From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sun Apr 2 11:32:54 2006 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:32:54 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: AFSC Staff Search and Community Calendar Message-ID: <002301c6566c$0faa8d10$89ecf504@edgn2b574u14bi> 6-Story Newsletter Template + Images ----- Original Message ----- From: AFSC Connecticut To: edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:53 PM Subject: AFSC Staff Search and Community Calendar American Friends Service Committee Connecticut In This Issue: . Message from Kasha . Connecticut Calendar: April 06 - April 12, 2006 . Job Opening: AFSC Connecticut Program Coordinator . Connecticut Calendar: April 13 - April 19, 2006 . Connecticut Calendar: March 30 - April 05, 2006 Message from Kasha Greetings Friends, In my final week of work for AFSC I wish to thank you all for contributing to the work for social justice and peace in Connecticut. I am taking with me many lessons learned much inspiration for the struggle. AFSC is currently searching for a new Program Coordinator for the Connecticut Area Office - please see the job description below. During the next three months, Amy Harris will serve as the interim staff person here in the AFSC-CT office. The email: connecticut at afsc.org and phone: 860.523.1534 will remain active. Please remember that you can post your own community social justice and peace-related events on the AFSC Online Calendar: http://www.afsc.org/ct/ A brief summary of upcoming events in the next three weeks follows. Be well, Kasha Job Opening: AFSC Connecticut Program Coordinator JOB TITLE: Connecticut Program Coordinator (Community Organizer) LOCATION: The program is statewide and based in Hartford SUPERVISOR: New England Regional Director of Programs DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF RESUMES: May 1, 2006 INTRODUCTION: The American Friends Service Committee, established in 1917, is a Quaker-based organization that conducts social change, service, and education programs across the United States and internationally. AFSC work is rooted in the testimonies and principles of the Society of Friends (Quakers.) It seeks to eliminate the causes of war, oppression and injustice and to promote understanding and reconciliation among people holding differing views. AFSC's commitment to nonviolence is integral to all of its work. The New England Regional Office (NERO) of AFSC operates programs for justice, peace, and youth development in the six-state New England Region. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CONNECTICUT PROGRAM: The Connecticut program, begun in 1973, is based in Hartford and works throughout the state. AFSC-CT's program work focuses on three major areas: peacebuilding and demilitarization, social justice, and youth empowerment work. The program works primarily with and through community-based networks and coalitions, while also developing its constituencies, taking initiatives on its own as necessary, and organizing independent AFSC events. AFSC-CT strives for social change and anti-racist education through all its program commitments and activities. Connecticut AFSC plays a critical and unique role in building and supporting the peace movement and related networks and coalitions, and is relied on to provide the glue - and some of the inspiration - to hold the peace movement together. It co-founded and is a lead partner in Connecticut United for Peace and works closely with community-based peace and disarmament organizations. In recent years, AFSC-CT's social justice commitments have deepened and expanded. In addition to long-term work to oppose the death penalty, the program has become more active in support of community-based immigrant rights work, urban economic and social justice issues, and LGBT rights initiatives and advocacy. The program's youth work is currently focused on counter-military recruitment, and support of youth-led initiatives RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Initiate, coordinate, support, and provide leadership for coalitions, networks and campaigns on a local and state-wide basis, concentrating on U.S. foreign military interventions (currently Iraq); preparations for war; elimination of the causes of war; social and economic justice. Activities include - in part - mobilization; production of resources; organizing lobbying; sponsoring speaking tours; and organizing workshops, conferences, and popular education initiatives. Network with community-based peace and justice activists and community, religious, and school-based organizations across the state. Maintain and creatively use the program's web page, e-mail lists and online community calendar to augment organizing; emit action alerts; and connect and unite different constituencies in the state. Provide support for the AFSC-CT Program Committee, helping it to become a more diverse and fully engaged body. Identify and develop constituency. Work with the Program Committee to identify, nurture, and develop key constituencies as the program's base, including Quakers, youth, urban justice activists, peace movement activists. Provide public communication, including serving as the spokesperson for AFSC in Connecticut, working with the print and electronic media, editing and producing the program's newsletters (electronic & hard copy). Fundraise a significant portion of the AFSC-CT program budget in collaboration with the Program Committee. This includes producing two direct mail fundraising appeals per year, organizing annual fundraising events, writing grants to support AFSC-CT's program. Administer and manage the operations of the Hartford office. This includes budgeting and basic recordkeeping; regular reporting of financial and program work; handling of mail and telephone communication; attracting, supervising, managing, and supporting interns and volunteers; meeting and coordinating regularly with supervisor; and attending New England AFSC staff and appropriate committee meetings. QUALIFICATIONS Demonstrated understanding of the theory and practice of nonviolence and commitment to its use as a means of effecting social and political change Demonstrated history of inclusive and successful networking, organizing and coalition work with diverse communities General familiarity with current peace and justice issues and related organizations and organizing campaigns Ability to maintain an office, including familiarity with office equipment and procedures; computer literacy Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing Ability to work with Quaker process, including consultation and decision-making by consensus; ability to work cooperatively with other AFSC staff and Friends Meetings Ability to recruit, supervise, and work cooperatively with volunteers and interns Familiarity with Connecticut communities, political culture, and social change dynamics an asset Valid driver's license and access to a car Ability to manage time and energy effectively Ability to set personal limits SALARY: The salary range for this position is $28,235 to $35,293, depending on experience; excellent fringe benefits include health and dental insurance; dependent allowance; four weeks paid vacation; sick and personal days; etc. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Submit resume and letter of interest by May 1st to Phyllis Cohen Gately at: 2161 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140, or (Fax) 617-354-2832, or (e-mail) pcohengately at afsc.org. The AFSC is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. People of color; women; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people; people with disabilities; and ex-prisoners are especially encouraged to apply. All applicants will be considered on the basis of their qualifications. The New England Regional office of the AFSC is a unionized workplace. This position is included in the bargaining unit. Connecticut Calendar: March 30 - April 05, 2006 Mar/30 THU Education Day: Death Penalty (Details) Sponsor(s): CT Network to Abolish the Death Penalty Legislative Office Building, 210 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Mar/30 THU Save the Constitution Conf Planning (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC United Church Parish House, 323 Temple St/ Wall St; New Haven 4:15 PM Mar/30 THU Living and Learning in El Barrio: A Disc (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC La Paloma Sabanera Care, 405 Capitol Ave, Hartford 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Mar/30 THU March for Hope: Planning Mtng (Details) Sponsor(s): Variety Jackson Memorial Church, 2338 Main St - corner of Main and Sanford, Hartford 6:30 PM Mar/30 THU MARK CRISPIN MILLER: THE RED MENACE IN (Details) WILDE AUDITORIUM, UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD, Bloomfield Ave, Hartofrd 7:00 PM Mar/30 THU Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Mar/31 FRI Activist Retreat at the Voluntown Peace (Details) 539 Beach Pond Road (Route 165), Voluntown, CT Mar/31 FRI Friday Vigil Against the War - Hartford (Details) 450 Main St., Hartford, CT 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Mar/31 FRI Hope Out Loud Coffeehouse (Details) Sponsors: AFSC, Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice 555 Asylum Avenue,, Hartford, CT 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Mar/31 FRI Chocolate & Cheesecake for a Cause (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Anthony's Ocean View Restaurant, 450 Lighthouse Road, New Haven 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM Mar/31 FRI Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/01 SAT Activist Retreat at the Voluntown Peace (Details) 539 Beach Pond Road (Route 165), Voluntown, CT Apr/01 SAT Democracy & Education Conference (Details) Sponsor(s): Various Arjona Building, University of Connecticut 9:30 AM Apr/01 SAT Democracy & EducationConference (Details) Arjona Bldng, UCONN, Storrs, CT 9:30 AM Apr/01 SAT VIGILS: EVERY SATURDAY IN WEST HARTFORD CENTER (Details) Farmington Avenue and Main Street, West Hartford, CT 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Apr/01 SAT Movie Night at Infoshop (Details) Sponsor(s): Variety Behind the Rocks Infoshop, 418A New Britain Ave., Hartford 6:00 PM Apr/01 SAT Movie: La Trinchera del Honor (Details) La Paloma Sabanera, 405 Capitol Ave, Hartford, CT 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Apr/01 SAT 10th Anniversary Concert: Kate Callahan (Details) Sponsor(s): Center for Serenity Center for Serenity - First Baptist Church, 90 North Main Street, West Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM Apr/01 SAT Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/02 SUN Activist Retreat at the Voluntown Peace (Details) 539 Beach Pond Road (Route 165), Voluntown, CT Apr/02 SUN Democracy & EducationConference (Details) Arjona Bldng, UCONN, Storrs, CT 9:30 AM Apr/02 SUN Winsted Vigil for Peace (Details) Sponsor(s): Winsted Area PeaceAction East End Park, Rt. 44, Winsted, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Apr/02 SUN Bethlehem Peace Vigil (Details) junction of routes 132 and 61, Bethlehem, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Apr/02 SUN March For Hope: Stop Urban Terrorism (Details) 2550 Main Street, Hartford, CT 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Apr/02 SUN Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/02 SUN David Rovics Performs at UConn (Details) Whitney Dining Hall, 1346 Storrs Road, Storrs, CT 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Apr/03 MON Changing Lives & Renewing Possibility In (Details) Church of the Good Shepherd, 155 Wyllys Street, Hartford, Ct 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Apr/03 MON Film showing: Allah Made Me Funny (Details) Mather Hall, Trinity Campus, Hartford, CT 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Apr/03 MON Quaker Silence as a Spiritual Practice f (Details) Hartford Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Hartford, CT 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Apr/03 MON Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/04 TUE Talk and Discussion: American Muslims (Details) Trinity Campus, Hartford, CT 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Apr/04 TUE Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/05 WED James Gustave Speth--Natl Library Week (Details) Sponsor(s): West Hartford Public Library West Hartford Town Hall, 50 S. Main Street, West Hartford, CT 7:00 AM - 8:00 PM Apr/05 WED Prophet Muhammad Through Muslim Eyes (Details) AASA House 65 Vernon Street, Trinity Campus, Hartford, CT 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Apr/05 WED Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM View Calendar Details Here Connecticut Calendar: April 06 - April 12, 2006 Apr/06 THU Conversation about Islam and Women (Details) Mather Hall, Trinity Campus, Hartford, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Apr/06 THU Wesleyan:End the War March and Rally (Details) Olin Library, Wesleyan Campus, Middletown, CT 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Apr/06 THU Living and Learning in El Barrio: A Disc (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC La Paloma Sabanera Care, 405 Capitol Ave, Hartford 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Apr/06 THU Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/07 FRI Free Reproductive Rights Conference (Details) Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Apr/07 FRI THE 4th ANNUAL NORTHEAST CLIMATE CONFERENCE (Details) YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Apr/07 FRI Friday Vigil Against the War - Hartford (Details) 450 Main St., Hartford, CT 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Apr/07 FRI Muslim Celebration of life and culture (Details) Mather Hall, Trinity Campus, Hartford, CT 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Apr/07 FRI Arts for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC 539 Beach Pond Rd., Voluntown, CT 6:00 PM - 3:00 PM Apr/07 FRI Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/08 SAT Free Reproductive Rights Conference (Details) Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Apr/08 SAT THE 4th ANNUAL NORTHEAST CLIMATE CONFERENCE (Details) YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Apr/08 SAT VIGILS: EVERY SATURDAY IN WEST HARTFORD CENTER (Details) Farmington Avenue and Main Street, West Hartford, CT 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Apr/08 SAT Movie Night at Infoshop (Details) Sponsor(s): Variety Behind the Rocks Infoshop, 418A New Britain Ave., Hartford 6:00 PM Apr/08 SAT Arts for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC 539 Beach Pond Rd., Voluntown, CT 6:00 PM - 3:00 PM Apr/08 SAT Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/09 SUN Free Reproductive Rights Conference (Details) Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Apr/09 SUN THE 4th ANNUAL NORTHEAST CLIMATE CONFERENCE (Details) YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Apr/09 SUN Bethlehem Peace Vigil (Details) junction of routes 132 and 61, Bethlehem, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Apr/09 SUN Arts for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC 539 Beach Pond Rd., Voluntown, CT 6:00 PM - 3:00 PM Apr/09 SUN Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/10 MON Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/11 TUE Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty Meeting (Details) United Methodist Church of Hartford, 571 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Apr/11 TUE Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/12 WED Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM View the Calendar Details Here Connecticut Calendar: April 13 - April 19, 2006 Apr/13 THU A. Arnove: Iraq the Logic of Withdrawal (Details) Labyrinth Books, 290 York St, New Haven, CT 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Apr/13 THU Living and Learning in El Barrio: A Disc (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC La Paloma Sabanera Care, 405 Capitol Ave, Hartford 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Apr/13 THU Candlelight Peace Vigil (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quaker Meeting House, Quaker Lane, West Hartford, CT 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Apr/13 THU Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/14 FRI Friday Vigil Against the War - Hartford (Details) 450 Main St., Hartford, CT 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Apr/14 FRI Dead Man Walking + Death Penalty Forums (Details) Sponsor(s): not AFSC Quinnipiac Univ, Various Locations, Hamden 8:00 PM Apr/15 SAT VIGILS: EVERY SATURDAY IN WEST HARTFORD CENTER (Details) Farmington Avenue and Main Street, West Hartford, CT 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Apr/15 SAT Movie Night at Infoshop (Details) Sponsor(s): Variety Behind the Rocks Infoshop, 418A New Britain Ave., Hartford 6:00 PM Apr/15 SAT Weapons of the Spirit (Details) Friends Meeting House, 144 S. Quaker Lane, West Hartford, CT 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Apr/16 SUN Winsted Vigil for Peace (Details) Sponsor(s): Winsted Area PeaceAction East End Park, Rt. 44, Winsted, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Apr/16 SUN Bethlehem Peace Vigil (Details) junction of routes 132 and 61, Bethlehem, CT 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Apr/16 SUN Connecticut United for Peace Meeting (Details) The Church of the Holy Trinity, 350 Main St., Middletown, CT 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Apr/17 MON Ackerman/Odom:Civil Rights and Terrorism (Details) Labyrinth Books, 290 York St, New Haven, CT 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Apr/19 WED Broadcast Live (Details) Sponsor(s): Clash collective Behind the Rocks Infoshop, 418A New Britain Ave 7:00 PM View the Calendar Details Here American Friends Service Committee Connecticut Area Office 56 Arbor Street, Suite 213 Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860.523.1534 Fax: 860.523.1705 Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Confirm | Forward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Apr 5 11:12:04 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Fwd: [media-states] Wisc. antiwar measure led by Greens wins in most towns (Milw. Journal Sentinel; Wash. Post; NY Times) Message-ID: <20060405151204.48060.qmail@web81411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Scott McLarty wrote: From: Scott McLarty To: media-states at lists.gp-us.org, lavender-caucus at green.gpus.org Subject: [media-states] Wisc. antiwar measure led by Greens wins in most towns (Milw. Journal Sentinel; Wash. Post; NY Times) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 22:19:38 -0700 (PDT) 23 cities & towns in Wisconsin voted yea; 9 voted nay on the April 4 referenda to bring US troops home from Iraq. Rough estimate (unchecked): 64% of all voters on April 4 voted yea. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel referendum results page: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2006/by_state/WI_Page_0404.html?SITE=WIMILELN&SECTION=POLITICS * * * * * Majority of 32 Wisconsin Towns Vote for Iraq Pullout By Kari Kydersen The Washington Post, April 5, 2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040402317.html SHOREWOOD, Wis., April 4 -- Voters in the majority of 32 Wisconsin towns with local referendums on the Iraq war voted Tuesday to bring the troops home. A call to withdraw from Iraq by the end of the year passed overwhelmingly in the liberal Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, while in conservative Watertown, where the City Council had opposed having the referendum, it was voted down by 75 percent. Although the referendums are nonbinding, organizers with the Green Party and other antiwar groups said they hope they send a message to Washington. "This sort of reminds me of Vietnam," said Nicole Bartelme, 22, a student at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee who voted in Shorewood. "I have some friends in Iraq, and I think we should bring them home. I don't know realistically if this will have any effect, but hopefully someone's listening." Under a 1911 state law granting municipalities the right to "direct legislation," Wisconsin residents can place a referendum on a local ballot by collecting signatures equal to 15 percent of the number that voted for governor in the last election. Most of the referendums called for a withdrawal of troops immediately. In Evansville, there also was a referendum supporting President Bush. The City Council in Watertown, a town of 23,000 that went strongly for Bush in the past two elections, tried to block the referendum from the ballot but was overruled by a judge after the Watertown Peace and Democracy Coalition filed a lawsuit. The referendum passed in La Crosse, near the Minnesota border, where the City Council had been split over the issue. Council President Joe Ledvina said he was surprised by the vote. "The council felt overwhelmingly that it wasn't our jurisdiction, that we don't want to send a message that we aren't behind our president and the troops," Ledvina said. In Shorewood, retired government worker Rick Westphal said he opposed the war "like everyone else" but didn't know whether it was appropriate for a local ballot measure. "Is this really the arena for this?" he asked. "People are just coming here to vote for the school board. I'd rather see this on the national ballot." Shorewood resident Keith Schmitz, a 55-year-old public relations consultant, spent the weekend going door to door with literature about the town's referendum, which calls for a pullout by year's end. "This is truly a grass-roots effort," he said. "None of us are James Carvilles; it's just do-it-yourself politics. We're just doing our best and seeing what happens." Ruth Weill, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party, which coordinated the statewide referendum drive, said she saw the movement as a victory regardless of the outcome. "This is a true democratic exercise," Weill said. "I'm sure before this a lot of people didn't even know what a referendum was." * * * * * Wisc. Communities Vote on Iraq Withdrawal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 12:10 a.m. ET The New York Times, April 5, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Iraq-Referendums.html?