From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Sun Oct 1 12:08:21 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Thornton For Governor-Middletown Press " Parents Hear Concerns Debated" Message-ID: <20061001160821.76761.qmail@web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 10/01/2006 Parents hear concerns debated By Joseph Wenzel IV , Herald Press Staff MIDDLETOWN - Candidates got the chance Saturday to weigh in the issues that consider the group with the smallest voice: the children. Connecticut Parent Power hosted a forum where gubernatorial candidates discussed issues that affect children and families at Middlesex Community College in front of parents from all over Connecticut. Democratic candidate John DeStefano, the Republican's lieutenant governor candidate Michael Fedele, and Jean de Smet, representing the Green Party candidate, Cliff Thornton, argued over the issues of health care, Education Cost Sharing Formula and quality early childhood care. Connecticut Parent Power is network of parents impacting state policy to put children first. Education Cost Sharing, the formula by which the state allocates money to school district, was one of the focuses of the session with candidates being asked how they would handle changes to how state funding works. According to a handout from Connecticut Parent Power, on average Education Cost Sharing only covers 39 percent of local school budgets, compared to a national average of state funds covering 50 percent of local school budgets. The biggest part of any municipal budget is funding for schools, DeStefano said. If elected in November, DeStefano said he wanted to move away from having property taxes pay for the bulk of the school budget, and establish a millionaire's tax to help fill the funding gap. Fedele discussed how Education Cost Sharing Formula is for quality funding to go all around. But, the state has not done a proper job with Education Cost Sharing Formula lately. He said the more the state tinkered with the formula, the further the formula gets from making progress. "The state faces challenges," Fedele said, adding that the Education Cost Sharing Formula was one of them. De Smet also said the state's method of funding education needs to changed to alleviate the property tax burden. The second question posed to DeStefano was reducing the burden of health care on families. DeStefano said 400,000 people, with 75,000 children, in the state are without health insurance. He proposed universal health care for everyone in the state. DeStefano said there are currently $620 million in corporate tax credits exemptions and loopholes. He said he would reform the corporate tax system to close $350 million. DeStefano wanted programs promoting weight control, dieting and exercise. Fedele said everyone should have access to health care. He said the state was making investments in community health centers in some of the major cities like New Britain, New Haven and Hartford. He said that the governor plans to work with the HUSKY program, so more children can get health care. De Smet said the Green Party was in favor of universal health care, adding that the current system had to be changed. The final question asked to the candidates was their position on early childhood education. DeStefano said he wanted a state program that would allow every 3-year-old or 4-year-old to attend preschool. He said this should be the one of the state's focuses. "I don't want to be known as a basketball state. I want to be known as a state that sends every kid to kindergarten," DeStefano said. He added this year, there was a surplus of a billion dollars. "Kids who don't start out learning, will stay behind," DeStefano said. Fedele said Rell has made early childhood education a priority, pointing to the $21 million she has invested into programs. "Gov. Jodi Rell made our state a model for preschool education," Fedele said. '); } // --> '); } //--> To contact Joseph Wenzel IV, call him at (860) 347-3331 ext. 222 or by e-mail at jwenzel at middletownpress.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Sun Oct 1 12:15:05 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (THORNTON)Cournat- "Candidate Thrown Off Debate Seesa" Message-ID: <20061001161505.5687.qmail@web81408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Candidate Thrown Off Debate Seesaw Green Party's Thornton Won't Appear With Rell, DeStefano ADVERTISERS --------------------------------- Advertise on ctnow -->By CHRISTOPHER KEATING Capitol Bureau Chief October 1 2006 First he was out. Then he thought he was in. Now he's out again. Clifford Thornton, the Green Party candidate for governor, was caught in the political crossfire Friday in back-and-forth maneuvering over whether he could participate in the first gubernatorial debate on Oct. 9 in New London. The campaigns of Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democratic challenger John DeStefano originally negotiated two one-on-one debates that left Thornton out. But then, at 4:15 p.m. Friday, the Thornton campaign released a victorious statement under the banner that "Democracy Prevails" because the Connecticut League of Women Voters, a co-sponsor of the New London debate, had decided to let Thornton participate. Less than two hours later, the deal had fallen apart, and the League of Women Voters, in protest, had withdrawn as a sponsor. The other sponsor, The Day of New London, said it would proceed with the televised debate. "The Day disagreed with the League regarding whether Mr. Thornton met all of the League's standards for inclusion," said a statement released by Morgan McGinley, The Day's longtime editorial page editor. "After consulting with the League and both the Rell and DeStefano campaigns, the newspaper and League agreed that the League would not be a debate co-sponsor." Rell campaign spokesman, Rich Harris, said he was unaware of the machinations and that Rell just wants to debate at New London's Garde Theatre. "We have a date and a location, and we're going to be there," Harris said Friday night. "We'll debate whoever shows up. This decision by the League [to include Thornton] was certainly out of our hands. We're going to be there. Period." DeStefano's campaign spokesman, Derek Slap, said the two major producers of the debate - the Day and Channel 8 - are honoring their agreement to hold the televised debate at 8 p.m. "There is no change," he said. "It's entirely expected, given the juvenile politics the two parties play," said Ken Krayeske, Thornton's campaign manager. "You can be sure the two parties have not heard the end of the Connecticut Green Party. This is treating the debates like a joke. ... It's repugnant." The second debate will be televised live on WVIT-TV, Channel 30, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. Contact Christopher Keating at ckeating at courant.com. Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant --------------------------------- =0)document.write(unescape('%3C')+'\!-'+'-') //--> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JeandeSmet at galaxyinternet.net Sun Oct 1 15:13:32 2006 From: JeandeSmet at galaxyinternet.net (Jean de Smet) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 15:13:32 -0400 Subject: {news} Press on Parent Conference In-Reply-To: <20061001160821.76761.qmail@web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <00de01c6e58d$d5cd7880$1943163f@jean1oa1rgr0ov> The Norwich Bulletin reporter, Ray Hackett, neglected to mention our presence at all. Perhaps he's saving it for a large article? Ha, ha. Jean -----Original Message----- From: ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org [mailto:ctgp-news-bounces at ml.greens.org] On Behalf Of Green Party-CT Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:08 PM To: NG GREENS; VOTETHORNTONyahoo; CentralGP; ElectionsCTGP; newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org Subject: {news} Thornton For Governor-Middletown Press " Parents HearConcerns Debated" 10/01/2006 Parents hear concerns debated By Joseph Wenzel IV , Herald Press Staff MIDDLETOWN - Candidates got the chance Saturday to weigh in the issues that consider the group with the smallest voice: the children. Connecticut Parent Power hosted a forum where gubernatorial candidates discussed issues that affect children and families at Middlesex Community College in front of parents from all over Connecticut. Democratic candidate John DeStefano, the Republican's lieutenant governor candidate Michael Fedele, and Jean de Smet, representing the Green Party candidate, Cliff Thornton, argued over the issues of health care, Education Cost Sharing Formula and quality early childhood care. Connecticut Parent Power is network of parents impacting state policy to put children first. Education Cost Sharing, the formula by which the state allocates money to school district, was one of the focuses of the session with candidates being asked how they would handle changes to how state funding works. According to a handout from Connecticut Parent Power, on average Education Cost Sharing only covers 39 percent of local school budgets, compared to a national average of state funds covering 50 percent of local school budgets. The biggest part of any municipal budget is funding for schools, DeStefano said. If elected in November, DeStefano said he wanted to move away from having property taxes pay for the bulk of the school budget, and establish a millionaire's tax to help fill the funding gap. Fedele discussed how Education Cost Sharing Formula is for quality funding to go all around. But, the state has not done a proper job with Education Cost Sharing Formula lately. He said the more the state tinkered with the formula, the further the formula gets from making progress. "The state faces challenges," Fedele said, adding that the Education Cost Sharing Formula was one of them. De Smet also said the state's method of funding education needs to changed to alleviate the property tax burden. The second question posed to DeStefano was reducing the burden of health care on families. DeStefano said 400,000 people, with 75,000 children, in the state are without health insurance. He proposed universal health care for everyone in the state. DeStefano said there are currently $620 million in corporate tax credits exemptions and loopholes. He said he would reform the corporate tax system to close $350 million. DeStefano wanted programs promoting weight control, dieting and exercise. Fedele said everyone should have access to health care. He said the state was making investments in community health centers in some of the major cities like New Britain, New Haven and Hartford. He said that the governor plans to work with the HUSKY program, so more children can get health care. De Smet said the Green Party was in favor of universal health care, adding that the current system had to be changed. The final question asked to the candidates was their position on early childhood education. DeStefano said he wanted a state program that would allow every 3-year-old or 4-year-old to attend preschool. He said this should be the one of the state's focuses. "I don't want to be known as a basketball state. I want to be known as a state that sends every kid to kindergarten," DeStefano said. He added this year, there was a surplus of a billion dollars. "Kids who don't start out learning, will stay behind," DeStefano said. Fedele said Rell has made early childhood education a priority, pointing to the $21 million she has invested into programs. "Gov. Jodi Rell made our state a model for preschool education," Fedele said. Click Here! To contact Joseph Wenzel IV, call him at (860) 347-3331 ext. 222 or by e-mail at jwenzel at middletownpress.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Tue Oct 3 00:31:46 2006 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:31:46 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: Green Buildings Open House Message-ID: <006801c6e6a5$57317850$ef9a4c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> Sent to CT Green Party website. ----- Original Message ----- From: ...> To: Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:47 PM Subject: Green Buildings Open House > GREEN BUILDINGS ACROSS CONNECTICUT TO OPEN DOORS OCTOBER 7 > Public Invited to See Easy Ways to Beat High Energy Costs > Following a summer of record heat and skyrocketing energy > bills, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) invites > the public to visit local energy-saving experts during the 2006 Green > Buildings Open House. The Open House, which is part of the American > Solar Energy Society's National Solar Tour, will welcome the public > to visit "green" homes and businesses, and see clean renewable energy > systems on Saturday, October 7, 2006. > Multiple private homes, businesses, public buildings, and > clean renewable energy installations throughout Connecticut will open > their doors and welcome the public to tour, ask questions, and > discover the variety of ways these people are saving energy, money, > and the environment. > More than 10,000 people visited Green Buildings Open House > sites last year; and with more concern over home-heating costs and > foreign oil supplies, many more visitors are expected this time > around. A complete list of Green Buildings Open House sites and > events is available at www.nesea.org. Use the list of Open Houses in > your area to plan a visit or design your own tour of one or more > local Green Buildings. With nearly twenty featured sites across > Connecticut, there is surely something of interest only a short drive > away. > "We're delighted to present this one-day showcase of real- > world green buildings and renewable energy," said David Barclay, > Executive Director of NESEA. "Homeowners and facility managers will > be available to give a tour and answer questions. The Green Buildings > Open House presents ways to save money on energy costs and showcases > clean renewable energy being used today. Everyone that uses > electricity or is considering a home renovation or purchase should > attend their local Green Buildings Open House on October 7 and learn > from people who are living and working happily with their green, > energy-efficient choices." > Open House visitors will be able to see both ground and roof- > mounted photovoltaic (solar electric) systems, solar thermal > installations, and ground-source heat pumps ('geothermal'). Visitors > will also learn about how they can support renewable energy by > purchasing clean renewable energy through their utility company or a > green electricity provider. > "Many people feel that our country's energy problems, global > warming, and fuel costs are beyond our control," Barclay > explained. "But the Green Buildings Open House shows specific steps > we all can take. The chance to talk with those who've already done > so is inspiring and will show how everyone can have a positive effect > on these global problems." > The Green Buildings Open House in Connecticut is sponsored by > Global Resource Options, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, and Solar > Works Inc. The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is > the Northeast's leading organization of professionals working in > sustainable energy, whole systems thinking and green technologies. > NESEA facilitates the widespread adoption and use of sustainable > energy by providing support to industry professionals and by > educating and motivating consumers to learn about, ask for and adopt > sustainable energy and green building practices. NESEA accomplishes > this through a number of ongoing programs and annual events including: > Building Energy conference and trade show, Tour de Sol America's > Number 1 Green Car Show and Competition, K-12 Education, Green > Buildings Open House Tour, Sustainable Green Pages, www.nesea.org or > call 413-774-6051. > ### From efficacy at msn.com Tue Oct 3 06:12:10 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 06:12:10 -0400 Subject: {news} It's Not Easy Being Green--Drug Policy is The Main Issue Message-ID: OPED It's Not Easy Being Green October 3, 2006 CLIFFORD W. THORNTON Being green is like being black. As both the first Green Party candidate for governor and the first African American to run for this office in state history, I have learned that discrimination is alive and well in Connecticut. My grandmother and great-grandmother raised me in Hartford, and I remember landlords telling my guardians that they were not welcome in certain buildings because of their skin color. We must acknowledge that color plays a role today, because if it didn't, there would be more non-white candidates running for statewide office. But I am not so naive as to believe that being black or Green was the sole determining factor in my exclusion from the upcoming Oct. 9 and Oct. 18 televised debates between Republican incumbent Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democratic contender New Haven Mayor John DeStefano. The main culprit is the fear of ideas. The Republicans and Democrats want to maintain control of our representative democracy, and to do so, they must monopolize the marketplace of ideas. For example, neither party has a real response to my proposal to make public colleges and universities in Connecticut tuition-free, an idea embraced in most of the Western industrialized world. To avoid thoughts like this, the two parties colluded to prevent me from speaking to the state's largest possible audience of voters. Rell and DeStefano conveniently blamed each other for keeping me out the debates. DeStefano's campaign negotiators told my staff that this wasn't our time. Someday, they implied, Greens can sit at the front of the bus, but not this year. Friday, the League of Women Voters determined that I met its standards to join the gubernatorial debates. But DeStefano's campaign threatened to withdraw from the Oct. 9 televised debate, which is sponsored by the League and the New London Day, if I was allowed to speak. The Day said I didn't raise enough money, in disagreement with the League. They dissolved their partnership and I was uninvited. My opinion that ballot access equals debate access was overruled by private interests. Gov. Rell's people misled us. On Sept. 1, her campaign manager, Kevin Deneen, issued a letter stating that Gov. Rell "believes strongly that Mr. Thornton deserves a place in any debates." Come Sept. 22, Deneen flip-flopped with no explanation except that DeStefano made him do it. I find it funny that Connecticut Democrats have not backed this African American's right to represent the disenfranchised, whatever race, creed or political affiliation they may be. On the campaign trail, I hear uncensored voices, including those of hundreds of students. When I speak at middle schools, high schools and colleges, I ask, "If you think we have democracy in this country, please raise your hand." No students ever raise their hands! Perhaps young people understand better than adults do what the two parties aim for when they blackball candidates. Some would argue that being in the televised debates doesn't matter. U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd and his competitor Jack Orchulli welcomed the Libertarian and Concerned Citizens candidates into the 2004 Senate debates. Yet both minor-party candidates received less than 1 percent of the vote. If minor-party ideas are so unappealing to voters, why do the major parties seek to silence my voice? What is the harm? Is it because I raise issues they do not want to face? The policies the two parties have created threaten to destroy our culture from within. The D's and R's cannot save us from their nasty monsters, so they either repeat the same tired rhetoric like incantations at exorcisms or ignore them altogether, shushing those who dare to discuss Frankenstein on the sofa. My campaign offers reasonable ideas to address violence on city streets, overcrowding of prisons, skyrocketing public health costs, declining educational progress, homelessness, job creation and poverty elimination. The Connecticut Green Party collected more than enough signatures to place my name on the ballot, yet that does not merit my inclusion into the greater electoral process? This is wrong, and I firmly believe that candidates who earn ballot access belong in the debates. How else are voters supposed to learn about new party platforms? The Democrats and Republicans answer by discriminating against new party candidates. The two parties bar my black and Green self from speaking to the Connecticut electorate because they view my ideas as unacceptable. Coincidentally, these ideas mostly impact the well-being of poor black, brown and white people. Clifford W. Thornton of Hartford is the Green Party candidate for governor. Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From westerfield at sysmatrix.net Tue Oct 3 06:38:58 2006 From: westerfield at sysmatrix.net (Michael Westerfield) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 05:38:58 -0500 (CDT) Subject: {news} Fw: Green Buildings Open House In-Reply-To: <006801c6e6a5$57317850$ef9a4c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> References: <006801c6e6a5$57317850$ef9a4c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> Message-ID: <1078.75.37.239.160.1159871938.squirrel@webmail.sysmatrix.net> One of the buildings included in this Saturday's solar tour, will be John Ashton Tower, a 100 unit apartment building for the elderly and disabled in Willimantic. Ashton Tower is the only public housing high-rise in Connecticut, and quite possibly the entire country, to have a photovoltaic system installed on its roof. A 10.3 kw grid intertied system was installed recently in in this 1970's all electric building, under the direction of its Green Executive Director, Michael Westerfield. The system provides sufficient electricity to power the internal lighting in all of the building's hallways, stairwells and common areas during daylight areas. > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > Sent to CT Green Party website. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ...> > To: > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:47 PM > Subject: Green Buildings Open House > >> GREEN BUILDINGS ACROSS CONNECTICUT TO OPEN DOORS OCTOBER 7 >> Public Invited to See Easy Ways to Beat High Energy Costs >> Following a summer of record heat and skyrocketing energy >> bills, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) invites >> the public to visit local energy-saving experts during the 2006 Green >> Buildings Open House. The Open House, which is part of the American >> Solar Energy Society's National Solar Tour, will welcome the public >> to visit "green" homes and businesses, and see clean renewable energy >> systems on Saturday, October 7, 2006. >> Multiple private homes, businesses, public buildings, and >> clean renewable energy installations throughout Connecticut will open >> their doors and welcome the public to tour, ask questions, and >> discover the variety of ways these people are saving energy, money, >> and the environment. >> More than 10,000 people visited Green Buildings Open House >> sites last year; and with more concern over home-heating costs and >> foreign oil supplies, many more visitors are expected this time >> around. A complete list of Green Buildings Open House sites and >> events is available at www.nesea.org. Use the list of Open Houses in >> your area to plan a visit or design your own tour of one or more >> local Green Buildings. With nearly twenty featured sites across >> Connecticut, there is surely something of interest only a short drive >> away. >> "We're delighted to present this one-day showcase of real- >> world green buildings and renewable energy," said David Barclay, >> Executive Director of NESEA. "Homeowners and facility managers will >> be available to give a tour and answer questions. The Green Buildings >> Open House presents ways to save money on energy costs and showcases >> clean renewable energy being used today. Everyone that uses >> electricity or is considering a home renovation or purchase should >> attend their local Green Buildings Open House on October 7 and learn >> from people who are living and working happily with their green, >> energy-efficient choices." >> Open House visitors will be able to see both ground and roof- >> mounted photovoltaic (solar electric) systems, solar thermal >> installations, and ground-source heat pumps ('geothermal'). Visitors >> will also learn about how they can support renewable energy by >> purchasing clean renewable energy through their utility company or a >> green electricity provider. >> "Many people feel that our country's energy problems, global >> warming, and fuel costs are beyond our control," Barclay >> explained. "But the Green Buildings Open House shows specific steps >> we all can take. The chance to talk with those who've already done >> so is inspiring and will show how everyone can have a positive effect >> on these global problems." >> The Green Buildings Open House in Connecticut is sponsored by >> Global Resource Options, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, and Solar >> Works Inc. The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is >> the Northeast's leading organization of professionals working in >> sustainable energy, whole systems thinking and green technologies. >> NESEA facilitates the widespread adoption and use of sustainable >> energy by providing support to industry professionals and by >> educating and motivating consumers to learn about, ask for and adopt >> sustainable energy and green building practices. NESEA accomplishes >> this through a number of ongoing programs and annual events including: >> Building Energy conference and trade show, Tour de Sol America's >> Number 1 Green Car Show and Competition, K-12 Education, Green >> Buildings Open House Tour, Sustainable Green Pages, www.nesea.org or >> call 413-774-6051. >> ### > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this > transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete > the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or > face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or > legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal > legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of > the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is > solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party > hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post > confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, > and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is > always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party > under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, > misdirection, or general mischief. > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please > immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail > transmission may contain confidential information. This information is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is > intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files > if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > From chapillsbury at igc.org Tue Oct 3 22:09:17 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:09:17 -0400 Subject: {news} Being green is like being black. References: Message-ID: <006001c6e75a$191690e0$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Cliff: great op-ed in today's Courant. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-thornton1003.artoct03,0,1473091.story?coll=hc-headlines-oped It's Not Easy Being Green CLIFFORD W. THORNTON October 3 2006 Being green is like being black. As both the first Green Party candidate for governor and the first African American to run for this office in state history, I have learned that discrimination is alive and well in Connecticut. My grandmother and great-grandmother raised me in Hartford, and I remember landlords telling my guardians that they were not welcome in certain buildings because of their skin color. We must acknowledge that color plays a role today, because if it didn't, there would be more non-white candidates running for statewide office. But I am not so naive as to believe that being black or Green was the sole determining factor in my exclusion from the upcoming Oct. 9 and Oct. 18 televised debates between Republican incumbent Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democratic contender New Haven Mayor John DeStefano. The main culprit is the fear of ideas. The Republicans and Democrats want to maintain control of our representative democracy, and to do so, they must monopolize the marketplace of ideas. For example, neither party has a real response to my proposal to make public colleges and universities in Connecticut tuition-free, an idea embraced in most of the Western industrialized world. To avoid thoughts like this, the two parties colluded to prevent me from speaking to the state's largest possible audience of voters. Rell and DeStefano conveniently blamed each other for keeping me out the debates. DeStefano's campaign negotiators told my staff that this wasn't our time. Someday, they implied, Greens can sit at the front of the bus, but not this year. Friday, the League of Women Voters determined that I met its standards to join the gubernatorial debates. But DeStefano's campaign threatened to withdraw from the Oct. 9 televised debate, which is sponsored by the League and the New London Day, if I was allowed to speak. The Day said I didn't raise enough money, in disagreement with the League. They dissolved their partnership and I was uninvited. My opinion that ballot access equals debate access was overruled by private interests. Gov. Rell's people misled us. On Sept. 1, her campaign manager, Kevin Deneen, issued a letter stating that Gov. Rell "believes strongly that Mr. Thornton deserves a place in any debates." Come Sept. 22, Deneen flip-flopped with no explanation except that DeStefano made him do it. I find it funny that Connecticut Democrats have not backed this African American's right to represent the disenfranchised, whatever race, creed or political affiliation they may be. On the campaign trail, I hear uncensored voices, including those of hundreds of students. When I speak at middle schools, high schools and colleges, I ask, "If you think we have democracy in this country, please raise your hand." No students ever raise their hands! Perhaps young people understand better than adults do what the two parties aim for when they blackball candidates. Some would argue that being in the televised debates doesn't matter. U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd and his competitor Jack Orchulli welcomed the Libertarian and Concerned Citizens candidates into the 2004 Senate debates. Yet both minor-party candidates received less than 1 percent of the vote. If minor-party ideas are so unappealing to voters, why do the major parties seek to silence my voice? What is the harm? Is it because I raise issues they do not want to face? The policies the two parties have created threaten to destroy our culture from within. The D's and R's cannot save us from their nasty monsters, so they either repeat the same tired rhetoric like incantations at exorcisms or ignore them altogether, shushing those who dare to discuss Frankenstein on the sofa. My campaign offers reasonable ideas to address violence on city streets, overcrowding of prisons, skyrocketing public health costs, declining educational progress, homelessness, job creation and poverty elimination. The Connecticut Green Party collected more than enough signatures to place my name on the ballot, yet that does not merit my inclusion into the greater electoral process? This is wrong, and I firmly believe that candidates who earn ballot access belong in the debates. How else are voters supposed to learn about new party platforms? The Democrats and Republicans answer by discriminating against new party candidates. The two parties bar my black and Green self from speaking to the Connecticut electorate because they view my ideas as unacceptable. Coincidentally, these ideas mostly impact the well-being of poor black, brown and white people. Clifford W. Thornton of Hartford is the Green Party candidate for governor. Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Tue Oct 3 22:27:59 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:27:59 -0400 Subject: {news} new Green Senatorial Campaign Committee References: Message-ID: <009101c6e75c$b58927b0$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Please consider posting this to your state listserve on behalf of the Green Senatorial Campaign Committee Thanks, Anita Wessling VC - GSCC 870-426-2284 Greens, A few weeks ago, the Green Party became the first alternative political party in history to register a national senatorial campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission. The eight-member Green Senatorial Campaign Committee chaired by Teresa Keane, a former Green Senate candidate from Oregon, was created to promote the campaigns of Green Party candidates running for the United States Senate. The committee's main goal for the 2006 election cycle is to support as many qualified Green campaigns as possible. The Green Party has nominated 14 senate candidates for 2006 and a key issue in their races is the Iraq War. Green candidates call for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. With your personal investment we will help Green campaigns get their message out - a message that America wants to hear. To raise those voices - we need to raise some money. Please send your donation to: Green Senatorial Campaign Committee PO Box 8845 Minneapolis, MN 55408 From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Wed Oct 4 09:09:05 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:09:05 -0400 Subject: {news} Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Message-ID: <07e001c6e7b6$45dddd70$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Charlie and Tim, I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered by the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed below) This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law (right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with international law). The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. Thanks. Justine McCabe New Milford (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) ============================================================= http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 Home Vote Results History Contacts Admin National Committee Voting Proposal Details Proposal ID 247 Proposal Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Presenter The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate Floor Manager Jody Grage Phase Voting Discussion 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 Voting 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 Presens Quorum 0.6666 Consens Quorum A Majority of Yes and No Votes Background The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the date of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to several actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such actions include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", "organizations", and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive material compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts state legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local legislators register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian diaspora. The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place two referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in Somerville, MA that are phrased as follows: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote for resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the national party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would accomplish one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would endorse the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. Proposal The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state representative district: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? Resources CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com References Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ Questions about this system? Contact the Voting Admin. The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download a copy here. To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. JL's ranked choice module is licensed under an alternate free software license. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Green Party of the United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Wed Oct 4 11:44:25 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:44:25 -0400 Subject: {news} RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 In-Reply-To: <07e001c6e7b6$45dddd70$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: <007201c6e7cb$f945db00$1901a8c0@CMI.local> Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this proposal is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national Green Party platform for the same reasons. However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes outnumbered no votes by a 5-1 margin. Charlie 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 chapillsbury at igc.org _____ From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Charlie and Tim, I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered by the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed below) This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law (right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with international law). The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. Thanks. Justine McCabe New Milford (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) ============================================================= http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 Home Vote Results History Contacts Admin National Committee Voting Proposal Details Proposal ID 247 Proposal Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Presenter The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate Floor Manager Jody Grage Phase Voting Discussion 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 Voting 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 Presens Quorum 0.6666 Consens Quorum A Majority of Yes and No Votes Background The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the date of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to several actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such actions include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", "organizations", and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive material compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts state legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local legislators register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian diaspora. The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place two referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in Somerville, MA that are phrased as follows: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote for resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the national party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would accomplish one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would endorse the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. Proposal The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state representative district: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? Resources CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com References Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ Questions about this system? Contact the Voting Admin. The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download a copy here. To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. JL's ranked choice module is licensed under an alternate free software license. _____ Green Party of the United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Wed Oct 4 21:17:46 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:17:46 -0400 Subject: {news} Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 References: <007201c6e7cb$f945db00$1901a8c0@CMI.local> Message-ID: <081d01c6e81c$120f78d0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Thanks for your response Charlie. Clearly, you are entitled to your view on this though I happen to disagree with you, including the issue of balance. But my concern--no, complaint--here relates to your role as an elected representative of the Greens in CT to the GPUS National Committee, and in that role you bear a responsibility to 1) share National Committee news with us, most especially proposals coming up for votes; and 2) solicit the views of your constituents on these proposals. In this case, neither you nor Tim informed us of this (or most any other) proposal, and didn't solicit our opinions on it. Rather you chose to vote on this privately and as you say, informed by your perspective as a mediator. I only learned of the proposal yesterday from a representative from another state. As far as I know, I am the only person to express her opinion on this issue on the GPCT listserv. I repeat my earlier requests that you and Tim inform us of GPUS national business especially upcoming proposals/votes and seek our imput on them. Many thanks, Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Pillsbury To: 'Justine McCabe' ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this proposal is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national Green Party platform for the same reasons. However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes outnumbered no votes by a 5-1 margin. Charlie 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 chapillsbury at igc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Charlie and Tim, I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered by the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed below) This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law (right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with international law). The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. Thanks. Justine McCabe New Milford (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) ============================================================= http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 Home Vote Results History Contacts Admin National Committee Voting Proposal Details Proposal ID 247 Proposal Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Presenter The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate Floor Manager Jody Grage Phase Voting Discussion 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 Voting 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 Presens Quorum 0.6666 Consens Quorum A Majority of Yes and No Votes Background The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the date of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to several actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such actions include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", "organizations", and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive material compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts state legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local legislators register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian diaspora. The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place two referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in Somerville, MA that are phrased as follows: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote for resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the national party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would accomplish one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would endorse the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. Proposal The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state representative district: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? Resources CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com References Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ Questions about this system? Contact the Voting Admin. The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download a copy here. To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. JL's ranked choice module is licensed under an alternate free software license. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Green Party of the United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Wed Oct 4 21:32:22 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:32:22 -0400 Subject: {news} Pro-Israel political funds in U.S. target friendly incumbents - and challengers (re: Lieberman) Message-ID: <082d01c6e81e$1bc97bd0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> > Following is an article from JTA - The Global News Service of the Jewish > People. For in-depth coverage of the latest developments affecting Jews > all > over the world, click: www.jta.org > http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17122&intcategoryid=3 > Pro-Israel political funds in U.S. target friendly incumbents - and > challengers > By: Ron Kampeas > > WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (JTA) - Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) moved out of one > political home when Democrats rejected him in an August primary, but an > influx of campaign cash since his loss shows he's more welcome than ever > in > another - the pro-Israel community. > > Since he lost the Democratic party's nomination - and its financial > backing > - for his Senate seat, Lieberman has become the top fund-raiser among > American Jews whose primary political focus is support for Israel . > > Insiders say Lieberman is expected to earn as much as $2 million from > pro-Israel donors, about one-tenth of his total projected war chest. > > Other candidates topping the list of pro-Israel financial support include > Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.); Sheldon Whitehouse, who is challenging Sen. > Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.); Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.); and Brad > Ellsworth, > who is challenging U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.). > > The money is being raised by a loose network of donors, many of whom have > strong ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the > pro-Israel > lobby. Other Jewish donors may make Israel a high priority but also > consider > domestic issues, including reproductive choice, church-state separation > and > other social and welfare policy concerns. > > With Democrats and Republicans vying for control of the U.S. Senate and > House of Representatives, the Nov. 7 elections have generated an unusually > high level of political donations and spending. Jewish donors, often > central > to political fund-raising, are deeply engaged once again. > > Numbers are hard to track, but multi-issue Jewish givers are believed to > give much more overall than single-issue, pro-Israel donors. > > Among the trends in pro-Israel money, fund-raisers say, is a rush to > defend > endangered Israel-friendly incumbents, the majority of whom are > Republicans. > There is also significant support directed toward challengers of > incumbents > such as Chafee and Hostettler, who are not considered friendly to Israel . > > Speaking on condition of anonymity, several Lieberman donors told JTA that > the iconic Jewish politician is drawing heavy support from Republican as > well as Democratic Jewish donors. Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice > presidential candidate in 2000, is running as an independent after his > primary loss, but has pledged to support the Democratic caucus if > re-elected. > > Lieberman always has elicited significant Jewish support, but backers say > that support intensified among pro-Israel donors once he lost his party's > backing. > > Lieberman backers have hosted major fund-raisers in Connecticut ; in Boca > Raton , Fla. ; in Chicago ; and in northern New Jersey . Those events earn > a > minimum of $50,000, and a mid-October event in Los Angeles is expected to > bring in $1 million, organizers said. > > "Joe's experience and his commitment to the State of Israel would be a > huge > loss" if he were ousted from the Senate, said Marvin Lender, a Connecticut > entrepreneur and longtime Lieberman backer who has contributed to his > campaign. > > Few believe that Ned Lamont, the cable TV millionaire whose anti-Iraq war > campaign defeated Lieberman in the Democratic primary, won't be supportive > on Israel . Indeed, Lamont explains his opposition to the Iraq war by > saying > that it strengthened Iran , Israel 's deadliest rival. > > But Lieberman's long record defending Israel , not to mention his strong > Jewish identification, makes him the favorite for pro-Israel funders, > Lender > said. > > Lieberman characterizes Lamont as an unaccountable millionaire - but > Lamont's wealth, paradoxically, has boosted Lieberman. > > U.S. law allows donors to increase their donation limit from $2,100 each > for > primaries and general elections, and as much as $12,600 if the candidate's > opponent is self-funded. Insiders say that helps explain Lieberman's > stunning showing among Jews and those focused on the Israel issue. > > Other major beneficiaries of pro-Israel munificence in midterm elections > for > the Senate include Santorum, Menendez, Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), Sen. > Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.). > > Along with Lieberman, those senators have three things in common that are > surefire magnets for pro-Israel money: They're incumbents, they're very > friendly to Israel and their re-election prospects are grim. > > "I believe in loyalty: You help people who were there when you needed > them," > said Lonnie Kaplan, the self-identified Democrat leading pro-Israel > funding > for Santorum, who is fighting an uphill battle against challenger Bob > Casey, > the Pennsylvania state treasurer. > > "He's got a tough fight and I have worked hard for him." > > Kaplan would not say how much pro-Israel money was raised for Santorum, > but > some reports have indicated that it is $1 million of the $21 million the > embattled campaign has brought in so far. > > Two Democratic non-incumbents benefitting from pro-Israel largesse are > Whitehouse, a former Rhode Island attorney general hoping to unseat > Chafee; > and Ellsworth, an Indiana sheriff taking aim at Hostettler. Both > challengers > are leading the incumbents in polls, thanks in part to the infusion of > pro-Israel funds. > > Whitehouse can thank Chafee for the estimated $1 million in pro-Israel > funding he's expected to attract across the country. Chafee, a Rhode > Island > moderate, is consistently cool on Israel , and didn't help himself earlier > this month when he delayed confirmation of John Bolton, the strongly > pro-Israel ambassador to the United Nations. > > Chafee cited Israel 's settlement policy in explaining the delay on Bolton > . > Analysts now say that Bolton , who is serving as an interim ambassador, > will > have to be replaced in January. > > In Indiana , Hostettler, who often votes against legislation backed by > AIPAC, is a social conservative, making him an especially tempting target > for Jews, who tend to be overwhelmingly liberal-to-moderate. > > In some races, those values ultimately clash: For many Jews, Santorum's > strong pro-Israel support is not enough to offset his hard-line opposition > to abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and support for tax cuts and > expanding the government's subpoena powers. > > His opponent, Casey, is getting far less purely pro-Israel money but > overall, he is getting more Jewish money than Santorum's $1 million, > insiders say. Casey has easily raised $3 million among Jews in > Pennsylvania > and other states such as New York and California , political insiders say. > > "For people who are only single-issue, they're sticking with Santorum," > said > Betsy Sheer, a media training specialist who is advising the Casey > campaign. > "For people who are pro-Israel and are looking at domestic issues, like > separation of church-state and privacy, they're supporting Casey." > > That face-off - between single-issue, pro-Israel givers who back friendly > incumbents, and liberal Jewish donors who back challengers who also have > proved their pro-Israel bona fides - is occurring in several states. > > In Montana , Jews are giving both to Sen. Conrad Burns, a Republican, and > to > his challenger, Jon Tester, the Montana Senate president. The same is true > in a House race in Florida , where long-serving Republican Rep. Clay Shaw > is > fighting back Ron Klein, who is Jewish and the minority leader in the > state > Senate. > > Shaw is getting much more purely pro-Israel cash than is Klein, while > Klein, > who also is supportive of Israel , is getting more money from Jews in > general. > > It's hard to assess overall giving levels, because individuals are > likelier > to donate directly to the campaign instead of to political action > committees, which have a $10,000 limit to any particular candidate in an > election season. Direct donations are more appealing because they offer > better access and are difficult to trace. > > The Center for Responsive Politics tracked 33 pro-Israel PACs that had > given > $2,096,782 by the beginning of September, including $1,135,383 to > Democrats > and $873,899 to Republicans. Insiders say PACs account for about 10 > percent > of overall donations made by donors concerned primarily about Israel . > > Many of the House incumbents earning pro-Israel attention are Republicans, > including Reps. Curt Weldon and Jim Gerlach in Pennsylvania and Reps. > Chris > Shays and Rob Simmons in Connecticut . That's partly because it's mostly > incumbent Republicans who face strong challenges this season, reeling from > bad news in Iraq and an economy that many middle-class Americans still > find > daunting. > > At the same time, Jews are heavily supporting some of their Democratic > challengers, including Lois Murphy in Pennsylvania , who is challenging > Gerlach. > > "Some of it is legitimately attributable to this phenomenon of Republicans > in power," said Steve Rabinowitz, a Clinton administration communications > official who is a Democratic strategist. "The pro-Israel money goes > grossly > disproportionately to incumbents who have been good on Israel ." > > He expressed concern, however, that pro-Israel givers have been swayed by > an > aggressive Republican campaign to draw Jewish donors away from the > Democrats, the party Jewish voters overwhelmingly have favored. > > "Turning Israel into a partisan issue is just about the worst thing that > can > happen," Rabinowitz said. "Why would an Israel supporter want to make it a > wedge issue?" > > Republican Jews say Democrats have the problem, citing surveys that show > rank-and-file Democrats much likelier to favor a more balanced U.S. > approach > to Israeli-Arab issues. > > "We're illuminating the fact that support for Israel is eroding within the > Democratic Party," said Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican > Jewish Coalition. "They need to address the root causes." From chapillsbury at igc.org Wed Oct 4 22:56:26 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:56:26 -0400 Subject: {news} Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 References: <007201c6e7cb$f945db00$1901a8c0@CMI.local> <081d01c6e81c$120f78d0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: <004b01c6e829$eeb57390$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Justine: Your made your point well, and I hear you. Tim and I should be doing a better job communicating the activities of the GPUS, especially the proposals that call for our votes. I will make every effort now to share that information with the CTGP. thanks for your input, charlie ----- Original Message ----- From: Justine McCabe To: Charlie Pillsbury ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:17 PM Subject: Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Thanks for your response Charlie. Clearly, you are entitled to your view on this though I happen to disagree with you, including the issue of balance. But my concern--no, complaint--here relates to your role as an elected representative of the Greens in CT to the GPUS National Committee, and in that role you bear a responsibility to 1) share National Committee news with us, most especially proposals coming up for votes; and 2) solicit the views of your constituents on these proposals. In this case, neither you nor Tim informed us of this (or most any other) proposal, and didn't solicit our opinions on it. Rather you chose to vote on this privately and as you say, informed by your perspective as a mediator. I only learned of the proposal yesterday from a representative from another state. As far as I know, I am the only person to express her opinion on this issue on the GPCT listserv. I repeat my earlier requests that you and Tim inform us of GPUS national business especially upcoming proposals/votes and seek our imput on them. Many thanks, Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Pillsbury To: 'Justine McCabe' ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this proposal is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national Green Party platform for the same reasons. However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes outnumbered no votes by a 5-1 margin. Charlie 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 chapillsbury at igc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Charlie and Tim, I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered by the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed below) This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law (right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with international law). The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. Thanks. Justine McCabe New Milford (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) ============================================================= http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 Home Vote Results History Contacts Admin National Committee Voting Proposal Details Proposal ID 247 Proposal Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Presenter The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate Floor Manager Jody Grage Phase Voting Discussion 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 Voting 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 Presens Quorum 0.6666 Consens Quorum A Majority of Yes and No Votes Background The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the date of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to several actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such actions include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", "organizations", and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive material compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts state legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local legislators register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian diaspora. The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place two referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in Somerville, MA that are phrased as follows: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote for resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the national party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would accomplish one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would endorse the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. Proposal The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state representative district: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? Resources CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com References Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ Questions about this system? Contact the Voting Admin. The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download a copy here. To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. JL's ranked choice module is licensed under an alternate free software license. