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Julian Assange will be addressing the Green Party Convention on Saturday morning. Assange has been heavily involved in the U.S. elections this year, with WikiLeaks’ releasing damaging emails that showed officials in the Democratic party worked against Bernie Sanders’ campaign during the primary. The emails forced the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Here’s what you need to know. Julian Assange is scheduled to speak to the Green Party delegates through a live feed video on Saturday, August 6, the Green Party announced. He’ll be speaking at 11:45 a.m. Central, before the party nominates its presidential and vice presidential candidates. Jill...

Greens condemn bipartisan support for the Real ID Act and Iraq occupation appropriations.WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders claimed that Democrats are supporting some of the most damaging and extreme agenda of the Republican Party, citing the unanimous Senate vote to institute a national identity card for all Americans."We're moving towards a one-party system, with Democrats rubberstamping most Republican legislation," said David Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 presidential candidate.Senate Democrats and Republicans, unanimously and virtually without debate, approved the 'Real ID Act.' This legislation mandates electronic ID cards for all Americans in accord with Homeland Security Department specifications.Greens called the...

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...

Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb announced today that he would not pursue a recount in Nevada. Cobb and Libertarian Michael Badnarik had made the initial recount request on Monday.

Though Election Day was almost one month ago and Sen. John Kerry conceded the presidential race, his campaign is still not giving up in Ohio, the state which gave President Bush enough electoral votes for re-election. Kerry's campaign is looking to join a legal battle over the state's impending recount, and has asked an Ohio judge for permission to join two third-party candidates in the process.

Ohio — Today, attorneys representing the Kerry-Edwards campaign filed papers in Delaware County, Ohio to intervene in legal proceedings in defense of Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik and their legal counsel, the National Voting Rights Institute, who are seeking a recount of all votes cast for president in the Ohio 2004 general election.

CINCINNATI -- Third-party candidates for president said they would sue in federal court Monday to force a recount of Ohio ballots before returns are certified next week - prompting one election official to say he might mobilize fellow counties to resist a recount. "Counties are very upset," said Keith Cunningham, director of the Allen County Board of Elections and incoming president of the Ohio Association of Election Officials, who called the lawsuit "frivolous." "Commissioners are beginning to understand - and if they don't, will understand soon - what kind of financial impact this is going to have on them, in...

8:38PM CT The first report from St. Louis is in - and presidential candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green Party) were just arrested. Badnarik was carrying an Order to Show Cause, which he intended to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Earlier today, Libertarians attempted to serve these same papers at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the CPD - but were stopped from approaching the CPD office by security guards.

COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAY Candidates arrested at debate Libertarian, Green party nominees tried to serve commission -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 9, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Two third-party presidential candidates were arrested at the presidential debate in St. Louis when they tried to serve the debate commission with a show cause order. Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party and David Cobb of the Green Party were protesting their exclusion from the debate between President Bush and Democratic Party nominee John Kerry. Just as the debate began, the two candidates purposely crossed a police barricade and were arrested. The debate...

The Green Party nominated Texas attorney David Cobb as its candidate for president Saturday, dealing a blow to independent Ralph Nader's campaign. Nader, the party's candidate in 1996 and 2000, had hoped for the party's endorsement and access to the ballot Greens have in 22 states and Washington, D.C. Instead, he will have to find another way to get on the ballot in those states, including Wisconsin and California. CBS News Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch says the development is sure to make Democrats smile, since they're convinced Nader would take more votes from presumptive nominee John Kerry than from...

MILWAUKEE - The Green Party nominated Texas attorney David Cobb as its candidate for president Saturday, rejecting Ralph Nader (news - web sites)'s efforts to secure the party's formal endorsement and likely access to the ballot in key states like Wisconsin and California. Nader, the party's candidate in 1996 and 2000, had told Green officials months ago he would not accept the party's nomination for president, preferring to build a coalition of third-party groups and independents rather than running under one banner. Still, he openly courted their formal endorsement as a means to get on the ballot in the 22...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) - The Green Party on Saturday refused to back Ralph Nader in his independent run for the White House, a move that could reduce his chances of being a factor in this year's election. Delegates to the half-million-member party's presidential convention voted to nominate party activist David Cobb, a California lawyer who led the delegate count going into the meeting. On the second round of voting, Cobb captured 408 delegates, more than the 385 needed to gain the nomination. "What you have here before you are working class people who have demonstrated that it is possible to...

Greens Pick a Candidate Not Named Nader By RICK LYMAN Published: June 27, 2004 MILWAUKEE, June 26 - The Green Party of the United States rebuffed efforts by Ralph Nader to win its endorsement for president by voting Saturday to make David Cobb, a longtime party activist, its 2004 presidential candidate. Mr. Cobb, 41, immediately reached out to Mr. Nader, who drew 3 percent of the national vote when he was the party's nominee in 2000, as well as to Mr. Nader's Green supporters, asking them to put what had been a raucous convention battle behind them. "Ralph Nader has...

They're back. Sporting anticorporate buttons, peace bandannas and tie-dyed shirts, the members of the Green Party of the United States - whose support of a Ralph Nader candidacy four years ago many believe cost Democrats the White House in 2000 - are in the midst of another national convention. This time, they are openly and passionately split about whether to endorse Mr. Nader and campaign enthusiastically against both President Bush and Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, or nominate another candidate who will not directly attack the Democratic nominee in crucial swing states. "It is an honest difference of opinion about...

MILWAUKEE - For Green Party delegate Tony Affigne, the question of nominating the relatively unknown David Cobb for president or endorsing the high-profile Ralph Nader comes down to one thing. Which one is better suited to grow the Green Party and ensure its views are part of this fall's presidential campaign? Green Party delegates began arriving Wednesday in Milwaukee for their national convention, many of them asking themselves the same question. Cobb has won a plurality of delegates in the Green Party's primaries and caucuses, but Nader has been the party's candidate in the last two elections. He also offers...