Nader chooses Camejo for VP

[newsguyatl]

Nader's VP selection is Peter Camejo, who ran for governor in California last year on the Green party ticket.

==

By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader
selected longtime Green Party activist Peter Camejo to be his
running mate on Monday, a move sure to boost his chances of winning
the Green Party's endorsement this week and its access to ballot
lines in 22 states and the District of Columbia.
Camejo, an investment adviser from Folsom, Calif., had been one
of two leading contenders for the Green Party's presidential
nomination.
The announcement came in advance of the Green Party convention
beginning Wednesday in Milwaukee. Nader, who ran as the Green Party
candidate in 2000, is not seeking the party's nomination but he has
pursued an endorsement from the third party.
"Camejo shares my concerns for economic and social justice as
well as the urgent need to protect our environment," Nader said in
a statement before introducing him at an afternoon news conference.
One Green Party leader said a Nader-Camejo ticket would have a
very strong chance of winning the party's endorsement.
"This is an opportunity for Nader to make an overture to the
party membership," said Ben Manski, one of five co-chairs of the
Green Party. "I think it certainly would put him much more in the
running but not a guarantee."
Nader also has been endorsed by the national Reform Party, which
gives him access to the ballot in at least seven states, including
the battlegrounds of Florida and Michigan.
Nader garnered nearly 3 percent of the vote in 2000, when he was
viewed by many as having cost Democrat Al Gore the White House by
taking votes in the deciding state of Florida. But he chose not to
run under the party banner this election year.

[checks-n-balances]

1. Why would a Green Party member agree to run with a Republican?

Or at least with someone who shares the Republican goal of re-electing Bush in '04?

I already knew that Nader had sold out, but I'm very disappointed in his running mate.

On edit: spelling correction.

[JI7]

2. Camejo is a smart guy

he supported the recall in california and said before the elections that california wanted a change. and he was right, they wanted a change so they got rid of gray davis and replaced him with arnold.