Campbell for Governor: Going to Hell and Back to Get the Green Message Out; 

Sole for Senate Campaign Says Exclusionary Debates Leave out Views of Majority of Voters

Green Party of Michigan
www.migreens.org

Douglas Campbell for Governor
www.votecampbell2006.org

Going to Hell and Back to Get the Green Message Out

October 17, 2006

Campbell Also Teams Up with "Bottom of Ticket" Local Candidate; Offers DeVos Jr., Granholm "Un-Catch-22" So They Can Join CMN Debate Oct. 18 in Troy

Douglas Campbell, two-time candidate for governor of the Green Party of Michigan (GPMI), has been criss-crossing the state to bring the people the Green message of "Peace, Jobs, & Justice". Today, he traveled to Hell -- and back -- taking his campaign door-to-door in that famously-named Michigan community, before an AARP gubernatorial candidate forum on health policy at the EMU Convocation Center in Ypsilanti and more grassroots campaigning in Ann Arbor with Ward 3 City Council candidate Pete Schermerhorn. 

Campbell is also still trying to help two of his rivals make it to a debate which he and two other candidates have already signed on for -- moderated by WXYT-AM 1270 radio current-events show host Charlie Langton -- to be taped at Community Media Network in Troy starting at 5:30pm Wednesday, Oct. 18. CMN will also make copies of the program available for individuals and other public-access stations. 

Campbell and fellow Greens gathered at the Dam Site Inn in Hell at 10am on Saturday. They went door- to-door in Hell and surrounding communities through the morning. Campbell then headed for the health- policy forum in Ypsilanti at 2pm -- though AARP wasn't prepared to talk about his plans for statewide universal health care. And he ended the day with more door-to-door campaigning in Ann Arbor's Ward 3 -- teaming up with Schermerhorn, GPMI's candidate in that ward's City Council race. 

Campbell also hopes to talk next week with the latecomers to the Nov. 7 ballot, Jennifer Granholm and Dick DeVos, Jr. 

"Dick & Jen's private agreement -- their deal with the devil they know, each other -- stomps on the public's right to know. The first of its 21 clauses bars them from even commenting on debates with all five candidates. But they can agree in writing to change that contract. So we're going to make it easy for them. We're sending them a new clause -- an 'un-Catch 22' -- so they can talk each other, or dare each other, into showing up at CMN in Troy by 5:30pm on the 18th. 

"I'll be there. So will Libertarian Gregory Creswell and Bhagwan Dashairya of the US Taxpayers Party. We'll be ready, as we have been since before they joined us on the ballot, to let the people of Michigan know where _all_ the candidates stand on _all_ the issues. And we all welcome CMN's help in spreading the news statewide." 

Campbell will have copies of the new clause available for the two missing candidates at the last of their closed-door quasi-debates, a town-hall forum Oct. 16 at WXYZ. He has been turned away by armed guards and chain-link fence from their earlier private talking-point recitals at WKAR Oct. 2 and WOOD Oct. 10. 

Campbell asks voters to urge Dick & Jen to go to Troy. "Our state's leader for the next four years must have the courage to face all views. And you deserve to know about all the candidates you'll face on the ballot. You're entitled to insist on the _whole_ story -- from them and from the media." 

For information on Campbell, running mate David Skrbina, and their platform, visit www.votecampbell2006.org

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Sole for Senate Campaign
5920 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
313-680-5508

Sole for Senate Campaign Says Exclusionary Debates Leave out Views of Majority of Voters

Released October 15, 2006

"SENATE CANDIDATES' DEBATE" DEMONSTRATES NEED FOR DAVID SOLE, GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE, TO BE INCLUDED SO MAJORITY ANTI-WAR VIEW IS INCLUDED

SOLE BLASTS STABENOW/BOUCHARD "JOBS" PLANS AS TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS

SOLE FOR SENATE SUPPORTERS VOW TO DEMONSTRATE AT DETROIT ECONOMIC CLUB DEBATE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006, 11:00 AM, AT THE MARRIOTT HOTEL, WOODWARD AND RANDOLPH IN DETROIT AT THE GM HEADQUARTERS

CONTACT: (313) 680-5508 or http://stopthewarslate.org 

The October 15 "Senate candidates" debate demonstrated why it is so critical the David Sole, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, and the only anti-war candidate be included in the debates and have his views publicized by the media.

On the same day polls indicated that 65% of the people of Michigan oppose the Iraq war, in the so-called Senate debate, both Stabenow and Bouchard voiced support for the war. While Stabenow stated she initially voted against the war, she made clear that ever since she has voted for every single military appropriation to fund and maintain the war. When asked if she would call for a time limit for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, she refused to do so, and echoed the Bush double talk about the Iraqi forces taking a more active role, a total joke in light of recent events. Bouchard echoed Stabenow's support for the war.

In contrast, David Sole, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate stated: "I call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq. 3000 U.S. troops have been killed, tens of thousands more have been seriously injured, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people have been killed as a recent of this illegal and immoral war, fought at the behest of the U.S. oil companies." Sole added: "The cost of the Iraq war is now $334 billion. If that money had been used for human needs and not war, Michigan's share, $8.9 billion, could have gone a long way toward providing health car, housing and jobs at living wages for all."

Sole continued: "In the debate Stabenow was asked if she supported a national health plan. She ducked the question. I support a free national health plan which would be funded by dramatically slashing the Pentagon budget which was recently passed without opposition in the U.S. Senate. Both candidates expressed their anti-immigrant views. I support amnesty and full legal rights for all immigrants. And both candidates repeated the failed "trickle down economics" calling for tax breaks for big business to protect jobs. I call for an immediate moratorium on all plant closings and lay-offs and a public works program to rebuild our cities, a shorter work week, a $15 hour minimum wage and elimination of corporate bankruptcy laws which allow companies to use bankruptcy to eliminate workers' pensions." Sole is available for interviews at 313-680-5508.