_r=1&oref=slogin MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Eighteen Wisconsin communities approved referendums Tuesday calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, while six others voted against such measures in early returns from 32 communities weighing in on the war. People in communities large and small gathered signatures on petitions that put the referendums on the spring election ballot, urging President Bush to bring home the troops. Though the referendums carry no weight -- municipal governments can't dictate the federal government's actions -- organizers hoped to send a message. Terri Librizzi, 78, of the Milwaukee suburbs of Shorewood, was among the 70 percent of voters in the village to approve the measure. "Maybe if George Bush's daughters would have to go into the service, the war would end tomorrow," Librizzi said. But Sister Bay resident Peter Trenchard said he wasn't surprised voters in his village voted down the measure. He said many people there did not approve of the war in the first place, but they don't see pulling troops out as a solution. "Logic tells you you can't pull out of there. It would be a mess," said Trenchard, 67. Most of the referendums asked whether the voters supported withdrawing the troops immediately, and Evansville also had one urging support of President Bush. In the Columbia County town of Newport, voters rejected a referendum asking whether the United States should hand operational command of Iraq's national security over to the Iraqi government before the end of 2006. Bush has refused to set a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Fifty-one soldiers from Wisconsin have died in Iraq since the invasion three years ago. Geralyn Lu, 50, of Madison, voted to withdraw the troops in that city's referendum. "So many lives lost in a futile war. I didn't want them there in the first place," she said. But Katy Hampton, 53, of Monona, said if the soldiers leave Iraq, the country will descend into chaos. That's why she voted against bringing the soldiers back, she said. "There's still not a firm government in place," Hampton said. "I don't want it to be a mess. They should follow it through." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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Recognizing the strong implications of sustainable management of the environment, she presents an argument for democracy rooted in respect for human rights, equity, and justice. Introduction by Majora J. Carter '88, Executive Director, Sustainable South Bronx, and 2005 Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter '88 founded Sustainable South Bronx, which works to address community policy and planning issues including jobs, land use, environmental quality, transportation, and public health. Free to the public. Questions? Call Laurie Zolty 860-685-3527 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Apr 10 09:09:16 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (Hartford Courant)"Green (Party) With Envy Message-ID: <20060410130917.53003.qmail@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Green (Party) With Envy ADVERTISERS --------------------------------- Advertise on ctnow -->April 9 2006 Michael DeRosa, 61, helped form Connecticut's Green Party 10 years ago, "and it's been an odyssey ever since," he says. The sometimes candidate and full-time reformer is currently focused on pushing for changes to Connecticut's newly passed campaign finance reform law. The Wethersfield resident works as the community affairs director for WWUH Radio (91.3 FM) and hosts his own show, New Focus (newfocusradio.org). He spoke to NE Assistant Editor Paul Stern about his views on campaign finance reform. Q1 Does Connecticut's new campaign-finance reform law give third-party candidates the same opportunity as Democrats and Republicans? The present campaign finance reform law discriminates against third party and independent candidates by requiring them to gather the signatures of 10 percent to 20 percent of the people who voted in the last election, while exempting the major parties from this requirement. Third parties are not allowed any money for primaries, whereas the major parties do get funding for this. The Green Party as well as the major parties would, of course, also have to gather a large number of small donations under this law. Third parties in Connecticut are not allowed permanent ballot-access status. Getting the nomination of a third party is not automatic either. The major parties are trying to limit voters' choices and reduce the ability of the Green Party to get its message out. We believe that all of this violates the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and many other rulings by the courts in the past. To put it another way - all parties are equal in Connecticut, but some parties are more equal than others. Q2 If you could fix one element of the campaign reform law, what would it be? We need to eliminate the 20 percent petitioning requirement. We need to have a level playing field for all political parties. There are no petitioning requirements in the Maine or Arizona clean election laws, and there were not any in the Massachusetts law before they repealed it. So why is it needed here in Connecticut? The reason is to game the system and make it difficult for third parties and others to be part of the political process. Elections are supposed to be about issues and ideas. Elections are the purest form of First Amendment protected speech. Our elections have become auctions between two parties that are mirror images of each other. The Green Party supports campaign-finance reform. But this is not campaign-finance reform; it is campaign-finance deform. What we are looking for is equal protection under the law and we intend to get it. Q3 How should the state go about controlling the influence of lobbyists and political action groups on state government? I think that the Maine and Arizona laws are a great model that Connecticut could have used, but instead Connecticut's law allows "clean" election candidates [who agree to take money from the state's Clean Election fund] to take additional money from state party PACs and "leadership PACs" for in-kind donations that include radio and TV ads. I thought the idea was to limit the amount of money and give outsiders a chance to challenge incumbency. The problem of incumbency is not addressed by this law. On the contrary, some critics have called it the "no-incumbent-left-behind law." Q4 Realistically, how much likelihood is there of the major party legislators giving independent and third-party candidates an equal opportunity to run for office and share power? There is no such thing as the two-party system. There is only the two most popular parties. Right now they are not listening to third parties like the Green Party about issues like campaign-finance reform. But they forget that it is the voters who put them where they are. Sooner or later we are all going to wake up from the political amnesia of recent years, and if third parties keep their eye on the prize, we will begin to win elections in the Connecticut legislature. We also have a chance to challenge a lot of these laws in the courts. The kind of discrimination that this law applies to third parties is a violation of the Helsinki agreements that the U.S. signed. 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Apr 10 13:28:53 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Help Wanted! Web master for Thornton for Governor Message-ID: <20060410172853.64087.qmail@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested! THORNTON FOR GOVERNOR WEB MASTER SOUGHT April 10, 2004 The THORNTON for Governor committee is seeking the help of a skilled web master and people with computer skills. We want a fully active web site and are seeking one person or a committee of people to work on this project. We are willing to negotiate pay or college credit for those who will work on the project, keep it up to date on a daily basis and design an interactive sight. Jobs skills include: adding press releases, photos and volunteers listings. Students who would like to gain college credit thru Cooperative education programs are strongly encouraged to apply. 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URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Tue Apr 11 17:37:19 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:37:19 -0400 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens blast anti-immigrant bills, urge repeal of NAFTA Message-ID: <007201c65db0$1f7e8390$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> > GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES > http://www.gp.org > > For Immediate Release: > Tuesday, April 11, 2006 > > Contacts: > Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org > Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org > > > Greens join protests against punitive anti-immigrant bills, urge repeal of > NAFTA > > > WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party candidates and members across the U.S. > have spoken out against proposed immigration bills, and are participating > in various rallies and other actions to protest punitive legislation, such > as House Bill 4437, directed at undocumented immigrants and those who > assist them. > > "We call on Congress and state legislatures to reject laws that turn > people into criminals for seeking a better life for themselves and their > families," said Carol Brouillet, Green candidate for Congress in > California's 14th District . "Congress > should police those in high office who abuse power, rather than attack the > most vulnerable members of society who have been underpaid and exploited, > and have done the most back-breaking labor to put food on our tables." > > Many Green Party members support 'El Gran Paro Americano 2006: Un dia sin > immigrante' ('The Great American Boycott 2006: A day without an > immigrant') general strike and boycott planned for May 1 to demonstrate > the economic clout of immigrants . > > "This country was founded on immigration," said Rae Vogeler, Wisconsin > Green candidate for U.S. Senate , who attended a > rally in Madison in support of immigrant rights on April 10 and has spoken > out against two bills in her state, Wisconsin Senate Bill 657 and Assembly > Bill 69. "With the exception of American Indians, we are all immigrants > or descendants of immigrants. Yet, there are several bills at the state > and national level that will be devastating to immigrants, as well to > lower-income U.S. citizens. These bills discriminate against those least > able to afford and obtain documentation of legal residency status, whether > they be immigrants, or citizens of the United States." > > Greens emphasized the role of international trade pacts, which benefit > corporate elites at the expense of labor, human rights, and environmental > protections, in recent immigration to the U.S. > > "If we're really concerned about the flow of new immigrants into the U.S., > we'd address the damage cause by NAFTA," said said Sundiata Tellem, > co-chair of the Green Party's national Black Caucus. Mr. Tellem, a Texas > Green, is married to an immigrant. "International trade authorities have > allowed transnational corporations to slash wages, disrupt other nations' > economies by dumping U.S. products on their markets, privatize water and > other public goods and services, and pollute the land. Many new > immigrants, especially those who arrive impoverished and without > documentation, are fleeing nightmares in their home countries. We urge > all Americans to stand up for their safety and for the rights of working > people who are already citizens of the U.S., and join the Green Party's > call for repeal of NAFTA and similar trade pacts." > > Green Party leaders also called for passage of immigrant reform > legislation, such as the American Families Act, which contains provisions > that allows families to unite, including same-gender couples and their > families. Greens note that many people fleeing into the U.S. have done so > to escape sexual abuse, repression based on gender, and anti-gay and > anti-transgender violence. > > "Hostile anti-immigrant laws, walls along the border, workplace raids, and > armed vigilantes have put an ugly face on our nation," said Rebecca > Rotzler, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States and an > indigenous American (Eskimo). "America at its best welcomes those who > come here for economic security, political asylum, and escape from ethnic, > sexual, and religious discrimination." > > > MORE INFORMATION > > Green Party of the United States > http://www.gp.org > 1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404 > Washington, DC 20009. > 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN > Fax 202-319-7193 > > > ~ END ~ From apbrison at hotmail.com Wed Apr 12 19:06:44 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:06:44 -0400 Subject: {news} RE: [newhavengreens] Party Affiliation In-Reply-To: <20060412224736.C2FBE1CE346@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Wed Apr 12 23:23:34 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:23:34 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: WFP Update: Manchester passes Living Wage Message-ID: Kudos to John Taylor and the Working Families Party for leveraging this ordinance! This demonstrates the power that third-party candidacies can have. David Bedell ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Green To: jgreen @workingfamiliesparty.org Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:24 PM Subject: WFP Update: Manchester passes Living Wage www.ct-workingfamilies.org The Manchester Living Wage ordinance passed last night on a 6-3 party-line vote. For the Working Families members in Manchester, last night's vote was a victory that had been over a year in the making. At the first organizing committee meeting of the Manchester area chapter, members brought up the fact that the Manchester Board of Directors had voted against a Living Wage proposal the previous year. And the Living Wage was certainly one of the issues that motivated Machinists union leader John Taylor to petition onto the ballot as Working Families candidate for Board of Directors. Although John later withdrew from the race, his candidacy certainly raised the profile of the Living Wage among voters and elected officials alike - prompting Republicans to make wild accusations of a "quid pro quo." After the election, Working Families members continued to press the issue, bringing together a coalition with church leaders, peace and justice activists, and union leaders. We held rallies, spoke at public hearings, and held our elected officials feet to the fire. The 6-3 party-line vote showed a clearly philosophical divide between those who believe our economy should support workers trying to raise their family and those who insist that only the "invisible hand" of supply and demand should determine wages -- even at businesses that profit from public tax dollars. The ordinance itself is fairly strong, as it covers both town contractors and recipients of tax abatements. It sets a Living Wage of $11.06 per hour (115% of the poverty level for a family of four) and includes an additional payment of $3 per hour if family medical benefits are not offered. Congratulations to the staff and members who made this victory happen, along with allies ranging from the Manchester Peace and Justice Coalition, the Greater Hartford Labor Central Labor Council, Teamters and Machinists union activists, AFSCME Local 991, UFCW Local 371, St. Bridget's Church, St. James Church, and the Unitarian Universalist Church. A special thanks is owed to John Taylor whose candidacy last fall certainly raised the profile of this important issue. If you or someone you know wants to get involved in Working Families in the Manchester area, join us at the next chapter meeting: Monday, April 16th, 6:30pm at the Machinists Union Hall, 357 Main Street in East Hartford. You can read the gory details in the Hartford Courant article posted below. ******************************************* Jon Green Working Families 621 Farmington Avenue, 2nd Floor Hartford, CT 06105 (860)523-1699 Cell: (203)243-8941 e-mail: jgreen@ workingfamiliesparty.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.courant.com/news/local/hr/hc-manbod0412.artapr12,0,7066517.story Officials Pass Living-Wage Ordinance, 6-3 Issue Provokes Political Mudslinging Before Partisan Vote By REGINE LABOSSIERE Courant Staff Writer April 12 2006 MANCHESTER -- Like a tennis ball being smacked back and forth over a net, Republicans and Democrats threw biting words to and fro before voting 6-3 Tuesday in favor of a living-wage ordinance. The political mudslinging went as far as Republicans accusing Democrats of pushing for a living wage as political payback to the Working Families Party. A local member of the party, which has been a major advocate of the ordinance, dropped out of the municipal elections last year, probably, Republicans suggested, to help give Democrats more votes. The political volley caused Democrat Director Dave Sheridan to reply, "I guess the election season is officially underway." In response to the allegations concerning the Working Families Party, Sheridan acknowledged that there are organized groups in favor of the ordinance that traditionally back the Democratic Party but, "I think you go a step too far by making a causal connection." Sheridan drafted the ordinance, which instantly turned into a hot topic when Democrats proposed it a few months ago. The goal of the living-wage ordinance is to help employees work their way out of poverty and provide for a family of four. Companies affected would be those with at least 25 employees, that either have a service contract with the town of at least $25,000 a year or receive a tax benefit of at least $25,000 a year. The ordinance requires those companies to pay certain full-time employees $11.06 an hour plus health benefits, or $14 an hour if no health benefits are offered. As expected, the six Democrats voted for the ordinance and the three Republicans voted against it. The living wage will affect future contracts and tax benefits that fall under the ordinance. Supporters have said formalizing a living wage is a moral decision that could only help, not hurt, residents and local workers. Opponents of the ordinance have called it a noble and moral effort that is "grossly insufficient," would be a "bureaucratic nightmare" to enforce and would cause residents to pay more in taxes while only helping a dozen or so local workers. "This is about helping people in need," Democratic Mayor Josh Howroyd said. "This may not be a far-reaching ordinance, but I think it is an important policy that we make." Republican Director Cheri Ann Pelletier questioned the proponents' push for the ordinance. "As a director of this board, it is not my job to govern morality," Pelletier said. She said that the fiscal effect of the ordinance has not been determined, yet Democrats are moving forward with spending an unknown amount of residents' money. "Is this the statement the majority wants to make to the taxpayers?" Pelletier asked. Minority Leader Louis Spadaccini agreed that a municipal government should not mandate living wages and said that, because the ordinance would affect perhaps a dozen local workers, it was a waste of time and money. "You know an ordinance is a bad idea when it applies to virtually nobody," Spadaccini said. He argued that the board should focus more attention on public safety and an upcoming property revaluation, among other town issues. "Manchester continues to face real problems that are not going away," Spadaccini said. Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Apr 13 07:29:11 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (Chicago Tribune) Green Party winners seeing red Message-ID: <20060413112911.22315.qmail@web81401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ELECTION 2006 Green Party winners seeing redNew committeemen allege confusion, cite lack of paper ballots By Joseph Ruzich Special to the Tribune Published April 12, 2006 Green Party candidate Rita Bogolub ran for Berwyn Township committeeman in the March election. She received one vote, and won. Tim Curtin, also running under the Green Party, received four votes for Oak Park Township committeeman. He also won. Although Bogolub and Curtin were happy for their victories, both said voting confusion and procedures on March 21 did not do their party any favors. The Green Party, under which Ralph Nader ran in his quest for the presidency in 2000, is known for its grass-roots base, strong environmental stance and belief in decentralizing money and power. Both Bogolub and Curtin said they were surprised that Green Party paper ballots were not available in Cook County on Election Day. Bogolub, Curtin and Arthur S. Kazar, who ran for Proviso Township committeeman, were the only Green Party candidates to appear on the March ballot in Cook County. All ran unopposed, but Kazar lost because he couldn't garner a single vote. Voters were only able to select Green Party candidates by using the touch-screen method. Cook County provided a limited number of electronic touch-screen machines, primarily for disabled voters, but the machines could be used by other voters. Scott Burnham, a Cook County spokesman, said third-party candidates were only available on touch-screen machines because "we didn't want to overload the polling workers with too many paper ballots. "With the low voting turnout, most voters should have had the opportunity to use the touch screens," Burnham said. Bogolub, 54, who had never run for office before, said it was "a misunderstanding on our part. "We made the assumption that everyone in the township would have the opportunity to vote for committeemen. But it was only people in the 8th [Illinois House] District who were able to vote." In fact, Bogolub, who lives outside the 8th District--which encompasses areas in Chicago, Oak Park, Forest Park and the north end of Berwyn--wasn't even able to vote for herself. She said she didn't know who provided her the "winning" vote. The Green Party became a recognized party in the 8th District after Julie Samuels received 5 percent of the vote when she ran for 8th District state representative in 2002 and 2004. Samuels is currently running for the lieutenant governor seat on a slate of state Green Party candidates in the November election. Curtin claimed a lot of people "were denied the right to vote that day." He said he contacted the elections office after realizing that paper ballots for the Green Party weren't available. "It was just ridiculous," he said. "When I called, [the election office] told us the paper ballots were on the way, but they never came." Bogolub and Curtin will each serve two-year, unpaid terms as members of their party's committee. Curtin said the Green Party offers an alternative in government. "There are a lot of issues that nobody is talking about," he said, naming mass transit. "Look at all the money being put in highways. The Blue Line [CTA elevated train], for example, should be extended out to the western suburbs where the jobs are." Bogolub said she was attracted to the party because she feels strongly about the party's key values. "I am very concerned about the environment, social justice, equal opportunity and respect for diversity." She said she thinks there's a great possibility that the Green Party will continue to grow, but the current structure of the government "makes it difficult for third parties to run for office." Copyright ? 2006, Chicago Tribune -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Fri Apr 14 08:08:18 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:08:18 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Italian elections in the news Message-ID: <048601c65fbc$1e8bda10$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Comments from 1 members of USGP International Committee ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos To: usgp-int at gp-us.org Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 1:53 AM Subject: Re: USGP-INT Italian elections in the news I actually met with some Italian Greens and Bertinotti, who is president of the European Left Party, at that party's first congress in Athens last Novemeber. It is clear that "Cavaliero" Berlusconi is playing Bush tactics with the elections though. We should all be disturbed that the Right did so well though, given the outlandish rhetoric of Berluscsoni in the final run up to the elections. Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos, PhD USGP, IC (PA) in Greece ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Michael Canney Reply-To: usgp-int at gp-us.org To: usgp-int at gp-us.org Subject: Re: USGP-INT Italian elections in the news Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:27:50 -0400 bahram wrote: I am writing this from Europe and as I watch the news coverage of the Italian election results I could see the flags of the Italian Green party waving in the celebrations; so they must be in the center-left coalition that won narrowly. bahram Yes, the Greens are part of Prodi's center-left Union coalition. This is from a Canadian BBC News Q&A page ( http://story.canadastandard.com/p.x/ct/9/id/6c0f9f32618ec4f0/cid/c08dd24cec417021/ ) Q: Who are the main parties and players? The centre-right House of Freedoms (Casa delle Liberta) is made up of a number of parties. Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia is the largest party, followed by the National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale), led by Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini; the Northern League (Lega Nord) led by Umberto Bossi; and the Union of Christian Democrats and Centre Democrats (UDC), led by lower house Speaker Pier Ferdinando Casini. There are also a number of smaller parties in the coalition. Relations between the various parties in the House of Freedoms have sometimes been fractious. A poor showing in regional elections last April prompted the UDC to pull its ministers out of the government in protest. There is little love lost between the National Alliance and the UDC - which both enjoy support in the poorer south - and the Northern League, which has consistently pushed for more powers to be devolved to Italy's richer northern regions. The centre-left Union (L'Unione) coalition is led by Romano Prodi, who as well as being a former Italian prime minister was formerly president of the European Commission. Mr Prodi beat Mr Berlusconi in a general election in 1996, and the disparate group of left-wing parties that come under the Union's umbrella hope he can pull off the same trick this time. Principal among those parties are the Left Democrats (Democratici di Sinistra), Italy's biggest centre-left party, led by Piero Fassino, with former prime minister Massimo D'Alema in the role of party chairman; the Daisy (La Margherita) party headed by former mayor of Rome Francesco Rutelli; and Communist Refoundation (Rifondazione Communista) led by Fausto Bertinotti. There are half-a-dozen other parties under the Union umbrella, including the Greens and the Social Democrats. Mr Prodi is in the curious position of having no political party of his own, but a US-style "primary" held in October 2005 confirmed him as the number one choice, among those who voted, to lead the centre-left in the election. Mr Berlusconi accuses him of being merely a "front-man" for a collection of quarrelsome left-wing groups. Some analysts suggest Mr Prodi remains vulnerable, as a leader with no substantial party of his own, to the same coalition party manoeuvering which forced him to resign after little more than two years in office following his 1996 election victory. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Here is the webpage for the Italian Greens (in Italian): http://www.verdi.it/apps/news.php More information in English here: http://www.answers.com/topic/federation-of-the-greens --- | Sent via usgp-int | To unsubscribe, please send a message to usgp-int-request at gp-us.org | with ONLY unsubscribe in the message --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ehscouts at aol.com Sat Apr 15 09:51:02 2006 From: Ehscouts at aol.com (Ehscouts at aol.com) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:51:02 EDT Subject: {news} Welcome to Hartford Message-ID: <336.29ff7f1.31725446@aol.com> We Are Moving Special Edition May 1st, 2006 Revista Miguel LLC. Have found a new home. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sat Apr 15 18:47:27 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:47:27 +0000 Subject: {news} Convention announcement In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The April 22 convention announcement is now posted at http://www.ctgreens.org. Hope this helps boost attendance. David From chapillsbury at igc.org Sun Apr 16 10:54:58 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:54:58 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: 04-09-06HC Mike DeRosa on campaign-finance reform law Message-ID: <001101c66165$bb561590$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Message ----- Original Message ----- From: Naomi Shaiken Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:26 AM Subject: 4906HC Mike DeRosa -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.courant.com/news/local/northeast/hc-3q0409.artapr09,0,4281889.story?coll=hc-headlines-northeast 3Q Green (Party) With Envy April 9 2006 Michael DeRosa, 61, helped form Connecticut's Green Party 10 years ago, "and it's been an odyssey ever since," he says. The sometimes candidate and full-time reformer is currently focused on pushing for changes to Connecticut's newly passed campaign finance reform law. The Wethersfield resident works as the community affairs director for WWUH Radio (91.3 FM) and hosts his own show, New Focus (newfocusradio.org). He spoke to NE Assistant Editor Paul Stern about his views on campaign finance reform. Q1 Does Connecticut's new campaign-finance reform law give third-party candidates the same opportunity as Democrats and Republicans? The present campaign finance reform law discriminates against third party and independent candidates by requiring them to gather the signatures of 10 percent to 20 percent of the people who voted in the last election, while exempting the major parties from this requirement. Third parties are not allowed any money for primaries, whereas the major parties do get funding for this. The Green Party as well as the major parties would, of course, also have to gather a large number of small donations under this law. Third parties in Connecticut are not allowed permanent ballot-access status. Getting the nomination of a third party is not automatic either. The major parties are trying to limit voters' choices and reduce the ability of the Green Party to get its message out. We believe that all of this violates the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and many other rulings by the courts in the past. To put it another way - all parties are equal in Connecticut, but some parties are more equal than others. Q2 If you could fix one element of the campaign reform law, what would it be? We need to eliminate the 20 percent petitioning requirement. We need to have a level playing field for all political parties. There are no petitioning requirements in the Maine or Arizona clean election laws, and there were not any in the Massachusetts law before they repealed it. So why is it needed here in Connecticut? The reason is to game the system and make it difficult for third parties and others to be part of the political process. Elections are supposed to be about issues and ideas. Elections are the purest form of First Amendment protected speech. Our elections have become auctions between two parties that are mirror images of each other. The Green Party supports campaign-finance reform. But this is not campaign-finance reform; it is campaign-finance deform. What we are looking for is equal protection under the law and we intend to get it. Q3 How should the state go about controlling the influence of lobbyists and political action groups on state government? I think that the Maine and Arizona laws are a great model that Connecticut could have used, but instead Connecticut's law allows "clean" election candidates [who agree to take money from the state's Clean Election fund] to take additional money from state party PACs and "leadership PACs" for in-kind donations that include radio and TV ads. I thought the idea was to limit the amount of money and give outsiders a chance to challenge incumbency. The problem of incumbency is not addressed by this law. On the contrary, some critics have called it the "no-incumbent-left-behind law." Q4 Realistically, how much likelihood is there of the major party legislators giving independent and third-party candidates an equal opportunity to run for office and share power? There is no such thing as the two-party system. There is only the two most popular parties. Right now they are not listening to third parties like the Green Party about issues like campaign-finance reform. But they forget that it is the voters who put them where they are. Sooner or later we are all going to wake up from the political amnesia of recent years, and if third parties keep their eye on the prize, we will begin to win elections in the Connecticut legislature. We also have a chance to challenge a lot of these laws in the courts. The kind of discrimination that this law applies to third parties is a violation of the Helsinki agreements that the U.S. signed. It is up to us to educate the electorate about what is really going on in Hartford, not only about campaign finance reform, but about other issues that affect their lives. That's why we are running an entire slate of candidates for statewide offices in November if we're given half a chance. Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hm_logo.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1901 bytes Desc: not available URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Sun Apr 16 20:32:41 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:32:41 -0400 Subject: {news} Talk Monday at Yale; Testify Tuesday at City Hall! Message-ID: <003701c661b6$7040b9b0$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Democracy Fund | Testify this Tuesday at City Hall!DEMOCRACY FOR SALE? A Panel Discussion: Overcoming the Democratic Deficit in Washington John Rauh | President, Americans for Campaign Reform Andy Sauer | Executive Director, Common Cause CT Monday, April 17 at 8pm Yale's Branford Common Room 225 York St in New Haven Sponsored by: Yale Students for Clean Elections Roosevelt Institution at Yale Open to the Public Democracy Fund Coalition News | reform at democracyfund.com | http://www.democracyfund.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Haven Democracy Fund Hearing - Final Steps to Reform Finance Committee Hearing: Tuesday, April 18, 6pm at City Hall After three years of lobbying in Hartford and New Haven, the Democracy Fund is just a few steps away form full implementation at the New Haven Board of Aldermen. Please join us at City Hall to testify in support of publicly-financed elections in New Haven and help make our city a leader in democratic reform! Finance Committee Hearing Tuesday, April 18 at 6pm Aldermanic Chambers, City Hall The Democracy Fund is supported by a growing coalition of grassroots organizations, including Connecticut League of Women Voters, Common Cause CT, CT Citizen Action Group, Democracy Works Connecticut, Students for Clean Elections, New Haven Green Party, CT Center for a New Economy, New Haven Environmental Justice Network, and New Haven Action. More information on the Democracy Fund campaign is available at http://www.democracyfund.com. Onward, Dan Weeks Democracy Fund Team | DemocracyFund Coalition | Post Office Box 200483 | New Haven, CT 06520 | 203.500.9030 / 270.514.0495 (fax) | daniel at democracyfund.com | http://www.democracyfund.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Also, we > need to increase and better equip Afghan Army > troops directly involved in counter-insurgency > operations." > > The Green Party is concerned that the high > profile of western nations in Afghanistan may be > assisting the Taliban in recruiting new > insurgents. > > Unlike Iraq, the intervention in Afghanistan has > a UN mandate. There are currently 52 nations in > the UN with majority Muslim populations > representing one quarter of the world's > population. > > The Green Party of Canada strongly supports > enhancing Canada 's efforts to rebuild and > strengthen Afghan society through long-term > development and humanitarian and diplomatic > assistance. > > Almost half of Afghanistan's citizens are > children under the age of 15. The country has one > of the highest percentages of widows and orphans > in the world. The people of Afghanistan have > suffered through 30 years of warfare and are in > desperate need of development assistance and > institutional capacity building, as well as basic > human security. > > > For more information: > Derek Pinto > Media Relations Officer > > Authorized by the Chief Agent of the Green Party > of Canada > Information: media at greenparty.ca From chapillsbury at igc.org Wed Apr 19 23:01:15 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:01:15 -0400 Subject: {news} food for convention on Sat.? References: Message-ID: <006601c66426$b0a66eb0$6500a8c0@S0031616584> SPECIAL BULLETIN: THE CONVENTION THIS SATURDAY IS A POT LUCK AFFAIR. PLEASE BRING FOOD TO SHARE. I am willing to pick up some great New Haven pizza. Any preferences or allergies that i need to consider when I order pizza? 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The main bill that we were supporting was killed in the Judiciary committee, as Republican committeemembers effectively filibustered it. Although we're disappointed, there are other bills that would have the same effect, such as SB 66 . We still have a chance to protect Clean Elections, but we only have two weeks left in the legislative session. Please call your state senator, and tell him or her to support SB 66 to fix the Clean Elections law. Find your state senator here. Calls from citizens mean a lot to elected officials. That someone takes the time to call signals how much voters care about the issue, and lets the legislator know that he or she had better do the right thing. Also, calling right now means that your call will be amplified by our volunteer phonebanks. And if you're in the Hartford area, please consider stopping by to help out. We're calling other volunteers across Connecticut to inform them about the issue and ask them to call their legislators: Where: Connecticut Citizen Action Group (139 Vanderbilt Ave, West Hartford, CT 06110) Dates: Tonight (4/20) and Tuesday-Thursday of next week (4/25-4/27) Time: 5:30pm-8:30pm (each session starts with an orientation and training, as well as refreshments) RSVP: Let us know when to expect you by emailing us at common.cause at snet.net Thanks again for your help. And even if you can't make it to the phonebank, please remember to call your senator. Sincerely, Andy Sauer Executive Director Connecticut Common Cause Forward this email Support Common Cause Connecticut Discuss this message To remove yourself from this mailing, please click here . To modify your profile, please click here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Apr 20 20:08:53 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} "Pot" shots at G.P. & Thornton-GOGOLA STRIKES AGAIN! Message-ID: <20060421000853.83248.qmail@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER -THIS SOMETIMES COMIC WRITER DID QUITES A JOB ON US. