Ralph Nader really wanted California’s Green Party to consider him for its coveted ballot slot. The Greens wisely refused.
The Green Party of California has rejected a request from Ralph Nader to hold a special nominating convention that would have given him another shot at appearing on the state’s ballot as a presidential candidate.
Nader fell far short last week of submitting the 153,035 signatures required for him to make the California ballot as an independent presidential contender. His campaign then tried to persuade Green Party leaders to dump David Cobb, a Eureka lawyer, as their presidential nominee and substitute Nader.
But the party’s executive committee voted 11 to 7 on Tuesday not to convene its members for a meeting to reconsider their commitment to Cobb.
Hmm, I can’t imagine why the Green Party of California wouldn’t want to support the party’s two-time presidential candidate. Oh wait, now I remember.
A day after not getting the Green Party’s endorsement for president [in June], Ralph Nader brushed off the rejection as an inconvenience, described the party as “strange,” called the party’s national nominating convention “a cabal” and predicted who the big loser in its decision not to endorse him would be.
“The benefit was really for the Green Party,” Nader said yesterday of what an endorsement of him would have meant.
Did he really think they’d forget this slap in the face after just a month and a half?