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

[Jean de Smet]

Just some more typos.

 

Jean

 

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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 an Independent ballot Line, if he
loses the Democrat Primary to Ned Lamont and many have said he 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
Green Party's 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. 

 

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.

 

Lieberman's staffers even asked the 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 the Greens acknowledged that they were
turning them in as they 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 added "The Green
Party believes that in America everyone has the right to run for office." 

 

 

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