Midgelle Regina Potts

About me:

Peace Activist Officially Announces Candidacy for Missouri's US Senate Seat Converting America's Nuclear Arsenal into Economic Growth will be major priority of Progressive Party Candidate SPRINGFIELD, MO – Midge Potts, who previously ran against Representative Roy Blunt in Missouri's 7th Congressional district 2006 Republican Primary, made an official announcement on Thursday June 25th that she intends on entering the race to fill Missouri's US Senate seat currently held by Senator Kit Bond who is retiring. Ms. Potts, who is the state co-chair of the Progressive Party of Missouri, said she made the announcement in conjunction with the Proposition One Nuclear Diarmament Tour so that she could highlight Nuclear Disarmament as the center piece of her campaign platform. The announcement, made in front of a substantial crowd of supporters, took place at a local coffee house across from Missouri State University Campus in Potts' hometown of Springfield, MO. "I fully support the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act that was first introduced into the House of Representatives by Washington DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton." said Midge Potts, If elected, I intend on introducing a version of the bill in the US Senate." The bill would essentially dismantle the nuclear arsenal kept by the United States in proportion to the weapons maintained by other countries with nuclear capability, and would convert the money spent on maintaining America's nuclear missle program on healthcare and other essential social programs. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists the United States currently has over 5,000 nuclear weapons. "As a fiscal conservative, I would also like to see a significant portion of the money saved by disarming American nukes used to pay down our 10 trillion dollar debt." Potts said, "Other issues that will play an intregal part of my platform include cancelling America's participation in NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, withdrawing all US troops from the Middle East, balancing the federal budget, abolishing the IRS and the Federal Reserve, as well as making it legal for American farmers to grow hemp and marijuana. I will also be talking about not-for-profit healthcare as a defense issue that could save countless lives in the United States." Midge Potts, who has twice run for the House of Representatives, is best known for the 2007 protest in which she was standing behind former CIA operative Valerie Plame in a House Government Oversight Committee hearing with an Impeach Bush Now t-shirt. Other protests with signs behind Bush administration officials, including Alberto Gonzales, Condoleeza Rice, and Robrt Gates, have landed photos of Potts in the New York Times, USA Today and other major news publications. The Progressive Party of Missouri, affiliated with the Green Party of the United States, currently does not have ballot status in Missouri. PPMO will have to gather 10,000 verified signatures statewide to put Potts on the ballot in 2010. ###END### Please check out VotersForPeace.US and sign the pledge to vote only for candidates who are steadfastly against the Occupation of Iraq and U.S. imperialism.

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One easy thing you can do is to put one of my banners on your MySpace profile or website. If you can, please link it to http://www.myspace.com/potts4congress Here are a few, but I will be making more... and by the way, if you have some graphic art skills, please help me design artwork for flyers, posters, and e-banners, etc... And if you have any other ideas for me, please feel free to share them... I will listen! Thanks, Midge
P.S. I don't expect you to be able to donate, but if you can afford to, it would be put to good use!

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WHO AM I? I am a 40 year old transgender social justice activist... actually, I am a "Folktivist", as in the fact that I am a "Folk Music Activist". I am running for US Senate in Missouri in 2010.

This political system is such a huge joke that I thought I ought to put the exclamation point on it! I am tired of hearing everybody say "there's nothing we can do".

If your interests are not really being represented, then you have the choice of representing yourSelf.

I feel I am qualified to represent the people of Southwest Missouri because I have represented myself pro se in DC Supreior Court twice after being arrested for civil disobedience in regard to the US occupation of Iraq. I have spent hundreds of hours in Congressional hearings and have a decent understanding of what goes on in the halls of Congress.



The public has always had access to government archives; however, the internet has now made it much easier to represent yourSelf in that it allows us access to much information about law... from federal legislation to current state statutes, from municipal codes to election laws... You can be your own lawyer if you choose to educate yourSelf... and perhaps, individual citizens should be allowed to be our own representatives in the federal government... or at least at the state level and community levels. This is why it is very important that we in America have a great public discussion on the benefits of striving toward the ideal of "direct democracy".

I am especially worried about America's youth... my message to you is "Don't give up hope"

Don't let people tell you that you can't live your dreams, because you can do anything you put your heart mind and soul into!

If you feel like it, and you live in Missouri, you can register to vote, and vote for the shemale peace activist that REALLY wants to make changes in the way our government works.

How will I make changes? With ideas from people like you! I want to listen to your ideas of how America can be a better place to live. So, please leave me comments and tell me what is on your mind.

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I will stick by my word on these and any promises I make during my Congressional campaign:

1) I promise to serve no more than 1 term, and I will introduce a term limit Constitutional admendment in the US Senate.

2) I promise to NEVER take campaign contributions from any Political Action Committees including corporations, unions, and ALL "special interests"

3) I promise to introduce legislation changing the current system of retirement benefits for MEMBERS OF CONGRESS so that they have to PAY INTO SOCIAL SECURITY like all other Americans. In addition, I will demand that Congress stop borrowing money from the Social Security trust fund.

I also promise to listen to my constituents by instituting a People's Veto

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Mar 3, 2006 - Springfield News-Leader
Mar 26, 2006 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mar 27, 2006 - KY3-TV
Apr 15, 2006 - Associated Press
May 26, 2006 - Interview in EXP Magazine
June 27, 2006 - Roll Call - Capital Hill's Newspaper
August, 2006 - STERN MAGAZINE (Germany)..
March 17th, 2007 - CNN - Interview with Rick Sanchez
March 27th, 2007The Hill - Meet Midge, the Protester in Pink
April 10th, 2007Reuters - Transgender Navy Vet Protests War in Congress
August 13th, 2008Springfield Community Free Press