Green Party presidential candidate Richard Grayson today reacted to the latest poll in the February 28 Arizona Green Party primary, saying it made him "very depressed." "There's just no good way to spin this poll," Grayson said.
The latest Ragamuffin Reports telephone survey of unlikely Arizona Green presidential preference primary voters finds Dr. Jill Stein leading with 61% support to Dr. Kent Mesplay’s 21%. The Rev. Michael Oatman is a distant third with 8% of the vote, followed by Gary Swing and Gerard Davis with 5% each, with Richard Grayson trailing with 0%. This Arizona survey of 122 unlikely Arizona Green presidential preference primary voters was conducted on February 11, 2012 by Ragamuffin Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 40 percentage points with a 35% level of confidence. Field work for all Ragamuffin Reports surveys is conducted by Putz Opinion Research, LLC. "I guess I might as well concede now," Grayson said, before leaving for the free show celebrating the second anniversary of The Underground in downtown Mesa. "But the poll didn't contact me, and I already cast an early vote for myself. Inshallah, I could double or even triple that in the final returns."
Richard Grayson, Pinal County Greens co-chair, was interviewed this afternoon by Eric English of TV's ABC15 of Phoenix about his candidacy for the Green Party presidential nomination. Grayson is running in the February 28 Arizona Green Party presidential preference primary.
Grayson, 60, first ran for President in 1984, when he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of the Democratic party to run against President Ronald Reagan. In 2004, Grayson ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a write-in candidate from a district where the Republican incumbent had no Democratic opponent and published his campaign diary at the McSweeney's website as "Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth Congressional District," and in 2010, Grayson was the Green Party candidate for Congress in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District, running against Representative Jeff Flake.
Grayson said he looked forward to actively campaigning in the primary. "I am happy to be Arizona's favorite stepson candidate in the Green Party presidential primary," he said. Other candidates are expected to file in the race during the weeks ahead.
