{news} NY- Working Fam. and Indepedence Parties back Pro-War Hillary

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Green Party
http://www.hawkinsforsenate.org

For immediate release: June 3, 2006
For more information: Howie Hawkins,
315-425-1019, hhawkins at igc.org

Green Party Anti-War Candidate Hawkins 
Stands Alone for US Senate After 
Working Families, Independence Nominations 

Statement by Howie Hawkins


It wasn't even close at the Working Families
Party convention today: 93.6% for Hillary
Clinton, 6.4% for Jonathon Tasini.

No surprise here. Working Families passed an
antiwar resolution, but that was merely posturing
for the widespread antiwar sentiment in New York.
When it came to real world consequenses, the
Working Families Party backed the pro-war
candidate, Hillary Clinton.

What else would one expect from a party that
instead of supporting a single-payer state health
insurance plan is pushing a Clinton-style
compulsory private health insurance plan?

WFP's campaigning for the so-called Fair Share
for Health Care Act for NY would have the state
government subsidizing the rapacious private
insurance companies that waste 30% of health care
expenditures on bureaucracy, profits, and
excessive salaries for top managment. Medicare,
our national single-payer system for seniors,
runs on 3% overhead.

Of course, private health insurance companies
don't want to cover the older Medicare
beneficiaries because they get sick more and are
not profitable. So we get "socialism" for the
unprofitable coverages and capitalism for
profitable coverages -- and leave 2.9 million New
Yorkers and 49 million Americans uncovered.

And WFP -- the branch of the Democratic Party
designed to co-opt potential independent
electoral insurgencies on the left through
cross-endorsement or fusion candidacies -- is
campaigning to patch up the most irrational and
inefficient system of health care financing in
the world.

Meanwhile, the Independence Party dropped all
pretenses of being an independent alternative at
its convention today when it backed major party
candidates for all statewide offices, including
Hillary Clinton for US Senate.

But the good news is in the US Senate race there
will be no confusion --the Green candidate will
be the clear anti-war choice.

A Zogby poll earlier this week found that 32% of
New Yorkers would vote for an "unnamed anti-war
candidate" vs. 38% for Clinton and 31% for other
and undecided (a percentage that is close to the
hard core Republican vote).

The task now for the Green Party and the wider
antiwar movement is to attach a name, Howie
Hawkins, to the "unnamed anti-war candidate" who
already has about one-third support and to inform
New Yorkers that the anti-war candidate is within
striking distance of winning.

http://www.hawkinsforsenate.org

Checks can be made out to:
Hawkins for Senate 2006
P.O. Box 562
Syracuse, NY 13205
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