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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Socialist Party Nominates Moore for President

SOCIALIST PARTY NOMINATES MOORE FOR PRESIDENT

Antiwar Activist Nominated on Third Ballot at Party's National Convention in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS — Antiwar activist Brian P. Moore of Spring Hill, Florida, was nominated for President of the United States at the Socialist Party USA national convention in St. Louis late Saturday afternoon. The 64-year-old Moore, a former independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, defeated longtime party activist and author Eric Chester of Massachusetts, a retired economics professor, on the convention's third ballot to win the party's nomination. Stewart A. Alexander, a longtime civil rights activist from Murietta, California, was tapped as Moore's vice-presidential running mate. Alexander was the Peace & Freedom Party's candidate for lieutenant governor of California in 2006...

Read more at www.VoteBrianMoore.com, www.vote-socialist.org, www.sp-usa.org, and www.spboston.org.