{news} Advocate article on our Convention
allan brison
apbrison at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 30 10:24:04 EDT 2006
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
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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
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