Kevin Zeese
Since graduating from George Washington
University Law School in 1980, Kevin Zeese has worked in Washington, D.C
.for a more fair and just society. He is running a “Unity for Change
Campaign", and has been nominated by three Maryland political parties, the
Green, Libertarian,
and Populist Parties. His campaign
committee also includes people from the Democratic and Republican Parties as
well as independents. This is the first time in history that these
three parties, or even two of them, have united behind one candidate.
Kevin is currently the director of the national anti-war group
DemocracyRising.US, an organization working to rapidly and
responsibly end the Iraq War and occupation. Kevin has consistently
linked our fossil-fuel economy, the war on terror, and global climate change
together in the development of his stances on economic issues, issues of
globalization, and security. He was a founding member of the Montgomery
County Coalition for Alternatives to War in Maryland, and a co-founder of
VotersForPeace.US an organization working to build a bloc of voters who will
not support pro-war candidates.
In Maryland, Kevin has been working for
transparent elections as a co-founder of
TrueVoteMD.org
- the leading advocacy group for transparent elections in Maryland and one
of the nation's leading citizen groups working to end paperless electronic
voting. Nationally he was a co-founder of
VoteTrustUSA.org, which brings together advocates for transparent
elections from across the United States.
As President of Common Sense for Drug Policy, Kevin is nationally recognized
as a leader of the effort to end the war on drugs and put in place a public
health approach to drug control. He was also a founding member of the
Treatment Not Incarceration Coalition in Maryland.
And he served on Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke's Working Group on Drug
Policy Reform in 1990.
Kevin has worked on local, state, and national political campaigns including
serving as Ralph Nader's Press Secretary and spokesperson in 2004.
Kevin registered with the Maryland Green Party. He is a founding member of
the Populist Party of Maryland as well as a member of Libertarian Party of
Maryland. He believes that the United States needs to be a government "of,
by and for the people" but that the two major political parties have become
corrupted by Big Business and wealthy donor contributions and no longer put
the needs of the people first.