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Green Party of the United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 5 08:28:07 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:28:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} CCSU paper interview with Thornton Message-ID: <20061005122807.57431.qmail@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Central Connecticut State University October 4, 2006 Interview with Cliff Thornton, Green Party Candidate for Conn. Governor By Mark T. Rukowski Copy Editor Former businessman Cliff Thornton has spent the past 10 years working to change America?s drug laws. He is the founder of Efficacy, a Hartford-based non-profit organization that advocates for drug policy reform. Prior to this, he was a middle-level manager with SNET. Thornton is running as a member of the Green Party and is the first African-American to be on the ballot for governor in Connecticut history. Mark Rutkowski: Why are you running for Governor? Cliff Thornton: I am running for governor because no one is really bringing up the issues that most affect the people of Connecticut. First and foremost is higher education; it should be free. Another issue is the drug war. We?ve had 100 years of drug prohibition and spend millions of dollars every year to no avail. We still have drugs and crime on the streets. MR: You are calling for free higher education. If elected, how would you intend to enact and finance such a policy? CT: I would use the lottery and gaming casino money that was originally set aside for education spending. That money is instead used for politicians? own personal slush funds. My daughter is going for a master?s degree at Washington University in St. Louis. Tuition there is $52,000 per year. I don?t want to strap our students with debt. They should sign a contract where, after four years of free education, they then spend four years building up the state. MR: You are an outspoken advocate for drug legalization. How have you come to take such a controversial position? CT: I have watched, decade after decade, Hartford going downhill. The drug war doesn?t work. What we do have are more drugs at cheaper prices than ever before. I have traveled the world and seen programs for drug maintenance that work. MR: In February 2003, the Green Party published a position statement against the invasion of Iraq. It is now three and a half years later and no weapons of mass destruction or links to Al Qaeda have been found; 2,705 Americans soldiers and more than 40,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed. Why haven?t the Greens taken an official position calling for the immediate withdrawal of troops? CT: We want to bring the troops home. If elected govnoner I would not send any more troops, the state governors have that right. Our National Guard is for Connecticut; what happens if there is a disaster like Hurricane Katrina in Connecticut? We?re fucked. MR: What is your position on rights for immigrant workers? CT: Immigration is a federal policy. However, I feel that once they?re here, working and paying taxes, immigrants deserve the same rights native-born Americans enjoy. MR: Republican Governor Jodi Rell and Democratic Mayor John DeStefano have agreed to two closed debates. What points would you hope to make if the debates were open to minor-party candidates? CT: I would hope to discuss all the points I?ve already talked about: drugs, crime and education. In many respects being Green is like being Black, you?re excluded from most things in society; debates, polls, they won?t give us a break. << Back to normal view Copyright ? 2002, The Recorder | All Rights Reserved -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Thu Oct 5 14:55:05 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:55:05 -0400 Subject: {news} Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 References: <007201c6e7cb$f945db00$1901a8c0@CMI.local> <081d01c6e81c$120f78d0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> <004b01c6e829$eeb57390$6500a8c0@S0031616584> Message-ID: <08ae01c6e8af$c62d0d80$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Charlie, Thanks for your receptivity. I look forward to hearing more NC news. Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Pillsbury To: Justine McCabe ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:56 PM Subject: Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Justine: Your made your point well, and I hear you. Tim and I should be doing a better job communicating the activities of the GPUS, especially the proposals that call for our votes. I will make every effort now to share that information with the CTGP. thanks for your input, charlie ----- Original Message ----- From: Justine McCabe To: Charlie Pillsbury ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:17 PM Subject: Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Thanks for your response Charlie. Clearly, you are entitled to your view on this though I happen to disagree with you, including the issue of balance. But my concern--no, complaint--here relates to your role as an elected representative of the Greens in CT to the GPUS National Committee, and in that role you bear a responsibility to 1) share National Committee news with us, most especially proposals coming up for votes; and 2) solicit the views of your constituents on these proposals. In this case, neither you nor Tim informed us of this (or most any other) proposal, and didn't solicit our opinions on it. Rather you chose to vote on this privately and as you say, informed by your perspective as a mediator. I only learned of the proposal yesterday from a representative from another state. As far as I know, I am the only person to express her opinion on this issue on the GPCT listserv. I repeat my earlier requests that you and Tim inform us of GPUS national business especially upcoming proposals/votes and seek our imput on them. Many thanks, Justine ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Pillsbury To: 'Justine McCabe' ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this proposal is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national Green Party platform for the same reasons. However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes outnumbered no votes by a 5-1 margin. Charlie 247 Saint Ronan Street New Haven CT 06511 203-865-6575 chapillsbury at igc.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 Charlie and Tim, I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered by the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed below) This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law (right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with international law). The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. Thanks. Justine McCabe New Milford (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) ============================================================= http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 Home Vote Results History Contacts Admin National Committee Voting Proposal Details Proposal ID 247 Proposal Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Presenter The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate Floor Manager Jody Grage Phase Voting Discussion 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 Voting 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 Presens Quorum 0.6666 Consens Quorum A Majority of Yes and No Votes Background The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the date of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to several actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such actions include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", "organizations", and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive material compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts state legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local legislators register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian diaspora. The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place two referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in Somerville, MA that are phrased as follows: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote for resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the national party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would accomplish one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would endorse the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. Proposal The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state representative district: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? Resources CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com References Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ Questions about this system? Contact the Voting Admin. The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download a copy here. To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. JL's ranked choice module is licensed under an alternate free software license. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Green Party of the United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Thu Oct 5 15:12:39 2006 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:12:39 -0400 Subject: {news} Propaganda and lies In-Reply-To: <082d01c6e81e$1bc97bd0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: Most Jews in Connedticut are votting for Lamont. Most Jrews in the USA are liberal Democrats. I belive this article is anti Semetic and follows the old lie of the "jewish Conspiracy" Once again I have reported Ms Mc Cabe to the Anti Defimation League of CT. I question HOW she CAN STILL be the Ct GPUSA rep to the International committee and its co chair{never having informing us she had run ror co chair} When for at least a year she has attended no State GP meeting or given any reports. Ms Mcabe still backs the elected Palestinian Govt of the military wing of Hamas. Hamas backs Hezbalah, Syria and Iran refues Israels existance and backs suicide bombers. CTGP needs 2 fresh new reps to this committee that represent PEACE****AMY*** >From: "Justine McCabe" >To: "CTGP Women's Caucus" ,"CTGP-NEWS" > >Subject: {news} Pro-Israel political funds in U.S. target friendly >incumbents- and challengers (re: Lieberman) >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:32:22 -0400 > >Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >to unsubscribe click here >mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > >>Following is an article from JTA - The Global News Service of the Jewish >>People. For in-depth coverage of the latest developments affecting Jews >>all >>over the world, click: www.jta.org > > >>http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=17122&intcategoryid=3 > >>Pro-Israel political funds in U.S. target friendly incumbents - and >>challengers >>By: Ron Kampeas >> >>WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (JTA) - Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) moved out of one >>political home when Democrats rejected him in an August primary, but an >>influx of campaign cash since his loss shows he's more welcome than ever >>in >>another - the pro-Israel community. >> >>Since he lost the Democratic party's nomination - and its financial >>backing >>- for his Senate seat, Lieberman has become the top fund-raiser among >>American Jews whose primary political focus is support for Israel . >> >>Insiders say Lieberman is expected to earn as much as $2 million from >>pro-Israel donors, about one-tenth of his total projected war chest. >> >>Other candidates topping the list of pro-Israel financial support include >>Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.); Sheldon Whitehouse, who is challenging Sen. >>Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.); Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.); and Brad >>Ellsworth, >>who is challenging U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.). >> >>The money is being raised by a loose network of donors, many of whom have >>strong ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the >>pro-Israel >>lobby. Other Jewish donors may make Israel a high priority but also >>consider >>domestic issues, including reproductive choice, church-state separation >>and >>other social and welfare policy concerns. >> >>With Democrats and Republicans vying for control of the U.S. Senate and >>House of Representatives, the Nov. 7 elections have generated an unusually >>high level of political donations and spending. Jewish donors, often >>central >>to political fund-raising, are deeply engaged once again. >> >>Numbers are hard to track, but multi-issue Jewish givers are believed to >>give much more overall than single-issue, pro-Israel donors. >> >>Among the trends in pro-Israel money, fund-raisers say, is a rush to >>defend >>endangered Israel-friendly incumbents, the majority of whom are >>Republicans. >>There is also significant support directed toward challengers of >>incumbents >>such as Chafee and Hostettler, who are not considered friendly to Israel . >> >>Speaking on condition of anonymity, several Lieberman donors told JTA that >>the iconic Jewish politician is drawing heavy support from Republican as >>well as Democratic Jewish donors. Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice >>presidential candidate in 2000, is running as an independent after his >>primary loss, but has pledged to support the Democratic caucus if >>re-elected. >> >>Lieberman always has elicited significant Jewish support, but backers say >>that support intensified among pro-Israel donors once he lost his party's >>backing. >> >>Lieberman backers have hosted major fund-raisers in Connecticut ; in Boca >>Raton , Fla. ; in Chicago ; and in northern New Jersey . Those events earn >>a >>minimum of $50,000, and a mid-October event in Los Angeles is expected to >>bring in $1 million, organizers said. >> >>"Joe's experience and his commitment to the State of Israel would be a >>huge >>loss" if he were ousted from the Senate, said Marvin Lender, a Connecticut >>entrepreneur and longtime Lieberman backer who has contributed to his >>campaign. >> >>Few believe that Ned Lamont, the cable TV millionaire whose anti-Iraq war >>campaign defeated Lieberman in the Democratic primary, won't be supportive >>on Israel . Indeed, Lamont explains his opposition to the Iraq war by >>saying >>that it strengthened Iran , Israel 's deadliest rival. >> >>But Lieberman's long record defending Israel , not to mention his strong >>Jewish identification, makes him the favorite for pro-Israel funders, >>Lender >>said. >> >>Lieberman characterizes Lamont as an unaccountable millionaire - but >>Lamont's wealth, paradoxically, has boosted Lieberman. >> >>U.S. law allows donors to increase their donation limit from $2,100 each >>for >>primaries and general elections, and as much as $12,600 if the candidate's >>opponent is self-funded. Insiders say that helps explain Lieberman's >>stunning showing among Jews and those focused on the Israel issue. >> >>Other major beneficiaries of pro-Israel munificence in midterm elections >>for >>the Senate include Santorum, Menendez, Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), Sen. >>Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.). >> >>Along with Lieberman, those senators have three things in common that are >>surefire magnets for pro-Israel money: They're incumbents, they're very >>friendly to Israel and their re-election prospects are grim. >> >>"I believe in loyalty: You help people who were there when you needed >>them," >>said Lonnie Kaplan, the self-identified Democrat leading pro-Israel >>funding >>for Santorum, who is fighting an uphill battle against challenger Bob >>Casey, >>the Pennsylvania state treasurer. >> >>"He's got a tough fight and I have worked hard for him." >> >>Kaplan would not say how much pro-Israel money was raised for Santorum, >>but >>some reports have indicated that it is $1 million of the $21 million the >>embattled campaign has brought in so far. >> >>Two Democratic non-incumbents benefitting from pro-Israel largesse are >>Whitehouse, a former Rhode Island attorney general hoping to unseat >>Chafee; >>and Ellsworth, an Indiana sheriff taking aim at Hostettler. Both >>challengers >>are leading the incumbents in polls, thanks in part to the infusion of >>pro-Israel funds. >> >>Whitehouse can thank Chafee for the estimated $1 million in pro-Israel >>funding he's expected to attract across the country. Chafee, a Rhode >>Island >>moderate, is consistently cool on Israel , and didn't help himself earlier >>this month when he delayed confirmation of John Bolton, the strongly >>pro-Israel ambassador to the United Nations. >> >>Chafee cited Israel 's settlement policy in explaining the delay on Bolton >>. >>Analysts now say that Bolton , who is serving as an interim ambassador, >>will >>have to be replaced in January. >> >>In Indiana , Hostettler, who often votes against legislation backed by >>AIPAC, is a social conservative, making him an especially tempting target >>for Jews, who tend to be overwhelmingly liberal-to-moderate. >> >>In some races, those values ultimately clash: For many Jews, Santorum's >>strong pro-Israel support is not enough to offset his hard-line opposition >>to abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and support for tax cuts and >>expanding the government's subpoena powers. >> >>His opponent, Casey, is getting far less purely pro-Israel money but >>overall, he is getting more Jewish money than Santorum's $1 million, >>insiders say. Casey has easily raised $3 million among Jews in >>Pennsylvania >>and other states such as New York and California , political insiders say. >> >>"For people who are only single-issue, they're sticking with Santorum," >>said >>Betsy Sheer, a media training specialist who is advising the Casey >>campaign. >>"For people who are pro-Israel and are looking at domestic issues, like >>separation of church-state and privacy, they're supporting Casey." >> >>That face-off - between single-issue, pro-Israel givers who back friendly >>incumbents, and liberal Jewish donors who back challengers who also have >>proved their pro-Israel bona fides - is occurring in several states. >> >>In Montana , Jews are giving both to Sen. Conrad Burns, a Republican, and >>to >>his challenger, Jon Tester, the Montana Senate president. The same is true >>in a House race in Florida , where long-serving Republican Rep. Clay Shaw >>is >>fighting back Ron Klein, who is Jewish and the minority leader in the >>state >>Senate. >> >>Shaw is getting much more purely pro-Israel cash than is Klein, while >>Klein, >>who also is supportive of Israel , is getting more money from Jews in >>general. >> >>It's hard to assess overall giving levels, because individuals are >>likelier >>to donate directly to the campaign instead of to political action >>committees, which have a $10,000 limit to any particular candidate in an >>election season. Direct donations are more appealing because they offer >>better access and are difficult to trace. >> >>The Center for Responsive Politics tracked 33 pro-Israel PACs that had >>given >>$2,096,782 by the beginning of September, including $1,135,383 to >>Democrats >>and $873,899 to Republicans. Insiders say PACs account for about 10 >>percent >>of overall donations made by donors concerned primarily about Israel . >> >>Many of the House incumbents earning pro-Israel attention are Republicans, >>including Reps. Curt Weldon and Jim Gerlach in Pennsylvania and Reps. >>Chris >>Shays and Rob Simmons in Connecticut . That's partly because it's mostly >>incumbent Republicans who face strong challenges this season, reeling from >>bad news in Iraq and an economy that many middle-class Americans still >>find >>daunting. >> >>At the same time, Jews are heavily supporting some of their Democratic >>challengers, including Lois Murphy in Pennsylvania , who is challenging >>Gerlach. >> >>"Some of it is legitimately attributable to this phenomenon of Republicans >>in power," said Steve Rabinowitz, a Clinton administration communications >>official who is a Democratic strategist. "The pro-Israel money goes >>grossly >>disproportionately to incumbents who have been good on Israel ." >> >>He expressed concern, however, that pro-Israel givers have been swayed by >>an >>aggressive Republican campaign to draw Jewish donors away from the >>Democrats, the party Jewish voters overwhelmingly have favored. >> >>"Turning Israel into a partisan issue is just about the worst thing that >>can >>happen," Rabinowitz said. "Why would an Israel supporter want to make it a >>wedge issue?" >> >>Republican Jews say Democrats have the problem, citing surveys that show >>rank-and-file Democrats much likelier to favor a more balanced U.S. >>approach >>to Israeli-Arab issues. >> >>"We're illuminating the fact that support for Israel is eroding within the >>Democratic Party," said Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican >>Jewish Coalition. "They need to address the root causes." > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >_______________________________________________ >CTGP-news mailing list >CTGP-news at ml.greens.org >http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > >ATTENTION! >The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and >intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this >transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the >original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or >face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or >legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal >legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of >the CT Green Party. 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Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Thu Oct 5 15:22:10 2006 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:22:10 -0400 Subject: {news} Thank You In-Reply-To: <007201c6e7cb$f945db00$1901a8c0@CMI.local> Message-ID: There are so many reasons not to do this how can the ignorant understand?****A*** >From: "Charlie Pillsbury" >To: "'Justine McCabe'" ,"'CTGP-NEWS'" >,"'Tim McKee'" >Subject: {news} RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:44:25 -0400 > >Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >to unsubscribe click here >mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this proposal >is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national Green Party >platform for the same reasons. > > > >However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes outnumbered >no >votes by a 5-1 margin. > > > >Charlie > >247 Saint Ronan Street >New Haven CT 06511 >203-865-6575 > chapillsbury at igc.org > > > _____ > >From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] >Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM >To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus >Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 > > > >Charlie and Tim, > > > >I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered by >the >GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed below) > > > >This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law >(right >of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the party >last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with international >law). > > > >The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to bring >these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. > > > >Thanks. > > > >Justine McCabe > >New Milford > >(co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) > > > >============================================================= > > > > > >http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 > > > > > > > Home > > Vote > > Results > > History > > Contacts > > Admin > > > > >National Committee Voting > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Proposal Details > > >Proposal ID > >247 > > >Proposal > >Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return > > >Presenter > >The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate > > >Floor Manager > >Jody Grage > > >Phase > >Voting > > >Discussion > >09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 > > >Voting > >10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 > > >Presens Quorum > >0.6666 > > >Consens Quorum > >A Majority of Yes and No Votes > > >Background > > >The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the date >of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to several >actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such actions >include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", >"organizations", >and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott >program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian >Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive >material >compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have >actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts state >legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local legislators >register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian diaspora. > >The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place two >referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in Somerville, >MA >that are phrased as follows: > >1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote >for >resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of >Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds >or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? > >2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote >in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to >support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >return >to their land of origin ? > >The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the national >party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party >affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would >accomplish >one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would endorse >the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. > > >Proposal > > >The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot >questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state >representative district: > >1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the >Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in >Israel Bonds >or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? > >2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote >in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to >support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >return >to their land of origin ? > > >Resources > > >CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, >413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com > > >References > > >Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 >Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ > >Questions about this system? >Contact the Voting Admin. >The Green Party of the United States voting system is > >free software, licensed under the GNU General Public >License (GPL). >You can download a copy here. >To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about how >that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting >Page and upload the ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. >JL's ranked choice module is licensed under an alternate free software >license. > > _____ > >Green Party of the United States > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >_______________________________________________ >CTGP-news mailing list >CTGP-news at ml.greens.org >http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > >ATTENTION! >The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and >intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this >transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the >original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or >face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or >legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal >legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of >the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is >solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party >hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > >NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential >messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a >message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible >that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally >assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general >mischief. > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please >immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail >transmission may contain confidential information. This information is >intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is >intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files >if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Thu Oct 5 15:30:07 2006 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:30:07 -0400 Subject: {news} e tu In-Reply-To: <081d01c6e81c$120f78d0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: Why have you not been to nor reported to anyCTGP meetings yourself as IC "cochair" in over a year?Not even the convention. Yet you and your husband went to Ariz as "reps" of CT and he dared ask after a year of no shows at CTGP meetings to go as our elected rep. Money talks? How long can you milk thre $10,000 you donates to CTGP years ago***A*** >From: "Justine McCabe" >To: "Charlie Pillsbury" ,"'CTGP-NEWS'" >,"'Tim McKee'" >Subject: {news} Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:17:46 -0400 > >Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >to unsubscribe click here >mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >Thanks for your response Charlie. > >Clearly, you are entitled to your view on this though I happen to disagree >with you, including the issue of balance. > >But my concern--no, complaint--here relates to your role as an elected >representative of the Greens in CT to the GPUS National Committee, and in >that role you bear a responsibility to 1) share National Committee news >with us, most especially proposals coming up for votes; and 2) solicit the >views of your constituents on these proposals. > >In this case, neither you nor Tim informed us of this (or most any other) >proposal, and didn't solicit our opinions on it. Rather you chose to vote >on this privately and as you say, informed by your perspective as a >mediator. > >I only learned of the proposal yesterday from a representative from another >state. As far as I know, I am the only person to express her opinion on >this issue on the GPCT listserv. > >I repeat my earlier requests that you and Tim inform us of GPUS national >business especially upcoming proposals/votes and seek our imput on them. > >Many thanks, >Justine > > > >----- Original Message ----- > From: Charlie Pillsbury > To: 'Justine McCabe' ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:44 AM > Subject: RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 > > > Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this >proposal is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national >Green Party platform for the same reasons. > > > > However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes >outnumbered no votes by a 5-1 margin. > > > > Charlie > > 247 Saint Ronan Street > New Haven CT 06511 > 203-865-6575 > chapillsbury at igc.org > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM > To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus > Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 > > > > Charlie and Tim, > > > > I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered by >the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed below) > > > > This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law >(right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the >party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with >international law). > > > > The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to >bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Justine McCabe > > New Milford > > (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) > > > > ============================================================= > > > > > > http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 > > > > > > Home > Vote > Results > History > Contacts > Admin > > > National Committee Voting > > > > > > > > > > Proposal Details > Proposal ID > 247 > > Proposal > Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return > > Presenter > The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate > > Floor Manager > Jody Grage > > Phase > Voting > > Discussion > 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 > > Voting > 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 > > Presens Quorum > 0.6666 > > Consens Quorum > A Majority of Yes and No Votes > > > Background > The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the >date > of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to >several > actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such >actions > include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", >"organizations", > and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott > program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian > Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive >material > compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have > actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts state > legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local legislators > register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian >diaspora. > > The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place >two > referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in >Somerville, MA > that are phrased as follows: > > 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >vote > for > resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of > Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds > or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? > > 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >vote > in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to > support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >return > to their land of origin ? > > The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the >national > party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party > affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would >accomplish > one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would endorse > the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. > > Proposal > The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot > questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state > representative district: > > 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to > votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the > Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either >in Israel Bonds > or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? > > 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >vote > in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to > support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >return > to their land of origin ? > > Resources > CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, > 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com > > References > Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 > Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ > > Questions about this system? > Contact the Voting Admin. > The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, >licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). > You can download a copy here. > To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about >how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the ballot >file from the ranked choice vote result page. JL's ranked choice module is >licensed under an alternate free software license. