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Westminster Green Party to bring Presidential Candidate David Cobb
by Isaac Ludwig Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2004 at 11:15 AM

Green Party Presidential candidate David Cobb brings his campaign to Westminster this week. The campus Green party will meet with Cobb in the Ferguson lobby at 4 PM on Thursday and again on Saturday to host a Regional Progressive Conference. Campus Green Party organizer Isaac Ludwig says despite the longshot of winning the election, the Green Party changes people's lives. He says he's changed since getting involved.

Westminster Green Party to bring Presidential Candidate David Cobb
The Westminster College Green Party, a student organization, will bring 2004 Green Party Presidential candidate hopeful David Cobb on Thursday April 1 at 4 PM in the Ferguson lobby. Cobb is seeking the Green Party nomination for President in 2004.
Cobb had a successful law practice until early 2000 and served as the General Counsel for the Green Party of the United States until declaring his candidacy for president. Cobb was also the Green Party of Texas candidate for Attorney General in 2002 and helped found the Green Party of TX in 1999.
Raised in a small shrimping village in San Leon, TX, David worked as a construction worker for several years before attending college. Waiting tables to put himself through college, he graduated from the University of Houston Law School in 1993. The grandson of a Baptist preacher, David received awards in Moot Court and Mock Trial competitions, served on the Law Review and worked in the Public Interest Law Clinic.


Two days after this event the Westminster Green Party will host a Regional Progressive Conference on Saturday April 3 in the Beeghly Theater. The conference will feature former PA death row inmate Nicolas Yarris, Democratic candidate for congress, Steve Porter, various Green Party candidates, six workshops, Butler based band the Narrows and Westminster seniors Alan Higby and Nate Zuzack.
The Westminster College Green Party was formed at Westminster in spring semester of 2002 and subscribes to the ten key values of the Green Party of the United States: grassroots democracy; social justice; ecological wisdom; nonviolence; decentralization; community-based economics; feminism and gender equity; respect for diversity; personal and global responsibility; and future focus. In the group’s first full year they brought Green Party PA lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Vicki Smedly and U.S. House of Representatives, PA District 3 candidate AnnDrea Benson, organized Storm and Castle and Books Not Bombs. The group was also involved in numerous regional progressive causes and worked in conjunction with Allies, Westminster gay-straight alliance, on tactics for reprimanding Senator Santorum in the wake of negative comments make about homosexual individuals.
For more information can contact WC Green Party PR Chair Isaac Ludwig at (724) 946-8340 or (ludwigih@westminster.edu), Cobb Media liaison Lynne Serpe at (646) 284-2759 or (lynne@votecobb.org), or David Cobb at (cobbweb@greens.org) (707) 269-0984 (home/office), or (707) 362-0333 (cell).
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