Green Party Candidate Runs for Governor

Tuesday, November 29, 2005, WKSU News
By Kent State University
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Ohio's Green Party is fielding a candidate for governor in next year's election. He's Bob Fitrakis, a 50-year-old political science professor and lawyer from Columbus.

Fitrakis is making election reform and a fight against corruption his top campaign issues.

Fitrakis is well-known in left-wing political circles. Last year, he helped lead a legal challenge to President Bush's election victory, charging that Republicans stole the election and that Democrats didn't do enough to expose it. Now, Fitrakis is making election reform and a fight against corruption his top campaign issues.

In an interview with our statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen, Fitrakis blasts the Coingate scandal that's tarnished several Republican politicos. If Ohio Green Party activists collect the required 5-thousand petition signatures of registered voters, Bob Fitrakis' name will appear on the November 2006 ballot as an independent candidate for governor.

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