{news} (PRESS RELEASE) THORNTON, FERRUCCI ALLEGE DISCRIMANTION IN Q POLL

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THORNTON FOR GOVERNOR
   
  Press Advisory- For Immediate Release- May 4, 2006 
   Contact: Tim McKee, Campaign Manager for Cliff Thornton and CT Green Party National Committee Person, cell (860)860-778- 1304 or (860)-643-2282 
  Ralph Ferrucci, U.S. Senate candidate (203)430-9342 
  Cliff Thornton, Candidate for Governor (860)657-8438 
   
  THORNTON, FERRUCCI ALLEGE DISCRIMINATION IN QUINNIPIAC POLL
  OTHER "UNKNOWNS" INCLUDED, BUT NOT GREENS
   
  Hartford, CT, - The Thornton for Governor Campaign alleged discrimination in being excluded in the recent Quinnipiac Poll for candidates for state wide office. Cliff Thornton, running as a Green Party candidate for Governor and Ralph Ferrucci, running for United States Senate, were both excluded from the recent poll, while other lesser known candidates where included simply because they are registered Republicans and Democrats.
   
       Tim McKee, Campaign Manager for Cliff Thornton, said little known U.S. Senate candidates Alan Schlesinger and Paul Streitz are the best examples of being included in the poll simply because they are Republicans and not because they are well known across the state. Both are in the high 89-92% "Have not heard enough" category, but are included in the poll while Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Ferrucci is excluded.
   
      McKee claimed that even Thornton's Democratic rivals for Governor, Malloy and DeStefano, are called repeatedly by the Quinnipiac poll as "largely unknown" to possible voters. 
   
      McKee explained "Ralph Ferrucci has run for Congress before and had been in three televised debates, while Cliff Thornton is an international speaker on the drug reform movement and has spoken to over hundred groups in the state. Both Thornton and Ferrucci  have web sites, flyers, are raising money and are serious candidates who will be on the final ballot, unlike some of the others who might not even make it on to the primary ballot or survive the other party's conventions."
   
      Being included in polling means the Greens will be able to raise more money and compete with the other two parties rivals, McKee stated. He added "All we want is a fair playing field to compete and not discrimination and exclusion because we are a smaller political party."
   
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