Posted on 12/19/2004 11:49:52 AM PST by Nascardude
12/17/2004 Green Party candidate David Cobb blasts Kerry, says he’s thwarting recount Filed under: General— site admin @ 12:34 pm Email This
Green Party’s Cobb lashes out at Kerry camp over recount
By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor
In an exclusive interview with RAW STORY Friday, the Green Party’s presidential candidate David Cobb lashed out at Sen. John Kerry, saying he Democratic nominee has tried to “undermine,” “delegitimize” and “minimize” the Ohio recount.
Cobb, who ran an unsuccessful bid for president, is at the vanguard of the Ohio recount. The Green and Libertarian Parties raised tens of thousands of dollars to pay for the recount and put county observers on the ground.
Meanwhile, Cobb observed, Kerry has not contributed “a single dime.”
“John Kerry is trying to minimize and undermine and delegitmize the recount,” Cobb asserted.
The Green called attention to the $51 million war chest Sen. Kerry was left with after the election. Kerry has come under fire for not contributing the money to other 2004 Democratic congressional candidates.
“Sadly, John Kerry seems to be trapped under the pile of 51 million dollars that is preventing him from getting up and standing up,” Cobb told RAW STORY.
That’s “the highest amount of money a presidential candidate has ever been left with so far” after an election, he added.
Kerry, given the opportunity to exercise his right for a recount as a candidate that received a large percentage of the vote, declined to do so. As such, the Green Party and others raised $150,000 to pay Ohio to conduct the count.
Kerry-Edwards did join Cobb’s lawsuit suing to prevent the electors from voting before the recount was completed, which failed in court. They also issued a letter to Ohio Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell demanding an investigation.
Cobb says the letters are paper tigers.
“They’ve issued periodic letters which have no meaning under law,” Cobb remarked.
Asked whether he had a theory on why Kerry conceded so quickly, he replied, “John Kerry definitely wanted to beat Bush, but as a member of a ruling elite, the one thing that John Kerry values over everything else is continued membership in the ruling elite.”
“I think it’s shameful,” he added.
Cobb sees the Greens’ focus on Ohio as a continuation of his race for president.
“The Green Party is not going away,” he concluded. “The Green Party is getting stronger, larger and more organized.”
A Kerry spokesperson could not be reached for comment.
Isn't the amount kerry had left over $15 million, not $51 million?
The cobb guy can't even get that right.
The poodle ski's and lambastes America.
Friggin' Demolists.
(Proofreading available -- Reasonable rates)
The Libertarians are as big a bunch of screwballs as are the Greens - and Dems.
Nothing like liberals chewing each other up. This may be the best Christmas present we've ever gotten. Cheers! :)
Wow, it's hard to believe in this case Kerry is actually trying to do the honorable thing! He looks like a reasonable moderate compared to these left wing nut cases.
It`s so hard not to play with them before finishing them off.
Birds of a feather ~ Bump!
DU is singing the praises of Cobb, like he was the seconnd coming. Maybe this will be the beginnings of a bonafide third party. The left, the far left and the Republicans
I noticed that too. They're starting to turn on Kerry for doing the only thing half way honorbale he has done the entire campaign. Some are even calling Kerry a trader for not fighting for them.
Well, maybe it isn't true that he's failing to pursue the recount for an "honorable" reason. Maybe the recount will reveal democratic vote fraud.
After all, Jesse Jackson's suit filed with the Ohio Supreme Court, trying to block state vote certification, seemed to allege a long list of vote fraud tricks. Methinks he protested too much -- he seemed awfully familiar with voter tampering methods.
The dems got away, in the 2000 election contest in Florida, with accusing the repubs of tricks that the dems themselves were perpetrating. And the end result was that various initiatives went forward, post-election, aimed at cleaning up voting rules -- and those initiatives aided the repubs in 2004 and may very well have spelled the difference in the election.
And so Kerry may be trying to preserve some fleeting amount of democrat autonomy to commit vote fraud.
The actions of the Libertarians in Ohio have convinced me to never again vote for a Libertarian in any election.
Cobb has nowhere to go but up. I think he got a half a percent of the vote.
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