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Brown , Cobb , Nader are N.C. write-ins
BY BROOKE M. GOTTLIEB
STAFF WRITER
N.C. voters will not have the
option of voting for candidates
backed by the National Barking
Spider Resurgence Party or Party
X this November.
But they will have the option of
supporting other third parties.
The N.C. Board of Elections
has approved independent candi
date Ralph Nader, Walt Brown of
the Socialist Party and the Green
Party’s David Cobb as write-in
candidates for the presidential
election.
In North Carolina, a candi
date must collect 500 signatures
from registered voters in order to
qualify as a write-in for the presi
dential ballot.
The three write-in candidates
all advocate progressive policies,
but their goals differ.
“(Nader’s) main reason for run
ning is to ensure that the progres
sive issues are included in the
presidential discussion this year,”
said Kevin Zeese, spokesman for
the Nader campaign.
The proposals of the Nader
campaign include withdrawing
U.S. troops from Iraq, increasing
the minimum wage, establishing
universal health care, repealing
the USA Patriot Act and legaliz
ing same-sex marriage.
Third-party candidates often
struggle for recognition on ballots
and for the opportunity to debate
with major-party candidates.
Zeese said current require
ments hinder them from doing
both. Qualifications for place
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ment on the ballot vary in each
state, and candidates must win a
relatively high percentage of votes
to be eligible for debates.
The Socialist Party, which pro
motes anti-war foreign policy, this
year nominated Brown and Mary
Alice Herbert as its candidates for
president and vice president.
“We both believe that our coun
try is moving in a dangerous way
and needs democracy,” Herbert
said.
“In a democracy, government is
really (the people).”
Herbert said she and Brown
differ from Nader and Cobb
because they want to reform capi
talism, whereas her party wants
to abandon it.
“I think we’ve been conditioned
to believe that it is fine to have a
few rich people at the top, and
the money would trickle down to
the bottom,” Herbert said, adding
that the gap between economic
classes creates social turmoil.
The Green Party has selected
Cobb and his running mate,
Patricia LaMarche, for its 2004
ticket.
Blair Bobier, media director of
the campaign, said that though
similar policies exist between
Cobb and Nader, their long-term
goals differ because Nader does
not belong to a party.
“We are organizing a movement
and a party that is and will con
tinue to be the force challenging
this two-party system,” he said.
“The Green Party is the only
party giving a voice to ordinary
people.”
Ferrel Guillory, director of
UNC’s Program on Southern
Politics, Media and Public Life,
said that the two-party system
creates difficulties for third par
ties but that it also provides
American democracy with stabil
ity.
He added that third parties can
still express their opinions. “The
two big parties tend to respond
when third parties have captured
an emotion of the time.”
Although Herbert does not
support the two-party system,
she said third parties can influ
ence the agendas of Democrats
and Republicans.
“I have to admit, I do hope
Kerry gets (the presidency). ... I
hope that the left keeps on press
ing the issues,” she said.
Zeese said the Democratic and
Republican parties do not provide
people with diversity of opinion.
“Both parties are rushing to the
center to get more centrist vot
ers.”
And many third-party candi
dates dismiss Democrats’ con
cerns that their efforts might take
votes from Kerry.
“If the Democrats can’t get
their own people to vote for
them, why should alternatives
help them out (by not running)?”
Herbert said.
Sixty-nine other third-party
candidates are competing for the
presidency nationwide.
“It’s really urgent that we get
out there and try to get our ideas
heard and try to influence the
future,” Herbert said.
Contact the State & National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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BY HILARY HELLENS
STAFF WRITER
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has once again become the center of
the conflict surrounding the death
penalty as North Carolina gets ready
to execute its first prisoner in nine
months.
Sammy Perkins of Greenville is
scheduled to be executed Friday
for the 1992 murder of 7-year-old
Lashenna “Jo Jo” Moore. He was
sentenced Dec. 15,1993, in Pitt
County Superior Court.
Perkins’ lawyers challenged the
lethal injection process in North
Carolina on the grounds that it vio
lates the constitutional prohibition
against cruel and unusual punish
ment.
The execution was originally
scheduled for May 21 but 10 days
earlier was postponed.
Now, Perkins’ lawyers are work
ing to commute his sentence before
Friday’s 2 a.m. deadline.
The courts are considering the
merit of Perkins’ claim before pro
ceeding with the execution, and his
death sentence has spurred much
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debate over the constitutionality of
lethal injection.
N.C. Rep. Sam Ellis, R-Wake,
said he hopes the execution will
take place on Friday, regardless of
the controversy.
“I think it is cruel and unusual to
have a person that has been facing
execution for 13 years, to have them
in this period of limbo while they
litigate some minor technicality,”
Ellis said.
There also are allegations that
Perkins’ mental illness he suffers
from bipolar disorder was not
handled properly during the trial.
His lawyers contend that jurors
were not presented with an accurate
view of the man they sentenced to
death.
“We hope ... that we will not
have innocent people on death row
because of flawed and unfair trials,”
said Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange,
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She said Perkins’ case provides a
classic example of the flaws in the
death penalty.
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doesn’t see much hope in an appeal
for this case.
“The issue in this case represents
a disturbing trend in inmates that
have psychological problems that
weren’t addressed in their trial.”
Perkins’ family has asked Gov.
Mike Easley to commute Perkins’
sentence to life without parole.
In a report dated May 5, Perkins’
lawyers, Ed West and Nora
Hargrove, pointed out that no DNA
analysis was done in the case. They
claim that this fact, among others,
provides enough evidence to over
turn the death sentence.
“There is a cloud hanging over
Mr. Perkins’ trial,” West said. “There
is a serious jury misconduct issue,
and there are serious issues regard
ing the way his mental illness was
presented.”
“It is never appropriate to execute
someone where there are problems
like this.”
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