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Esteban's remark about the Green Party's presidential candidate for 2008 forced me to look around for any news on that subject.

Here's what I found: According to The Next Prez blog there are three announced candidates for the Green Party's 2008 presidential nomination:

Georgia's Nan Garrett
New Jersey's Robert Milnes
Texas's Kat Swift

Garrett was the Georgia Green Party's write-in candidate for governor in 2004 and received about 1000 votes. She is a former Clayton County judge and currently works as an attorney.

Milnes is a Libertarian hoping to run a unity campaign, bringing together the two strongest third parties.

Swift is a Texas Green Party activist. According to the Green Party's election database, she has never run for office as a Green.

They also list a number of candidates as probable. They are:

Medea Benjamin
Elaine Brown
Matt Gonzalez
Winona LaDuke
Pat LaMarche
Rebecca Rotzler
Rich Whitney

Most of those names have been floated before. Rich Whitney is the newcomer. He was the Illinois Green Party's candidate for governor in 2006. He is a lawyer with a long history of working on behalf of civil rights, the environment, labor and antiwar movements. Whitney received 361,163 votes for governor, which is more than David Cobb received for president in 2004.

I haven't heard any word from Ralph Nader, who has run for president every election since 1992. Hard to see him doing it again as a Green. Peter Camejo and David Cobb have both announced they will not run. There may be others, including some celebrity candidates. The ones most mentioned are: Former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; actress Susan Sarandon and former PBS newsman Billy Moyers.

I created an IRV poll at DemoChoice with 14 possible candidates. Please vote and let others know about it.