Nader for President 2008 - MN Organization

Nader General Election Campaign Organization, Minnesota

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Office: 715 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403

State Coordinator

Danene Provencher

Green Party candidate for lieutenant governor in 2006. In 2004 Provencher led the drive to get Nader on the Minnesota ballot. In 2001 she organized the GPMN local in the third congressional district and in 2002 ran for Mound City Council, receiving 26 percent of the vote in a three-way race. Active with the Green Party of Minnesota since 2000; she was a volunteer in the Nader/LaDuke campaign. Provencher's activism goes back as far as the 1970s, when she helped with the Southern Landowners Alliance of Minnesota, a branch of the powerline protest movement. She is a small business owner and single mother.

Richard Buendorf	GOTV Field Coordinator	Minneapolis
Brian Prentis	Regional Coordinator	Austin
Joey Miller	Regional Coordinator	Duluth
Melody Spitz	Regional Coordinator	Faribault
Bill DuBois	Regional Coordinator	Marshall
Mike Mlekoday	Regional Coordinator	Minneapolis
Nicholas Snavely	Regional Coordinator	Minneapolis
Danene Provencher	Regional Coordinator	Mound
Larry Bourdeau	Regional Coordinator	Nevis
Colleen Donley	Regional Coordinator	Perham
Mary Devitt	Community Contact	Minneapolis
Debbie Kitzmann	Community Contact	Minneapolis
Kristen Olson	Community Contact	Minneapolis
Tyrus Thompson	Community Contact	Minneapolis
Helen Miller	Community Contact	St. Paul
Andrew Friesen	Campus Organizer, Bethel University	St. Paul
Chad Tulp	Campus Organizer, Inver Hills CC	Inver Grove Heights
Kc Mcelroy	Campus Organizer, Minnesota State University	Moorhead
Eric Wood	Campus Organizer, St. Cloud State University	St. Cloud
Karla Schulz	Campus Organizer, University of Minnesota	Twin Cities

Visits
Oct. 31, 2008 at 7pm - Ralph Nader at University of MN, Willey Hall, Room 175, 225 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Suggested contribution: $10/$5 students. 8:30pm - fundraiser at the Nader/Gonzalez ‘08 Minneapolis office 715 Hennepin Ave, Downtown Minneapolis. $100 donation (no corporate or PAC money allowed)

Sept. 4, 2008 - Super Rally at Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN.

Qualifying for the Ballot
To qualify to appear on Minnesota's ballot, state law requires submission of the signatures of 2,000 registered voters. The Nader/Gonzalez Campaign submitted around 4,000 signatures to the Secretary of State's office on Tues., Sept. 9, 2008.