Pat LaMarche
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Patricia Helen LaMarche (born 26 November 1960) is an American political figure and activist with the Green Party; she was the party's vice-presidential candidate in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, with David Cobb as its presidential candidate.
LaMarche was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the fourth of five children. Her father, Paul LaMarche, is a doctor, and her mother was at that time a housewife but later became an auditor employed by the state. When the family moved to Bangor, Maine, in the 1970s, LaMarche enrolled at John Baptist High School where she graduated near the top of her class. She pursued her education with four years at Boston College.
She then returned to Maine in 1982 and married the following year. After working as a high school math teacher for a few years, she had two children, Rebecca in 1985 and John in 1987. In the late eighties, she moved into the broadcasting field and was variously employed at television and radio stations in the Bangor area. LaMarche has taught Public Relations at Husson College's school of Communications and headed the Bangor chapter of the Children's Miracle Network, which she saw go from one of the worst in the nation to the most successful.
In 1996 LaMarche moved south to Portland, Maine, to take a job as the first and only female host at the venerated heritage talk radio station, WGAN. She soon became known for her liberal views and was approached to run for governor of the state of Maine in 1998 on the Green Independent Party ticket. Despite a grassroots campaign, the death of her mother midway through, and raising her two children as a single mother, LaMarche led a respectable campaign that generated seven percent of the vote from a budget of just $20,000. She became the first woman in the history of the state of Maine to gain ballot access for a political party due to her campaign.
Until the beginning of her vice-presidential campaign, LaMarche was employed by a country music radio station in Maine under the pseudonym of "Genny Judge"; however, this ended with her candidacy.
On September 5, 2004, LaMarche announced that she would be visiting and staying overnight in homeless and domestic violence shelters throughout the United States in a campaign tour designed "to draw attention to those living on the edge of society".
LaMarche is currently a resident of Yarmouth, Maine.
External link
- Official biography (with David Cobb biography) (http://www.votecobb.org/bios)
| Preceded by: Winona LaDuke | Green Party Vice Presidential candidate 2004 (a) (lost) | Succeeded by: — Template:Succession footnote Template:End boxfr:Pat LaMarche |