Thursday, November 1, 2007

Go Green (or go home?)

By Zach Baker

Robert Casey, president of WIU's Campus Greens, presented the party's platform planks in which only one plank was not moved, plank #8 -- prayers in public schools.

Delegates are seated around circular dinner tables, and appear to be engaging in their own personal convention with hundreds of conversations flowing about. Unfortunately, delegates' chit-chat was anything but political in nature.

Green Party hopefuls gave their nominating speeches onscreen via the internet. A very mumbled collection of speeches presented to delegates didn't manage to grab any of the delegates' attention.

The atmosphere so far has been fairly non-engaging between the party and its potential voters. Hopefully things will get interesting once delegates begin to vote for their Green Party candidate for president.

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