{news} Re: [VoteFerrucci] CT candidate slate story in Newsday

[ralph ferrucci]

Also heard a similar version of this story on WPKN 89.5 in the morning 
news.
Ralph

On Friday, March 24, 2006, at 12:19 AM, David Bedell wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

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