Radio broadcasters coming up in the world:
Green Party conventioneers have named a Maine radio broadcaster as their nominee for Vice President of the U.S. on the 2004 ticket, the World Socialist Web Site reports.

Patricia LaMarche is to fill out the ticket headed by David Cobb.

In a closely fought contest for the presidential endorsement of the Green Party, California lawyer and party activist David Cobb won a narrow victory Saturday, defeating an effort to swing the party behind the independent candidacy of Ralph Nader. Cobb won 408 votes on the second ballot, a majority of the 769 delegates, compared to 308 votes for no nomination, the position adopted by Nader’s supporters, with the remainder of the delegates’ votes divided between two other candidates.

After Cobb was declared the Green Party nominee, his running mate Patricia LaMarche, a leader of the Green Party in Maine, was named the vice presidential candidate by acclamation. LaMarche is a radio broadcaster who won 7 percent of the vote as the Green candidate for Maine governor in 1998. -- Tom Nadeau