Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark has picked up
additional endorsements from leading environmental and Latino
leaders. As the presidential race narrows
down, Clark may become the last remaining Washington outsider
and anti-war candidate left in the race. With his military
experience and foreign policy credentials and Southern roots,
Clark has attracted a growing number of supporters from all areas
of the poltical specturm who feel he is the best candidate to
defeat Bush and bring about real change in Washington.
Clark is currently in second or third in New Hampshire daily
tracking polls and moving up and is in first or second in most
state polls in other primary states. Clark, who has a large
amount of support in the GLBT community, is featured this week on
the cover
of The Advocate one of the nation's largest GLBT
publications.
Latino
Civil Rights Activist Herman Gallegos - Building
on the endorsements of Texas Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz and
Charlie Gonzalez, Chair of the Hispanic Caucus Civil Rights Task
Force, Wes Clark this week picked up the endorsement of Herman
Gallegos. "For Hispanics--and for all Americans--General
Wesley Clark is the best choice for the future," said
Gallegos. "Clark has a vision for America, and he has the
moral fiber and integrity to advance the well being of all
Americans. He offers the best choice to close the gap between the
rhetoric of the American promise and the reality of
performance." As a civil rights activist in the early
1950's, Mr. Gallegos was active in the formation of the Community
Service Organization, a California based group organized to
promote citizenship and voter registration campaigns. In 1964,
Mr. Gallegos, Cesar Chavez and Ernesto Galarza were instrumental
in helping to end the "Bracero Program", a national
scheme of contract labor importation administered by the US
government on behalf of and for the profit of agribusiness.
Russell
Peterson, former Governor of Deleware and President of National
Audobon Society
Lester Brown, founder of Earth Policy Institute
W. Michael McCabe, former Director of EPA
Three top environmental thinkers and advocates
denounced the Bush administration's environmental record and
expressed support for the candidacy of Retired General Wesley K.
Clark...
"When George W. Bush took office, he became Commander in
Chief of the anti-environmentalist forces in America and around
the world," said Russell Peterson, former Governor of
Delaware and one-time president of the National Audubon Society,
at a press conference in Wilmington Wednesday morning..."We
are very, very lucky to have someone like Wes Clark to run on the
Democratic ticket and lead our country. We need a higher standard
of leadership in the White House," Peterson continued.
"George Bush is dismantling the bipartisan environmental
consensus that goes back to the Nixon administration," said
Brown, emphasizing that environmental policy and sound economics
go hand-in-hand. "We have the technology to restructure the
U.S. economy to make it cleaner and more efficient. Wes Clark
understands this. George Bush does not." Brown criticized
the current administration for its reluctance to take advantage
of existing technologies that would supply power to vehicles and
residences while emitting fewer greenhouse gases, which are
believed to be the principal cause of global warming and other
destructive climate change around the world. The renowned
environmentalist, who has been described by the Washington Post
as "one of the world's most influential thinkers," also
chastized the current administration for basing environmental
policy on its political agenda rather than on sound science.
Clark works on debate preparations in New Hampshire
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