Nader won’t run as Green Party candidate.
Nader Rejects Green Party Backing
Run for Presidency Still Possible as Independent Candidate
By Edward Walsh
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 23, 2003; Page A05
Ralph Nader, whose 2000 campaign many Democrats believe cost former vice
president Al Gore the presidency, has decided not to run for president
next year as the candidate of the Green Party but is still contemplating
a presidential race as an independent, a Nader associate said yesterday.
Ross Mirkarimi, who ran Nader’s presidential campaign in California,
said Nader recently called him to announce his intentions and is in the
process of informing national Green Party officials that he will not be
their standard-bearer in 2004.
“My understanding is that, if Nader runs, he does not want to run a
mediocre campaign, and he is trying to assess the political and resource
variables on how he would run the most serious campaign possible to
unseat George Bush,” Mirkarimi said. He said there appears to be “no
consensus” within the Green Party over its approach to the 2004 campaign.
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