CHESTER COUNTY, PA –The Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) nominated John Murphy as its candidate for House of Representatives in the 16th Congressional District of Pennsylvania at its nominating convention in Harrisburg on February 3.  Murphy ran for Congress in 2006 as an independent with the endorsement of two county level Green Parties, two county level Libertarian Parties, The Reform Party of Pennsylvania and The New American Independent Party of Pennsylvania.

Murphy told the GPUS state committee that his message would focus on delivering secure, sustainable jobs to the people of the 16th District and the nation, eliminating the federal income tax for Americans making less than $100,000 a year, supporting universal single-payer health care, demanding the immediate return of our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and the other 127 nations where they are stationed, cutting the Pentagon budget in half thereby beginning to pay down our nearly 10 trillion dollar national debt.

Murphy told the committee members "both the Democrat and Republican parties are owned and operated by the same 1500 corporations and whether you are a good conservative or a good liberal your representatives in Congress look to their corporate paymasters as their constituents rather than the voters."  Murphy concluded by saying "I will offer the voters in the 16th District the ability to take back the Congress from corporate America.  I will take no corporate money nor any money from special interest groups".

Murphy also calls for the immediate repeal of The USA Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act and The Protect America Act which he says "have destroyed the civil liberties of American citizens and would have Thomas Jefferson and James Madison spinning in their graves".

"The Corporate-Free Candidate"