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Green Party of the United States >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >_______________________________________________ >CTGP-news mailing list >CTGP-news at ml.greens.org >http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > >ATTENTION! >The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and >intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this >transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the >original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or >face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or >legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal >legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of >the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is >solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party >hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > >NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential >messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a >message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible >that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally >assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general >mischief. > >CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please >immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail >transmission may contain confidential information. This information is >intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is >intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files >if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From riverbend2 at earthlink.net Thu Oct 5 18:06:15 2006 From: riverbend2 at earthlink.net (John Battista) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:06:15 -0400 Subject: {news} e tu References: Message-ID: <004901c6e8ca$7aea2180$0c02a8c0@windowsd0d911b> Amy, I was not a CT representative in Tucson. I did not ask to go as a CT representative. Please get your facts straight before making accusations. That is insult number one you need to apologize to me about. Second, I consider what you said about me "milking" a financial contribution to the Green Party to be a second insult. Please apologize for that also. Third, your use of the CT Green Party news to post your personal opinions is a misuse of the news service. Please refrain from doing this in the future and apologize to the listserve for having done so. This is the first email I have read from you in years. You continue to do what you were sanctioned for doing in the past. Making insults and false accusations in combination with the misuse of the CT Green party email listserve. If you keep up this kind of behavior I will seek to file another ethics complaint against you. John Battista ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Vas Nunes" To: ; ; ; Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: {news} e tu > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > Why have you not been to nor reported to anyCTGP meetings yourself as IC > "cochair" in over a year?Not even the convention. Yet you and your > husband went to Ariz as "reps" of CT and he dared ask after a year of no > shows at CTGP meetings to go as our elected rep. Money talks? How long can > you milk thre $10,000 you donates to CTGP years ago***A*** > >>From: "Justine McCabe" >>To: "Charlie Pillsbury" ,"'CTGP-NEWS'" >>,"'Tim McKee'" >>Subject: {news} Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:17:46 -0400 >> >>Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >>http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ >> >>to unsubscribe click here >>mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > >>Thanks for your response Charlie. >> >>Clearly, you are entitled to your view on this though I happen to disagree >>with you, including the issue of balance. >> >>But my concern--no, complaint--here relates to your role as an elected >>representative of the Greens in CT to the GPUS National Committee, and in >>that role you bear a responsibility to 1) share National Committee news >>with us, most especially proposals coming up for votes; and 2) solicit the >>views of your constituents on these proposals. >> >>In this case, neither you nor Tim informed us of this (or most any other) >>proposal, and didn't solicit our opinions on it. Rather you chose to vote >>on this privately and as you say, informed by your perspective as a >>mediator. >> >>I only learned of the proposal yesterday from a representative from >>another state. As far as I know, I am the only person to express her >>opinion on this issue on the GPCT listserv. >> >>I repeat my earlier requests that you and Tim inform us of GPUS national >>business especially upcoming proposals/votes and seek our imput on them. >> >>Many thanks, >>Justine >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >> From: Charlie Pillsbury >> To: 'Justine McCabe' ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' >> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:44 AM >> Subject: RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >> >> >> Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this >> proposal is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national >> Green Party platform for the same reasons. >> >> >> >> However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes >> outnumbered no votes by a 5-1 margin. >> >> >> >> Charlie >> >> 247 Saint Ronan Street >> New Haven CT 06511 >> 203-865-6575 >> chapillsbury at igc.org >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM >> To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus >> Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >> >> >> >> Charlie and Tim, >> >> >> >> I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered >> by the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed >> below) >> >> >> >> This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law >> (right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the >> party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with >> international law). >> >> >> >> The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to >> bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Justine McCabe >> >> New Milford >> >> (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) >> >> >> >> ============================================================= >> >> >> >> >> >> http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 >> >> >> >> >> >> Home >> Vote >> Results >> History >> Contacts >> Admin >> >> >> National Committee Voting >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Proposal Details >> Proposal ID >> 247 >> >> Proposal >> Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return >> >> Presenter >> The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate >> >> Floor Manager >> Jody Grage >> >> Phase >> Voting >> >> Discussion >> 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 >> >> Voting >> 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 >> >> Presens Quorum >> 0.6666 >> >> Consens Quorum >> A Majority of Yes and No Votes >> >> >> Background >> The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the >> date >> of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to >> several >> actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such >> actions >> include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", >> "organizations", >> and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott >> program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian >> Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive >> material >> compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have >> actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts >> state >> legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local >> legislators >> register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian >> diaspora. >> >> The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place >> two >> referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in >> Somerville, MA >> that are phrased as follows: >> >> 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >> vote >> for >> resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of >> Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds >> or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? >> >> 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >> vote >> in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government >> to >> support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >> return >> to their land of origin ? >> >> The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the >> national >> party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party >> affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would >> accomplish >> one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would >> endorse >> the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. >> >> Proposal >> The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot >> questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state >> representative district: >> >> 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >> votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the >> Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either >> in Israel Bonds >> or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? >> >> 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >> vote >> in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government >> to >> support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >> return >> to their land of origin ? >> >> Resources >> CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, >> 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com >> >> References >> Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 >> Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ >> >> Questions about this system? >> Contact the Voting Admin. >> The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, >> licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). >> You can download a copy here. >> To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about >> how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the >> ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. JL's ranked choice >> module is licensed under an alternate free software license. >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Green Party of the United States > > >>To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >>_______________________________________________ >>CTGP-news mailing list >>CTGP-news at ml.greens.org >>http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news >> >>ATTENTION! >>The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and >>intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this >>transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete >>the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or >>face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or >>legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal >>legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of >>the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is >>solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party >>hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. >> >>NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post >>confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, >>and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is >>always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party >>under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, >>misdirection, or general mischief. >> >>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please >>immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail >>transmission may contain confidential information. This information is >>intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is >>intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files >>if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. >> >>To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this > transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete > the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or > face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or > legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal > legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of > the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is > solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party > hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post > confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, > and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is > always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party > under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, > misdirection, or general mischief. > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please > immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail > transmission may contain confidential information. This information is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is > intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files > if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.13/463 - Release Date: 10/4/2006 > > From chapillsbury at igc.org Thu Oct 5 18:24:19 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:24:19 -0400 Subject: {news} enough is enough In-Reply-To: <004901c6e8ca$7aea2180$0c02a8c0@windowsd0d911b> Message-ID: <00e201c6e8cd$0134b910$1901a8c0@CMI.local> Amy and John: John makes a good point (#3 below). Before either one of you continues your war of words on the ctgp-news listserv, please move your email exchanges to the ctgp-forum listserv, which is the listserv reserved for discussions. The ctgp-news listserv is reserved for party announcements and other party business, which, I think we all agree, does not include personal opinions, accusations, innuendos, or threats. Thank you both for respecting these groundrules and for being Greens. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: John Battista [mailto:riverbend2 at earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:06 PM To: Amy Vas Nunes; justinemccabe at earthlink.net; chapillsbury at igc.org; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org; timmckee at sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: {news} e tu Amy, I was not a CT representative in Tucson. I did not ask to go as a CT representative. Please get your facts straight before making accusations. That is insult number one you need to apologize to me about. Second, I consider what you said about me "milking" a financial contribution to the Green Party to be a second insult. Please apologize for that also. Third, your use of the CT Green Party news to post your personal opinions is a misuse of the news service. Please refrain from doing this in the future and apologize to the listserve for having done so. This is the first email I have read from you in years. You continue to do what you were sanctioned for doing in the past. Making insults and false accusations in combination with the misuse of the CT Green party email listserve. If you keep up this kind of behavior I will seek to file another ethics complaint against you. John Battista ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Vas Nunes" To: ; ; ; Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: {news} e tu > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > Why have you not been to nor reported to anyCTGP meetings yourself as IC > "cochair" in over a year?Not even the convention. Yet you and your > husband went to Ariz as "reps" of CT and he dared ask after a year of no > shows at CTGP meetings to go as our elected rep. Money talks? How long can > you milk thre $10,000 you donates to CTGP years ago***A*** > >>From: "Justine McCabe" >>To: "Charlie Pillsbury" ,"'CTGP-NEWS'" >>,"'Tim McKee'" >>Subject: {news} Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:17:46 -0400 >> >>Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >>http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ >> >>to unsubscribe click here >>mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > >>Thanks for your response Charlie. >> >>Clearly, you are entitled to your view on this though I happen to disagree >>with you, including the issue of balance. >> >>But my concern--no, complaint--here relates to your role as an elected >>representative of the Greens in CT to the GPUS National Committee, and in >>that role you bear a responsibility to 1) share National Committee news >>with us, most especially proposals coming up for votes; and 2) solicit the >>views of your constituents on these proposals. >> >>In this case, neither you nor Tim informed us of this (or most any other) >>proposal, and didn't solicit our opinions on it. Rather you chose to vote >>on this privately and as you say, informed by your perspective as a >>mediator. >> >>I only learned of the proposal yesterday from a representative from >>another state. As far as I know, I am the only person to express her >>opinion on this issue on the GPCT listserv. >> >>I repeat my earlier requests that you and Tim inform us of GPUS national >>business especially upcoming proposals/votes and seek our imput on them. >> >>Many thanks, >>Justine >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >> From: Charlie Pillsbury >> To: 'Justine McCabe' ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' >> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:44 AM >> Subject: RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >> >> >> Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this >> proposal is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national >> Green Party platform for the same reasons. >> >> >> >> However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes >> outnumbered no votes by a 5-1 margin. >> >> >> >> Charlie >> >> 247 Saint Ronan Street >> New Haven CT 06511 >> 203-865-6575 >> chapillsbury at igc.org >> >> >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >> >> From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM >> To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus >> Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >> >> >> >> Charlie and Tim, >> >> >> >> I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered >> by the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed >> below) >> >> >> >> This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law >> (right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the >> party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with >> international law). >> >> >> >> The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to >> bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Justine McCabe >> >> New Milford >> >> (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) >> >> >> >> ============================================================= >> >> >> >> >> >> http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 >> >> >> >> >> >> Home >> Vote >> Results >> History >> Contacts >> Admin >> >> >> National Committee Voting >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Proposal Details >> Proposal ID >> 247 >> >> Proposal >> Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return >> >> Presenter >> The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate >> >> Floor Manager >> Jody Grage >> >> Phase >> Voting >> >> Discussion >> 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 >> >> Voting >> 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 >> >> Presens Quorum >> 0.6666 >> >> Consens Quorum >> A Majority of Yes and No Votes >> >> >> Background >> The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the >> date >> of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to >> several >> actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such >> actions >> include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", >> "organizations", >> and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott >> program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian >> Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive >> material >> compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have >> actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts >> state >> legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local >> legislators >> register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian >> diaspora. >> >> The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place >> two >> referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in >> Somerville, MA >> that are phrased as follows: >> >> 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >> vote >> for >> resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of >> Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds >> or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? >> >> 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >> vote >> in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government >> to >> support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >> return >> to their land of origin ? >> >> The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the >> national >> party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party >> affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would >> accomplish >> one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would >> endorse >> the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. >> >> Proposal >> The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot >> questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state >> representative district: >> >> 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >> votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the >> Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either >> in Israel Bonds >> or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? >> >> 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >> vote >> in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government >> to >> support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >> return >> to their land of origin ? >> >> Resources >> CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, >> 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com >> >> References >> Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 >> Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ >> >> Questions about this system? >> Contact the Voting Admin. >> The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, >> licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). >> You can download a copy here. >> To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about >> how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the >> ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Oct 6 13:12:53 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:12:53 +0000 Subject: {news} forum listserv In-Reply-To: <20061005222607.DA0C533C0C4@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: For Amy, Justine, or anyone else who would like to join the ctgp-forum listserv: just visit the following website and follow the instructions to subscribe: http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-forum I believe you can also simply send an email to ctgp-forum-subscribe at ml.greens.org Remember that an index and links to all CTGP discussion, news, and committee or caucus listservs can be found on our website at http://www.ctgreens.org/listservs.shtml David Bedell From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Oct 6 14:02:48 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:02:48 +0000 Subject: {news} Green Party candidates on WNPR In-Reply-To: <1159919688.aee7d608c71d0557.13237d16@persist.google.com> Message-ID: In case you missed it on Wednesday, you can listen on the Web to the archived interviews with 5 candidates: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wnpr/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=976572 Green Party Candidates WNPR's Where We Live HARTFORD, CT (2006-10-04) Six years after Ralph Nader's historic run for president, the Green Party has gained in national prominence - and has built a large presence in the state. Their campaigns for Governor, Senate and other statewide races have helped to push the debate of major issues. But, the party still fights for relevance in a two-party system, and many voters are still wondering about what the party stands for. Today on Where We Live, we have five candidates from the Green party to talk about the party's platform, and it's goals for this election, and we'd like you to join the conversation. ? Copyright 2006, wnpr --- In VoteThornton at yahoogroups.com, Martha Kelly wrote: > >In case you are in the car or otherwise tuning in .....Martha > >Green Party candidates Daniel Sumrall (US Congress 3rd Dist.) Mike DeRosa >(Sec. of the State), Nancy Burton (AG), Colin Daniel Bennett (Comptroller & >State Senate), and Richard Duffee (US Congress 4th Dist.) will be part of a >group interview and Q&A session Wednesday, October 4. The show is hosted >by WNPR's news director, John Dankosky. > >Where We Live begins with conversation, then opens its phone lines for >listeners' calls. The show airs live from our Hartford studio from 9:00 to >10:00 a.m. > 90.5 FM Hartford/New Haven--89.1 FM Norwich/New London--88.5 FM >Stamford/Greenwich--91.3 FM Southampton, NY---99.5 FM Storr From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Fri Oct 6 16:12:20 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} NEW LONDON DEBATE PROTEST 10-9-6 Message-ID: <20061006201220.47171.qmail@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ken krayeske wrote: To: CTGP-elections at yahoogroups.com, Clifford Thornton From: ken krayeske Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:43:56 -0400 Subject: [VoteThornton] re: NEW LONDON DEBATE PROTEST 10-9-6 This may be the most important email that the Thornton for Governor campaign distributes this campaign season. The Thornton for Governor campaign has been shut out of the televised statewide debates. The only way to right this grave wrong is to protest and demonstrate, loudly and non-violently. We want peace, so we work through peaceful means. While the two parties and their servants in the business world have tried to silence our rights to free speech, they cannot obstruct our right to peaceably assemble. So we plan to gather, and gather in the largest numbers the Connecticut Green Party has ever seen: Monday night, Oct. 9, from 6 to 8 pm, we will stand outside the Garde Theatre in New London We are working on plans for what to do during the debates. Cliff should be live blogging it at the home of a local New London supporter. But we need you to be there, on the sidewalk, showing your displeasure with the two party system. If you circulated petitions, if you have volunteered, if you have signed a petition to put us on the ballot, now is the time for you to back that up with your person. We need to show the powers that be that the CT Green Party is for real, that we are a political force that can motivate 150 people to move and show up when they dare oppress the CT Green Party. There are a few people carpools forming from Willimantic, New Haven and Hartford. Contact me for more information at 860-995-5842. Sunday night, in New London and Hartford, we will be phonebanking to turn people out for this protest. This is all hands on deck, as we need to assert our rights and steer this ship away from the iceberg of two party domination. Jason Ortiz, our volunteer graphic designer, has made this handy-dandy flyer for you to cut up and distribute. Show the world the CT Greens are for here to stay. -- Peace, Ken Krayeske Campaign Director Thornton for Governor P.O. Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 860-995-5842 *This message is paid for and approved by Thornton for Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer* __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS Campaign and election American politics New Message Search Find the message you want faster. Visit your group to try out the improved message search. 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The Green Party protest will be from 6pm-8pm outside the Garde Arts Center. --Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Stuller To: CTGP-elections at yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [CTGP-elections] re: NEW LONDON DEBATE PROTEST 10-9-6 Richard (& others), Greetings! At 1:02 PM -0400 10/6/06, Richard Duffee wrote: 1) I'll get there if I have a street address I can google. 325 State Street, New London, CT Here's a link to a google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=325+State+Street,+New+London,+CT&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=41.355213,-72.098787&spn=0.015382,0.031886&t=h&iwloc=A You'll note the street named 'Broad Street' that comes in from the left, pointed right at the Garde Arts Theatre. Broad Street is also Route 85 & has its own exit off of I-95, take a right at the end of the ramp. After 6 traffic lights you'll see a park on the right with the Senior Housing hi-rise beyond it. Immediately afterwards you'll see a large parking lot to the left that is probably going to fill fast. The other candidates' operatives will be rallying early, especially since the attendees will have to be inside the Garde by 7:30. Peace, Bob -- Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. -Frederick Douglass __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (3) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS a.. Public record office b.. Audit committees c.. Safety committee d.. Connecticut e.. American politics Yahoo! News Sexual Health Get important sex health news Yahoo! TV Want the scoop? Check out today's news and gossip. Yahoo! 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Charlie 203-865-6575 chapillsbury at igc.org Background Within the GPUS Bylaws and the GPUS Rules and Procedures are sections pertaining to the Steering Committee that define the following areas generally included in committee P&Ps: 1. Structure (including the SC Portfolio System) 2. Eligibility, Election, Vacancies, Removal 3. Co-Chair Job Descriptions/Responsibilities The SC P&Ps below are in addition to and not in place of the GPUS Bylaws and GPUS Rules and Procedures. Proposal 1. Job Descriptions A. Treasurer 1) In consultation with the Steering Committee authorize payment of GPUS funds as approved in the annual budget. 2) Write checks and maintains a check disbursement log along with the appropriate invoice files 3) Provide accountant with check and credit card expenditures log at of end of each month 4) Monitor and balance bank accounts as needed 5) Authorize and monitor GPUS credit card usage 6) Prepare weekly financial reports for review by the Steering, Fundraising and Finance Committees 7) Coordinate annual budget process as co-chair of Finance Committee 8) Prepare annual report to GNC including FEC and merchandise information as described in the GPUS fiscal policy 9) Work with states, caucuses, networks and committees on fundraising plans and record keepiing in coordination with the Fundraising Committee 10) In conjunction with the Steering and Finance Committees authorize independent annual audit 11) Manage financial income and expense operations of the GPUS Operations Director. 12) Supervise the GPUS Fundraising Director with his/her fundraising activities. B. Secretary l) Schedule SC conference call setup and prepare agenda, meeting notes and summary 2) Handle official correspondence as directed by the SC 3) Send Delegate Manual and other information to new delegates/alternates 4) Oversee Voting Queue 5) Assist with website as needed, as part of web content and design team 6) Assist communication with listserv administrator and web page managers 7) Oversee updating of archives by webmaster 8) Respond to miscellaneous requests for information, referrals, questions from within and from outside GPUS 2. Meeting and Conference Call Procedures A. Quorum A quorum of the Steering Committee is a majority of the current membership of the Steering Committee. B. Executive Session Policy The Green Party of the United States has a strong commitment to openness and transparency in the conduct of its business. We intend to honor the practice and spirit of open meetings laws. When Executive Session is Appropriate: The GPUS Steering Committee will go into Executive Session only under very specific circumstances. Executive Session is appropriate only for personnel matters, sensitive legal and financial matters in which the Party itself is involved in actual or likely legal proceedings, and when dealing with the proprietary information of vendors and contractors. No other circumstances are appropriate for Executive Session. Entering and Exiting Executive Session: It shall take a unanimous vote by the Steering Committee members taking part in the meeting or call in order to enter Executive Session. Any Steering Committee member who believes that ES is the inappropriate response to the business at hand may prevent the body from entering ES. Entering ES is conditional, and any time any member of the SC believes that the discussion is entering areas that are inappropriate for ES, s/he may withdraw consent for ES and the meeting returns to an open meeting. Topics for which Executive Session is denied or permission is withdrawn shall either no longer be topics of discussion or the SC may choose by a majority vote to discuss them in open session. When the SC does enter ES, it shall note both the time of entering and exiting ES and provide a general summary of topics discussed, noting that the summary shall in no way reveal the private business of the people or vendors involved. C. Minutes SC members will have 72 hours from the time the minutes are posted to send corrections. Baring unforeseen circumstances, minutes will be posted to the National Committee Votes list no later than ten days after the adjournment of the meeting and to the GPUS web site no later than twenty days. D. Observers on GPUS-SC Conference Calls SC calls will be open to no more than five observers on each call. NC delegates and alternates can observe the call by contacting the SC Secretary at least 24 hours in advance on a first come, first served basis. Delegates and alternates who have never observed on a call will receive priority over those who have. Observers will be provided with a call number and access code that they will be advised not to share. Observers may observe only and may not participate or ask questions during the call unless they have specifically requested to be added to the agenda in advance. A separate call number shall be reserved by the SC as necessary for executive session discussions. 3. Resignation Agreement: Each SC shall consider signing a resignation agreement for which the following is a potential model: The members of the current Steering Committee of GPUS acknowledge that for the SC to function well, it is vital that each member be an active participant. For each of us, the level of participation will ebb and flow to some extent because of personal and professional circumstances. It is certainly our intention to support each other and to accept support when we need it. But there may come a time when one of us cannot continue for an extended period of time to participate at the level that is appropriate and necessary. Participation will be deemed to have fallen below a reasonable level when, without explanation or prior notice, an SC member misses meetings/conference calls for two months, is unavailable by email for one month, or does not return phone calls within one month. In consideration of the health of GPUS, of the Steering Committee as a whole, and of each member of the SC, the following members of the SC pledge to resign from the SC if the conditions described above occur so that GPUS, with the procedures in our bylaws and rules and procedures, can select a new SC member to finish their term. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chapillsbury at igc.org Sat Oct 7 22:19:25 2006 From: chapillsbury at igc.org (Charlie Pillsbury) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:19:25 -0400 Subject: {news} GPUS Proposal 247 Message-ID: <008201c6ea80$2cec3970$6500a8c0@S0031616584> I voted against this proposal for reasons I already explained. I will let you know whether or not it passes, when the voting period is over. Charlie Background The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the date of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to several actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such actions include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", "organizations", and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for 'Palestinian Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive material compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party have actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts state legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local legislators register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian diaspora. The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place two referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in Somerville, MA that are phrased as follows: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote for resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the national party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would accomplish one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would endorse the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. Proposal The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state representative district: 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to return to their land of origin ? Resources CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com References Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Sun Oct 8 08:05:22 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 05:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} In PA, you have to for justice, , to keep your ballot place..thanks to Democrats! . Message-ID: <20061008120522.42871.qmail@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 10/07/2006 Romanelli doesn?t have funds to pay court fees BY ELIZABETH SKRAPITS STAFF WRITER It?s not easy being Green, especially when you don?t have the green to pay for the fight that knocked you out of the Senate race. Advertisement '); } //--> Green Party member Carl Romanelli?s name won?t appear on the Nov. 7 ballot alongside those of U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum and his Democratic challenger Bob Casey Jr. To make the Wilkes-Barre resident unhappier, he has to pick up the tab for a court battle in which he said he didn?t even get to present his case. ?I shouldn?t have to pay anything at all. ?I didn?t bring this challenge, and I didn?t get my day in court,? Romanelli said. ?Basic rights that murderers and terrorists get, I didn?t get.? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Commonwealth Court ruling filed by state Democrats that keeps Romanelli off the ballot. He is angry he didn?t get the chance to argue that disputed signatures on his nominating petitions were legitimate, and to allege errors were due to a glitch in the Department of State computerized voter database. To add insult, the ruling makes him responsible for $89,668 in court costs and lawyers? fees, which Romanelli plans to fight. It is similar to another Supreme Court decision in August that would-be Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader and his running mate Peter Camejo must pay $82,8102 in court costs associated with their unsuccessful attempt to get on the Pennsylvania ballot in the 2004 election. Romanelli doesn?t know where he would get the money: he also has approximately $100,000 in fees to his attorney, Larry Otter, and still owes $25,000 to JSM, the Florida firm he used to help collect signatures for his petitions. Cross Romanelli?s party off the list: the state Greens who backed him don?t have the greenbacks. ?We are not in a financial position to help with the sort of debt that has been incurred. We wish we were,? said Pennsylvania Green Party spokesman Paul Teese. The national party hasn?t heard from Romanelli?s campaign, said Scott McLarty, media coordinator for the U.S. Green Party. ?I suspect Greens will be willing to pitch in, but until there?s a request, it?s too early to say,? he said. ?Santorum wouldn?t have put all that money behind Romanelli if they didn?t think they needed Romanelli in the race,? Casey spokesman Larry Smar said. ?The question is whether Santorum will ask for his money back from Romanelli, or ... pay his legal fees.? When volunteers seemed to be flagging at the task, Romanelli said a few Santorum supporters stepped in with some funds to hire JSM. But Romanelli said he never accepted money from Santorum or his campaign in the past, and won?t in the future. ?They have no obligation to. Second of all, I don?t want to ask. I have never been a Santorum-funded candidate,? Romanelli said. Santorum spokeswoman Virginia Davis said the senator?s campaign won?t assist with the expenses Romanelli incurred fighting the Democrats? challenge. ?It?s a shame how difficult it is for someone like Mr. Romanelli, who has demonstrated a sincere interest in the process, to get on the ballot,? Davis said. ?Bob Casey should be ashamed at the efforts he and his cohorts went to to knock someone off the ballot who is willing to debate, willing to speak out on the issues, and wants to be forthright with the voters of the Commonwealth.? eskrapits at citizensvoice.com '); } //--> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Mike DeRosa, co-chairman of the Green Party of Connecticut and a candidate for secretary of state, said he was upset that third-party candidates were not invited. "We can only guess that the major parties believe our views are a bit too dangerous," he said. "Maybe there are some inconvenient questions they don't want us to debate." The debate Monday night will be sponsored by The Day of New London. The newspaper said the moderator would be Kay Maxwell, former president of the League of Women Voters of the United States. On the panel will be Morgan McGinley, The Day's editorial page editor; Ted Mann, a political reporter with the paper; and Mark Davis, the Capital correspondent for WTNH. The format will include opening and closing statements by the candidates and timed answers and rebuttals, the paper said. About 600 free tickets have are available to the public, The Day said, and can be picked up at the paper's New London and Norwich offices, the Waterford and Groton public libraries and the Garde Arts Center. WVIT said last Wednesday that it would announce the panel members and the format for its debate soon. More Articles in New York R -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: dot.gif Type: image/gif Size: 43 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Last week they finally got back letters apparently sent by Bysiewicz's campaign, on letterhead from the Kelly & Spellacy law firm. They said the letter essentially told them they should be satisfied with two upcoming events on her schedule: a mock debate at an elementary school, and a forum at a senior citizen's center. The letter, from attorney Robert Martino , "misses the entire point," Abbate said. "At a forum one can say almost anything, because there's almost no opportunity for an opponent to rebut what the person said. I want to get on a stage with Ms. Bysiewicz and discuss with an audience the issues of this campaign, and she doesn't want to do this." "She's going to run the clock out," DeRosa said. "It's imperative that people know about this. If she does want to debate us, it's imperative she contact us in good time." The two men have several complaints about Bysiewicz's performance as Secretary of State. DeRosa said the she has adopted flawed electronic voting machines manufactured by the controversial Diebold company, failed to push for auditable paper verification of votes, and gone along with a campaign reform measure that penalizes third parties. Abbate said because of mistakes Bysiewicz made, the state will be out of compliance with a federal law requiring a full transition to electronic voting this fall. Reached at his office, Martino said he is Bysiewicz's campaign chairperson and a senior political adviser. "We'd love the opportunity to debate" at an event sponsored by the League of Women Voters or another nonpartisan organization, he said. "The challenge, quite honestly, is that the attention is on the congressional races, the Senate race and the governor's race," Martino said. "It's not our lack of wanting to get attention, but that the media and other organizations haven't stepped forward." DeRosa and Abbate said they both had spoken with organizations that would be interested in sponsoring a debate. A League of Women Voters representative said the group would have loved to host a debate, but their resources were stretched thin by the Congressional and other races this year. ? Meir Rinde got the scoop. E-mail editor at hartfordadvocate.com Copyright ? 2006, Hartford Advocate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hartadv_mast.gif Type: image/gif Size: 3490 bytes Desc: not available URL: From demac at galaxyinternet.net Sun Oct 8 23:09:12 2006 From: demac at galaxyinternet.net (demac) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:09:12 -0400 Subject: {news} Rides to New London? Message-ID: <001701c6eb50$4f3e93d0$9059163f@jean1oa1rgr0ov> Richard sent this to a small list-I hope this reaches to New Haven? Are you carpooling to this debate? It should be a great organizing tool. Lots of people in the Windham area were really incensed to hear about the exclusion and are going to NL: even Dems are PO'd. Anyone getting the word out about Richard? Friday night we phoned "strangers" on our mailing list, and had great results. Well, most people weren't home, of course. And lots of wrong numbers. But when we reached someone, we had a 50-50 chance of finding a person who wanted to help-financially or by working! That's phenomenal and we were really psyched. So, make those calls to strangers-they aren't stranger than us:-)! Jean -----Original Message----- From: CTGP-elections at yahoogroups.com [mailto:CTGP-elections at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Duffee Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:38 PM To: CTGP-elections at yahoogroups.com Subject: Fwd: [CTGP-elections] re: NEW LONDON DEBATE PROTEST 10-9-6 Hello, Ken or anyone else who knows: If none of you know of a group coming up from Fairfield, please tell me when and where I can carpool with some group coming from New Haven. Richard Duffee ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Duffee gmail.com> Date: Oct 6, 2006 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [CTGP-elections] re: NEW LONDON DEBATE PROTEST 10-9-6 To: CTGP-elections@ yahoogroups.com Ken, 1) I'll get there if I have a street address I can google. 2) Does anyone know if there Is any group coming up from Fairfield? 2) Is anyone interested in protesting my being shut out of 9 of 11 debates--5 more, for that matter, than Maymin has been shut out of? At the first debate, on the 4th, I did not see ANY other member of the Green Party. Richard Duffee On 10/6/06, ken krayeske com> wrote: > This may be the most important email that the Thornton for Governor > campaign distributes this campaign season. > > The Thornton for Governor campaign has been shut out of the televised > statewide debates. The only way to right this grave wrong is to protest > and demonstrate, loudly and non-violently. We want peace, so we work > through peaceful means. > > While the two parties and their servants in the business world have > tried to silence our rights to free speech, they cannot obstruct our > right to peaceably assemble. So we plan to gather, and gather in the > largest numbers the Connecticut Green Party has ever seen: Monday night, > Oct. 9, from 6 to 8 pm, we will stand outside the Garde Theatre in New > London > > We are working on plans for what to do during the debates. Cliff should > be live blogging it at the home of a local New London supporter. > > But we need you to be there, on the sidewalk, showing your displeasure > with the two party system. If you circulated petitions, if you have > volunteered, if you have signed a petition to put us on the ballot, now > is the time for you to back that up with your person. > > We need to show the powers that be that the CT Green Party is for real, > that we are a political force that can motivate 150 people to move and > show up when they dare oppress the CT Green Party. > > There are a few people carpools forming from Willimantic, New Haven and > Hartford. Contact me for more information at 860-995-5842. > > Sunday night, in New London and Hartford, we will be phonebanking to > turn people out for this protest. This is all hands on deck, as we need > to assert our rights and steer this ship away from the iceberg of two > party domination. > > Jason Ortiz, our volunteer graphic designer, has made this handy-dandy > flyer for you to cut up and distribute. > > Show the world the CT Greens are for here to stay. > -- > > > > Peace, > > Ken Krayeske > > Campaign Director > > Thornton for Governor > > P.O. Box 1971 > > Manchester, CT 06045 > > > 860-995-5842 > > > > *This message is paid for and approved by Thornton for Governor, Max > Wentworth, Treasurer* > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (5) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar Yahoo! Groups Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! 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If you would like to attend a truly democratic debate, come to one of these two scheduled 10/15 in Westport or 10/16 in Fairfield. http://www.westport-news.com/opinion/ci_4450773 Democracy Is For Everyone Staff Reports Westport News Article Launched:10/06/2006 09:46:27 AM EDT What essential aspect of democracy is routinely denied to some candidates? The right to debate. This year we have four candidates on the ballot in the hotly contested Fourth Congressional District but it is widely expected that Republican incumbent Christopher Shays from Bridgeport and second-time democratic challenger Diane Farrell from Westport will garner the lion's share of the votes. Does that mean that Phil Maymin, the Libertarian Party candidate from Greenwich and Richard Duffee, the Green Party candidate from Stamford, should be excluded from the debates? Absolutely not! Of the 11 scheduled debates involving Fourth District Candidates, Maymin is presently excluded from four. At press time, Duffee was on the slate for only two of the debates. The exclusions result from the selection criteria of the various organizations that are sponsoring the debates. In general, the rationale is that candidates who don't have broad support and sufficient financing should be excluded from the debates because they are not viable candidates. Naturally, different organizations have different definitions and procedures for deciding whether candidates qualify. As a matter of practicality, the sponsoring organizations are concerned with logistics. They may feel that having too many candidates participating could dilute the debate or cause procedural problems. Be that as it may, it is not the job of an organization that promotes democracy and debate to decide who is and who is not a legitimate candidate. This amounts to a pre-election screening process that doesn't seem very democratic at all. The League of Women Voters, in particular, needs to take another look at its policy in this regard. We would expect it to have a more inclusive approach in this matter. Minor party candidates may not get a lot of votes but they deserve to be heard. In addition, they often raise questions that the major parties like to avoid. In this way, they can influence the tenor of debates and serve an important purpose that far exceeds the number of votes they may ultimately receive. We need Libertarians reminding us about the importance of limiting the size and cost of government and its intrusion into our personal lives. We need Greens reminding us to treat spaceship Earth with respect. The concept of debate is central to democracy. All efforts should be made to accommodate as many legitimate candidates as possible. Granted, things would get crazy if you had a dozen candidates but there are only four candidates on the ballot in the Fourth District. Fortunately, all four candidates have been invited to the debate in Westport to be held Sunday, Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., at Temple Israel. For those unable to attend the debate in Westport, all four candidates have also been invited to the debate set for Monday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m., at the nearby Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University. Another practice that needs to have light shed on it is the habit of some incumbents refusing to debate. Chris Shays would have gotten a lot of flack if he had refused to debate Diane Farrell. However, it is not uncommon for frontrunners in local races to avoid debate by saying they're too busy or that they have a conflict. It is widely accepted that political frontrunners generally prefer to avoid debate because it represents downside risk without much potential reward. If you're already comfortably ahead, why would you risk losing a debate? You have little to gain and a lot to lose. An eminently logical and politically astute approach that is, nevertheless, completely self-serving. Excluding legitimate candidates from debates and avoiding debate are both un-American and undemocratic practices. From efficacy at msn.com Mon Oct 9 09:33:50 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 09:33:50 -0400 Subject: {news} Regulating heroin trade suggested-Drug Policy and the Green Party Message-ID: This is what happens when one runs for public office. We have the high ground but more importantly we have the press. The best thing that could happen was to exclude me and the Green Pary from bebate. I might also add LEAP is kicking ass in this corrupt state of Connecticut http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4463922 BRIDGEPORT - Attorney Sylvester Salcedo's dark brown eyes sweep the East Side streets, taking in the sketchy terrain while he calculates the cost of the local heroin trade. It's as if he is still on patrol as a front-line officer in the nation's war on drugs, but these days his strategy for stemming heroin use and related crime amounts to a negotiated peace. Salcedo proposes amnesty for heroin addicts. In fact, he says Bridgeport should enter the drug trade, administering heroin under medical supervision, without fear of arrest or overdose. It's a far cry from the anti-drug crusades he oversaw in the 1990s as a Navy lieutenant commander in a counter-narcotics intelligence unit with a name out of a Tom Clancy novel: Joint Task Force Six. "Prohibition didn't work. Persecuting people and coercion seldom do. My idea is not to legalize drug possession, although this might be a step in that direction," at least for nonviolent offenders, he says. Salcedo's years on the front lines in Miami, New York and Puerto Rico convinced him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- that the $36.3 billion the government spends each year to keep drugs out of the country is wasted. Those billions might be better spent, he says, on treatment for addicts or drug-maintenance programs operating out of community health centers. Salcedo proposes the city declare an 11-block radius in the East Side, bounded by East Washington Avenue and Helen Street and the Yellow Mill Pond, as a free zone for heroin possession among those who register as heroin addicts. Membership in this "union" would entitle addicts to receive the drug, under supervision, at community health centers without fear of arrest. Salcedo says Bridgeport Mayor John M. Fabrizi's public admission in June that he had occasionally used cocaine after he took office is an inspiration behind amnesty for heroin addicts, and sheds a light on what he calls the nation's long and costly failures in waging the war on drugs. He does not propose extending amnesty to cocaine addicts, due to the differences between the two drugs. Cocaine addiction can produce "cocaine psychosis," which resembles paranoid schizophrenia and can lead to violence. Heroin use creates a powerful physical addiction, and long-term users require "maintenance" doses to enable them to go about regular life. Problems from heroin addiction range from blood-borne diseases such as HIV, poor dosage control and the high cost to obtain the drug, which can lead users