Northern Colorado's Largest Paper
Endorses Green Candidate Bob
Kinsey for Congress
October 27, 2004
The Fort
Collins Coloradoan, the largest general circulation newspaper
in Colorado's sprawling 4th Congressional District, today endorsed
Green Party candidate Bob Kinsey for Congress.
According to the lead editorial in the October 26, 2004 issue, "An
honest approach earns Green Party Bob Kinsey an endorsement for the
Fourth Congressional District... his campaign's goal to get people
to pay attention to the issues rather than the candidates deserves
merit. Kinsey doesn't couch his responses, nor did he rely on attack
ads to blast away at his opponents."
Kinsey, a former schoolteacher, minister and Marine who was the
first candidate to announce back in February, is opposed by Democratic
attorney Stan Matsunaka and the incumbent Republican Congresswoman,
Marilyn Musgrave. Musgrave has garnered national attention for her
sponsorship of the Federal Marriage Amendment to deny marriage rights
to same-gender couples.
In an e-mail to supporters, Kinsey celebrated the endorsement and
thanked his campaign volunteers. "We have held high the Green
Party Values and people have connected with them," he stated. "I
am deeply grateful for the work and support which has made it all
possible. Now is the time to move beyond the campaign and into future
Green organizing. We should become the replacement for the failed
Democratic Party and capture the imagination of the progressives
in Northern and Eastern Colorado.
The Coloradoan endorsement may be the first endorsement of a Green
Congressional candidate in a three-way race by a major newspaper
in Colorado history.
Kinsey for Congress, PO Box 1097, Fort Collins, CO 80522, www.kinseyforcongress.org,
media@kinseyforcongress.org
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