{news} (NEWS RELEASE) LIEBERMAN REFUSES TO SIGN GREEN PARTY PETITIONS

[Green Party-CT]

  GREEN PARTY OF CONNECTICUT 
  NEWS RELEASE- for Immediate Release- July 19, 2006 
  Contact: Tim McKee, CT Green Party National Committee Person, cell (860)860-778- 1304(NEW NUMBER) or (860)-643-2282 
  Jean DeSmet, State Co-Chair 860 456-2188 
  Ralph Ferrucci, U.S. Senate candidate (203) 430-9342 
   
  LIEBERMAN REFUSES TO SIGN GREEN PARTY PETITION 
  Lamont and staff sign GREEN PARTY rival’s petition 
   
  
  Hartford, CT- GREEN PARTY OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE TODAY THEY WILL MEET U. S. SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, IF HE CHANGES HIS MIND AND WANTS TO SIGN PETITIONS FOR THE SLATE OF GREEN PARTY CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE, INCLUDING U.S. SENATE RIVAL RALPH FERRUCCI AFTER THE SENATOR TWICE REFUSED TO SIGN THE PETITIONS FOR THE GREENS AT THE WILLIMANTIC BOOM BOX PARADE 
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  Lieberman is also collecting petitions for a Independent ballot Line, if he loses the Democrat Primary to Ned Lamont and many have said his is trying to have “two bites of the apple” and run twice for same office in the same year. 
   
  A petitioner approached Lieberman personally to sign the petition after Democratic candidate Ned Lamont and many of his staff signed the petitions for Greens, Lieberman refused 
   
  Later after the parade, Willimantic Green Jean DeSmet asked Lieberman to sign. He turned her down, too, but when pressed he said he believed in the Greens right to be on the ballot, but the former Attorney General for Connecticut and 3 term US Senator said that he was not sure if he should sign. He indicated that he might sign later, and then directed his staff to sign, but Lieberman and his wife would not sign it themselves.
   
   DeSmet is Co Chair of Connecticut Greens and beat the Republican to come in second with 29 percent of the vote in the 2005 municipal contest for Windham First Selectman. 
   
  Lieberman’s staffers even asked Greens advice on the petitioning process. His staffers asked "Are you turning them in as you go along, or are you going to wait until the end?" and Greens acknowledged that they were turning them in as we went along. Lieberman staffers said Lieberman will wait to submit them at the end, probably because they hope to win the Democratic primary. 
   
  DeSmet said Greens are offering to meet Senator Lieberman any time and any where to sign his petition if he will sign theirs. DeSmet add “We Greens believe that in America, everyone has the right to run for office.” 
   
  The Greens (and Lieberman) need to collect 7,500 valid signatures by August 8. The Greens are running for the first time slate of state wide officers and U S Senate candidates. The Greens and others filed suit against the new CT campaign finance law that will require them to collect an additional 200,000 signatures for public financing in 2008.
   
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