Not this time, Zeese tells The Sun's Matthew Hay Brown. He's working instead for a group called VotersForPeace, which is organizing "peace voters" but not endorsing any particular candidate.
But Zeese said another Marylander is following in his footsteps, at least for the time being. Chris Driscoll, the Populist Party candidate for Maryland governor in 2006, is Nader's interim press director.
The Nader campaign was a bit busy yesterday, so I never connected with Driscoll. A guy who answered the phone at Nader HQ confirmed Driscoll's position, but couldn't shed any light on the "interim" bit.
Marc Steiner, that corporate lackey
Yet another front has broken out in the Bring Back Steiner war. Local Green Party members - already split over whether to let activist Bob Kaufman join their efforts - can't decide if Steiner is a man of the people or just The Man.
"Charm City Greens, a Baltimore City local of the Maryland Green Party, distances itself from individual Greens and others who are fighting to bring back Marc Steiner to WYPR," reads a press release from co-chairman Myles Hoenig, who claims that Steiner was cozy with mainstream pols and sponsor Constellation Energy but gave short shrift to third-party types.
I bounced that off Steiner, who, incidentally, said he's "looking ahead." (He's been talking with "a couple" of radio stations and doing interviews for his blog. He just posted audio of his 40-minute chat with journalist Maria Hinojosa about her PBS report on child brides. Find it by Googling "Marc Steiner blog.")
Steiner got a laugh out of the Green's anti-Steiner wing. Or rather, as YPR listeners will recall, he got a cackle out of it.
"That's insane," Steiner said. "Nobody gave the Green Party as much space on the air as we did. ... Corporate Steiner, that's me."
Connect the dots
Maria Allwine, the former Green Party candidate for City Council president, would really, really like me to stress that she's not the only one who kept activist Kaufman from joining a Steiner strategy session. (A photo caption that ran with this column made it sound as if she was acting alone.) ... At Olney Theatre Center through March 9: Doubt. One of the producers: former Maryland first lady Frances Hughes Glendening.