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THIS WEIRD ARTICLE? WE HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR,,RIGHT? I URGE YOU TO ALL WRITE TO THE PAPER,,WITH YOUR VIEWS. letters at newhavenadvocate.com Tim McKee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Green Machine The Green Party is poised to name a slate of candidates for statewide office. Tree-huggers of the Nutmeg, unite! by Tom Gogola - April 20, 2006 CHRIS FASANELLA ILLUSTRATION Imagine yourself living in a Green state. Imagine that by this time next year, a full slate of Green Party candidates has been elected to statewide office. Imagine a world of Green, where naught but Earth-friendly policies are foisted upon Connecticut voters. . . Imagine what an interesting and off-beat government we'd have if the handful of candidates on the Green ticket were actually to win the higher offices they're seeking. . . Ladies and gentlemen, we're here with drug-policy reformer and governor Clifford Thornton, who is just now meeting in the governor's mansion with a quarter pound of marijuana and a coalition of pot-puffing cancer patients. They're gathering to test the state's first bumper crop of the kind medical bud. One is heard to say, "That's good stuff, guv'nor!" to which Thornton responds, "Don't Rowland that joint!" Down the hallway, Attorney General Nancy Burton is explaining to a reporter how her being disbarred by a vengeful judge from practicing law in Connecticut for five years was actually a good thing for Connecticut residents. "It's my badge of honor," she had previously told the reporter. Burton's ban on practicing law in the state ended just a few days before the election, and she's now applying to be readmitted to the Connecticut bar. It's a peculiar scenario, to be sure: an AG who can't even argue a case in state court. (She's good to go in federal court and in New York, however.) For now, the longtime anti-nuclear activist is poised to chain herself to the Millstone power plant, she says. Proudly litigious lawyer that she is, Burton declares that she'll sue you if you don't report that she'll sue you if you don't say nice things about her suing you. The reporter decides it's a good thing to have an attorney general who likes to sue, disbarment be damned, so long as he doesn't get sued by her for having some harmless fun with her rich and litigious history. Plus, Burton once successfully sued to save millionsand maybe billionsof winter-flounder larvae from getting sucked into the Millstone intake pipes. A friend of the flounder is a friend to all, the reporter concludes. Senator Ralph Ferrucci, meanwhile, is hosting the first annual senatorial grammar class at his Hartford office. The senator is using as a teaching tool one of the mangled-syntax press releases he unloosed on the public during his campaignthat's very Mao of Ralph, in the "speaking bitterness" sense of the expression. He's reading from the gibberish sheet he released in opposition to the notorious Dubai ports deal: We must make it our own responsibility to keep the terrorists out without the friends of our allies , he reads, adding, "though even I have no idea what the hell that means and I wrote the thing! Discuss! " Even though he's now a United States senator, Ferrucci hasn't quit his day job as a deliveryman for Pepperidge Farm products. His reasons are as strategic as they are savory: He's got some baked goodies from the truck for Thornton's stoned cancer pals. For his part, Ferrucci needs the governor's support if he's to declare Rudy's a national historic landmark, his signature legislative initiative to date, besides his call to, you know, end the war. Secretary of the State Mike DeRosa, meanwhile, has not stopped talking for 317 straight days. The logorrheic voting-reform specialist and Connecticut Green Party founder ignores Gov. Thornton's entreaties to "have a couple of puffs and shut up already," and DeRosa has just repeated himself for the 17th time in 16 minutes to an Advocate reporter about the evils of the two-party system. He's just getting warmed up to tell a story about the campaign-finance-reform miracle currently unfolding in Moodus. Dude, you won , the reporter cries, but to no avail. DeRosa just keeps on reforming, and reforming, and reforming. He's the Energizer Bunny of reform. Finally, State Treasurer David Bue, pitched to voters as a "socially responsible investment adviser," is meeting with a cabal of unrepentant Socialists. "How does one square social responsibility with sound investment strategies?" he is asked. "All I can tell you" responds Bue, with a cryptic glimmer in his eye, "is that the only color that matters is green ." Heads bob. Bue's made the case. Whether it's cash, pot or politics, green is good. It would be thrilling were the above scenario to play out. Sign me right up: Executive bongs, maverick AGs, workingman bloopers, et al. But the purpose of this year's big statewide Green Party push isn't actually to get these people electedit's to grow the state party into a viable alternative in future elections. It's to ramp up the debate on controversial issues like decriminalizing marijuana (Thornton) and mothballing Millstone (Burton). And for that the party must be cheered; this is the first time it has fielded a full slate of candidates for statewide office. You can grouse over what might be perceived as a preference for quantity over quality, but the heck with thatfor good or ill, the Green Party isn't a top-down organization, at least not yet. Migosh, it's downright democratic! And this Saturday, the party convenes at the AFL-CIO Labor Hall in New Haven to formally announce its platform and nominate its slate of candidates. (See 7 Days, page 22, for details.) Tim McKee, the state's Green Party national committee member and Thornton's campaign manager, is blunt about the upcoming election. There is no spoiler role for the Greens to play, he says, because "Rell is going to win very strongly." Since 1992, McKee says, he has been almost continuously asking people to run on the Green Party ticket; he says about 500 people have been approached during that time, including the Ralphs, Nader and Ferrucci. "A lot of people have only known us as the Nader party, and vice versa," he says. "Some people have only seen us at the local but not the statewide level." McKee is quick to point out as well that "each candidacy is still an independent entity, and what we are doing now is not going to be the finished product." The Green Party must now collect 7,500 signatures so that its candidates can be on the ballot come November. So far, says McKee, they've got about 1,000, and he's angling to collect 12,000, just to be on the safe side. The deadline for submitting the signatures is Aug. 5. That leaves plenty of time to hire a copy editor for Ralph Ferrucci. A couple boxes of Mint Milano cookies ought to do the trick. Use our contact form to write to Tom Gogola. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apbrison at hotmail.com Thu Apr 20 20:44:21 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:44:21 -0400 Subject: {news} Spoiler Role Message-ID: Tim, Cliff, and others, This is one election where we can be proud of our possible "spoiler" role. The fact is that only Dem operatives care two hoots about beating Rell with the likes of John DeStefano, New Haven mayor. In other words, unlike the national Bush/Gore, neocon versus neolib, where a large number of people really care about who won, this is an election were few will have much of an emotional investment either way. There is a good chance that Cliff might get 10% and that that might tip the balance to Rell. We should not shrink from this. If, in fact, we can "spoil" the race, then we might be able to fulfill our function of making the Dems a bit better fearing our spoiling role in the future. Allan ------------------------------------------------------------------ Quoting from the already infamous Advocate article: Tim McKee, the state's Green Party national committee member and Thornton's campaign manager, is blunt about the upcoming election. There is no spoiler role for the Greens to play, he says, because "Rell is going to win very strongly." From chapillsbury at igc.org Thu Apr 20 22:38:52 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:38:52 -0400 Subject: {news} already infamous Advocate article is not bad References: Message-ID: <004b01c664ec$bca46e30$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Quoting from the already infamous Advocate article: http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:152380 If you get past the "pot" shots and laughs at Green expense, this is a very positive article: It would be thrilling were the above scenario to play out. Sign me right up: Executive bongs, maverick AGs, workingman bloopers, et al. But the purpose of this year's big statewide Green Party push isn't actually to get these people elected it's to grow the state party into a viable alternative in future elections. It's to ramp up the debate on controversial issues like decriminalizing marijuana (Thornton) and mothballing Millstone (Burton). And for that the party must be cheered; this is the first time it has fielded a full slate of candidates for statewide office. You can grouse over what might be perceived as a preference for quantity over quality, but the heck with that for good or ill, the Green Party isn't a top-down organization, at least not yet. Migosh, it's downright democratic! And this Saturday, the party convenes at the AFL-CIO Labor Hall in New Haven to formally announce its platform and nominate its slate of candidates. (See 7 Days, page 22, for details.) See http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/Lifestyle/content?oid=oid:152397 (it includes a great picture of Cliff Thornton in front of the State Capitol Building). SATURDAY APRIL 22 EARTH OF A NATION Today is the Green Party's state convention, and it's in our own back yard. Join the Greens as they nominate, for the first time, a full slate of candidates for statewide offices. Ralph Ferrucci is, of course, the candidate for New Haven county dogcatcher... er, U.S. senator. AFL-CIO New Haven Labor Hall, 267 Chapel St., New Haven. Social hour 11am, kickoff at noon. (860) 643-2282, greenpartyct at yahoo.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Apr 20 23:32:20 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:32:20 -0400 Subject: {news} Hartford Courant report References: <1145567141.2217899.e03595ee447b32.e2fdafb@persist.google.com> Message-ID: The Hartford Courant had a factual article, more boring than the one in the Advocate/Weekly papers. (Technicality: we do not nominate the placeholder candidates for Lt. Gov. and Comptroller. They are on the petitions, but sometime before September we hope to nominate the real candidates who will take their places on the ballot.) http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-ctgreens0420.artapr20,0,647557.story Green Party To Pick Slate Courant Staff Report April 20 2006 The Green Party will nominate candidates for statewide office Saturday at a convention scheduled to coincide with the annual observance of Earth Day. While the Greens have had some local successes, the party this year intends to run a full slate of statewide candidates for the first time. The convention begins at noon at the Greater New Haven Labor Hall at 267 Chapel St. in New Haven. It is open to the public. The gubernatorial nominee is expected to be Clifford Thornton, founder of Efficacy, a drug-policy reform group. The other expected nominees are: Nancy Burton, attorney general; Mike DeRosa, secretary of the state; David Bue, treasurer; and Ralph Ferrucci, U.S. Senate. The party still is seeking candidates for lieutenant governor and comptroller so will nominate two "place-holder" candidates. Democrats and Republicans have their nominating conventions May 20. Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant From smderosa at cox.net Fri Apr 21 00:07:25 2006 From: smderosa at cox.net (smderosa) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:07:25 -0400 Subject: {news} RE: [newhavengreens] "Pot" shots at G.P. & Thornton-GOGOLA STRIKES AGAIN! In-Reply-To: <20060421000853.83248.qmail@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060421040726.YNZ17664.eastrmmtao02.cox.net@userb649154f63> Here's my response to this piece: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win." HYPERLINK "http://www.mkgandhi.org/"Mahatma Gandhi _____ Sincerely, Mike DeRosa HYPERLINK "http://newhavenadvocate.com/shared/spacer.gif" I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER -THIS SOMETIMES COMIC WRITER DID QUITES A JOB ON US. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THIS WEIRD ARTICLE? WE HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR,,RIGHT? I URGE YOU TO ALL WRITE TO THE PAPER,,WITH YOUR VIEWS. HYPERLINK "mailto:letters at newhavenadvocate.com"letters at newhavenadvocate.com Tim McKee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- A Green Machine The Green Party is poised to name a slate of candidates for statewide office. Tree-huggers of the Nutmeg, unite! by HYPERLINK "http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/archives/index?author=oid:84986"Tom Gogola - April 20, 2006 CHRIS FASANELLA ILLUSTRATION HYPERLINK "http://newhavenadvocate.com/binary/152380-273-1/news-6092.jpeg"Feature Imagine yourself living in a Green state. Imagine that by this time next year, a full slate of Green Party candidates has been elected to statewide office. Imagine a world of Green, where naught but Earth-friendly policies are foisted upon Connecticut voters. . . Imagine what an interesting and off-beat government we'd have if the handful of candidates on the Green ticket were actually to win the higher offices they're seeking. . . Ladies and gentlemen, we're here with drug-policy reformer and governor Clifford Thornton, who is just now meeting in the governor's mansion with a quarter pound of marijuana and a coalition of pot-puffing cancer patients. They're gathering to test the state's first bumper crop of the kind medical bud. One is heard to say, "That's good stuff, guv'nor!" to which Thornton responds, "Don't Rowland that joint!" Down the hallway, Attorney General Nancy Burton is explaining to a reporter how her being disbarred by a vengeful judge from practicing law in Connecticut for five years was actually a good thing for Connecticut residents. "It's my badge of honor," she had previously told the reporter. Burton's ban on practicing law in the state ended just a few days before the election, and she's now applying to be readmitted to the Connecticut bar. It's a peculiar scenario, to be sure: an AG who can't even argue a case in state court. (She's good to go in federal court and in New York, however.) For now, the longtime anti-nuclear activist is poised to chain herself to the Millstone power plant, she says. Proudly litigious lawyer that she is, Burton declares that she'll sue you if you don't report that she'll sue you if you don't say nice things about her suing you. The reporter decides it's a good thing to have an attorney general who likes to sue, disbarment be damned, so long as he doesn't get sued by her for having some harmless fun with her rich and litigious history. Plus, Burton once successfully sued to save millionsand maybe billionsof winter-flounder larvae from getting sucked into the Millstone intake pipes. A friend of the flounder is a friend to all, the reporter concludes. Senator Ralph Ferrucci, meanwhile, is hosting the first annual senatorial grammar class at his Hartford office. The senator is using as a teaching tool one of the mangled-syntax press releases he unloosed on the public during his campaignthat's very Mao of Ralph, in the "speaking bitterness" sense of the expression. He's reading from the gibberish sheet he released in opposition to the notorious Dubai ports deal: We must make it our own responsibility to keep the terrorists out without the friends of our allies , he reads, adding, "though even I have no idea what the hell that means and I wrote the thing! Discuss! " Even though he's now a United States senator, Ferrucci hasn't quit his day job as a deliveryman for Pepperidge Farm products. His reasons are as strategic as they are savory: He's got some baked goodies from the truck for Thornton's stoned cancer pals. For his part, Ferrucci needs the governor's support if he's to declare Rudy's a national historic landmark, his signature legislative initiative to date, besides his call to, you know, end the war. Secretary of the State Mike DeRosa, meanwhile, has not stopped talking for 317 straight days. The logorrheic voting-reform specialist and Connecticut Green Party founder ignores Gov. Thornton's entreaties to "have a couple of puffs and shut up already," and DeRosa has just repeated himself for the 17th time in 16 minutes to an Advocate reporter about the evils of the two-party system. He's just getting warmed up to tell a story about the campaign-finance-reform miracle currently unfolding in Moodus. Dude, you won , the reporter cries, but to no avail. DeRosa just keeps on reforming, and reforming, and reforming. He's the Energizer Bunny of reform. Finally, State Treasurer David Bue, pitched to voters as a "socially responsible investment adviser," is meeting with a cabal of unrepentant Socialists. "How does one square social responsibility with sound investment strategies?" he is asked. "All I can tell you" responds Bue, with a cryptic glimmer in his eye, "is that the only color that matters is green ." Heads bob. Bue's made the case. Whether it's cash, pot or politics, green is good. It would be thrilling were the above scenario to play out. Sign me right up: Executive bongs, maverick AGs, workingman bloopers, et al. But the purpose of this year's big statewide Green Party push isn't actually to get these people electedit's to grow the state party into a viable alternative in future elections. It's to ramp up the debate on controversial issues like decriminalizing marijuana (Thornton) and mothballing Millstone (Burton). And for that the party must be cheered; this is the first time it has fielded a full slate of candidates for statewide office. You can grouse over what might be perceived as a preference for quantity over quality, but the heck with thatfor good or ill, the Green Party isn't a top-down organization, at least not yet. Migosh, it's downright democratic! And this Saturday, the party convenes at the AFL-CIO Labor Hall in New Haven to formally announce its platform and nominate its slate of candidates. (See 7 Days, page 22, for details.) Tim McKee, the state's Green Party national committee member and Thornton's campaign manager, is blunt about the upcoming election. There is no spoiler role for the Greens to play, he says, because "Rell is going to win very strongly." Since 1992, McKee says, he has been almost continuously asking people to run on the Green Party ticket; he says about 500 people have been approached during that time, including the Ralphs, Nader and Ferrucci. "A lot of people have only known us as the Nader party, and vice versa," he says. "Some people have only seen us at the local but not the statewide level." McKee is quick to point out as well that "each candidacy is still an independent entity, and what we are doing now is not going to be the finished product." The Green Party must now collect 7,500 signatures so that its candidates can be on the ballot come November. So far, says McKee, they've got about 1,000, and he's angling to collect 12,000, just to be on the safe side. The deadline for submitting the signatures is Aug. 5. That leaves plenty of time to hire a copy editor for Ralph Ferrucci. A couple boxes of Mint Milano cookies ought to do the trick. Use our contact form to write to HYPERLINK "http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/forms/contact?oid=oid%3A84986" \nTom Gogola. _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group "HYPERLINK "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newhavengreens"newhavengreens" on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: HYPERLINK "mailto:newhavengreens-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe"newha vengreens-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the HYPERLINK "http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/"Yahoo! Terms of Service. _____ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.4/319 - Release Date: 4/19/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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The last part is really encouraging ----- Original Message ----- From: smderosa To: newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com ; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ; 'VOTETHORNTONyahoo' ; VoteFerrucci at yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:07 AM Subject: {news} RE: [newhavengreens] "Pot" shots at G.P. & Thornton-GOGOLASTRIKES AGAIN! Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Here's my response to this piece: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sincerely, Mike DeRosa I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER -THIS SOMETIMES COMIC WRITER DID QUITES A JOB ON US. