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Article: Minneapolis top candidate for Green Party's '08 convention
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- July 25, 2007
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Mike Rose
University Wire
07-25-2007
(Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- Minneapolis might be getting greener in 2008 without planting a single tree.
The Green Party is currently considering Minneapolis along with Chicago, Detroit and Oakland, Calif., as potential host cities for its 2008 national convention. If held in Minneapolis, the convention would be only months before the Republican National Convention comes to St. Paul.
Cam Gordon, Minneapolis' Ward 2 councilman, spearheaded the campaign to bring the convention to Minneapolis.
Gordon, a Green Party member, was joined by another Green, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Commissioner Annie Young, at the Green Party National ...