankulpinski at comcast.net.

Mt. Rainier/Hyattsville:

During this campaign cycle, the Mt. Rainier/Hyattsville Greens will be 
meeting with People for Theresa Dudley (our District 4 candidate for 
Congress).  For information contact Alan Mattlage at 301-270-0542 or 
am215 at umail.umd.edu or Andrew Agostinelli at dudley4congress at aol.com or 
301-887-0920.

Southern Maryland:

Meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM with the location 
rotating through the region.  For more information contact Bill Burruss 
at 301-373-8305 or billburruss at olg.com.

C. PUBLISHING NOTES

This is a special issue of the MGP Newsletter.  Normally, the MGP 
Newsletter circulates 12 times per year and is edited by volunteers for 
the Maryland Green Party.  Information is believed to be accurate at the 
time it is disseminated, but readers are urged to confirm the latest 
event details.  MGP Newsletter items may be submitted
through your MGP Local.