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THIS WEIRD ARTICLE? WE HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR,,RIGHT? I URGE YOU TO ALL WRITE TO THE PAPER,,WITH YOUR VIEWS. letters at newhavenadvocate.com Tim McKee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Green Machine The Green Party is poised to name a slate of candidates for statewide office. Tree-huggers of the Nutmeg, unite! by Tom Gogola - April 20, 2006 CHRIS FASANELLA ILLUSTRATION Imagine yourself living in a Green state. Imagine that by this time next year, a full slate of Green Party candidates has been elected to statewide office. Imagine a world of Green, where naught but Earth-friendly policies are foisted upon Connecticut voters. . . Imagine what an interesting and off-beat government we'd have if the handful of candidates on the Green ticket were actually to win the higher offices they're seeking. . . Ladies and gentlemen, we're here with drug-policy reformer and governor Clifford Thornton, who is just now meeting in the governor's mansion with a quarter pound of marijuana and a coalition of pot-puffing cancer patients. They're gathering to test the state's first bumper crop of the kind medical bud. One is heard to say, "That's good stuff, guv'nor!" to which Thornton responds, "Don't Rowland that joint!" Down the hallway, Attorney General Nancy Burton is explaining to a reporter how her being disbarred by a vengeful judge from practicing law in Connecticut for five years was actually a good thing for Connecticut residents. "It's my badge of honor," she had previously told the reporter. Burton's ban on practicing law in the state ended just a few days before the election, and she's now applying to be readmitted to the Connecticut bar. It's a peculiar scenario, to be sure: an AG who can't even argue a case in state court. (She's good to go in federal court and in New York, however.) For now, the longtime anti-nuclear activist is poised to chain herself to the Millstone power plant, she says. Proudly litigious lawyer that she is, Burton declares that she'll sue you if you don't report that she'll sue you if you don't say nice things about her suing you. The reporter decides it's a good thing to have an attorney general who likes to sue, disbarment be damned, so long as he doesn't get sued by her for having some harmless fun with her rich and litigious history. Plus, Burton once successfully sued to save millionsand maybe billionsof winter-flounder larvae from getting sucked into the Millstone intake pipes. A friend of the flounder is a friend to all, the reporter concludes. Senator Ralph Ferrucci, meanwhile, is hosting the first annual senatorial grammar class at his Hartford office. The senator is using as a teaching tool one of the mangled-syntax press releases he unloosed on the public during his campaignthat's very Mao of Ralph, in the "speaking bitterness" sense of the expression. He's reading from the gibberish sheet he released in opposition to the notorious Dubai ports deal: We must make it our own responsibility to keep the terrorists out without the friends of our allies , he reads, adding, "though even I have no idea what the hell that means and I wrote the thing! Discuss! " Even though he's now a United States senator, Ferrucci hasn't quit his day job as a deliveryman for Pepperidge Farm products. His reasons are as strategic as they are savory: He's got some baked goodies from the truck for Thornton's stoned cancer pals. For his part, Ferrucci needs the governor's support if he's to declare Rudy's a national historic landmark, his signature legislative initiative to date, besides his call to, you know, end the war. Secretary of the State Mike DeRosa, meanwhile, has not stopped talking for 317 straight days. The logorrheic voting-reform specialist and Connecticut Green Party founder ignores Gov. Thornton's entreaties to "have a couple of puffs and shut up already," and DeRosa has just repeated himself for the 17th time in 16 minutes to an Advocate reporter about the evils of the two-party system. He's just getting warmed up to tell a story about the campaign-finance-reform miracle currently unfolding in Moodus. Dude, you won , the reporter cries, but to no avail. DeRosa just keeps on reforming, and reforming, and reforming. He's the Energizer Bunny of reform. Finally, State Treasurer David Bue, pitched to voters as a "socially responsible investment adviser," is meeting with a cabal of unrepentant Socialists. "How does one square social responsibility with sound investment strategies?" he is asked. "All I can tell you" responds Bue, with a cryptic glimmer in his eye, "is that the only color that matters is green ." Heads bob. Bue's made the case. Whether it's cash, pot or politics, green is good. It would be thrilling were the above scenario to play out. Sign me right up: Executive bongs, maverick AGs, workingman bloopers, et al. But the purpose of this year's big statewide Green Party push isn't actually to get these people electedit's to grow the state party into a viable alternative in future elections. It's to ramp up the debate on controversial issues like decriminalizing marijuana (Thornton) and mothballing Millstone (Burton). And for that the party must be cheered; this is the first time it has fielded a full slate of candidates for statewide office. You can grouse over what might be perceived as a preference for quantity over quality, but the heck with thatfor good or ill, the Green Party isn't a top-down organization, at least not yet. Migosh, it's downright democratic! And this Saturday, the party convenes at the AFL-CIO Labor Hall in New Haven to formally announce its platform and nominate its slate of candidates. (See 7 Days, page 22, for details.) Tim McKee, the state's Green Party national committee member and Thornton's campaign manager, is blunt about the upcoming election. There is no spoiler role for the Greens to play, he says, because "Rell is going to win very strongly." Since 1992, McKee says, he has been almost continuously asking people to run on the Green Party ticket; he says about 500 people have been approached during that time, including the Ralphs, Nader and Ferrucci. "A lot of people have only known us as the Nader party, and vice versa," he says. "Some people have only seen us at the local but not the statewide level." McKee is quick to point out as well that "each candidacy is still an independent entity, and what we are doing now is not going to be the finished product." The Green Party must now collect 7,500 signatures so that its candidates can be on the ballot come November. So far, says McKee, they've got about 1,000, and he's angling to collect 12,000, just to be on the safe side. The deadline for submitting the signatures is Aug. 5. That leaves plenty of time to hire a copy editor for Ralph Ferrucci. A couple boxes of Mint Milano cookies ought to do the trick. Use our contact form to write to Tom Gogola ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS a.. Visit your group "newhavengreens" on the web. b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: newhavengreens-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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We do need some people to show up early to set up. Maybe 10 am, if you can make it. 11 am is the social hour to meet the candidates one on one and link up with many Greens from across the state! Candidates bring your flyers, and chapters bring you success stories! Bring your cameras!! We need good pics for websites, posters ect! Anyone have any Green Party banners? please bring them! Print out your own banners with your own messages! "Clean elections for All!" Close Millstone, Vote for Ferrucci,, ect , ect This is a convention.. it should be fun! Please bring snacks, light finger food, coffee,fruit,,ect..(By the way,, someone offer it to the press too!) Thanks in advance for making this OUR best convention ever! Tim McKee Manchester, CT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Thornton For Governor ,Donna Byrne-McKee, treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com email: info at votethornton.com Tim McKee NEW cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager- National Committee member of the Green Party- Connecticut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apbrison at hotmail.com Fri Apr 21 14:22:06 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:22:06 -0400 Subject: {news} RE: [newhavengreens] Re: [VoteThornton] "Pot" shots at G.P. & Thornton-GOGOLA STRIKES AGAIN! Message-ID: I disagree (with Ralph). I think this article should be responded to, honoring Cliff's call to avoid disparaging remarks. The Advocate should not be printing such ad hominem attacks on our candidates, or anybody else's for that matter. As always the main purpose of such letters is more print space, more publicity. A second purpose might be to curtail the left-bashing that is Gogola's trademark. But Gogola himself is not the target audience of our letters. He is not likely to reform, certainly not as a result of our criticisms. Rather the target audience in the reading public, first, and, perhaps, other Advocate staff, second. In other words it is how the reading public responds to our letters that matters, not whether or not Tom gives a shit. Allan ---------------------------------------------------- From: ralph ferrucci Reply-To: newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com To: VoteThornton at yahoogroups.com, voteferrucci at yahoogroups.com, newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com, CTGP-candidates at yahoogroups.com Subject: [newhavengreens] Re: [VoteThornton] "Pot" shots at G.P. & Thornton-GOGOLA STRIKES AGAIN! Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:50:30 -0400 I know Tom. He would get off on the .criticism. I think what all the candidates need to do is write on letter to the advocate thanking them of the article and tell them how funny they think it was. It would actually hurt Tom more if no one was offended by the story. Ralph On Thursday, April 20, 2006, at 08:26 PM, daniel sumrall wrote: >For what it's worth-- > >The banality of Gogola's humor and the utter lack of creativity in his >'satire' warrant a response no better than disdain. In this case, ignorance >deserves to be ignored if for no other reason than all of the Green Party's >candidates have earned the respect and votes of more citizens of >Connecticut than this 3rd rate Hunter S. Thompson devotee could ever >muster. > >Any outrageous complaints will only provide him with another 'story' idea. >That said, everyone should write the Advocate and express disappointment in >the paper's journalistic stupidity. > >just thoughts daniel sumrall > >Green Party-CT wrote: > >I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER -THIS SOMETIMES COMIC WRITER DID QUITES A JOB ON >US. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THIS WEIRD ARTICLE? WE HAVE A SENSE OF >HUMOUR,,RIGHT? > >I URGE YOU TO ALL WRITE TO THE PAPER,,WITH YOUR VIEWS. >letters at newhavenadvocate.com > >Tim McKee >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >A Green Machine The Green Party is poised to name a slate of candidates for >statewide office. Tree-huggers of the Nutmeg, unite! > >by Tom Gogola- April 20, 2006 > Imagine yourself living in a Green state. Imagine that by this time next year, a full slate of Green Party candidates has been elected to statewide office. Imagine a world of Green, where naught but Earth-friendly policies are foisted upon Connecticut voters. . . >Imagine what an interesting and off-beat government we'd have if the >handful of candidates on the Green ticket were actually to win the higher >offices they're seeking. . . Ladies and gentlemen, we're here with >drug-policy reformer and governor Clifford Thornton, who is just now >meeting in the governor's mansion with a quarter pound of marijuana and a >coalition of pot-puffing cancer patients. They're gathering to test the >state's first bumper crop of the kind medical bud. One is heard to say, >"That's good stuff, guv'nor!" to which Thornton responds, "Don't Rowland >that joint!" > >Down the hallway, Attorney General Nancy Burton is explaining to a reporter >how her being disbarred by a vengeful judge from practicing law in >Connecticut for five years was actually a good thing for Connecticut >residents. "It's my badge of honor," she had previously told the reporter. >Burton's ban on practicing law in the state ended just a few days before >the election, and she's now applying to be readmitted to the Connecticut >bar. It's a peculiar scenario, to be sure: an AG who can't even argue a >case in state court. (She's good to go in federal court and in New York, >however.) For now, the longtime anti-nuclear activist is poised to chain >herself to the Millstone power plant, she says. Proudly litigious lawyer >that she is, Burton declares that she'll sue you if you don't report that >she'll sue you if you don't say nice things about her suing you. The >reporter decides it's a good thing to have an attorney general who likes to >sue, disbarment be damned, so long as he doesn't get sued by her for having >some harmless fun with her rich and litigious history. Plus, Burton once >successfully sued to save millionsand maybe billionsof winter-flounder >larvae from getting sucked into the Millstone intake pipes. A friend of the >flounder is a friend to all, the reporter concludes. > >Senator Ralph Ferrucci, meanwhile, is hosting the first annual senatorial >grammar class at his Hartford office. The senator is using as a teaching >tool one of the mangled-syntax press releases he unloosed on the public >during his campaignthat's very Mao of Ralph, in the "speaking bitterness" >sense of the expression. He's reading from the gibberish sheet he released >in opposition to the notorious Dubai ports deal: We must make it our own >responsibility to keep the terrorists out without the friends of our allies >, he reads, adding, "though even I have no idea what the hell that means >and I wrote the thing! Discuss! " Even though he's now a United States >senator, Ferrucci hasn't quit his day job as a deliveryman for Pepperidge >Farm products. His reasons are as strategic as they are savory: He's got >some baked goodies from the truck for Thornton's stoned cancer pals. For >his part, Ferrucci needs the governor's support if he's to declare Rudy's a >national historic landmark, his signature legislative initiative to date, >besides his call to, you know, end the war. > >Secretary of the State Mike DeRosa, meanwhile, has not stopped talking for >317 straight days. The logorrheic voting-reform specialist and Connecticut >Green Party founder ignores Gov. Thornton's entreaties to "have a couple of >puffs and shut up already," and DeRosa has just repeated himself for the >17th time in 16 minutes to an Advocate reporter about the evils of the >two-party system. He's just getting warmed up to tell a story about the >campaign-finance-reform miracle currently unfolding in Moodus. Dude, you >won , the reporter cries, but to no avail. DeRosa just keeps on reforming, >and reforming, and reforming. He's the Energizer Bunny of reform. > >Finally, State Treasurer David Bue, pitched to voters as a "socially >responsible investment adviser," is meeting with a cabal of unrepentant >Socialists. "How does one square social responsibility with sound >investment strategies?" he is asked. "All I can tell you" responds Bue, >with a cryptic glimmer in his eye, "is that the only color that matters is >green ." Heads bob. Bue's made the case. Whether it's cash, pot or >politics, green is good. > >It would be thrilling were the above scenario to play out. Sign me right >up: Executive bongs, maverick AGs, workingman bloopers, et al. But the >purpose of this year's big statewide Green Party push isn't actually to get >these people electedit's to grow the state party into a viable alternative >in future elections. It's to ramp up the debate on controversial issues >like decriminalizing marijuana (Thornton) and mothballing Millstone >(Burton). And for that the party must be cheered; this is the first time it >has fielded a full slate of candidates for statewide office. You can grouse >over what might be perceived as a preference for quantity over quality, but >the heck with thatfor good or ill, the Green Party isn't a top-down >organization, at least not yet. Migosh, it's downright democratic! And this >Saturday, the party convenes at the AFL-CIO Labor Hall in New Haven to >formally announce its platform and nominate its slate of candidates. (See 7 >Days, page 22, for details.) > >Tim McKee, the state's Green Party national committee member and Thornton's >campaign manager, is blunt about the upcoming election. There is no spoiler >role for the Greens to play, he says, because "Rell is going to win very >strongly." Since 1992, McKee says, he has been almost continuously asking >people to run on the Green Party ticket; he says about 500 people have been >approached during that time, including the Ralphs, Nader and Ferrucci. "A >lot of people have only known us as the Nader party, and vice versa," he >says. "Some people have only seen us at the local but not the statewide >level." > >McKee is quick to point out as well that "each candidacy is still an >independent entity, and what we are doing now is not going to be the >finished product." > >The Green Party must now collect 7,500 signatures so that its candidates >can be on the ballot come November. So far, says McKee, they've got about >1,000, and he's angling to collect 12,000, just to be on the safe side. The >deadline for submitting the signatures is Aug. 5. That leaves plenty of >time to hire a copy editor for Ralph Ferrucci. A couple boxes of Mint >Milano cookies ought to do the trick. > >Use our contact form to write to Tom Gogola. > > > > > >New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save >big. > >YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > >+ Visit your group "VoteThornton" on the web. > >+ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >VoteThornton-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com > >+ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > From apbrison at hotmail.com Fri Apr 21 15:55:44 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:55:44 -0400 Subject: FW: Re: {news} RE: [newhavengreens] Re: [VoteThornton] "Pot" shots at G.P. & Thornton-GOGOLA STRIKES AGAIN! Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sat Apr 22 03:13:26 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:13:26 +0000 Subject: {news} Convention agenda In-Reply-To: <008501c66552$898d2490$861f5743@compaqzwerqee7> Message-ID: Following is the tentative agenda, to be reviewed at start of meeting: AGENDA FOR CT GREEN PARTY CONVENTION Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 2006 11-12 setup & social hour 12-12:15 review agenda & procedures; take nominations from the floor 12:15-1:30 candidates forum (3 cochairs, 1 secretary, 1 treasurer, 3 national reps + any floor nominations = at least 8 people = 80 minutes, hopefully less) 1:30-1:45 collection of ballots & start tallying in back room 1:45-2:35 statewide candidates forum (US Senator, Governor, Atty General, SotS, Treasurer = 5 people = 50 minutes) 2:35-2:45 announce count of mailed-in statewide candidate ballots + read any relevant mailed-in comments 2:45-3:00 collection of delegates' statewide candidate ballots 3-3:30 other business (proposals for next State Central Committee agenda?) 3:30 announcement of ballot count for internal elections and statewide candidate nominations From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Sun Apr 23 07:49:06 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (Hartford Courant) Green Party Has A Slate Message-ID: <20060423114906.8965.qmail@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Green Party Has A Slate Ticket Leaders Say Drug War Wrong ADVERTISERS --------------------------------- Advertise on ctnow -->By FRANCES GRANDY TAYLOR Courant Staff Writer April 23 2006 NEW HAVEN -- While announcing his candidacy for governor Saturday, Cliff Thornton called for an end to the drug war, which he said was "designed to be waged, but never to be won." Thornton topped the Connecticut Green Party's first slate of candidates to run for statewide election. The retired businessman, who said he supports the legalization of marijuana, spoke to about 50 delegates crammed into a room at the Greater New Haven Labor Council, where the party's first convention took place. The room was dotted with green balloons and green-and-white Green Party flags. Behind the podium hung an American flag with logos of U.S. corporations in place of the stars. Thornton is a founder of Efficacy, a drug-reform group that calls the government's war on drugs ineffective. He said the money that government spends to fight drugs would be better spent on a crumbling infrastructure and social problems that have been swept under the rug. "I decided to run for office because I can no longer support candidates with progressive rhetoric who never talk about the dinosaur in the room, which is the war on drugs," he said. The Green Party also nominated Nancy Burton for attorney general, Mike DeRosa for secretary of the state, David Bue for treasurer and Ralph A. Ferrucci for U.S. senator. DeRosa, a Green Party co-founder, announced Saturday that the party had joined with the American Civil Liberties Union and would prepare on Monday to file suit against the state because of campaign financial reform legislation that he said blocked ballot access for third parties, making them jump hurdles that were not required of the two major political parties. If elected, DeRosa said, he would push for proportional representation, which would give seats to parties based on the percentage of the votes they received. "Clean elections are more than limiting the amount of money that flows into campaigns, campaigns are about issues, and ideas," DeRosa said. "Political campaigns are about the future and building alternatives," he said. "The problem with the two major parties is that they are just mirror images of each other. First and foremost, we want campaigns to be campaigns. Right now, they are just auctions." The Connecticut Green Party has 15 state chapters, and about a dozen candidates holding office in cities and towns. The national Green Party has about 200 members who hold public office. The Connecticut Green Party supports universal health care and opposes the war in Iraq, among other issues. Thornton, who said he is running on a platform for a "sustainable society," called on cities and states Saturday to dismantle their war on drugs and to divert those funds to education and health care. "The drug war has done nothing but exacerbate the problems connected to drugs," he said. "Our children have unlimited access to these drugs and little information that they trust about them. America is becoming a police state where the bureaucracy which monitors, controls and arrests people outnumbers those that support people." Ralph A. Ferrucci, a Green Party activist who once ran against John DeStefano for mayor of New Haven, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate. He criticized the billions of dollars spent and lives lost on the Iraq war. "We have spent over $270 billion; we could have put 36 million children into Head Start or have sent 13 million students to a public university for four years," he said. "We could have funded a health-care system that would cover all Americans. We're one of the only industrialized nations in the world that does not do this." Ferrucci said that as an independent truck driver, he has not been able to afford health insurance for years. "Most of the other candidates are millionaires," he said. "I know what the working men and women in this country go through everyday, because I am one of them." 