* * Local Green Party backs ex-Ga. legislator for president

* 01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, April 6, 2008*

*By Mark Reynolds

Journal Staff Writer*

Thirty-six members of Rhode Island's Green Party gathered yesterday
afternoon and picked a slate of delegates that favors a former Georgia
congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, for the party's presidential nomination.

McKinney, an ardent opponent of the U.S. military presence in Iraq, is among
a group of presidential hopefuls angling for the Green nomination in advance
of the party's national convention in Chicago in July.

The Rhode Islanders voted to support McKinney with six delegates and to
align the state's two remaining delegate votes behind another candidate,
Jesse Johnson of West Virginia.
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At the GPRI convention the vote was 73% for Cynthia McKinney 27% for Jesse
Johnson. Delegate allocation is 6 for Mckinney, 2 for Johnson.