David Cobb
David Allan Cobb (b. 1963) is an American lawyer, activist, and political candidate for President from the Green Party of the United States (GPUS).
During the 1980s, Cobb maintained a successful private practice as an attorney in Houston, Texas, and campaigned for the Democratic Presidential candidacies of Jesse Jackson and Jerry Brown. As a result of his experiences, however, Cobb became disenchanted with the Democratic Party, and declined to campaign for them any further. Instead, he turned his activism to the issues of democracy and corporations, appearing at lectures, seminars, and workshops throughout the U.S. with various citizens' groups to promote his view that corporations have become unelected governing institutions, and that a nonviolent democratic revolution is needed in response.
In 2000, Green Presidential candidate Ralph Nader asked Cobb to organize the Greens, and Nader's campaign, in Texas, and Cobb closed his law practice to do so. He coordinated a successful ballot access drive in the state. Concurrently, Cobb became the GPUS's General Counsel.
In 2002, Cobb ran for Attorney General of Texas on the Green ticket, and used his candidacy to "barnstorm" in areas of Texas with little Green representation. He was unsuccessful in the election, but the Green Party of Texas grew dramatically during his campaign, from four local chapters to 26. The next year, Cobb was tabbed as a possible Presidential candidate by a Green committee, and he accepted the challenge, taking an indefinite leave of absence as General Counsel.
With the announcement in late December 2003 that Ralph Nader would not seek the nomination of the Green Party for President in 2004, Cobb was considered by some Greens to have become the front-runner for the party's nomination, which will be decided at their convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in June. On January 13, 2004, David Cobb won the first Green primary in the nation, that of the District of Columbia, beating local activist Sheila Bilyeu and several write-in candidates, and gaining the early lead in the race for the nomination. (Though the results of the Democratic primary in D.C. were not binding, the results in the Green primary were.)
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2004 US election | 2004 United States Presidential Election | List of people on stamps of the United States | People on stamps of the United States | Third United States Congress | U.S. Presidential election, 2004 | US presidential election, 2004
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