{news} CT candidate slate story in Newsday

[David Bedell]

Newsday picked up the story from the AP wire:

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--trailmix0323mar23,0,5694990.story

Notes from the Conn. campaign trail

March 23, 2006, 6:38 PM EST

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ The Green Party of Connecticut has filed petition 
papers to run candidates for statewide offices, some for the first time.

Clifford Thornton, founder of a drug policy reform group called Efficacy, is 
running for governor. Environmental activist and founder of the Connecticut 
Coalition Against Millstone, Nancy Burton, is running for attorney general.

Other candidates include Mike DeRosa, founder of Project V.O.T.E.R _ Vote 
Opportunity through Election Reform _ for secretary of the state; David Bue, 
an investment adviser with First Affirmative Financial Network, for state 
treasurer; and Ralph Ferrucci, a former candidate for New Haven mayor and 
the 3rd Congressional District, for U.S. Senate.

The party also plans to run candidates for lieutenant governor and 
comptroller.

Party officials are now circulating petitions to get the candidates on the 
November ballot. State law requires minor parties to conduct petition drives 
for statewide offices, even though the Green Party has won some municipal 
seats in Connecticut, according to the party.

Party leaders said they need 7,500 valid signatures for each candidate to 
get on the ballot. The party hopes to collect 12,000 signatures. They have 
until Aug. 5 to complete the drive.

Copyright 2006 Newsday Inc.


Also published by WTNH:
"Green Party files slate of state candidates"
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=4673429