[R-G] Special Update: Interview with David Cobb

[M. Junaid Alam]

  Special Release: Saturday, October 02, 2004

"I don't have any goals for votes...":
An Interview with David Cobb

| Joshua Frank |

*Joshua Frank:* Mr. Cobb, thanks for agreeing to this interview. How do 
you respond to the claim made by many Greens, including your primary 
opponent Carol Miller, that you only garnered a mere 12% of the 
nation-wide vote during the Green Party presidential primary, but still 
managed to capture the party's nomination? Do you believe this support 
provides legitimacy for your campaign? Or does the Green Party have a 
democracy problem because its delegates are disproportionably divided 
among states?

*David Cobb:* Joshua, I'll be happy to address how I earned the Green 
Party's presidential nomination but before I do, I'd like to make two 
points. The first is this: the primary season ended three months ago. 
It's time to focus on the general election and getting the Green message 
out. It's time for our party to unify and these types of discussions 
aren't particularly productive at this point in time. If people have 
concerns with the primary and nominating process they should have 
addressed those concerns when the rules were being drafted. And, of 
course, after the election, I would encourage them to work to make the 
Green Party as democratic as is humanly possible. I have to say I'm 
skeptical though, because many of the people who are crying "foul" now 
seem to be doing so only because their preferred candidate lost. I 
suspect that many of them will lose all interest in genuinely 
strengthening the democratic character of the Green Party at the 
conclusion of this campaign.

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