Ralph Nader Wins Peace & Freedom Presidential Nomination at Convention in Sacramento

VERY URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Contact: Debra Reiger (916) 698-8131 or C.T. Weber (916) 320-9186
See http://www.peaceandfreedom.org

ATTENTION: Weekend News Desks

Ralph Nader wins presidential nomination
on Peace and Freedom Party 2008 ticket
at Saturday convention in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO – Ralph Nader – the former Green Party presidential candidate
now running an independent campaign – was chosen as the nominee for
President on the 2008 Peace and Freedom Party ticket at the party's
nominating convention late Saturday afternoon here in Sacramento at the
Hawthorne Suites.

Nader garnered just over 50 percent on the first floor ballot, and his
victory guarantees his name will appear on the ballot for President in
California. He was the 1996 and 2000 presidential nominee for the Greens.
He ran an independent race in 2004, as he is this year.

His running mate is Matt Gonzalez, a former Green Party president of the
Board of Supervisors in San Francisco.

Cynthia McKinney, the former 12-time Democratic Party member of Congress
and this year's Green Party nominee for President, finished behind Nader.
She won the Green Party nomination last month in Chicago. Nader chose not
to compete for that nomination.

Also vying for the nomination for the Peace and Freedom Party Saturday was
Gloria La Riva, the 2008 presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism
and Liberation, and Brian Moore, the 2008 presidential nominee for the
Socialist Party.

In the Peace and Freedom Party's presidential preference primary in
California earlier this year – which was not binding – the results were
Nader (41 percent), McKinney (21 percent), La Riva (20 percent) and Moore
(11 percent).

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