{news} REVISED press release about Joyce

Thu Jun 30 13:29:04 EDT 2005

Tom,

If the State GP meeting had proceeded before being grounded the other night, 
I probably would have been able to give a NH chapter report, where I would 
have disclosed the news about Joyce and been available for comment.

Joyce appears on a Voter's Registry on June 7th as a Democrat. Someone 
pointed this out to me on about one week later. Meanwhile on the 9th Joyce 
had appeared at a GP chapter meeting posing as though nothing had happened. 
And then, on the 14th, she left for a month in India, during which time she 
is incommunicado.

There were many rumors over the past couple of months that she had been 
planning this. Since she had not confided in us, in fact had actually denied 
it on one occassion, and is not available for comment, we can only guess as 
to why.

She has close allies on the board who are the Opposition Dems, Dems in 
opposition to the DeStefano machine. These are alders that the GP as a whole 
has been aligned with as well. Word has it that they wanted her in the Dem 
Party.

There may have been electoral considerations. There is no alder that the 
Mayor would like to see driven off the Board more than Joyce. Party 
affiliation does not change this. She can be expected to face fierce 
opposition: as a Dem that will happen in Sept in the Dem Primary, as a Green 
in would happen in Nov in the General Election.

I would guess that Joyce would rather face that opposition in Sept for two 
reasons: 1. it gives the Mayor 2 less months to get his candidate in place; 
2. Joyce starts full time Law school at Quinnipiac in Sept. I would imagine 
that she would rather be running a difficult campaign in August, before 
school starts, than in Sept and Oct after.

Lastly, Joyce is ambitious. She tried as a Green to win a State Rep post in 
2004 and got smashed - less than 20% of the vote. Maybe she feels that she 
might go further as a Dem.

All of the above is speculation. For all I know, she cut a deal with the 
Mayor. I don't think so but stranger things have happened.

Allan

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Tom Sevigny" <capeconn at comcast.net>
To: "allan brison" <apbrison at hotmail.com>,<chapillsbury at igc.org>
Subject: Re: {news} REVISED press release about Joyce
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:10:26 -0400

Allan and Charlie,

What happened?  This comes out of left field for most of us.  Why did she 
switch?

Tom

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   Greens,

   Here is a new, revised, press release concerning Joyce.

   Also, the Advocate contacted me today. They plan to do a story in next 
week's issue.

   Best,
   Allan
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   Press Release

   We want to thank Joyce for all her efforts as a Green on the Board of 
Alderman.  We  wish her well and look forward to having her as an ally of 
the Board in matters of common concern.

   But we feel that her decision to change parties is the wrong one. The New 
Haven Green Party believes in a more principled politics, that of providing 
voters with a greater choice. A two party system gives us the lesser of two 
evils. Here in New Haven we get the lesser of one evil.

   Towards that end, the NHGP will continue to be an effective force in NH 
politics through recruiting new candidates, registering voters, educating 
the community, listening to the community's needs, and generating 
grassroots, people-centered support for those needs.

   Joyce has been a major leader of the Opposition to Machine Politics on 
the Board of Alderman.  This does not change with her conversion.

   She has stood for opening up the Board of Ed, a major festering sore of 
Mayoral patronage and cronyism, to accountability. She has opposed the 
Machine on major budget proposals such as corporate welfare for Tweed 
Airport, the contract dispute where the Mayor's office went ahead and spent 
money that had been explicitly disallowed by the Board, the recent Downtown 
Development folly, and others.

   Joyce has an excellent Environmental and Labor record on the Board.

   But Joyce's record was not entirely unblemished. She stood alone, as a 
Green, in her opposition to Gay Marriage, voting against the Domestic 
Partnership Registry ordinance in 2002 on the Board. Because of this vote, 
her relationship to the Green Party has remained tenuous.

   We wish Joyce the best but we reserve the right to field a Green 
candidate against her in November, one with a clear positive stance on Gay 
Rights issues.

   Allan Brison
   Co-Chair
   New Haven Greens

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