to crime. Instead of hiding their addictions, Salcedo wants heroin users in the city's East Side to acknowledge their dependence. He envisions a registry of heroin addicts, similar to the needle-exchange program Connecticut has to curb the spread of AIDS and HIV by intravenous drug users. "Bona fide members of this union would be issued identification cards that would allow them to go to a nearby community center and receive the amount of heroin they need to maintain themselves," Salcedo says. The process would be overseen by medical professionals to ensure safety, and to make sure heroin is not sneaked out and sold on the street. Addicts would get their fix without fear of overdose or blood-borne disease. On the surface, none of this is expected from a retired drug warrior. It flies in the face of the conventional wisdom in law enforcement, which tends to emphasize getting tough on drugs. But Salcedo's idea has support from some who advocate decriminalizing drugs. Cliff Thornton, the Green Party candidate for governor and a national drug-policy reform advocate, says Salcedo's approach is similar to programs in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, and other European cities. However, many Americans may be unaware of the experiments with a similar approach in the United States. "What they probably don't realize is that in the early 1900s, Missouri and Louisiana both offered safe injection clinics for heroin addicts," he says. "What they also don't know is that these clinics all worked out very well." Salcedo is legally barred from discussing details of the drug trafficking investigations he coordinated in the 1990s. What he does say is the war on drugs so frustrated him that he took a page from Vietnam veterans frustrated with that war. In 2000, he returned his medals to President Clinton in a show of protest. He has never regretted that decision. Thornton understands why a program to decriminalize heroin would be controversial. "Any time you talk about legalizing or decriminalizing drugs, you are talking about the redistributing of income and wealth and upsetting our economy," he says. "Once drugs are inside the law and you take away the high profits from drug dealers and drug cartels, you don't need the multibillion dollar drug interdiction industry anymore. "You don't need as many new prisons," Thornton says. "You won't need as many courts or cops to fight a drug war." Salcedo, a Minnesota native who spent his youth in Boston and the Philippines, is the ex-husband of former Bridgeport public schools Supt. Sonia Diaz Salcedo. Years of practicing criminal and family law - as well as living in Bridgeport's East Side, where drugs are as plentiful as boarded-up wood-framed houses, and broken glass has replaced grass as the most common ground cover - remind Salcedo of the impact of drugs in his own backyard. At night, abandoned dwellings turn into crack dens and shooting galleries. Everybody in the neighborhood - even elementary-school children - can point them out. "The people who live around here struggle to keep their families together. They love their children, and they want to raise them themselves. Unfortunately, they also have drug problems for which the law will punish them," Salcedo says. "They live in fear of their children being taken away from them." He spends countless hours in court and administrative proceedings arguing that his clients should keep custody of their children and get drug counseling and treatment rather than jail time. It's probably not the future that his Philippine-born parents, both of them doctors, envisioned for their middle child, educated at some of New England's most blue-blooded prep schools. "Sending a parent to jail for drug possession, like heroin, completely upends the parent-child bond," Salcedo says. "It teaches them that when you have a substance-abuse issue, you get punishment for a crime, not help for a medical condition. The lesson it provides is, if you are addicted to anything or likely to become so, hide what you are doing. Keep it a secret." At the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Salcedo's idea drew a skeptical reaction. "We already have methadone programs at community centers, and that works extremely well with heroin addicts," says Wayne Dailey, a spokesman for the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. "From what I am hearing, what this lawyer is suggesting is a heroin maintenance program. So my question is, how does that get the individual off heroin?" In Connecticut, some 75,000 people identify themselves as heroin addicts, a figure state officials call "conservative"; 11,100 other drug users are enrolled in state-supported methadone programs aimed at breaking their addiction. In his East Side neighborhood, where his former law clients refer to him as "Mr. Counselor," Salcedo's heroin union proposal draws a more enthusiastic reaction. "Everything else hasn't worked. Maybe this is something that might," says an East Washington Avenue father of three, who declined to give his name. "I don't even let my kids play outside of here no more. It's too dangerous. That's why we want to move out of here." "The place over there," he says, gesturing to a boarded-up house, "is a shooting gallery. Best to stay as far away from it as you can when it gets dark." Inside Washington Avenue Park, a woman in her fifties approaches Salcedo. She notices a photographer walking backward in front of the lawyer and she wonders why he's getting this attention. "Mister, are you running for something?" she asks. "What you running for?" "Me? No, no, I'm not running for anything," Salcedo tells her. She frowns, biting her lower lip. He introduces himself as a guy from the neighborhood who has an idea for helping heroin addicts and their families, and for cutting violent crime on the East Side. "There are a lot of people around here strung out on that stuff. I've seen it," she says, introducing herself as Bernadette McBride, a transplant from the South who is studying social work at Housatonic Community College. "Now let me get this straight: What you are telling me is that they'd give out heroin at the community center and make sure people took their fix there, nothing left over?" she asks. Salcedo nods and waits for her reaction. McBride, who appears to be at least a half-foot taller than Salcedo, stares him down for a moment, trying to figure out whether he is serious. "You know, this idea of yours is kind of out there," McBride says, her face breaking into a smile that reveals a few missing teeth. "But, hey, like sometimes you got to think outside of the box." Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Mon Oct 9 10:58:22 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:58:22 -0400 Subject: {news} 1st debate an opportunity for DeStefano Message-ID: 1st debate an opportunity for DeStefano Gregory B. Hladky, Capitol Bureau Chief 10/09/2006 Email to a friendPrinter-friendly Tonight's first gubernatorial debate of 2006 will offer Democrat John DeStefano Jr. his first real opportunity to make up ground against Republican M. Jodi Rell. The debate at New London's Garde Arts Center kicks off at 8 p.m. and will be televised statewide on Channel 8, giving DeStefano a chance to stand side-by-side with Rell and convince voters to change their minds about the popular GOP incumbent. Advertisement But it won't be easy. Rell is sitting on a big lead in the polls. She is seen by most voters as the woman who came into office after the Rowland scandals, vowing to clean up Connecticut's "culture of corruption." Republicans love her, independents think she's great, and she gets more support from Democratic voters than DeStefano does. A grandmother and cancer survivor, Rell has been called everything from "Snow White" to the "Betty Crocker of Connecticut politics." DeStefano's tricky task will be to attack Rell in a manner that won't offend all those voters who appear to have a genuine affection for her. In recent weeks, DeStefano's strategy has been to acknowledge that Rell did well handling the "transition" from the corrupt regime of ex-Gov. John G. Rowland, while portraying her as a traditional "do-nothing" Republican. Experts will tell you that most decisive debates aren't won by the cogent arguments of one or another of the participants, but are rather lost when someone makes an embarrassing mistake. Rell has been running her campaign for months in a way that seeks to minimize her chances for error, and that's not likely to change tonight. As the incumbent, Rell has been using state bond allocations as an excuse to travel around the state to let the local folks know how much state government is doing for their city, town or region. She has stuck to her "Rose Garden" strategy, staying out of the line of fire as much as possible and attempting to portray herself more as a governor than a mere candidate. Asked last week how she was preparing for the debate, Rell said she was reviewing her administration's accomplishments and "talking to my mirror a lot." Rell is likely to emphasize all the new money the state is spending to improve mass transit and reduce highway congestion, as well as her efforts to reform state contracting procedures and campaign financing. DeStefano, meanwhile, will probably be hoping to convince voters that Rell hasn't done anywhere near enough on property tax reform, support for education and insuring universal access to health care. No matter who wins, loses or draws in today's debate, one person is certain to be dissatisfied. Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton, who was initially included but later excluded from the New London debate, is planning on staging a protest outside the event. "The only way to address this grave injustice is to protest and demonstrate, loudly and nonviolently," Thornton said last week. "The Republicans and Democrats have lied to us and trampled on our rights to free speech." Gregory B. Hladky can be contacted at ghladk at nhregister.com or (860) 524-0719. Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: email_this_article.gif Type: image/gif Size: 101 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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(last election we elected 12) > > Total votes for the Greens 3.340.000 > > Regards, > Viana. > > __._,_.___ From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Oct 11 12:45:58 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} NY Greens Do Well in New Zogby Poll Message-ID: <20061011164558.28466.qmail@web81410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Rachel Treichler wrote: To: Media From: Rachel Treichler Subject: [media-states] MEDIA RELEASE: Greens Do Well in New Zogby Poll Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:45:08 -0400 Treichler for Attorney General Campaign 2006 MEDIA ADVISORY Wednesday, October 11, 2006 For More Information: Contact Rachel Treichler, 607-569-2114 Green Party Candidates Do Well in New Zogby Poll The Green Party's candidates for governor, attorney general and US senate did very well in the new poll released yesterday by Zogby, http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1180 . The poll of likely New York voters, conducted Oct. 5-9, included 761 respondents and is part of a joint project between Zogby International and the League of Women Voters of New York State. The poll shows the Green Party gubernatorial candidate Malachy McCourt at 5% among all voters and at 14% among independent voters. The numbers for attorney general candidate Rachel Treichler and US senate candidate Howie Hawkins among all voters were not released. Among independent voters Treichler received 17% and Hawkins received 21%. For more information, visit the candidates websites: The Green Party 2006 Peace Slate: Malachy McCourt for Governor - votemalachymccourt.org Alison Duncan for Lt Governor ??? alisonduncan.org Rachel Treichler for Attorney General ??? voterachel.org Julia Willebrand for Comptroller ??? gpnys.org Howie Hawkins for US Senate ??? hawkinsforsenate.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager- National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com email: info at votethornton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Oct 11 13:03:54 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:03:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} [usgp-coo] GP-US Proposal Results: ID 247 - Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Message-ID: <20061011170354.77533.qmail@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Green Folks, Many, many Greens voted no or abstained from this proposal. Both Charlie and I voyed against it. I feel it was too lopsided, but you may read the whole proposal on the link below. If you feel you would like to dicuss this.. the forum is the place to do so..not the newslist serve.. (posting to both sites). >>> ctgp-forum at ml.greens.org. <<<< Tim McKee voting at gpus.org wrote: Date: 9 Oct 2006 07:05:02 -0000 From: voting at gpus.org To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-coo] GP-US Proposal Results: ID 247 - Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Voting for the following proposal is now closed. Here are the results: Proposal ID: 247 Proposal: Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Floor Manager: Jody Grage, jody at gp.org Discussion: 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 Voting: 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 Result: Adopted 77 Total Votes Received from 38 States/Caucuses Presens Quorum: 32 0.6666 of 48 Accredited States/Caucuses Consens Quorum: 27 A Majority of 53 Yes and No Votes Yes: 38 No: 15 Abstain: 24 Yes: Gene Hunter - Alabama Abstain: Andrew Spencer - Arizona Abstain: Donna Werley - Arkansas Abstain: Anita Wessling - Arkansas No: Leslie Bonett - California Yes: Marilyn Ditmanson - California No: Sanda Everette - California Yes: Chuck Giese - California Yes: Fred Hosea - California Yes: Jared Laiti - California No: Steve Loebs - California Yes: Kent Mesplay - California Yes: Donna Warren - California Yes: Cat Woods - California No: Tim McKee - Connecticut No: Charlie Pillsbury - Connecticut Abstain: David McCorquodale - Delaware Abstain: Nikolas Schiller - District of Columbia Yes: Julia Aires - Florida Abstain: Barbara Rodgers-Hendricks - Florida No: Al Herman - Georgia No: Frank Jeffers - Georgia Abstain: Phil Huckelberry - Illinois Abstain: Susan Rodgers - Illinois No: Marc Sanson - Illinois Abstain: Sarah Dillon - Indiana Yes: Jeff Sutter - Indiana Abstain: Florence Boos - Iowa Abstain: Larry Orr - Iowa Yes: Debbie McManus - Louisiana Yes: Jacqui Deveneau - Maine No: Karen Jennings - Maryland Abstain: Steve Kramer - Maryland Yes: Jamie McLaughlin - Massachusetts Yes: Elie Yarden - Massachusetts Yes: Linda Manning Myatt - Michigan Yes: Louis Novak - Michigan Yes: Karen Shelley - Michigan Yes: Aimee L. Smith - Michigan Abstain: Eric Makela - Minnesota Yes: Bill Oldfather - Minnesota Yes: Gwendolyn Wages - Mississippi Abstain: Tom McCormick - Nebraska Yes: Paul Etxeberri - Nevada Abstain: Paul Steven Juntunen - Nevada Yes: Elizabeth Arnone - New Jersey Yes: Mike Spector - New Jersey No: Mato Ska - New Mexico Yes: Howie Hawkins - New York No: Margaret Human - New York No: Roger Snyder - New York Yes: J. Rebecca White - New York Abstain: Jan Martell - North Carolina Yes: Paul Dumochelle - Ohio Yes: Laura Hampton - Ohio Yes: Joni LeViness - Oklahoma Yes: Huti Reynolds - Oklahoma No: Marnie Glickman - Oregon Abstain: Paul Loney - Oregon Yes: Mike Rosenberg - Pennsylvania Abstain: James DeBoer - Rhode Island Abstain: Greg Gerritt - Rhode Island Yes: John Miglietta - Tennessee Yes: Howard Switzer - Tennessee Abstain: Deanna Hayes - Texas Abstain: Bill Holloway - Texas Abstain: Alfred Molison - Texas No: George Reiter - Texas Yes: Thomas King - Utah Yes: Eileen Olsen - Utah Abstain: Steve Ekberg - Vermont No: Audrey Clement - Virginia Yes: Aram Falsafi - Washington Yes: Mike Gillis - Washington Yes: Jill Bussiere - Wisconsin Yes: Jeff Peterson - Wisconsin Abstain: Holly Hart - Women's Caucus Full proposal details and results are online at: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propresult?pid=247 Thank you and have a wonderful day! --The GP-US Voting Admin _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager- National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com email: info at votethornton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Wed Oct 11 15:58:39 2006 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:58:39 -0400 Subject: {news} e tu In-Reply-To: <004901c6e8ca$7aea2180$0c02a8c0@windowsd0d911b> Message-ID: yOU HAVE NOT ATTENDED A ctgp MEETING IN AT LEAST A YEAR i BELIVE YOU AND YOUR CHAPTER ARE NO LONGER PART OF ctgp. i HAVE MY RIGHT UNDER FREE SPEECH TO EXPRESS MY OPIONS. I WAS CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES BY VOTE OF THE SCC. TIM BROUGHT UP AT THE SCC BEFORE ARIZ. THAT YOU WANTED TO BE THE SECOND REP SINCE CHARLIE COULD NOT GO AND IT WAS VOTED DOWN BY SCC AND CLIFF WENT. I NEED NOT APPOLOGIZE TO ANYONE GET REAL. PEOPLE ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW THAT YOU AND JUSTINE DONATED $10,000 TO CTGP AND I BELIVEIN MY OPINION AND BY YOUR ACTIONS EXPECTED AN BID PRO QUO ON PALISTINIAN ISSURES AND HEALTH CARE. AS A JEW IT IS MY DUTY TO POINT OUT ANTISEMITUIC SPEACH OR AGENDAS. MANY JEWS HAVE QUIT THIS PARTY OVER PAST YEARS EVER WONDER WHY? >From: "John Battista" >To: "Amy Vas Nunes" , >, , >, >Subject: Re: {news} e tu >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:06:15 -0400 > >Amy, >I was not a CT representative in Tucson. I did not ask to go as a CT >representative. Please get your facts straight before making accusations. >That is insult number one you need to apologize to me about. Second, I >consider what you said about me "milking" a financial contribution to the >Green Party to be a second insult. Please apologize for that also. Third, >your use of the CT Green Party news to post your personal opinions is a >misuse of the news service. Please refrain from doing this in the future >and apologize to the listserve for having done so. > >This is the first email I have read from you in years. You continue to do >what you were sanctioned for doing in the past. Making insults and false >accusations in combination with the misuse of the CT Green party email >listserve. If you keep up this kind of behavior I will seek to file >another ethics complaint against you. >John Battista >----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Vas Nunes" > >To: ; ; >; >Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:30 PM >Subject: {news} e tu > > >>Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >>http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ >> >>to unsubscribe click here >>mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >> >>Why have you not been to nor reported to anyCTGP meetings yourself as IC >>"cochair" in over a year?Not even the convention. Yet you and your >>husband went to Ariz as "reps" of CT and he dared ask after a year of no >>shows at CTGP meetings to go as our elected rep. Money talks? How long can >>you milk thre $10,000 you donates to CTGP years ago***A*** >> >>>From: "Justine McCabe" >>>To: "Charlie Pillsbury" ,"'CTGP-NEWS'" >>>,"'Tim McKee'" >>>Subject: {news} Re: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >>>Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:17:46 -0400 >>> >>>Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >>>http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ >>> >>>to unsubscribe click here >>>mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >> >> >>>Thanks for your response Charlie. >>> >>>Clearly, you are entitled to your view on this though I happen to >>>disagree with you, including the issue of balance. >>> >>>But my concern--no, complaint--here relates to your role as an elected >>>representative of the Greens in CT to the GPUS National Committee, and in >>>that role you bear a responsibility to 1) share National Committee news >>>with us, most especially proposals coming up for votes; and 2) solicit >>>the views of your constituents on these proposals. >>> >>>In this case, neither you nor Tim informed us of this (or most any other) >>>proposal, and didn't solicit our opinions on it. Rather you chose to >>>vote on this privately and as you say, informed by your perspective as a >>>mediator. >>> >>>I only learned of the proposal yesterday from a representative from >>>another state. As far as I know, I am the only person to express her >>>opinion on this issue on the GPCT listserv. >>> >>>I repeat my earlier requests that you and Tim inform us of GPUS national >>>business especially upcoming proposals/votes and seek our imput on them. >>> >>>Many thanks, >>>Justine >>> >>> >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Charlie Pillsbury >>> To: 'Justine McCabe' ; 'CTGP-NEWS' ; 'Tim McKee' >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:44 AM >>> Subject: RE: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >>> >>> >>> Justine: I already voted NO, as I think, as a mediator, that this >>>proposal is one-sided and unproductive. I take issue with the national >>>Green Party platform for the same reasons. >>> >>> >>> >>> However, I think the proposal will pass; last night yes votes >>>outnumbered no votes by a 5-1 margin. >>> >>> >>> >>> Charlie >>> >>> 247 Saint Ronan Street >>> New Haven CT 06511 >>> 203-865-6575 >>> chapillsbury at igc.org >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> From: Justine McCabe [mailto:justinemccabe at earthlink.net] >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:09 AM >>> To: CTGP-NEWS; Tim McKee; Charlie Pillsbury; CTGP Women's Caucus >>> Subject: Please vote yes on GPUS prop. 247 >>> >>> >>> >>> Charlie and Tim, >>> >>> >>> >>> I urge you both to vote for GPUS prop. 247 currently being considered >>>by the GPUS National Committee (Voting until 10/8; proposal is listed >>>below) >>> >>> >>> >>> This proposal reflects planks from our platform and international law >>>(right of return of refugees) and an position democratically taken by the >>>party last year (divestment from Israel until Israel complies with >>>international law). >>> >>> >>> >>> The MA GP is to be commended for their persistently Green efforts to >>>bring these issues before the citizens of Massachusetts. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> >>> Justine McCabe >>> >>> New Milford >>> >>> (co-Chair, International Party, GPUS) >>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================= >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=247 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Home >>> Vote >>> Results >>> History >>> Contacts >>> Admin >>> >>> >>> National Committee Voting >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Proposal Details >>> Proposal ID >>> 247 >>> >>> Proposal >>> Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return >>> >>> Presenter >>> The Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts GPotUS affiliate >>> >>> Floor Manager >>> Jody Grage >>> >>> Phase >>> Voting >>> >>> Discussion >>> 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 >>> >>> Voting >>> 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 >>> >>> Presens Quorum >>> 0.6666 >>> >>> Consens Quorum >>> A Majority of Yes and No Votes >>> >>> >>> Background >>> The Green Party of the United States National Commiittee passed on the >>>date >>> of 11/20/2005 a Resolution, number 190, that commits the Party to >>>several >>> actions in support of the set of principles contained therein. Such >>>actions >>> include, but are not limited to, calling on "institutions", >>>"organizations", >>> and "governments" to "implement a comprehensive divestment and boycott >>> program". The resolution also reinforces Party support for >>>'Palestinian >>> Refugees Inalienable Rights to Return to their homes and to receive >>>material >>> compensation for their losses'. Members of the Green-Rainbow Party >>>have >>> actively pursued public referenda to help enlist the Massachusetts >>>state >>> legislature's support for divestment, and also to have local >>>legislators >>> register their support of the right of return for the Palestinian >>>diaspora. >>> >>> The Somerville Divestment Project has successfully petitioned to place >>>two >>> referenda on the ballot in a state representative district in >>>Somerville, MA >>> that are phrased as follows: >>> >>> 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >>>vote >>> for >>> resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the Commonwealth >>>of >>> Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either in Israel Bonds >>> or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? >>> >>> 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >>>vote >>> in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government >>>to >>> support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >>>return >>> to their land of origin ? >>> >>> The Green-Rainbow Party has endorsed both resolutions, urges the >>>national >>> party's support and endorsement of such efforts, and hopes other party >>> affiliates may pursue such efforts. This proposal if passed would >>>accomplish >>> one thing: The Green Party of the United States officially would >>>endorse >>> the Somerville Divestment Project's proposed referenda. >>> >>> Proposal >>> The Green Party of the United States endorses the following two ballot >>> questions to be considered in the Somerville, Massachusetts state >>> representative district: >>> >>> 1) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >>> votefor resolutions calling on all governmental entities of the >>> Commonwealth of Massachusetts to sell any investments they hold either >>>in Israel Bonds >>> or incompanies that supply military equipment to Israel ? >>> >>> 2) Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to >>>vote >>> in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government >>>to >>> support the right of all refugees, including Palestinian refugees, to >>>return >>> to their land of origin ? >>> >>> Resources >>> CONTACT: Mr. Owen R. Broadhurst, 96 Elbert Road, Agawam MA 01001-3202, >>> 413.786.1508, owen.broadhurst at gmail.com >>> >>> References >>> Resolution 190: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=190 >>> Somerville Divestment Project: http://www.divestmentproject.org/ >>> >>> Questions about this system? >>> Contact the Voting Admin. >>> The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, >>>licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). >>> You can download a copy here. >>> To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about >>>how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the >>>ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. 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The responsibility for any messages posted herein is >>solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party >>hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. >> >>NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post >>confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, >>and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is >>always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party >>under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, >>misdirection, or general mischief. >> >>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please >>immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail >>transmission may contain confidential information. This information is >>intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is >>intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files >>if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. >> >>To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >> >> >>-- >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.13/463 - Release Date: 10/4/2006 >> >> From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Wed Oct 11 20:32:22 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:32:22 -0400 Subject: Fw: {news} [usgp-coo] GP-US Proposal Results: ID 247 - Local ReferendaResolution for Divestment and Right of Return Message-ID: <006a01c6ed95$e2882100$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Tim and Charlie, I very much appreciate your new resolve to inform us about proposals coming before the NC. However, the point of my earlier post was to urge you to inform us before the vote-- not after you have already voted-- so that you can receive the imput from your GPCT constituents upon which your vote will presumably be based. In that I remind you of the enormous frustration we all feel when our US congressional representatives vote against the wishes of the majority of Americans who oppose the war in Iraq, want single payer health insurance, and US compliance with the Kyoto treaty (among others). As far as I know, I am the only person who expressed an opinion on Proposal 247 (in the affirmative). How is it that you both voted NO without taking that into account, or presenting the pros and cons of the issue, or of soliciting the opinions of other GPCT members? For example, I would like you to explain what is "lopsided" about this proposal. Given the GP's intention to be grassroots-based, "open and transparent," I understand your responsibility to your constituents as representatives to the NC does not mean that you are simply empowered to vote your personal opinion but to solicit the wishes of your GPCT constituents on the issues coming before the NC and to vote according to that imput. I look forward to learning in advance about new GPUS proposals in advance of the vote as well as your solicitation of our views on them. Regards, Justine McCabe ----- Original Message ----- From: Green Party-CT To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ; GPCT FORUM Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:03 PM Subject: {news} [usgp-coo] GP-US Proposal Results: ID 247 - Local ReferendaResolution for Divestment and Right of Return Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Green Folks, Many, many Greens voted no or abstained from this proposal. Both Charlie and I voyed against it. I feel it was too lopsided, but you may read the whole proposal on the link below. If you feel you would like to dicuss this.. the forum is the place to do so..not the newslist serve.. (posting to both sites). >>> ctgp-forum at ml.greens.org. <<<< Tim McKee voting at gpus.org wrote: Date: 9 Oct 2006 07:05:02 -0000 From: voting at gpus.org To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-coo] GP-US Proposal Results: ID 247 - Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Voting for the following proposal is now closed. Here are the results: Proposal ID: 247 Proposal: Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Floor Manager: Jody Grage, jody at gp.org Discussion: 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 Voting: 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 Result: Adopted 77 Total Votes Received from 38 States/Caucuses Presens Quorum: 32 0.6666 of 48 Accredited States/Caucuses Consens Quorum: 27 A Majority of 53 Yes and No Votes Yes: 38 No: 15 Abstain: 24 Yes: Gene Hunter - Alabama Abstain: Andrew Spencer - Arizona Abstain: Donna Werley - Arkansas Abstain: Anita Wessling - Arkansas No: Leslie Bonett - California Yes: Marilyn Ditmanson - California No: Sanda Everette - California Yes: Chuck Giese - California Yes: Fred Hosea - California Yes: Jared Laiti - California No: Steve Loebs - California Yes: Kent Mesplay - California Yes: Donna Warren - California Yes: Cat Woods - California No: Tim McKee - Connecticut No: Charlie Pillsbury - Connecticut Abstain: David McCorquodale - Delaware Abstain: Nikolas Schiller - District of Columbia Yes: Julia Aires - Florida Abstain: Barbara Rodgers-Hendricks - Florida No: Al Herman - Georgia No: Frank Jeffers - Georgia Abstain: Phil Huckelberry - Illinois Abstain: Susan Rodgers - Illinois No: Marc Sanson - Illinois Abstain: Sarah Dillon - Indiana Yes: Jeff Sutter - Indiana Abstain: Florence Boos - Iowa Abstain: Larry Orr - Iowa Yes: Debbie McManus - Louisiana Yes: Jacqui Deveneau - Maine No: Karen Jennings - Maryland Abstain: Steve Kramer - Maryland Yes: Jamie McLaughlin - Massachusetts Yes: Elie Yarden - Massachusetts Yes: Linda Manning Myatt - Michigan Yes: Louis Novak - Michigan Yes: Karen Shelley - Michigan Yes: Aimee L. Smith - Michigan Abstain: Eric Makela - Minnesota Yes: Bill Oldfather - Minnesota Yes: Gwendolyn Wages - Mississippi Abstain: Tom McCormick - Nebraska Yes: Paul Etxeberri - Nevada Abstain: Paul Steven Juntunen - Nevada Yes: Elizabeth Arnone - New Jersey Yes: Mike Spector - New Jersey No: Mato Ska - New Mexico Yes: Howie Hawkins - New York No: Margaret Human - New York No: Roger Snyder - New York Yes: J. Rebecca White - New York Abstain: Jan Martell - North Carolina Yes: Paul Dumochelle - Ohio Yes: Laura Hampton - Ohio Yes: Joni LeViness - Oklahoma Yes: Huti Reynolds - Oklahoma No: Marnie Glickman - Oregon Abstain: Paul Loney - Oregon Yes: Mike Rosenberg - Pennsylvania Abstain: James DeBoer - Rhode Island Abstain: Greg Gerritt - Rhode Island Yes: John Miglietta - Tennessee Yes: Howard Switzer - Tennessee Abstain: Deanna Hayes - Texas Abstain: Bill Holloway - Texas Abstain: Alfred Molison - Texas No: George Reiter - Texas Yes: Thomas King - Utah Yes: Eileen Olsen - Utah Abstain: Steve Ekberg - Vermont No: Audrey Clement - Virginia Yes: Aram Falsafi - Washington Yes: Mike Gillis - Washington Yes: Jill Bussiere - Wisconsin Yes: Jeff Peterson - Wisconsin Abstain: Holly Hart - Women's Caucus Full proposal details and results are online at: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propresult?pid=247 Thank you and have a wonderful day! --The GP-US Voting Admin _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager- National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com email: info at votethornton.