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Its annual daylong convention was held at the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council in the Fair Haven neighborhood. on error resume next For mp_i=11 To 6 Step -1 If Not IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." & mp_i)) Then Else mp_swver=mp_i Exit For End If Next '); } //--> Thornton, 61, of Glastonbury, is a harsh critic of the war on drugs, and said he expects the issue will be the most important in his campaign. Thornton?s mother died of a heroin overdose when he was 18. While he initially advocated for harsher drug laws and increased police enforcement, he claims after watching his "native Hartford going downhill decade after decade," he began to question the approach. The drug war, and its stiff penalties for drug users and sellers, Thornton claims, has created a devastating domino effect forcing parents and potential taxpayers into prison. His solution includes the "outright legalization of cannabis and hemp," which he admits to smoking on occasion, the medicalization of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy, and the decriminalization of all drugs, he said. "I want to stop the crime and violence. The only way is to take the money out of it," he said. Heroin maintenance programs administered through hospitals can be more effective than methadone for those seeking to quit, Thornton said. He believes if heroin had been legal and supervised by doctors in the 1960s, his mother might have survived. Thornton said race will "definitely be an issue," particularly when talking about the drug war, but said this "is not going to be a race campaign." Thornton also supports a universal health care system and clean-election laws. He opposes the proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Long Island Sound. The Greens also nominated Nancy Burton as their candidate for attorney general; Mike DeRosa for secretary of the state; S. David Bue for state treasurer; and Ralph Ferrucci for U.S. Senate. Burton, of Redding, has been a public interest lawyer for the past 20 years. She has adopted the slogan "Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Government." DeRosa criticized the recently passed Campaign Finance Reform law, which requires third parties to collect signatures of 20 percent of all voters in the last election to obtain clean election funds. "I will inform the public about the onerous, unfair and unconstitutional nature of this requirement," he said in his campaign literature. Bue is a certified financial planner, currently "practicing socially responsible investing" in Westport, according to his literature. Ferrucci, New Haven Guilty Party mayoral candidate, said he plans to call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq, universal health care, a repeal of the Patriot Act and "for an education system that covers people from pre-K through college." --------------------------------- Elizabeth Benton can be reached at 734-2813 or ebenton at nhregister.com . '); } //--> ?New Haven Register 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sun Apr 23 09:13:32 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:13:32 -0400 Subject: {news} (New Haven Register) Green Party Fields State Candidates References: <20060423115446.13935.qmail@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: What I need, is to get speaking gigs with the town committees in this state. Anyone have any leads. Cliff Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible ----- Original Message ----- From: Green Party-CT To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 7:54 AM Subject: {news} (New Haven Register) Green Party Fields State Candidates Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org 04/23/2006 Green Party fields state candidates Elizabeth Benton , Register Staff NEW HAVEN - The Connecticut Green Party nominated its first-ever slate of candidates for state offices Saturday, including the state's first black male candidate for governor, Clifford Thornton. Its annual daylong convention was held at the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council in the Fair Haven neighborhood. Thornton, 61, of Glastonbury, is a harsh critic of the war on drugs, and said he expects the issue will be the most important in his campaign. Thornton's mother died of a heroin overdose when he was 18. While he initially advocated for harsher drug laws and increased police enforcement, he claims after watching his "native Hartford going downhill decade after decade," he began to question the approach. The drug war, and its stiff penalties for drug users and sellers, Thornton claims, has created a devastating domino effect forcing parents and potential taxpayers into prison. His solution includes the "outright legalization of cannabis and hemp," which he admits to smoking on occasion, the medicalization of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy, and the decriminalization of all drugs, he said. "I want to stop the crime and violence. The only way is to take the money out of it," he said. Heroin maintenance programs administered through hospitals can be more effective than methadone for those seeking to quit, Thornton said. He believes if heroin had been legal and supervised by doctors in the 1960s, his mother might have survived. Thornton said race will "definitely be an issue," particularly when talking about the drug war, but said this "is not going to be a race campaign." Thornton also supports a universal health care system and clean-election laws. He opposes the proposed liquefied natural gas facility in Long Island Sound. The Greens also nominated Nancy Burton as their candidate for attorney general; Mike DeRosa for secretary of the state; S. David Bue for state treasurer; and Ralph Ferrucci for U.S. Senate. Burton, of Redding, has been a public interest lawyer for the past 20 years. She has adopted the slogan "Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Government." DeRosa criticized the recently passed Campaign Finance Reform law, which requires third parties to collect signatures of 20 percent of all voters in the last election to obtain clean election funds. "I will inform the public about the onerous, unfair and unconstitutional nature of this requirement," he said in his campaign literature. Bue is a certified financial planner, currently "practicing socially responsible investing" in Westport, according to his literature. Ferrucci, New Haven Guilty Party mayoral candidate, said he plans to call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq, universal health care, a repeal of the Patriot Act and "for an education system that covers people from pre-K through college." ------------------------------------------------------------------ Elizabeth Benton can be reached at 734-2813 or ebenton at nhregister.com . ?New Haven Register 2006 To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. 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After having seen our priority bill (HB 5610) die in committee two days earlier, we were happy that the Judiciary committee passed SB 66 almost unanimously, and that the Appropriations committee passed SB 625 unanimously. Either of these bills can be amended to serve as vehicles for fixing the nonseverability clause, and we'll be happy to see either one signed into law. Usually, I ask our activists to call on their elected officials to do the right thing. On Friday, they did. So today, I'm asking you to call and thank them for it. It's important that we give credit when credit is due. The favorable committee votes were no accident. The continued phone calls and emails from Common Cause activists and our coalition allies have helped to turn the tide in favor of passing a fix this session. Also, on Friday, the Hartford Courant reiterated its March 13th editorial, stating that "the governor and lawmakers cannot face voters this November posing as reformers as long as the statute's problems remain." I couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks again. Sincerely, Andy Sauer Executive Director Connecticut Common Cause Forward this email Give to Common Cause Discuss this message -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Apr 23 19:49:33 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:49:33 -0400 Subject: {news} Burton's group gets environmental grant References: <20060421000859.0446189C292@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: Burton's group gets environmental grant The Redding Pilot, April 20, 2006 A local citizens group, Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, organized by Reddingite Nancy Burton, has won a New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) grant. The coalition is among four community groups in Connecticut to receive a grant from the fund at its recent Grantmaking Committee Meeting. These funds support a variety of local initiatives to improve environmental quality across the state. The Connecticut groups received a total of $5,500. Ms. Burton's group received $1,500 to help fund the "Katie the Goat Strontium Awareness Project" by which the goat's milk, produced near the Millstone Nuclear Plant, is being tested for strontium-90. "It's great news," said Ms. Burton. "This grant is a wonderful way of recognizing the critical and special role that Katie the goat is playing to raise public awareness about little known dangers of nuclear power plants," she said. Ms. Burton said exposure to strontium-90 can cause diseases like bone cancer and leukemia. The project tests goats' milk, because goats have an extra stomach and are able to concentrate strontium-90 in their milk. "It's a reliable measure of testing for strontium-90," she said. The New England Grassroots Environment Fund is a nonprofit grant program designed to foster a broad range of local environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Grants, ranging from $500 to $2,500, are made three times a year in March, June and November. To receive a copy of the guidelines, application form or a list of grant recipients, contact NEGEF at P.O. Box 1057, Montpelier, VT 05601, call 802-223-4622, e-mail at info at grassrootsfund.org, or visit NEGEF's Web site at www.grassrootsfund.org. For more information on the Katie the Goat project, visit www.mothballmillstone.org. From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sun Apr 23 19:50:06 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:50:06 -0400 Subject: {news} Nancy Burton in The Redding Pilot Message-ID: Burton seeks Green Party's nomination to run for state attorney general's post The Redding Pilot, April 20, 2006 by ALEXANDRA FARSUN afarsun@ acorn-online.com Reddingite Nancy Burton is a Green Party nominee to run for state attorney general. Ms. Burton will attend the party's convention on April 22 in New Haven for an official decision about her nomination and others for Green Party candidates. Ms. Burton is an environmental activist and founder of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, and a public interest attorney. "This year, for the first time, the Green Party of Connecticut, an expanding political force, is running candidates for state and federal offices," said Ms. Burton. "I was invited to be considered for a run for attorney general." She is not presently licensed in the state of Connecticut to be an attorney, because she was disbarred from practicing law for five years in 2001, Ms. Burton said. While she has been disbarred from practicing law in Connecticut, she can still practice in federal and New York courts. Her term of disbarment will be up a few days before the election in November, she said. She would not automatically be reinstated, but rather she would need to apply to have her license reinstated in Connecticut. If she were to win the party's nomination, and the election, she would potentially be qualified under the state statute to act as the public's attorney, Ms. Burton said. She wears her disbarment as "a badge of honor and am currently taking steps to challenge what happened. I am very confident that one day soon I will be fully vindicated," she said. Ms. Burton was a lifelong Democrat but changed her party affiliation in the summer 2004 when the Green Party invited her to be its candidate for a state representative's seat on the Green Party line. She successfully petitioned to get on the ballot but lost to the incumbent, Rep. John Stripp. After giving it some thought, Ms. Burton said she accepted the party's request to be considered as its attorney general candidate. "I believe strongly that all public officials should be subject to a to a time of scrutiny and that elections provide the opportunity to hold our elected representatives publicly accountable for their conduct during their preceding term," she said. "I fully recognize that (Attorney General Richard) Blumenthal is enormously popular, and, in fact, much of what he has stood for during his distinguished career, I fully endorse. I believe it's really a civic obligation for the political process to engage an elected official in public debate," she said. "Someone needs to do that. I've been invited to do so, and I decided, why not me?" she said. Ms. Burton said she does not agree with some of the positions Mr. Blumenthal has taken, especially over litigation involving the Millstone nuclear power plant. "One of my accomplishments was to persuade a judge to keep one of the reactors shut during larvae migration in the spring," she said. "On these fronts, Blumenthal was on the other side of the table with the corporate owners of the plant," she said. Ms. Burton said another reason for her acceptance of the nominations is the same as her reasoning behind running for the state representative seat - to raise awareness of nuclear dangers since the state has two nuclear power plants on either end. "Since 1988, I have been principally engaged in public interest campaigns," she said. Ms. Burton said if the party chooses her as its candidate this Saturday, she would use the candidacy as a platform to raise public awareness "for the urgent need to shut down nuclear menaces." Ms. Burton earned her law degree from Brooklyn Law School and her bachelor's degree from New York University. She did graduate work at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Division of Historic Preservation, and earned a Homeland Security Certificate through the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. She also holds a certificate from Women's Campaign School at Yale University. She served as a judge in the Toxics Action Center Dirty Dozen Awards and was honored by People's Action for Clean Energy for accomplishments in public-interest environmental litigation. She is co-founder of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, "has litigated successfully to enforce environmental protection laws, combat racism, eliminate gender discriminations and protect the rights of children," led a petition drive that resulted in the permanent preservation of Redding's Crossfields and is "a judicial whistleblower, 1985-present." She is a member of Greenpeace and the Redding League of Women Voters. Ms. Burton and her husband, William Honan, are the parents of three adult children. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Allan ----Original Message Follows---- From: daniel sumrall Reply-To: newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com To: newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com Subject: [newhavengreens] the campaign against Delauro Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Aa some of you may know, I would like to be our party's candidate for US Representative. I have just set up this website: http://www.politicalgateway.com/cand.php?id=399&page=cand Please let me know what you think or if you would like to become involved. Take Care Daniel --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. From roseberry3 at cox.net Tue Apr 25 23:07:18 2006 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:07:18 -0400 Subject: {news} "April" SCC meeting to be 5-2-06 at 7pm at Portland Public Library Message-ID: <20060426030724.JEXA15797.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@BarbaraBarry> Agenda for "April" SCC Meeting 5-2-06 Place: Portland Public Library, 20 Freestone Avenue, Portland, CT Phone: 860-342-6770 Time: 7PM to 8:55PM Facilitator: Michael Westerfield A. Preliminaries: 1. (2 minutes): Introductions of attendees and chapters. Recruit timekeeper. 2. (1 minute): Identify attendees who are NOT voting representatives. 3. (1 minute): Adopt ground rules. 4. (2-4 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, additions and deletions. 5. (2-4 minutes): Comments and approval of 1-31-05 and 2-28-06 SCC minutes. 6. (5 minutes): 2-13-06 EC meeting presentation by Barbara Barry and approval. 7. (15 minutes): incoming Treasurer's report by Christopher Reilly. . Reports: 1. (5 minutes, each for): Chapter reports. 2. (15 minutes): discussion about 4-22-06 CTGP convention.. 3. (10 minutes): U.S. Green Party report by CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury. 4. (15 minutes): Budget Committee suggestions 5. (15 minutes): Gathering of signatures for our state and federal candidates to get on the ballot 6. (10 minutes): Soliciting ideas/people from the chapters for our 2007 legislative agenda/V.O.T.E.R. 7. (10 minutes): Discussing the revival of the "CT Green Times" newspaper. 8. (25 minutes): Discussion about CTGP candidates for federal, statewide and municipal elections; any new candidates. www.mapquest.com . -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Apr 26 21:27:25 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Mass Greens "Gang Green" (weeklydig.com) Message-ID: <20060427012725.48958.qmail@web81410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> GANG GREEN After supposedly torpedoing the Dems? gubernatorial chances last time around, the Green-Rainbow Party girds for another go JOE KEOHANE Remember 2002? There was something so supremely hysterical about Shannon O?Brien, coming off a series of jaw-droppingly bad gubernatorial debate performances, evoking the dread specter of Ralph Nader to dissuade people from voting for exceedingly polished and likable Green Party candidate Jill Stein. ?Ultimately, the voters of Massachusetts are very smart,? O?Brien said. ?They're not going to put someone in there who needs on-the-job training.? Ironically, minutes later, O?Brien got soundly clubbed by Romney to the tune of 10 percentage points. Stein took 3 percent. Republican control over the corner office continued, and the navel-gazing about throwing your vote away began anew. This time around, with the field already crowded with left-ish candidates, the talk is expected to intensify, but longtime anti-poverty activist and Green-Rainbow candidate Grace Ross isn?t having any of it. ?If people think they?re going to get what they want from government,? Ross says, ?without having a real political debate that talks about the things that matter the most to us, then they have a misconception. We?re not going to move this government back to being progressive unless we have several progressive candidates running at once.? The Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party?a four-year-old alliance formed partly to alter the Greens? image as a party of middle-aged liberal white women, and partly to bail out the Rainbows, who numbered like 400 before the merger?unapologetically represent the far left in this year?s race. Calling for an end to poverty, war, global warming and corporate welfare, and encouraging diversity, tolerance and a living wage, Ross, along with 22-year-old running mate Wendy Van Hornec, is sick of what she calls the ?institutional failure? of the state government to stand up to ?the national administration? on economic, environmental and geopolitical issues, and to effectively represent those citizens struggling to stay afloat amid Massachusetts? increasingly inhospitable economic climate. ?I think the first commitment has to be to the voices of people and to make sure regular people on the ground aren?t struggling with impossible circumstances,? Ross says. ?And we all are. We?re either working two or three jobs trying to make ends meet, or we?re underemployed and we?re desperately wandering around trying to find a job that will pay enough for us to put food on the table and pay the rent.? While still light on hard solutions to the state?s problems, Ross is heavy on idealism. She suggests harnessing the money and brainpower behind the BU biolab and putting it toward finding a solution for global warming; she?s calling for a reform of the income tax to ease the burden placed upon what she calls ?the regular folks,? insisting that ?if people saw their taxes going to what they wanted them to go to, they?d be fine with [paying the income tax]?; and she wants to implement a Canadian-style universal health care system to replace our shiny new one, which she feels places an undue burden on the already-cash-strapped citizenry. But will the message resonate? For all their discontent with the two-party system, voters? general wariness of long-shot third-party candidates can be ascribed to three things: 1. The fact that third-party politicians are generally unpolished and sometimes seemingly nuts (looking at you, Libertarians). 