Cobb/LaMarche
http://www.votecobb.org
October 4, 2004
Contacts: Pat LaMarche 646-202-0826(cell)
Jacqui Deveneau 934-1911
Nancy Allen 326-4576
PAT LaMARCHE TO HOLD MAINE PRESS CONFERENCE ON
THURSDAY OCTOBER 7
Pat LaMarche, the vice presidential candidate of the Green Party of the
United States, has completed her 14 day Left Out Tour where she has
tried to bring attention to the issues of homelessness, affordable
housing and the needs of people for whom poverty and despair are a daily
struggle.
She will hold a PRESS CONFERENCE to highlight events of the Left Out
Tour at 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, October 7, 2004 at the Maine Green
Independent Party Office at 1 Pleasant St. in Portland, Maine. The
office is on the fourth floor of the building that houses the Indian
Restaurant, Hi Bombay, on the west side of the Old Port. ( Please enter
on the Center St. side for the elevator).
LaMarche and D.C. area Green Party members held a 16 hour overnight
vigil outside vice president Dick Cheney's official Washington D.C.
residence last Saturday. While LaMarche and other activists protested
the Bush-Cheney administration's refusal to act on the affordable
housing crisis, construction was taking place to build an additional
residence for Mr. Cheney-8 stories underground.
"The real problem with the Bush administration is they act as if
poverty in this country doesn't even exist. They are far more interested
in giving tax cuts to the very wealthy than in helping provide a safety
net for the very poor", she said.
Since September 21, LaMarche has slept in shelters in Maine, Boston, New
York City, Tennessee, Arkansas and Colorado. She slept in a tent city in
Rhode Island and spent a night with Mexican migrant workers in Sonoma,
California. All along the way, LaMarche and local Green Party members
have been raising donations of food, books, blankets and toiletries for
shelters.
Some Maine Green Independent Party candidates will join LaMarche at the
press conference and some Maine members of the Green Party's forming
National Women's Caucus, which just elected two Maine women as officers,
will be there.
She will take part in a debate between 4 vice presidential candidates in
Cleveland on Oct. 5 before returning to Maine. Mr. Cheney will not be
there.
MORE INFORMATION:
Left Out Tour
http://www.votecobb.org/leftouttour.
Cobb-LaMarche campaign
http://www.votecobb.org
Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