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! 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URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Wed Oct 11 20:35:57 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:35:57 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT South Korean Green comments on nuke test in the north Message-ID: <007a01c6ed96$62bf2850$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:37 AM Subject: Re: USGP-INT South Korean Green comments on nuke test in the north > and Australian Green Senator Bob Brown's statement on the same > > http://www.bobbrown.org.au/600_media_sub.php?deptItemID=2125 > > Brown meets N Korea ambassador and condemns nuclear test > > 10th Oct 06 > > > Greens Leader Bob Brown and Greens nuclear spokesperson Christine Milne > met > the ambassador for North Korea, Chon Jae Hong, at 4pm today. > Senator Brown told the ambassador that the Greens utterly condemn > yesterday's nuclear test and that North Korea?s action has made the > region > and the world a more dangerous place. > > Senator Brown backed the Howard government's decision to keep open the > dialogue with North Korea. > > ?I asked the ambassador to explain his government?s actions. He said > North > Korea felt vulnerable to a pre-emptive nuclear strike and took its action > in response to: > > * The Bush administration?s abandonment of the arrangement between the > Clinton administration and North Korea; > * President Bush?s declaring North Korea ?evil? and calling for > regime > change; and > * There being 1000 American nuclear weapons deployed in the region > coupled with the potential for a pre-emptive strike.? > > > Senator Brown made the Greens?global opposition to the development of > nuclear weapons clear and said North Korea's actions encouraged an Asian > nuclear arms race. Noting the poverty of many North Koreans, he > reiterated > the Greens policy that the money spent on armaments should go to > alleviating poverty in North Korea and around the world. > > --- > | Sent via usgp-int > | To unsubscribe, please send a message to usgp-int-request at gp-us.org > | with ONLY unsubscribe in the message > --- > From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 12 15:53:18 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (UConn) "Thornton Suggests Drug Policy" Message-ID: <20061012195318.19426.qmail@web81411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Thornton Suggests Drug Policy Theresa Murphy Posted: 10/12/06Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton was welcomed Wednesday afternoon by Students for Sensible Drug Policy, who invited Thorton to speak during their weekly meeting. Thornton described the Green Party as "a party of social and environmental justice ... it's not a legalizing party, it's a party about common sense." If elected, Thornton hopes to focus on the environment by removing 400,000 cars from the road in four years, through conservation and a mass transit policy. Thornton pointed out that although the environment is the number one priority for the Green Party, drug policy is also a very important aspect of his campaign. "The population of Connecticut is 3.5 million people," Thornton said. "Less than 6 percent of that population is black and Hispanic males. Seventy percent of the people in jail are black and Hispanic males, and 70 percent are also there for drug offenses. Eighty percent of the people who die from illegal drugs in this state are white. What is wrong with this picture?" Thornton explained that he supports the legalization of hemp, cannabis and heroin for medicinal purposes, cocaine, methamphetamines and ecstasy and the decriminalization of all drugs for future debate and study. This may sound extreme at first, but Thornton provided strong arguments to back up his ideas. He also provided real life examples from countries like Switzerland and Amsterdam who have progressive drug policies, which have proven to be successful. On the issue of legalizing hemp and cannabis, Thornton explained the hesitation to legalize the drugs has less to do with people using the drug and more to do with the fact that hemp would revolutionize the garment, food and paper industries. The legalization of the aforementioned drugs for medicinal purposes is referring to maintenance programs, which are used to end the crime and violence associated with the drug trade, while weaning addicts off of drugs by giving them medically prescribed doses until they are ready to quit. "Since 1965, half of the people who smoked cigarettes quit, and we didn't arrest a single person for smoking," Thornton said. "It's about education." "I'm for ending prohibition," Thornton said. "That's the price. It's about bringing all of these drugs within the law somehow." "Thornton spoke about a strong passion for the importance of education in the next generation," said Sara Senko, a 3rd semester sociology and anthropology double major. "The drug war affects all areas of social life and he really advocated social action." Thornton encouraged students to be political, arguing "The only way to change these drug laws are from inside the system." "My generation screwed things up," Thornton said. "Now it's up to you to move forward. It's up to you to fix it. I'm sorry!" "It's important to bring awareness [to] Green Party issues because they focus on issues that the two main parties don't focus on," said Daniel Cornelius, a 5th-semester political science major and president of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy. 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 12 15:58:04 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens: exclusive debates violate voters' right to informed choice Message-ID: <20061012195804.16413.qmail@web81412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Scott McLarty wrote: From: Scott McLarty To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org, media-states at lists.gp-us.org, lavender-caucus at green.gpus.org Subject: [media-states] GP RELEASE Greens: exclusive debates violate voters' right to informed choice Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:57:19 -0700 (PDT) GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 12, 2006 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org Greens protest arbitrary and antidemocratic rules used to limit candidates' debates to Democratic and Republican candidates ? Exclusion of other parties' candidates is violation of voters' right to make informed choices, say Greens ? Short reports of Greens responding to debate exclusion in various states WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Greens across the U.S. protested aggressive efforts by Democratic and Republican politicians and their supporters to block Greens and other third party and independent candidates from participating in this year's candidates debates. "Voters have a right to know about all the candidates who'll be on the ballot," said said Howie Hawkins, New York Green candidate for U.S. Senate , who has 21% support among independents in an October 10 Zogby poll but has so far been excluded from the two scheduled debates between Democratic incumbent Hillary Clinton and Republican John Spencer. "Voters have a right to make an informed choice about which candidate supports their interests and ideals. Debates should include all candidates who have qualified for the ballot. Anything less amounts to censorship and rigged elections." Green Party leaders criticized debate sponsors for using biased criteria to limit debates to candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties, and noted that the IRS requires that 501(c)(3) (nonprofit) forum sponsors "provide an equal opportunity to political candidates seeking the same office" . "Debate sponsors are using arbitrary judgements based on opinion poll percentages and campaign treasuries to decide which candidates voters get to see and hear at the debates," said Chris Lugo, Tennessee Green candidate for the U.S. Senate , who has called for open and inclusive televised debates in Tennessee (petition at ). "Opinion polls and the prejudices of debate sponsors are more and more determining who gets elected." "Opinion polls often limit respondents' answers to a choice of Democrat or Republican. When opinion polls become more important than the ballot box, democracy is in trouble," added Laura Wells, California Green candidate for State Controller . "Ironically, Greens now represent majority public opinion on issues like the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, while many of the debates are limited to 'stay the course' warhawks from the Democratic and Republican parties." Reports from Green campaigns across the U.S.: CALIFORNIA Green gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo called California's only televised debate (October 7) an "insult" to voters and part of a plan by Democrats and Republicans to limit the choices Californians have at the polls, and cited a nonpartisan opinion poll showing that as many as 63% of likely voters with an opinion favor his inclusion. CONNECTICUT On Monday, October 9, Green gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton and dozens of his supporters protested outside the Garde Theatre in New London after The Day (Connecticut) excluded him from a statewide televised debate. Pictures and a report of the protest: ILLINOIS Green gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney , polling as high as 7.8%, was excluded from an October 2 debate hosted by Illinois Radio Network in Decatur. Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) has backed out of other scheduled debates in Marion and Chicago because Whitney was invited or was about to be invited, and made it clear he would have backed out of the Decatur debate had Whitney been invited. IOWA After Green candidate Wendy Barth was barred from a series of gubernatorial candidates' debates, the Iowa Green Party announced that it will provide real-time responses to the debate questions through the campaign website . Iowa Greens protested the debate sponsors' (several Iowa TV stations and newspapers) arbitrary and high threshold of 15% support in opinion polls for inclusion in the debates. MASSACHUSETTS After Green gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross was barred from the first televised debate this past spring that was sponsored by The Boston Globe, WBUR, New England Cable News, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Mass Inc., Ms. Ross and Massachusetts Greens launched a series of protests that embarrassed the sponsors and ensured Green inclusion in most subsequent debates and community forums. Ms. Ross's performance in a series of televised gubernatorial debates has been widely praised ("Debate rich on issues," by Eileen McNamara, The Boston Globe, October 1 ). MICHIGAN Douglas Campbell, two-time Green candidate for governor , was turned away on Monday, October 2 by Michigan Public Broadcasting station WKAR-TV as he tried to participate in a televised debate which had been promoted for its 'open format'. Campbell sharply criticized the station's use of "contrived, vague and inapplicable benchmarks" to exclude himself and other parties' candidates whom the state Bureau of Elections had qualified for the November 7 ballot. In the U.S. Senate race, Green candidate David Sole filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over his exclusion from a debate scheduled for October 18 at the Detroit Economic Club. Mr. Sole noted that the Club, sponsored by corporate money, was violating its nonprofit status by limiting the debate to the two corporate party candidates. NEW YORK Green candidates Malachy McCourt for Governor , Rachel Treichler for Attorney General , and Howie Hawkins for U.S. Senate have been excluded from the debates organized by the League of Women Voters and NY1 TV news station. Debate criteria included polls that barred third-party candidates and fundraising thresholds that excluded Green Party candidates, who do not accept corporate contributions. Ms. Treichler has organized an alternative debate open to all of the ballot-qualified Attorney General candidates. WISCONSIN Supporters of the Rae Vogeler for U.S. Senate campaign flooded the offices of Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) with emails and phone calls protesting her exclusion from WPT's 'Special Joint Appearance of U.S. Senate Candidates' on its October 6 'Here and Now' program, which only featured Sen. Herb Kohl (D) and Robert Lorge (R). MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404 Washington, DC 20009. 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN Fax 202-319-7193 Green campaign listings, news, photos, and web sites http://www.gp.org/2006elections Database of 2006 Green candidates http://www.greens.org/elections Video clips of Green candidates http://www.gp.org/2006elections/media.shtml Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml ~ END ~ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 12 16:35:56 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Fw: {news} [usgp-coo] GP-US Proposal Results: ID 247 - Local ReferendaResolution for Divestment and Right of Return In-Reply-To: <006a01c6ed95$e2882100$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: <20061012203556.39223.qmail@web81408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Folks, I will address this issue this ONE time on here and wish people would post comments on the FORUM where it belongs. Few things have been as divsive as the Middle East TO the Green Party. Our National Platform has very strong statements that many people, (many Green people) claim says one thing or another about the Middle East. This state party has suffered outrageous statements because outside people do not like it..one way or another..too strong..not strong enough. Horton-Scheff claimed she left the party because we spent too much time on the issue. Nader was attacked over and over on the issue. Many, many National Greens ABSTAINED on this vote (24..one of the largest totals i have ever seen!) with 15 voting no.,,So in effect 39 against or Not for the vote and 38 for..not a clear consensus at all! Questions- How do we discusss these issues and not offend, or drive away possible members? Give our past history of fighting and agrueing on the issue..what would make a new discussion different? Who would lead it? Could we get any thing CLOSE to consenus? I would welcome constructive suggestions to the FORUM list serve for after the elections meetings. Tim McKee CT National Committee ctgp-forum at ml.greens.org stine McCabe wrote: Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Tim and Charlie, I very much appreciate your new resolve to inform us about proposals coming before the NC. However, the point of my earlier post was to urge you to inform us before the vote-- not after you have already voted-- so that you can receive the imput from your GPCT constituents upon which your vote will presumably be based. In that I remind you of the enormous frustration we all feel when our US congressional representatives vote against the wishes of the majority of Americans who oppose the war in Iraq, want single payer health insurance, and US compliance with the Kyoto treaty (among others). As far as I know, I am the only person who expressed an opinion on Proposal 247 (in the affirmative). How is it that you both voted NO without taking that into account, or presenting the pros and cons of the issue, or of soliciting the opinions of other GPCT members? For example, I would like you to explain what is "lopsided" about this proposal. Given the GP's intention to be grassroots-based, "open and transparent," I understand your responsibility to your constituents as representatives to the NC does not mean that you are simply empowered to vote your personal opinion but to solicit the wishes of your GPCT constituents on the issues coming before the NC and to vote according to that imput. I look forward to learning in advance about new GPUS proposals in advance of the vote as well as your solicitation of our views on them. Regards, Justine McCabe ----- Original Message ----- From: Green Party-CT To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ; GPCT FORUM Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:03 PM Subject: {news} [usgp-coo] GP-US Proposal Results: ID 247 - Local ReferendaResolution for Divestment and Right of Return Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org --------------------------------- Dear Green Folks, Many, many Greens voted no or abstained from this proposal. Both Charlie and I voyed against it. I feel it was too lopsided, but you may read the whole proposal on the link below. If you feel you would like to dicuss this.. the forum is the place to do so..not the newslist serve.. (posting to both sites). >>> ctgp-forum at ml.greens.org. <<<< Tim McKee voting at gpus.org wrote: Date: 9 Oct 2006 07:05:02 -0000 From: voting at gpus.org To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org Subject: [usgp-coo] GP-US Proposal Results: ID 247 - Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Voting for the following proposal is now closed. Here are the results: Proposal ID: 247 Proposal: Local Referenda Resolution for Divestment and Right of Return Floor Manager: Jody Grage, jody at gp.org Discussion: 09/18/2006 - 10/01/2006 Voting: 10/02/2006 - 10/08/2006 Result: Adopted 77 Total Votes Received from 38 States/Caucuses Presens Quorum: 32 0.6666 of 48 Accredited States/Caucuses Consens Quorum: 27 A Majority of 53 Yes and No Votes Yes: 38 No: 15 Abstain: 24 Yes: Gene Hunter - Alabama Abstain: Andrew Spencer - Arizona Abstain: Donna Werley - Arkansas Abstain: Anita Wessling - Arkansas No: Leslie Bonett - California Yes: Marilyn Ditmanson - California No: Sanda Everette - California Yes: Chuck Giese - California Yes: Fred Hosea - California Yes: Jared Laiti - California No: Steve Loebs - California Yes: Kent Mesplay - California Yes: Donna Warren - California Yes: Cat Woods - California No: Tim McKee - Connecticut No: Charlie Pillsbury - Connecticut Abstain: David McCorquodale - Delaware Abstain: Nikolas Schiller - District of Columbia Yes: Julia Aires - Florida Abstain: Barbara Rodgers-Hendricks - Florida No: Al Herman - Georgia No: Frank Jeffers - Georgia Abstain: Phil Huckelberry - Illinois Abstain: Susan Rodgers - Illinois No: Marc Sanson - Illinois Abstain: Sarah Dillon - Indiana Yes: Jeff Sutter - Indiana Abstain: Florence Boos - Iowa Abstain: Larry Orr - Iowa Yes: Debbie McManus - Louisiana Yes: Jacqui Deveneau - Maine No: Karen Jennings - Maryland Abstain: Steve Kramer - Maryland Yes: Jamie McLaughlin - Massachusetts Yes: Elie Yarden - Massachusetts Yes: Linda Manning Myatt - Michigan Yes: Louis Novak - Michigan Yes: Karen Shelley - Michigan Yes: Aimee L. Smith - Michigan Abstain: Eric Makela - Minnesota Yes: Bill Oldfather - Minnesota Yes: Gwendolyn Wages - Mississippi Abstain: Tom McCormick - Nebraska Yes: Paul Etxeberri - Nevada Abstain: Paul Steven Juntunen - Nevada Yes: Elizabeth Arnone - New Jersey Yes: Mike Spector - New Jersey No: Mato Ska - New Mexico Yes: Howie Hawkins - New York No: Margaret Human - New York No: Roger Snyder - New York Yes: J. Rebecca White - New York Abstain: Jan Martell - North Carolina Yes: Paul Dumochelle - Ohio Yes: Laura Hampton - Ohio Yes: Joni LeViness - Oklahoma Yes: Huti Reynolds - Oklahoma No: Marnie Glickman - Oregon Abstain: Paul Loney - Oregon Yes: Mike Rosenberg - Pennsylvania Abstain: James DeBoer - Rhode Island Abstain: Greg Gerritt - Rhode Island Yes: John Miglietta - Tennessee Yes: Howard Switzer - Tennessee Abstain: Deanna Hayes - Texas Abstain: Bill Holloway - Texas Abstain: Alfred Molison - Texas No: George Reiter - Texas Yes: Thomas King - Utah Yes: Eileen Olsen - Utah Abstain: Steve Ekberg - Vermont No: Audrey Clement - Virginia Yes: Aram Falsafi - Washington Yes: Mike Gillis - Washington Yes: Jill Bussiere - Wisconsin Yes: Jeff Peterson - Wisconsin Abstain: Holly Hart - Women's Caucus Full proposal details and results are online at: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propresult?pid=247 Thank you and have a wonderful day! --The GP-US Voting Admin _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager- National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com email: info at votethornton.com --------------------------------- To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Fri Oct 13 11:05:00 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:05:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Columnist Says Green candidate should be 'dragged behind a pick up truck" Message-ID: <20061013150501.21051.qmail@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Columnist says candidate should be 'dragged behind a pickup truck' By Stephen Morse DailyPennsylvanian.com, October 12, 2006 http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/blogs/index.php?page=post?ion=2&id=364 Note: If you have ADD or ADHD, you might want to skip to the video (below) and read this when you get confused. Last night, I went down to the Trocadero Theatre at 10th and Arch Streets. I was prompted to go by Liz Spikol's Philadelphia Weekly feature last week about Dan Savage, who writes the nationally syndicated column Savage Love . Thanks to Ray Murphy of the Philadelphians Against Santorum, I was granted a video interview with Mr. Savage. Whichever side of the political spectrum you are on, I think that my video speaks for itself. This was by far the most insane interview that I've ever conducted. For those who need a primer on the senate race before watching the film, here are the players discussed by Mr. Savage: Sen. Rick Santorum: As the senate's number three man, he is either hated or loved, depending on who you ask. Santorum is known as a quintessential right-winger. Bob Casey: Son of former Pennsylvania governor Bob Casey Sr. and currently running against Santorum for his senate seat. Carl Romanelli: Though he was tossed off the ballot two weeks ago by Commonwealth Court Judge (and former Democratic State Senator) James R. Kelley, Romanelli is still fighting a legal battle to get back on the ballot. Romanelli has little political experience. Democrats tend to hate him because should he be allowed back on the ballot, he could serve as a 'spoiler' for the Republicans. It is widely known that individual Republicans provided the financial support to get Mr. Romanelli's campaign off the ground. [Video clip at ] >From the interview: - "Carl Romanelli should be dragged behind a pickup truck until there's nothing left but the rope." (2:41) - "The Green party and its supporters are tools and fools for the republicans and the radicial right." (2:50) - "Any progressive who votes for a Green anymore after Nader and now Romanelli is a fucking idiot and should be beaten with sticks." (3:05) - "Romanelli may want to 'rim my ass three times a week, that doesn't make him better for me. And it doesn't make his presence on the ballot better for me than a casey victory." (3:31) - "Mr. Romanelli should go fuck himself." (4:00) - "If Carl Romanelli gets back on the ballot, someone should run him over with a truck." (5:22) You may link to this video as you please, but if you intend to use it for commercial purposes, please contact Stephen Morse at morse at dailypennsylvanian.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Fri Oct 13 11:11:57 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} U. S. Green Party Platform 2008 Message-ID: <20061013151157.97738.qmail@web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear State Greens, According to our schedule for updating (and upgrading) our National Platform in preparation for the 2008 election, it is time to alert and invite members to work on proposals to amend the platform. (actually, the window should have opened on Oct. 1st) Right now everyone is busy with November elections, still it's time to start thinking about submitting proposals to the Platcom. Below is the list of our Platform members to assist you. Howard Switzer and Jenefer Ellingston co-chair the committee and Mike Ewall is secretary. Not every state has a Platcom. member, but proposals don't require your Platcom. member to be submitted. (see rules further down) (USGP Platcom List) Aram Falsavi/WA 206-723-6827 Art Rosen/NJ 201-342-6842 Budd Dickinson/CA - 707-445-2890 Dan Raphael/WA 253-460-5097 David Rolde/MA 781-642-7218 Dee Berry/MO Gregory Giacobe Holly Hart/IA Howard Switzer/TN co-chair Jenefer Ellingston/DC co-chair Justine McCabe Katrina Barbham/PA Leslie Bonett Lou Novak/MI Marilyn Ditmanson/CA Mike Ewall/PA sec'y Peter LaVenia/NY Robin Hahnel/MD Titus North/PA Tom Munsey/WA Format for submitting a proposal (amendment) to 2004 Platform. Full Name Street Address, City, State, Zip/Postal Code Home Phone, E-mail Party affiliation, and statement that your Steering Com. has approved this submission. The Platform Committee: 1) May return a proposal for revision or correction. 2) May send a proposal to your state party or state organization for review. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steps to take for proper submission: The starting point is the original text of the 2004 Platform. -First, go to Chapter (in Roman numerals) and the Section (in Alphabet) and then paragraph or paragraphs, Number(s) of 2004 Platform that you wish to amend. - Identify where your amendment will fit or what it will replace by Roman numeral, Alphabet, and number(s). - Indicate whether: to strike(delete), to add, to change wording or order, to strike a whole section, or whatever you wish to revise in original 2004 Platform. - then write the text of the amendment(s) you are submitting. Examples: you may wish to delete and add an item to a section (such as Labor). or you may wish to strike a whole section and re-write it (such as Economics). or you may wish to shorten a text with no substitution, but a change in the language. (identify text to be deleted) If you wish to submit several amendments that fit different chapters and sections, be sure that your SteerCom. approves each amendment. Example: get approval to submit a plank on women's rights and another approval for a plank on nuclear weapons. GPUS PLATFORM SUBMISSONS TEMPLATE Identify where your proposal best fits in the 2004 Platform text. Section of the Platform being addressed: (I, II, III or IV...) Letter of Plank being addressed (A thru M...) Paragraph numbers (1....6 etc) to be amended. If re-writing whole section or long list of paragraphs, indicate that fact. Write the text of your amendment. Additional Comments if further explanation is necessary *Please note: If you do not follow format given above, your amendment will be returned with request that you follow the format. (these guidelines are somewhat repetitious - please be patient) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HERE IS THE SCHEDULE FOR SUBMITTING AMENDMENTS. (don't delay until last week of the schedule) GPUS Platform 2008 Timeline/Process I. Basic Timeline - Submissions received starting in Fall of 2006 (after Nov. election, most convenient) - First deadline for submissions: April 1, 2007 - First draft by May 31, 2007 (comparison draft, also let's assume a document which incorporated new text; may be rough, but will give an idea...) - Second deadline for submissions: December 31, 2007 - Second draft by January 30, 2008 (may still be rough, but less so than he first draft; will incorporate the rest of the new text) - Final/near-final draft - ca. 2 months before convention.