2. A fatalistic fear of throwing a vote away and swinging the election from the bad guys to the badder guys. 3. A lack of relevant experience on the part of the candidates. Ross is smart and amiable, though somewhat untrained in the art of the punchy soundbite; and she clearly isn?t buying No. 2. As for the experience gap alluded to by Shannon O?Brien, she?s not having that, either. ?I don?t have an experience gap. I?ve been part of working from the people end of passing legislation for 23 years, and pieces of legislation that I helped write have been passed into law at the level of town and city bylaws, the state legislature I bring the kind of experience that a citizen activist brings, and I?d be happy to have a contest with the other candidates on writing a good piece of legislation and seeing what happens with it. I?d love that.? As for the horror scenario of spoiling it for whoever gets the Democratic nomination?well, if the Dems lose, it might ultimately have more to do with their just generally sucking than any third-party vote poaching. But while Ross notes, ?I?m running against a pretty poor showing by the Democratic Party,? she remains realistic about her chances. ?If I wake up on November 8, regardless of the percentage of the vote, regardless of what the polls say about public opinion, I want us to be able to look at things and say [we have] people working on things that will make a concrete difference in people?s lives. I think people should vote for candidates who are about creating the changes we need.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apbrison at hotmail.com Wed Apr 26 23:30:34 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:30:34 -0400 Subject: {news} FW: [newhavengreens] Next Monday, Mayday on the Green Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Apr 27 08:20:43 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (GP Press Release) GREENS ENDORSE MAY 1 STRIKE FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS Message-ID: <20060427122043.16169.qmail@web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Greens Endorse May 1 Strike for Immigrant Rights GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES www.GP.org Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org Greens endorse May Day boycott and general strike demanding rights for immigrants WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Green Party of the United States has approved a strongly worded resolution in support of the rights of immigrants in the U.S. and endorsing "El Gran Paro Americano 2006, the May 1 Great American Boycott, honoring 'Un dia sin immigrante' 'A day without an immigrant' with the pledge for No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying" http://www.nohr4437.org. The text of the resolution, which was prepared by the Green Party's Peace Action Committee http://www.gp.org/committees/peace/, follows below. --------- Resolution Greens across the U.S. have spoken out against repressive legislation that targets undocumented immigrants. The party has also urged repeal of NAFTA and other trade agreements that have allowed transnational corporations to slash wages, disrupt other nations' economies by dumping U.S. products on their markets, privatize water and other public goods and services, and despoil the environment. Greens note that many immigrants, especially those who arrive impoverished and without documentation, are fleeing nightmares in their home countries. RESOLUTION Whereas, representatives in both the U.S. House and Senate are promoting resolutions criminalizing the status of immigrant workers; Whereas, such actions would violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which recognizes "the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family;" Whereas, both the House and Senate reflect an overwhelming majority of representation of citizens of immigrant ancestry; Whereas, a great portion of people adversely affected by such resolutions are of heritage indigenous to the American continents; Whereas, immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy, including 7 billion dollars paid into the U.S. Social Security System per year; Whereas, the illusion of gained employment for U.S. citizens is nullified by the presence of "outsourcing" of jobs to citizens in other countries void of wage, health and safety protections, this without objection by representatives in the House and Senate; "Whereas, our ten key values direct us to stand in Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy of solidarity with the oppressed and supporting the age-old American Labor movement principle, "An injury to one is an injury to all;" Whereas, we honor the second Key Value of the Green Party of the United States: "All persons should have the rights and opportunity to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment. We must consciously confront in ourselves, our organizations, and society at large, barriers such as racism and class oppression, sexism and homophobia, ageism and disability, which act to deny fair treatment and equal justice under the law;" Be it resolved by the Green Party of the United States Steering Committee, the Green Party of the United States National Committee, and the Green Party of the United States Peace Action Committee, that we join in solidarity with the "El Gran Paro Americano 2006, the May 1 Great American Boycott, honoring 'Un dia sin immigrante' 'A day without an immigrant' with the pledge for No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying." MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404 Washington, DC 20009. 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 "Greens Blast Anti-Immigrant Bills, Urge Repeal of NAFTA" Green Party press release, April 11, 2006 http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2006_04_12.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Thornton For Governor ,Donna Byrne-McKee, treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com email: info at votethornton.com Tim McKee NEW cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager- National Committee member of the Green Party- Connecticut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sat Apr 29 21:34:49 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:34:49 +0000 Subject: {news} Green Party candidate hoping for a spot in 4th District race In-Reply-To: <595453-220064528232640281@IRV1> Message-ID: Green Party candidate hoping for a spot in 4th District race Stephen Miller is confident he could beat Farrell, Shays Thu 04/13/06 by Mark Ginocchio Stamford Advocate Tired of what he characterized as campaign finance "corruption" in Washington, D.C., a Bridgeport man is gathering signatures to run as a Green Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives against incumbent Republican Christopher Shays and likely Democratic challenger Diane Farrell. Stephen Miller, 63, has little political experience and will not raise money for his campaign. He said he believes his ideas make him an outstanding candidate for the 4th Congressional District. "I'm only doing this to win," Miller said yesterday. "Anybody can lose." His campaign will center on campaign finance reform, domestic job growth and energy policy. Campaign money is "nothing but a bribe," because accepting gifts and donations from businesses influences politicians, Miller said. Though Shays has pushed for campaign finance reform, Miller said Shays has been caught up in the culture of corruption in Washington. Miller said Farrell, the former Westport first selectwoman, also accepts "corporate bribes." Campaign officials for Shays and Farrell had little to say about Miller's campaign. "Chris has a strong record on the issues and looks forward to meaningful debate on the issues this fall," said Michael Sohn, Shays' campaign manager. Farrell's camp defended her campaign finance record. "Diane is proud to receive over 2,000 contributions from regular people" who are upset with the Bush administration and Shays, especially over the war in Iraq, said Farrell's campaign manager, Adam Wood. For his campaign, "I'm not taking a nickel," Miller said. "Originally, I had something on my Web site to collect contributions so I can put up signs, but personally, I never voted for someone because of a sign on a lawn." Miller said he is concerned about the loss of jobs in the United States and wants to protect them by imposing tariffs on imported goods. A former Wall Street stockbroker and money manager, Miller plans to campaign full time. Miller has been convicted of extortion, though he says his trial and conviction came after he was a victim of Wall Street fraud and he tried to set a trap for those who defrauded him. He explains his situation in a book he wrote, "Just Cause, Just Facts," that's available on his Web site. Miller said he's not afraid to discuss the trial and conviction and hopes his political ideas will help voters look beyond his past. "There are a many things I need to get across," he said. "Because at the end of the day, there is some stuff that is going on in this country that is going to backfire on us." Miller needs 2,909 valid signatures of registered voters in the 4th District by August to qualify for the ballot. He said things have started slowly, as he's tried collecting signatures in parking lots, but he thinks he will gain momentum because he's turned his attention to college students. He also appealed to the Teamsters, AFL-CIO and other labor groups. "I haven't received an endorsement, but I haven't been turned down yet," he said. Although most third-party candidates are considered longshots, Miller said if his math is correct, he could win. "All the hard-core Democrats will vote for Farrell and all the hard-core Republicans will vote for Shays," he said. "They're each guaranteed to get about 25 percent of the voters. That leaves 50 percent for me." From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Sat Apr 29 21:38:38 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:38:38 +0000 Subject: {news} Old Greens, green Dems In-Reply-To: <1146266454.5654268.e03595ee447b32.48385cc@persist.google.com> Message-ID: http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:153151 Old Greens, green Dems CT college Dems and Green Party hold conventions, eat food by Advocate Staff - April 27, 2006 Last Saturday, April 22, a cold and drizzly Earth Day, two groups of idealists met separately to plot their political future. One group, the College Democrats of Connecticut, convened in the modern campus center of the University of New Haven. The other, the Connecticut Green Party, holed up in the aged home of the Greater New Haven Labor Council.The former mingled with Democratic pols. The latter made history. About 40 students, bleary-eyed but sharply dressed at 9 a.m., attended the college Dems convention to hear some of the party's biggest names speak. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, acknowledging she was "preaching to the choir," bemoaned that only one in four 18- to 24-year-olds votes in Connecticut. A show of hands revealed that most of the attendees vote absentee in their home states, and Comptroller Nancy Wyman beseeched them "to be on the front lines for us." Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, meanwhile, began with a confession: He has four kids, and he "can't get them interested in politics." And yet, he says, "In my view, we are living through the most lawless national administration in history". Even the lawlessness of the Nixon administration looks good by comparison." The luncheon drew other notables, like Mayor John DeStefano, a gubernatorial candidate, as well as U.S. senate candidate Ned Lamont. The latter blasted his opponent, Joe Lieberman, for being the only Democrat in Connecticut "who supported the Bush-Cheney energy bill." He also discussed his key campaign issue: the Iraq war. He proposes an immediate withdrawal of troops, but says the U.S.-led reconstruction should continue. Are you, I asked him, saying the Iraqi police force would protect American contractors? "Yeah, I think that's exactly what I'm saying," replied Lamont, though he appeared unsure. He added that maybe the United Nations and the Arab League would pitch in, too. "We've got to eat a little humble pie," he said. "American troops on the front lines aren't doing us any good." The Green Party convention in Fair Haven, meanwhile, was a much looser, livelier affair, as a similar number of middle-aged lefties cracked NPR jokes and noshed on Modern pizza, assorted cheeses and other snacks. They also approved their first-ever slate of statewide candidates, including gubernatorial hopeful Clifford Thornton, who had a different war on his mind. "The drug war has done nothing but exacerbate the problems connected with drugs," said Thornton, thought to be the first black man to run for the state's top job. "I am tired of waiting for someone to have the courage to make this issue public, so I have decided to do it myself." Thornton is as Green as they come, calling for the decriminalization of cannabis, which, he says, would free up $200 million for the state to spend on education and health care. Like Lamont, he's been called a single-issue candidate, and he didn't do much to dispel that notion. Citing insufficient knowledge, he refused to take stances on instituting a millionaire's tax, repealing the estate tax, and prohibiting bosses from making over 10 times more than their lowest-paid employees. But Thornton did have some choice words for any liberal who says Thornton might "spoil" this fall's general election: "Tough shit." Several Green delegates suggested, with a chuckle, that he make that his campaign slogan. ?Ryan Kearney From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sun Apr 30 01:44:26 2006 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:44:26 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: AFSC newsletter: immigration rights, "I dream a world" contest Message-ID: <012101c66c19$2742cfb0$248cf504@edgn2b574u14bi> 6-Story Newsletter Template + Images----- Original Message ----- From: AFSC Connecticut To: edubrule at sbcglobal.net Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:10 PM Subject: Anti-war Rally, Immigration Rights American Friends Service Committee Connecticut In This Issue: April 28, 2006 . March for Peace, Justice and Democracy Saturday, April 29 NYC . "The Great American Boycott 2006": Support Immigrant Rights . "I Dream a World" Contest in CT March for Peace, Justice and Democracy Saturday, April 29 NYC There's still tickets available on the Peace Train leaving New Haven and other stops on the way to New York. The CT contingent meets between 5th and Broadway on 20th (enter from 5th). The march starts at 12:00. See you in New York! Get tickets for the train and other rally information! "The Great American Boycott 2006": Support Immigrant Rights "Un dia sin immigrante" "A day without an immigrant" On May 1, organizations across the country are calling for: No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying,and rallies to protest the anti-immigrant movements across the country. For the Nationwide Immigrant General Strike, wear a white T-Shirt on May 1st! There are two events in CT: Bushnell Park 12:00 - 5:00 and the New Haven Green. New Haven's 2:00 immigrant's rights workshop is part of day-long May Day (International Worker's Day) events from 12:00 - 8:00 pm. For more information, email ulaccion at yahoo.com "I Dream a World" Contest in CT This year for the first time, AFSC-CT, the CT Network to Abolish the Death Penalty and the local Amnesty International sponsored an "I Dream a World" art competition for youth ages 14-20. This competition is a national program of the AFSC. Over two dozen students from around the state contributed paintings, videos, writings, and other creative artwork that express their feelings on non-violence and the death penalty. The painting of the green alien was the Grand Prize winner for the 2 & 3 dimensional art category. In the artist's words "A prisoner transforms into an alien, not only socially, but mentally...the estranged soul adds himself to the numbers of other aliens long gone." The awards ceremony will be Wed., May 3 4:00 at the State Capitol. Congratulations to all of the entrants! See the artwork! (updates early next week) American Friends Service Committee Connecticut Area Office 56 Arbor Street, Suite 213 Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860.523.1534 Fax: 860.523.1705 Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Confirm | Forward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apbrison at hotmail.com Sun Apr 30 10:24:04 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:24:04 -0400 Subject: {news} Advocate article on our Convention In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ryan Kearny wrote a pretty decent article on the Green Party convention but it amuses me how he has to stick in some popular stereotype such as: "middle-aged lefties" cracking "NPR jokes". I wonder just how NPR jokes the middle-aged lefties cracked that day. Maybe Ryan heard a middle-aged lefty offer a CRITIQUE of NPR. I consider NPR to be one big bad joke but I wasn't commenting, nor am I middle-aged, so it couldn't have been me. Come to think of it, maybe Ryan was right, on a subliminal level, if only he had included "aging hippies" along with middle-aged lefties. To read an Advocate article on ANY subject devoid of stereotypes.... a dream, perhaps unrealistic, of mine. Allan ----Original Message Follows---- From: "David Bedell" To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: {news} Old Greens, green Dems Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:38:38 +0000 Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:153151 Old Greens, green Dems CT college Dems and Green Party hold conventions, eat food by Advocate Staff - April 27, 2006 Last Saturday, April 22, a cold and drizzly Earth Day, two groups of idealists met separately to plot their political future. One group, the College Democrats of Connecticut, convened in the modern campus center of the University of New Haven. The other, the Connecticut Green Party, holed up in the aged home of the Greater New Haven Labor Council.The former mingled with Democratic pols. The latter made history. About 40 students, bleary-eyed but sharply dressed at 9 a.m., attended the college Dems convention to hear some of the party's biggest names speak. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, acknowledging she was "preaching to the choir," bemoaned that only one in four 18- to 24-year-olds votes in Connecticut. A show of hands revealed that most of the attendees vote absentee in their home states, and Comptroller Nancy Wyman beseeched them "to be on the front lines for us." Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, meanwhile, began with a confession: He has four kids, and he "can't get them interested in politics." And yet, he says, "In my view, we are living through the most lawless national administration in history". Even the lawlessness of the Nixon administration looks good by comparison." The luncheon drew other notables, like Mayor John DeStefano, a gubernatorial candidate, as well as U.S. senate candidate Ned Lamont. The latter blasted his opponent, Joe Lieberman, for being the only Democrat in Connecticut "who supported the Bush-Cheney energy bill." He also discussed his key campaign issue: the Iraq war. He proposes an immediate withdrawal of troops, but says the U.S.