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Title:	Green candidates to speak out on war
START DATE:	3/14/2006
START TIME:	6:00 PM
Duration:	1 Hours
Location:	east los angeles, west sgv
Location Details:
Neighborhood Church 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd. Pasadena, CA
Event Topic:	war
Event Type:	conference
Contact Name:	Philip Koebel
Contact Email:	pkoebel@gmail.com
Contact Phone:	(626) 797-6342
DESCRIPTION:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact for More Info: Philip Koebel 626-797-6342 The first ever Green Party primary election for the California legislature will be a race to succeed Carol Liu for the 44th Assembly District. Ricardo Costa and Philip Koebel will formally announce their candidacies at a joint press conference Tuesday immediately prior to the American Civil Liberties Union debate "Is the War in Iraq a Civil Liberties Issue?" The press conference will be held at 6 p.m., March 14, 2006, in front of Neighborhood Church at 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd. in Pasadena. Stopping America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is a key issue for both candidates. "We want peace at the top of the agenda in Sacramento," said Koebel. "We want the troops home now and we need legislative leadership brave enough to stand up to Bush and Arnold." "The wars are obviously very much a domestic issue," Costa said. "To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., the bombs in Iraq explode at home." Reflecting Green values, the Costa and Koebel campaigns will be openly coordinated. The campaigns share a post office box and the candidates worked side-by-side in February to register 150 new Greens and gather more than 400 nomination signatures for themselves and for Green Party candidate for U.S. Congress, Bill Paparian. "Yes, we're saving money by working together and learning from each other, but mostly we are making a statement about the need for cooperation," said Costa, a unionized motion picture projectionist who lives and works in Pasadena. "With their hyped-up competitiveness, even in primaries, the major parties aren't informing voters in a balanced way; instead, they're advertising like Coke and Pepsi." Mr. Koebel added "voters want to elect someone who shares their values. We want people to know both of us well enough, so they can decide without confusion which of us would better represent them. Equally informed voters make for a healthy democracy." Costa and Koebel agree on many pressing issues. Both are pro-choice, pro-peace, and anti-racist. As Greens, neither will accept corporate contributions and want corporations criminally liable for misdeeds like pollution and war-profiteering. "We were drawn to the Green Party because it is a party of principles," said Costa, "so it's not surprising to see that Philip and I agree on issues of social and economic justice." "Our differences are in emphases," pointed out Koebel. "Ricardo grew up in a union family - his dad was a steelworker - and he speaks Spanish fluently, while I have a track record as an advocate for renting families and their kids, especially youth of color." Costa is a long-time union member himself and his wife teaches music in public schools. Koebel owns a member services company, RENTCLUB, that resolves landlord disputes for renting families. He also works as an education advocate for children with learning dis/abilities. This is Costa's first foray into electoral politics and Koebel's third entry. Koebel ran for Mayor of Pasadena in 2003 and for U.S. Congress in 2004 in the 29th congressional district race that this time around features the former Mayor of Pasadena, Bill Paparian, the lone Green, and a Democratic primary between the incumbent and peace activist Bob McCloskey. The 44th Assembly District sprawls from La Canada-Flintridge and Eagle Rock through Altadena, Pasadena, South Pasadena, and Temple City then stretches east along the 210 freeway through parts of Arcadia and Monrovia to Duarte. The primary election will be held June 6th.

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