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SOCIALIST PARTY NOMINATES MOORE FOR PRESIDENT </strong></p>
<p class="leftCopy"><em><strong>Antiwar Activist Nominated on Third
Ballot at Party's National Convention in St. Louis</strong></em></p>
<p class="leftCopy">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.</p>
<p class="leftCopy">A
graduate of Mission San Luis Rey College in California with a Master's
degree in Public Administration from Arizona State University, Moore
once studied in a Franciscan seminary before joining the Peace Corps in
1969. As a Peace Corps volunteer and later working for a non-profit
agency, Moore was heavily involved in community development and
infrastructure projects in some of the poorest neighborhoods of
Bolivia, Panama and Peru. Conversant in Spanish and familiar with
Brazilian Portuguese, he later helped design and implement several
public health projects in other Latin American countries. He also
raised $3 million for a de-worming project that successfully protected
more than one million children from parasitic infections in some of the
most poverty-stricken areas of Brazil, Guatemala and the Dominican
Republic.</p>
<p class="leftCopy">No stranger to long-shot
political campaigns, Moore waged several unsuccessful bids for mayor
and city council in Washington, D.C., and twice ran for the U.S. House
of Representatives from Florida's fifth congressional district. Last
year, he polled 19,695 votes as independent antiwar candidate against
Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican challenger Katherine Harris. During
that campaign, he called for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice
President Cheney and traveled to Cuba to underscore his opposition to
the four decades-long U.S. embargo against that island nation and to
learn more about that country's national health care system and its
economic development programs. </p>
<p class="leftCopy">A
founder and chair of the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace &
Justice, an antiwar group founded in 2002, Moore has been a persistent
critic of U.S. military involvement in Iraq. In accepting the Socialist
Party's nomination, the Florida gadfly said that he will make the
immediate and total withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq and
Afghanistan and opposition to a potential attack on Iran central themes
of his campaign. "Stopping the war is our highest priority," he said.
"More than a million Iraqis, including tens of thousands of innocent
men, women and children, have died in this tragic and misguided
debacle, not to mention more than 3,800 of our own men and women — and
for no legitimate reason," added Moore. </p>
<p class="leftCopy">The
Socialist nominee also favors public-financing of elections to lessen
the effects of corporate influence in American politics and to help
usher in a multi-party system. Citing a recent report by the Wall
Street Journal, Moore stressed that he will also focus on the widening
gap between the rich and the poor in the United States, a disparity
greater than at any time since the 1920s. "The wealthy have benefited
tremendously from the recent boom in the financial markets, while the
working poor in this country are struggling more than ever just to make
ends meet," said Moore, whose party's economic program includes
guaranteed jobs, housing, and health care for every American.</p>
<p class="leftCopy">Moore
is also seeking the California-based Peace & Freedom Party's
nomination and will compete against longtime consumer advocate Ralph
Nader — a man who endorsed Moore's Senate campaign last year — and
several others in the party's February 5 presidential primary.<br>
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