-led reconstruction should continue. Are you, I asked him, saying the Iraqi police force would protect American contractors? "Yeah, I think that's exactly what I'm saying," replied Lamont, though he appeared unsure. He added that maybe the United Nations and the Arab League would pitch in, too. "We've got to eat a little humble pie," he said. "American troops on the front lines aren't doing us any good." The Green Party convention in Fair Haven, meanwhile, was a much looser, livelier affair, as a similar number of middle-aged lefties cracked NPR jokes and noshed on Modern pizza, assorted cheeses and other snacks. They also approved their first-ever slate of statewide candidates, including gubernatorial hopeful Clifford Thornton, who had a different war on his mind. "The drug war has done nothing but exacerbate the problems connected with drugs," said Thornton, thought to be the first black man to run for the state's top job. "I am tired of waiting for someone to have the courage to make this issue public, so I have decided to do it myself." Thornton is as Green as they come, calling for the decriminalization of cannabis, which, he says, would free up $200 million for the state to spend on education and health care. Like Lamont, he's been called a single-issue candidate, and he didn't do much to dispel that notion. Citing insufficient knowledge, he refused to take stances on instituting a millionaire's tax, repealing the estate tax, and prohibiting bosses from making over 10 times more than their lowest-paid employees. But Thornton did have some choice words for any liberal who says Thornton might "spoil" this fall's general election: "Tough shit." Several Green delegates suggested, with a chuckle, that he make that his campaign slogan. ?Ryan Kearney To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From efficacy at msn.com Sun Apr 30 10:40:46 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:40:46 -0400 Subject: {news} LTE sent this morning References: Message-ID: Dear Editor: The article "Old Greens, green Dems CT college Dems and Green Party hold conventions, eat food" on April 27th misinforms the public yet again about drugs and what is said. The statement "Thornton is as Green as they come, calling for the decriminalization of cannabis, which, he says, would free up $200 million for the state to spend on education and health care." This statement is partially incorrect. I call for the legalization of cannabis, not decriminalization. I have made it perfectly clear where I stand on all illegal drugs. The staff seems as "green as they come" when discussing the issue of illegal drugs and in the process misleading the public. The media continually misconstrue the terms of legalization, medicalization and decriminalization. Each term would have a different affect if applied separately. America coins phrases or words that mean different things to the rest of the world. Does reverse discrimination mean anything to you? The rest of the world understands it to mean no discrimination at all. Decriminalization means the law stays as is as far as the law is concerned, but one would only receive a fine for small amounts of given illegal substance. (Look at what Mexico is doing with decriminalization and you will get it.) I call for the outright legalization of cannabis and along with it hemp, which is in the same family and the medicalization of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy. And here we go, the decriminalization of all the rest of the illegal drugs for future debate and true and honest medicinal study. Also the statement, "Like Lamont, he's been called a single-issue candidate, and he didn't do much to dispel that notion." How can that be when the drug war is two degrees from everything in society? The drug war affects the economy since millions of dollars are laundered through the stock market--recall the lawsuits against Merrill Lynch and many banks for laundering illegal drug profits which guarantee politicians remain tough on crime. This is a potential tax resource. Fifty percent of all HIV cases are spread by dirty needles from, you guessed it, illegal drug users. I can go on but I want this to be an opening for true education about the biggest farce of the twentieth and twenty first century. Remember alcohol prohibition and what a success that was. Clifford Wallace Thornton, Jr. Efficacy PO Box 1234 860 657 8438 Hartford, CT 06143 efficacy at msn.com www.Efficacy-online.org votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com Working to end race and class drug war injustice, Efficacy is a non profit 501 (c) 3 organization founded in 1997. Your gifts and donations are tax deductible ----- Original Message ----- From: allan brison To: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com ; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:24 AM Subject: {news} Advocate article on our Convention Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Ryan Kearny wrote a pretty decent article on the Green Party convention but it amuses me how he has to stick in some popular stereotype such as: "middle-aged lefties" cracking "NPR jokes". I wonder just how NPR jokes the middle-aged lefties cracked that day. Maybe Ryan heard a middle-aged lefty offer a CRITIQUE of NPR. I consider NPR to be one big bad joke but I wasn't commenting, nor am I middle-aged, so it couldn't have been me. Come to think of it, maybe Ryan was right, on a subliminal level, if only he had included "aging hippies" along with middle-aged lefties. To read an Advocate article on ANY subject devoid of stereotypes.... a dream, perhaps unrealistic, of mine. Allan ----Original Message Follows---- From: "David Bedell" > To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: {news} Old Greens, green Dems Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:38:38 +0000 Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:153151 Old Greens, green Dems CT college Dems and Green Party hold conventions, eat food by Advocate Staff - April 27, 2006 Last Saturday, April 22, a cold and drizzly Earth Day, two groups of idealists met separately to plot their political future. One group, the College Democrats of Connecticut, convened in the modern campus center of the University of New Haven. The other, the Connecticut Green Party, holed up in the aged home of the Greater New Haven Labor Council.The former mingled with Democratic pols. The latter made history. About 40 students, bleary-eyed but sharply dressed at 9 a.m., attended the college Dems convention to hear some of the party's biggest names speak. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, acknowledging she was "preaching to the choir," bemoaned that only one in four 18- to 24-year-olds votes in Connecticut. A show of hands revealed that most of the attendees vote absentee in their home states, and Comptroller Nancy Wyman beseeched them "to be on the front lines for us." Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, meanwhile, began with a confession: He has four kids, and he "can't get them interested in politics." And yet, he says, "In my view, we are living through the most lawless national administration in history". Even the lawlessness of the Nixon administration looks good by comparison." The luncheon drew other notables, like Mayor John DeStefano, a gubernatorial candidate, as well as U.S. senate candidate Ned Lamont. The latter blasted his opponent, Joe Lieberman, for being the only Democrat in Connecticut "who supported the Bush-Cheney energy bill." He also discussed his key campaign issue: the Iraq war. He proposes an immediate withdrawal of troops, but says the U.S.-led reconstruction should continue. Are you, I asked him, saying the Iraqi police force would protect American contractors? "Yeah, I think that's exactly what I'm saying," replied Lamont, though he appeared unsure. He added that maybe the United Nations and the Arab League would pitch in, too. "We've got to eat a little humble pie," he said. "American troops on the front lines aren't doing us any good." The Green Party convention in Fair Haven, meanwhile, was a much looser, livelier affair, as a similar number of middle-aged lefties cracked NPR jokes and noshed on Modern pizza, assorted cheeses and other snacks. They also approved their first-ever slate of statewide candidates, including gubernatorial hopeful Clifford Thornton, who had a different war on his mind. "The drug war has done nothing but exacerbate the problems connected with drugs," said Thornton, thought to be the first black man to run for the state's top job. "I am tired of waiting for someone to have the courage to make this issue public, so I have decided to do it myself." Thornton is as Green as they come, calling for the decriminalization of cannabis, which, he says, would free up $200 million for the state to spend on education and health care. Like Lamont, he's been called a single-issue candidate, and he didn't do much to dispel that notion. Citing insufficient knowledge, he refused to take stances on instituting a millionaire's tax, repealing the estate tax, and prohibiting bosses from making over 10 times more than their lowest-paid employees. But Thornton did have some choice words for any liberal who says Thornton might "spoil" this fall's general election: "Tough shit." Several Green delegates suggested, with a chuckle, that he make that his campaign slogan. -Ryan Kearney To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. 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Map of Location Here.? REPLY to this message if you can offer a ride or need a ride! 2) Tickets for Peace Train to NYC peace demonstration on April 29 (co-sponsored by COW) are going fast ?? Pay Online for tickets from the following train stations: New Haven Bridgeport Westport Stamford REPLY to this email to reserve bus seats from Conard High School in West Hartford to New Haven or for information on busses or car-pooling from your town. 3) Tues., April 4, 7:00 PM. That great discussion series at UH continues (co-sponsored by West Hartford Citizens for Peace & Justice) "Censorship and Sexual Politics in 20th Century Literature" - ! Charles Ross, Professor of English, HJG Conference Center, Room B. Details on the whole series of Tuesday discussions here. 4) THIS SUNDAY, April 2! March with inner city and suburban churches, synagogues, mosques, Charter Oak Cultural Center, gay & lesbian activists, WHCPJ, CCPJ and others for programs to combat violence in CT cities. Meet at 2550 Main Street, Hartford, 1:30 PM. Map of Route West Hartford Citizens for Peace & Justice urges you to join us!? Details here. Driving directions and a great restaurant tip from Sam are below. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2649 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jesse.karlsberg at gmail.com Fri Apr 21 15:45:38 2006 From: jesse.karlsberg at gmail.com (Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:45:38 -0000 Subject: Fwd: {news} RE: [newhavengreens] Re: [VoteThornton] "Pot" shots at G.P. & Thornton-GOGOLA STRIKES AGAIN! In-Reply-To: <59107c80604211244g3a352f2cyacdc8a5aa22cae17@mail.gmail.com> References: <59107c80604211244g3a352f2cyacdc8a5aa22cae17@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <59107c80604211245o64fb3cddjd155c2a6b67c0de7@mail.gmail.com> Sorry to chime in from out of nowhere, even though I don't live in CT anymore, and thus haven't been active in Green Politics for a few years, but I'd urge you all to take advantage of this press rather than respond by taking offense, or choose not to respond at all. The last part of the article, where Gogola speaks about Tim McKee, is actually quite favorable, and indicates that Gogola, even though he finds the notion of an elected slate of CT Greens laughable, thinks that the issues our candidates raise are important and deserve to be brought to voters' attention. I would suggest (pretending) that we get the joke, and laughing along with it, and using the article as an opportunity to write letters about the issues that our candidates are promoting. If we can leverage this article as a way to get a little more press for the party and the issues, then we will be making the best of a mixed review. Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg Troy, NY (formerly of Middletown, CT) On 4/21/06, allan brison wrote: > > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > > I disagree (with Ralph). I think this article should be responded to, > honoring Cliff's call to avoid disparaging remarks. The Advocate should > not > be printing such ad hominem attacks on our candidates, or anybody else's > for > that matter. > > As always the main purpose of such letters is more print space, more > publicity. A second purpose might be to curtail the left-bashing that is > Gogola's trademark. > > But Gogola himself is not the target audience of our letters. He is not > likely to reform, certainly not as a result of our criticisms. Rather the > target audience in the reading public, first, and, perhaps, other Advocate > staff, second. In other words it is how the reading public responds to our > > letters that matters, not whether or not Tom gives a shit. > > Allan > ---------------------------------------------------- > From: ralph ferrucci > Reply-To: newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com > To: VoteThornton at yahoogroups.com, voteferrucci at yahoogroups.com, > newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com, CTGP-candidates at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [newhavengreens] Re: [VoteThornton] "Pot" shots at G.P. & > Thornton-GOGOLA STRIKES AGAIN! > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:50:30 -0400 > I know Tom. He would get off on the .criticism. I think what all the > candidates need to do is write on letter to the advocate thanking them of > the article and tell them how funny they think it was. It would actually > hurt Tom more if no one was offended by the story. > Ralph > > > On Thursday, April 20, 2006, at 08:26 PM, daniel sumrall wrote: > >For what it's worth-- > > > >The banality of Gogola's humor and the utter lack of creativity in his > >'satire' warrant a response no better than disdain. In this case, > ignorance > >deserves to be ignored if for no other reason than all of the Green > Party's > >candidates have earned the respect and votes of more citizens of > >Connecticut than this 3rd rate Hunter S. Thompson devotee could ever > >muster. > > > >Any outrageous complaints will only provide him with another 'story' > idea. > >That said, everyone should write the Advocate and express disappointment > in > >the paper's journalistic stupidity. > > > >just thoughts daniel sumrall > > > >Green Party-CT wrote: > > > >I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER -THIS SOMETIMES COMIC WRITER DID QUITES A JOB > ON > >US. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THIS WEIRD ARTICLE? WE HAVE A SENSE OF > >HUMOUR,,RIGHT? > > > >I URGE YOU TO ALL WRITE TO THE PAPER,,WITH YOUR VIEWS. > >letters at newhavenadvocate.com > > > >Tim McKee > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > >A Green Machine The Green Party is poised to name a slate of candidates > for > >statewide office. Tree-huggers of the Nutmeg, unite! > > > >by Tom Gogola- April 20, 2006 > > > Imagine yourself living in a Green state. Imagine that by this time next > > year, a full slate of Green Party candidates has been elected to statewide > office. Imagine a world of Green, where naught but Earth-friendly policies > are foisted upon Connecticut voters. . . > >Imagine what an interesting and off-beat government we'd have if the > >handful of candidates on the Green ticket were actually to win the higher > >offices they're seeking. . . Ladies and gentlemen, we're here with > >drug-policy reformer and governor Clifford Thornton, who is just now > >meeting in the governor's mansion with a quarter pound of marijuana and a > >coalition of pot-puffing cancer patients. They're gathering to test the > >state's first bumper crop of the kind medical bud. One is heard to say, > >"That's good stuff, guv'nor!" to which Thornton responds, "Don't Rowland > >that joint!" > > > >Down the hallway, Attorney General Nancy Burton is explaining to a > reporter > >how her being disbarred by a vengeful judge from practicing law in > >Connecticut for five years was actually a good thing for Connecticut > >residents. "It's my badge of honor," she had previously told the > reporter. > >Burton's ban on practicing law in the state ended just a few days before > >the election, and she's now applying to be readmitted to the Connecticut > >bar. It's a peculiar scenario, to be sure: an AG who can't even argue a > >case in state court. (She's good to go in federal court and in New York, > >however.) For now, the longtime anti-nuclear activist is poised to chain > >herself to the Millstone power plant, she says. Proudly litigious lawyer > >that she is, Burton declares that she'll sue you if you don't report that > > >she'll sue you if you don't say nice things about her suing you. The > >reporter decides it's a good thing to have an attorney general who likes > to > >sue, disbarment be damned, so long as he doesn't get sued by her for > having > >some harmless fun with her rich and litigious history. Plus, Burton once > >successfully sued to save millionsand maybe billionsof winter-flounder > >larvae from getting sucked into the Millstone intake pipes. A friend of > the > >flounder is a friend to all, the reporter concludes. > > > >Senator Ralph Ferrucci, meanwhile, is hosting the first annual senatorial > >grammar class at his Hartford office. The senator is using as a teaching > >tool one of the mangled-syntax press releases he unloosed on the public > >during his campaignthat's very Mao of Ralph, in the "speaking bitterness" > >sense of the expression. He's reading from the gibberish sheet he > released > >in opposition to the notorious Dubai ports deal: We must make it our own > >responsibility to keep the terrorists out without the friends of our > allies > >, he reads, adding, "though even I have no idea what the hell that means > >and I wrote the thing! Discuss! " Even though he's now a United States > >senator, Ferrucci hasn't quit his day job as a deliveryman for Pepperidge > >Farm products. His reasons are as strategic as they are savory: He's got > >some baked goodies from the truck for Thornton's stoned cancer pals. For > >his part, Ferrucci needs the governor's support if he's to declare Rudy's > a > >national historic landmark, his signature legislative initiative to date, > > >besides his call to, you know, end the war. > > > >Secretary of the State Mike DeRosa, meanwhile, has not stopped talking > for > >317 straight days. The logorrheic voting-reform specialist and > Connecticut > >Green Party founder ignores Gov. Thornton's entreaties to "have a couple > of > >puffs and shut up already," and DeRosa has just repeated himself for the > >17th time in 16 minutes to an Advocate reporter about the evils of the > >two-party system. He's just getting warmed up to tell a story about the > >campaign-finance-reform miracle currently unfolding in Moodus. Dude, you > >won , the reporter cries, but to no avail. DeRosa just keeps on > reforming, > >and reforming, and reforming. He's the Energizer Bunny of reform. > > > >Finally, State Treasurer David Bue, pitched to voters as a "socially > >responsible investment adviser," is meeting with a cabal of unrepentant > >Socialists. "How does one square social responsibility with sound > >investment strategies?" he is asked. "All I can tell you" responds Bue, > >with a cryptic glimmer in his eye, "is that the only color that matters > is > >green ." Heads bob. Bue's made the case. Whether it's cash, pot or > >politics, green is good. > > > >It would be thrilling were the above scenario to play out. Sign me right > >up: Executive bongs, maverick AGs, workingman bloopers, et al. But the > >purpose of this year's big statewide Green Party push isn't actually to > get > >these people electedit's to grow the state party into a viable > alternative > >in future elections. It's to ramp up the debate on controversial issues > >like decriminalizing marijuana (Thornton) and mothballing Millstone > >(Burton). And for that the party must be cheered; this is the first time > it > >has fielded a full slate of candidates for statewide office. You can > grouse > >over what might be perceived as a preference for quantity over quality, > but > >the heck with thatfor good or ill, the Green Party isn't a top-down > >organization, at least not yet. Migosh, it's downright democratic! And > this > >Saturday, the party convenes at the AFL-CIO Labor Hall in New Haven to > >formally announce its platform and nominate its slate of candidates. (See > 7 > >Days, page 22, for details.) > > > >Tim McKee, the state's Green Party national committee member and > Thornton's > >campaign manager, is blunt about the upcoming election. There is no > spoiler > >role for the Greens to play, he says, because "Rell is going to win very > >strongly." Since 1992, McKee says, he has been almost continuously asking > > >people to run on the Green Party ticket; he says about 500 people have > been > >approached during that time, including the Ralphs, Nader and Ferrucci. "A > >lot of people have only known us as the Nader party, and vice versa," he > >says. "Some people have only seen us at the local but not the statewide > >level." > > > >McKee is quick to point out as well that "each candidacy is still an > >independent entity, and what we are doing now is not going to be the > >finished product." > > > >The Green Party must now collect 7,500 signatures so that its candidates > >can be on the ballot come November. So far, says McKee, they've got about > >1,000, and he's angling to collect 12,000, just to be on the safe side. > The > >deadline for submitting the signatures is Aug. 5. That leaves plenty of > >time to hire a copy editor for Ralph Ferrucci. 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