Green Party Watch

The April/May issue of Bust Magazine (#50, page 20) features a one page profile of Cynthia McKinney by Alison Duncan. The article isn’t online (that I can find) but here are a few excerpts:

…McKinney’s goal in running for President is to secure a third seat at the public policy table. “If we’re successful, we can change the conversation and the outcome. We can do that by making the Green Party a major national party in this country,” she explains…

…McKinney plans to gain that Green seat by bringing the message and resources of her new party to communities of color. “We’re going to have to go into places we’ve never gone before in order to get a result that we’ve never had before,” she says…

…But what would America look like under a McKinney administration? “I would slash the Pentagon’s budget and invest in the needs of the American people,” the 53-year-old candidate explains. “We would have a foreign policy based on human rights. And our State Department, which would become the Department of Peace, would have as its main mission the protection and securement of American interests through an agenda of peace, rather than of war and economic exploitation.”

All in all a short but positive article about McKinney in a popular “niche” magazine.