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• 1 Green in Brooklyn // Aug 25, 2008 at 11:31 pm

  Two thoughts:

  1) kinda boring

  2) No Green Party branding. None.

  Whoever is designing these needs to go back to the drafting table and at least get the Green party in there somewhere. If she is truly running to support the green party, she needs to show it!

• 2 Robb Black // Aug 26, 2008 at 8:17 am

  So what if it doesn’t have Green Party branding? Look at Obama’s tshirts or McCain’s tshirts. Do they have Democrat or Republican written on them? Noooooooo.

  She is our candidate. She is proud to be our candidate. I think the apparel looks great and I can’t wait to get mine.

• 3 Dave S // Aug 26, 2008 at 9:27 am

  “Look at Obama’s tshirts or McCain’s tshirts. Do they have Democrat or Republican written on them? Noooooooo.”

  Because everyone in the entire world knows what parties those guys are in. I’m with Brooklyn here; selling a t-shirt for a GP candidate that doesn’t even say “Green Party” is bush league. We’re not saying the shirts don’t look great, but this is a little like making an event poster and leaving off the date and time.
  If we had some way to tell what percentage of Americans even 1. know the GP exists 2. know that Cynthia McKinney is the Green candidate, I’m sure that would make the point a little stronger. We need publicity badly.

• 4 Green in Brooklyn // Aug 26, 2008 at 9:34 am

  Exactly Dave S, people still think Nader is running as a Green. Even a front and back thing on the T-shirt would work, but The Green Party should be branded and highlighted on every piece of lit, t-shirt, bumper sticker, etc.

• 5 JK // Aug 28, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  Can you guys please tell us how to order the shirt and bumber stickers? Also will you all please do a publicist stunt to MAKE the main stream media stop hiding your’re running? They’re so afraid Obama is going to lose one black vote or one female vote they won’t even mention this truly HISTORIC TICKET OF CHANGE. I mentioned McKinney and Clemente on a radio station in S.F. and the black female DJ hung up the phone in my face. If no one knows McKinney and Clemente are running how can they vote for them? Get on the ball!!!!

• 6 David Gaines // Aug 28, 2008 at 6:21 pm

  The Nader/LaDuke campaign material in 2000 never mentioned the Green Party anywhere, either. It’s not unusual for small or minority parties to leave the party name off of the material, on the theory that the brand doesn’t “sell well” and promoting it hurts rather than helps your candidate’s chances. Republicans, for example, in heavily Democratic districts/states (and vice versa) will routinely leave their party name off of all campaign material because when you’re on the 20 end of an 80/20 split in the electorate, you have enough going against you without advertising a brand name that has already been soundly rejected by the vast majority of voters in the area.

  Gordon Clark, whose campaign I’m managing for Congress here in Maryland’s 8th district, is also foregoing party identification on his campaign material for exactly this reason. I’m not sure that, if we were to do it all over again, I’d make the same decision, but it is helping us with progressive Democrats, irrational Nader haters who still blame the GP for everything, etc. It helps to be able to focus on the candidate himself rather than have to extricate him from a pigeonhole that a lot of people would be putting him in if the label “Green Party” were attached to everything with his name on it.

  Having said all of that, I had some McKinney bumperstickers of my own printed up and I put “Vote Green 2008″ at the bottom. I think at the presidential level, when you don’t have the name recognition or massive following of a Ralph Nader, it’s probably a good idea for 3rd party candidates to go ahead and do it, especially if one of your stated goals is to build the party organization.

• 7 David Gaines // Aug 28, 2008 at 6:24 pm

  P.S. - I do think it’s odd that this shirt and sticker have “for President” but not “for Vice President.” If you have one, you should have the other, or just have the names by themselves. It looks like someone just took the original McKinney campaign design and shoved the name “Clemente” in as an afterthought.

  And as far as the lack of “Green Party” goes, it occurs to me that people who find that to be a problem can simply wear a Green Party button along with it, or in the case of the bumpersticker slap on one of the GPUS Green Party bumperstickers next to it. Problem solved.

• 8 Daniel Alley // Oct 23, 2008 at 6:32 am

  the pins are on gp.org

  they ran out of shirts and bumper stickers and are “ordering some more” -
  but it seems increasingly unlikely they will get here before the election.

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