* NOTE: 2 mos. prior to the convention is something to aim for; depending on the exact date, we may get cut a week or two, if the convention is early. If the convention is *very* early, we will need to go back and revisit this. *ca. should = within a week of the convention date *************************************************************************************************** The Platform Committee will track and organize submissions and place them parallel to the original text for review. Submissions which don't conform to submission guidelines will be returned with an explanation of corrections needed. Submissions that need debate and clarification may be recycled to the member's state parties/accredited caucuses if necessary. To help ensure that all state Green parties are informed about the Platform process and can participate, we ask states that lack a platcom. member to designate a member to act as a platform contact. 3 - First draft by 5/31/2007. Submissions will be accepted until 5/25/2007. Submissions, possible comparison draft, {and/or} early draft will be posted on the web. Reminders will go out periodically to all members urging them to read the draft and send in feed back. Qualitative and quantitative feedback will be actively sought from all states/caucuses. Opportunity to submit feedback via web should be available. Feedback will be posted on the website. 4 - Second deadline: 12/31/2007. Second draft by 1/30/2008. Based on feedback from first round of proposals, the committee will create a second draft and facilitate work with material for which further work is needed. To assist in assessing the level of support for platform submissions, the committee will ask each affiliated state party and accredited caucus to obtain feedback from their membership and use a simple rating system to indicate the type of support, along with comments, concerns and suggestions. Non-responses will not be counted when evaluating support or opposition to a proposed amendment. Feedback from a state/caucus that is qualitative, but lacking quantitative ratings will be interpreted by the Platform Committee when evaluating quantitative support for an amendment. **SEE RATING FORMULA, BELOW. 5 - Final draft by two months prior to 2008 convention. There should only be a few, if any, unresolved issues at this point. Unresolved amendments will be circulated back to states/caucuses at least two months prior to the convention for last-minute feedback, informing them that they could be voting on these at the final platform hearings, to be scheduled as close as possible to the day preceding the presidential nominating convention. Any items and language that remain to be determined at the final hearings, will be available to all convention delegates as part of the convention packets (as well as available online). 6 - Copies of the nearly final platform (with an addendum listing unresolved issues) would be made before the convention and would be available at the convention. Platform hearings would be held to refine the unresolved issues in an effort to make them acceptable to Greens at large. Platform hearings would be open to all, but only those chosen specifically to represent their state or caucus on the matter of these unresolved amendments would be entitled to vote, {if such is needed; however, consensus is the goal, so material not gaining obvious overall support will not be included}. States/caucuses can caucus at the convention and choose who will represent them in these hearings (it's up to the state/caucus chair or co-chairs to inform the PlatCom about who was chosen to represent them). States/caucuses can choose more than one representative, but votes will be counted in such a way that each state/caucus will be represented proportionally, with voting weight equal to the number of voting delegates they're entitled to have at the convention. No single person may carry more than three votes. If consensus cannot be reached in the hearings, the voting representatives shall vote on proposed amendments. Those amendments pass only if they obtain the support of 90% or more of the weighted vote of the representatives in attendance. 7 - Final copies of any amendments approved on the floor of the convention will be printed and available, as a final addendum to the printed "near final" draft that the delegates will already have. This will prevent a frantic, last-minute printing adventure. ************************** **RATING FORMULA A rating of 1 = 3 points A rating of 2 = 2 A rating of 3 = 1 A rating of 4 = 0, and A rating of 5 = -1 1 - Approval. Material meets with general approval of membership, a strong majority or consensus. 2 - Approval, with minor revisions. Overall approval, but minor revisions such as corrected or updated information may be needed, or minor revisions to meet concerns are suggested. 3 - General support, but with more substantial concerns to be addressed (this could involve more substantial working out of material, possibly referring content to those with particular expertise or background) 4 - General lack of support. This might be more acceptable if (...), but overall, members find it unnecessary/unacceptable/doesn't really fit. (Unlikely that material garnering this type of rating will make it into the 2004 platform, but worth looking into.) 5 - Reject. Members do not support inclusion in the Green Platform TO SUBMIT AN AMENDMENT, PLEASE E-MAIL IT TO: This address will reach Howard Switzer, Jenefer Ellingston and Mike Ewall (all 3) and reply may come from any one of us. Or you may e-mail your Platcom. member if you have one in your state. I hope the guidelines above are direct and simple. I hope they serve as conduits to participation rather than obstacles that discourage members. Thank you, Jenefer Ellingston DC ------------------------------ Message: 3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sun Oct 15 11:26:47 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:26:47 -0400 Subject: {news} Norm Stamper in CT Message-ID: Hello, This is the rest of the www.LEAP.cc tour. This Tues. Norm Stamper will be on WNPR http://www.wnpr.org/ tune in and listen. This will air for Connecticut and most of New England. I have posted the schedule for those that would like to hear this great speaker on the drug war. Norm's schedule while in the Hartford area: Tues October 17, 2006 9:00 AM WNPR Radio - Where We Live Show Norm Stamper Tues October 17, 2006 12:00 PM Bloomfield CT Rotary Norm Stamper Tues October 17, 2006 3:00 PM Hartford Public Access TV - Channel 5 Norm Stamper Tues October 17, 2006 9:00 PM Nutmeg Public Access TV, Plainville Norm Stamper Wed October 18, 2006 12:00 PM Southington CT Rotary Norm Stamper Wed October 18, 2006 6:00 PM Stafford CT Rotary Norm Stamper The rest of the CT tour (as it stands): Tues October 24, 2006 12:00 PM Waterbury Rotary Howard Wooldridge Wed October 25, 2006 7:15 AM Rotary Club of Cromwell CT Howard Wooldridge Wed October 25, 2006 12:00 PM Norwich Rotary Howard Wooldridge Wed October 25, 2006 4:00 PM Univ of U-Conn SSDP Mtg Howard Wooldridge Thurs October 26, 2006 12:00 PM Madison Rotary Howard Wooldridge Thurs October 26, 2006 6:00 PM People Against Injustice New Haven DPF Howard Wooldridge Tues October 31, 2006 6:00 PM Manchester Rotary Peter Christ Tues October 31, 2006 9:00 PM Nutmeg Public Access TV, Plainville Peter Christ Wed November 1, 2006 12:00 PM Wallingford Rotary Peter Christ Wed November 1, 2006 6:30 PM Bridgeport Host Lions Club Peter Christ Thurs November 2, 2006 12:15 PM New Canaan Rotary Peter Christ Thurs November 2, 2006 5:00 PM The Republic Forum Peter Christ Thurs November 2, 2006 7:00 PM The Renshaw Report Public Access TV Peter Christ Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. 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To view the flyer in both English and Spanish please visit http://www.environmental-justice.org From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Oct 16 00:22:31 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:22:31 +0000 Subject: {news} AP covers CT Secy of the State race In-Reply-To: <1160867789.2b12e62a7452d911.5bfdeb62@persist.google.com> Message-ID: This appeared in the Boston Globe, Newsday, and Stamford Advocate. http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/10/13/news_and_notes_from_the_campaign_trail/ News and notes from the campaign trail October 13, 2006 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The Republican and Green Party candidates for Secretary of the State are joining forces and calling on Democratic Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz to participate in a debate. Republican Richard Abbate and Green Party candidate Michael DeRosa, who've sent Bysiewicz letters in recent weeks, believe she's avoiding a public face-off. "It's convenient for her not to debate us. The less information that the media and the public get about what's going on in this campaign, the better for her," DeRosa said. Bysiewicz said Friday that she's willing to take part in any debate sponsored by an independent, neutral, nonpartisan group, but none have come forward to organize one. She said such groups are busy with the U.S. Senate and governor's races. "I'm as frustrated as he is that there's less attention to our race," Bysiewicz said. "But any opportunity I get to speak at a forum, I've accepted." Bysiewicz said she appeared at disabilities forum in Hartford on Sept. 16, but neither Abbate or DeRosa attended the event. She said she also appeared on a radio interview program but Abbate did not participate. DeRosa appeared later. Two forums are scheduled later this month. DeRosa said he and Abbate are organizing a debate at Yale University School of Law, Bysiewicz's alma mater, later this month. He said they are considering sending the Democrat a certified letter as an invitation to attend. ? Copyright 2006 Associated Press. From efficacy at msn.com Mon Oct 16 10:26:25 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:26:25 -0400 Subject: {news} The Green Party Needs Money Message-ID: Please donate to the Thornton for Governor campaign. This is the final push. We need this for comercials in prime time debate on the 18th. Radio ads in prime time. We will take anything You can go to our site and donate, send checks to the address below. Ten, twenty, hundreds. Give until it hurts. Clifford W. Thornton, Jr. Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Oct 16 19:54:15 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Please Give to the Thornton For Governor campaign in our final days of the race! Message-ID: <20061016235415.84594.qmail@web81406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Please donate to the Thornton for Governor campaign. This is the final push. We need this for commercials in prime time debate on the 18th. Radio ads in prime time. We will take anything You can go to our site and donate, send checks to the address below. Ten, twenty, hundreds. Give until it hurts. Clifford W. Thornton, Jr. Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Mon Oct 16 22:49:09 2006 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:49:09 -0400 Subject: {news} agenda for 10-17-06 EC meeting in Glastonbury, CT Message-ID: <20061017024915.VSNI7951.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> Agenda for 10-17-06 EC meeting of CTGP in Glastonbury, CT. Luna's Pizza, 88 Hebron Avenue, Glastonbury, CT 06033, p=860-659-2136 7pm to 9pm 1. Status of CTGP candidates/events/fundraisers and "getting out the vote". 2. Potential financial support for CTGP candidates? 3. CTGP website status 4. CT Green Times newspaper status: are more articles needed from chapters about their positions? Estimated date it will be going to publisher and availability for distribution. Review distribution process for possible fine tuning with Albert Marceau. 5. Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. 6. ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT "campaign finance reform" law. 7. GPUS proposal 247/ GPUS allocations to the states.. 8. agenda for 10-31-06 SCC meeting. 9. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 11-13-06. 10. place for next SCC meeting scheduled for 11-28-06. 11. Any proposals. ******EC meeting delayed due to various CTGP debates www.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apbrison at hotmail.com Tue Oct 17 06:02:57 2006 From: apbrison at hotmail.com (allan brison) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:02:57 -0400 Subject: {news} WATCH RALPH DEBATE!! -Free tickets Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ADL has been contacted again concerning her activities and emails.***A*** >From: "B Barry" >To: >Subject: {news} agenda for 10-17-06 EC meeting in Glastonbury, CT >Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:49:09 -0400 > >Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >to unsubscribe click here >mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >Agenda for 10-17-06 EC meeting of CTGP in Glastonbury, CT. > >Luna's Pizza, 88 Hebron Avenue, Glastonbury, CT 06033, p=860-659-2136 > >7pm to 9pm > > > >1. Status of CTGP candidates/events/fundraisers and "getting out the >vote". > > > >2. Potential financial support for CTGP candidates? > > > >3. CTGP website status > > > >4. CT Green Times newspaper status: are more articles needed from >chapters about their positions? > >Estimated date it will be going to publisher and availability for >distribution. Review distribution process > >for possible fine tuning with Albert Marceau. > > > >5. Treasurer's report from Christopher Reilly. > > > >6. ACLU lawsuit regarding the 2005 CT "campaign finance reform" law. > > > > >7. GPUS proposal 247/ GPUS allocations to the states.. > > > >8. agenda for 10-31-06 SCC meeting. > > > >9. Place of next EC meeting scheduled for 11-13-06. > > > >10. place for next SCC meeting scheduled for 11-28-06. > > > >11. Any proposals. > > > >******EC meeting delayed due to various CTGP debates > > > > > >www.google.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >_______________________________________________ >CTGP-news mailing list >CTGP-news at ml.greens.org >http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > >ATTENTION! >The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and >intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this >transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the >original message. 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Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Oct 18 06:52:46 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} GP candidate Dixon arrested outside debate Message-ID: <20061018105246.39467.qmail@web81410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Green Party candidate Dixon arrested outside debate By Jennifer Sullivan Seattle Times staff reporter < Green Party Senate candidate Aaron Dixon was arrested this afternoon after his campaign workers say he tried to enter the KING-TV building to participate in a debate. Seattle police wouldn't confirm whether it was Dixon who was arrested. They said only that someone was taken into custody at 2 p.m. for investigation of trespassing. Police spokeswoman Debra Brown said the person was asked to leave the lobby of the Seattle television station, but refused. Republican Mike McGavick, Democrat Sen. Maria Cantwell and Libertarian Bruce Guthrie were at KING-TV to tape a debate that aired Tuesday night. Dixon wasn't invited to participate because he couldn't show the minimum financial support to qualify under criteria set up by the Debate Advisory Standards Project, a nationally recognized group. The debate was co-sponsored by The Seattle Times. After the arrest, about 35 Dixon supporters marched several blocks from the television station to the Seattle Police Department's west precinct. They then marched back to the television station, where they rejoined a crowd of political activists. More than 40 supporters of Cantwell and McGavick camped outside during the debate, waving signs and yelling campaign slogans. Dixon, 57, runs Central House, a Seattle nonprofit that provides transitional housing for homeless young adults and leadership training in local high schools. He was a civil-rights activist in the 1960s who organized sit-ins, and was the leader of the local Black Panther Party. Guthrie qualified for the debate after he loaned his campaign $1.2 million of his own money. Cantwell and McGavick have raised millions in campaign contributions. Ray Heacox, president and general manager of KING-TV, said in a written statement that the "issue of when to include a third-party candidate in a debate is one of the most difficult issues in covering politics." "Our goal is to have a public discourse on the issues," Heacox said. "We invited all the Senate candidates to participate in the debate under the condition that they met any one of a number of criteria to establish their viability. "It is unfortunate that Mr. Dixon did not meet any of those criteria. It is also unfortunate that he refused to leave the premises when asked to do so," Heacox said. 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Region News Print This E-mail This Most E-mailed Send Letter Send Correction Add To Cart Increase Text Actual Text Decrease Text Buy Photo by Suzanne Ouellette Griswold Elementary School fifth-grader Nick Faulise asks questions of candidates, including Democrats Joe Courtney, Susan Bysiewicz and Andrew Maynard, on stage, left to right, during a candidate forum at Griswold High School Tuesday. Buy Photo by Suzanne Ouellette Green Party gubernatorial candidate Clifford Thornton Jr. shakes hands with Griswold Elementary School fifth-grader Amanda Sciola after she escorted him to the stage for a candidate forum Tuesday. Griswold - Never mind the Quinnipiac University poll. Forget about the University of Connecticut survey. It's the results of the Griswold Public Schools' Oct. 30 mock election that really matter. "The real one to watch is in Griswold," Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth Osga told 16 state and federal candidates Tuesday morning. Griswold students have accurately predicted the outcome in many significant races over the three years the mock election has been held. On Tuesday, a candidates' forum hosted by the fourth- and fifth-grade enrichment program drew more political hopefuls than ever before. The fifth-graders asked for the federal candidates' opinions on airline safety and the economy. They wanted to know the state candidates' thoughts on rising gasoline prices and how Connecticut is handling taxpayers' money. They asked for honest answers. Candidates reminded the students that no group has a bigger stake in the outcome of the election than their generation. "I'm very pleased with the students' performance and the guests' ability to speak at a level so that everyone in the audience could understand," Griswold Elementary School enrichment teacher Russell Salvador said. The candidates were given 60 seconds to introduce themselves and another 60 seconds to answer questions posed by five enrichment program students. Students enthusiastically applauded Clifford Thornton Jr., the Green Party candidate for governor, who pledged to do away with college tuition, lower the voting age to 16 years and address social and environmental policies. Fifth-grader Alex Peterson, one of the hosts, said Green Party lieutenant governor candidate Jean de Smet's message not to take no for an answer is a characteristic she wants in a state official. Ralph Ferrucci, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, told students that a Quinnipiac University pollster called him to ask who he would vote for - Democrat Ned Lamont, independent candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman or Republican challenger Alan Schlesinger. "I said 'myself,' " said Ferrucci, drawing applause from many of the high school-age students attending the forum. Schlesinger told the students to get involved, no matter their party affiliation or lack thereof. U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, the 2nd District Republican, said his desire to help people continues to be his motivation to run for elected office. Simmons' challenger, Democrat Joe Courtney, said he is running for the opportunity to ensure accountability in the federal government, particularly when it comes to unfunded education mandates. Democratic state Rep. Steven T. Mikutel of the 45th District told the students he wants to continue to represent them and their interests in Hartford. His Republican challenger, Robert LaChapelle, said it's his belief that no one should run unopposed. "People should work for your support, not just be given it," he said. Candidates in the 18th state Senate District, Democrat Andrew Maynard and Republican Lenny Winkler, said they would bring independent and unique ideas to the office. Maynard, the Stonington Borough warden, said he has developed a relationship with the state as a municipal leader and now wants to develop relationships as a state official with municipal leaders. An emergency room nurse, Winkler said she will concentrate on resolving the issue of a lack of "good quality health care" for all residents. Elementary school students will bring home voter registration forms for parents who have not yet registered to vote. The students will also bring home mock registration forms that they must submit by Oct. 27 to be eligible to vote in the Oct. 30 mock election. Fourth- and fifth-graders will vote on the candidates. The lower grades will vote on favored books and authors. The high school will sponsor a separate mock election next week. 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She never returned. Once in her parents� car, Ms. May learned that the family�s home, a farm outside Hartford, Conn., was up for sale. Her father had quit his job as an insurance executive and all of them, including her younger brother, were headed to a new life in Cape Breton, the picturesque but economically deprived island in Nova Scotia. For Ms. May, her parents� impulsive move soon meant trading a life of relative affluence for periods of near poverty. Undergraduate life at Smith was exchanged for years of waiting tables and cooking in a restaurant. And instead of her parents� circle of politically active friends, including George McGovern and a young Bill Clinton, there were villagers who were suspicious of, and sometimes unfriendly toward, all who were, as they put it, �from away.� That situation, however, gave Ms. May a perspective that was critical in her development into one of Canada�s most prominent environmentalists. After founding the Sierra Club of Canada and running it for almost 17 years, Ms. May has emerged as the leader of the Green Party of Canada, an also-ran in Canadian politics but a group with a platform nonetheless. Under Canadian election law, the 5 percent of votes the party won in the past two national elections entitles it to about 1 million Canadian dollars a year, or about $800,000, in government campaign financing. And in Ms. May, the party � which has yet to send a single member to Parliament � has its first leader who is a well-known figure. Ms. May�s switch from environmentalism to politics was prompted, she says, by the election of a minority Conservative government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper in January. �I was going through a nail-biting, wrist-slashing phase of my life known as watching Harper get to victory,� she said. Perhaps the most surprising factor in Ms. May�s ascent is that she has overcome misgivings about her American upbringing, though she did become a Canadian citizen. Many Canadians, particularly voters on the left, are mistrustful of politicians who have simply lived in the United States, not to speak of being born there. Yet, the chaos that Cape Breton brought to her life has helped her bridge many of the subtle, if significant, gaps between Canadians and Americans. �I�m lucky that I didn�t go to Toronto, where I then immediately joined an environmental group,� she said. �I wouldn�t have developed that strong sense you need to find the differences in a culture that aren�t immediately apparent.� Canadians, Ms. May said, are more cautious and deferential to authority than are Americans. And brash appeals simply do not work here. �In the United States, I can say: �I�ve got a check here, who�s going to match it,� � Ms. May said of her money-raising efforts. �If you do that in Canada, it�s a terrible social faux pas. People look at their shoes.� Ms. May�s introduction to fund-raising and campaigning came early. Her mother, Stephanie May, was a founder of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and that took Elizabeth to Washington for a news conference when she was still a toddler. �My mother represented motherhood, I represented the contaminated innocent,� Ms. May said. �I sat on Hubert Humphrey�s lap for a good chunk of the press conference.� Stephanie May�s political work expanded to include fund-raising for several Democratic campaigns, including the presidential bids of Eugene McCarthy and Mr. McGovern. Mr. Clinton, Mr. McGovern�s Connecticut organizer, became a regular houseguest and remains a family friend. THOSE campaign efforts ultimately produced disappointment, culminating in the re-election of Richard Nixon in 1972. That and the general disruption of the era gradually soured the Mays on the United States. In the fall of 1973, they decided to abandon the country for a 100-acre farm with two dilapidated houses that Stephanie May had purchased on a whim while vacationing in Cape Breton the previous summer. To support the family, or so they thought, they bought a long-closed restaurant along the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton�s scenic highway, that was housed in a permanently moored sailing schooner built in 1918. Attached was a gift shop. Within a year, the money-gobbling Schooner Village transformed the family into what Ms. May called �nouveau pauvre,� as they slept in the gift shop�s storeroom over the winter because they could not afford to heat their house as well. Instead of finishing her college degree, Ms. May took correspondence courses in restaurant and kitchen management. When not cooking, waiting tables or begging neighbors for vegetables that missed a supplier�s weekly shipment, Ms. May found time for environmental work. Gradually she become noticed, not just in Cape Breton but nationally, for organizing a campaign against aerial spraying by the pulp and paper industry, which spread a toxic cloud over the entire island. It was a difficult crusade. The closing of coal mines and the decline of fishing had brought unofficial unemployment levels in Cape Breton to over 30 percent. For many people, work meant cutting spruce trees or leaving the island. But the province eventually banned all aerial spraying of insecticides. With credit for her work experience, Ms. May was admitted to law school in Halifax without even an undergraduate degree, and won scholarships that paid her living expenses and tuition. After practicing advocacy law for a while, she accepted a post in 1986 as special adviser to the environment minister in the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. But that ended two years later, when the government allowed a province to build two dams in Saskatchewan without an environmental assessment, and Ms. May quit in protest. A court later found that the government had acted improperly, though the dams were ultimately built. IN 1989, she started the Sierra Club of Canada and, as in Cape Breton, took on unpopular causes � in particular, Alberta�s oil sands or, as she prefers, �tar sands.� While they are a source of wealth for Western Canada and oil for the United States, they require tremendous quantities of natural gas in the extraction process � a huge contribution to the greenhouse gases that are widely believed to be contributing to global warming. �So we�ve got a huge amount of energy being consumed in order to produce the oil, which we then sell to the United States for cars that don�t have proper energy efficiency standards,� she said. �This is an appalling megaproject.� While calling for a moratorium on new oil-sands developments, she is also focusing on ending subsidies to the industry. �Fix the tax system, stop subsidizing the most profitable companies in the world to produce the world�s most profitable product,� she said. �Should be simple.� On a recent afternoon, Ms. May was wearing a green and yellow Green Party pin (which actually bears a resemblance to the logo of the oil giant BP) as well as the tiny white, enameled medallion of an officer of the Order of Canada, one of the country�s top civilian honors. �Canada�s a wonderful country,� she said. �If you beat up on the government for 30 years, you can still get the Order of Canada.� __________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 19 08:51:56 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Yale Newspaper coverages of Thornton Message-ID: <20061019125156.87119.qmail@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Published: Thursday, October 19, 2006 DeStefano faces Rell in TV debate By Andrew Mangino Staff Reporter var bnum=new Number(Math.floor(99999999 * Math.random())+1); document.write(""); A televised debate Tuesday night marked the latest - and perhaps the last - major attempt by New Haven mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate John DeStefano Jr. to paint his Republican rival, Gov. M. Jodi Rell, as ineffective and insincere. Recent polls indicate that Rell is still enjoying a double-digit lead over her opponents with less than three weeks left before Election Day. The hour-long debate exposed occasional personal animosity between the candidates but at other times failed to show major policy differences between them, especially on national issues such as high gasoline prices and education funding. Rell began her opening statement by pointing out that she could have chosen not to run in the gubernatorial race. She said a reporter recently asked why she did not retire now, at the height of her popularity, in order to spend more time with her grandson. "You know, that all sounds very good, but I have to tell you we have accomplished an awful lot in the last two years by returning ethics and honesty to state government," she said. "But there is much more work to be done, and I want to built on our successes." DeStefano disputed Rell's record and principles. He chastised her for only suspending, rather than firing, her friend and chief of staff M. Lisa Moody, who gave tickets for a Rell fundraising event to officials at the Capitol building despite policies barring such campaign tactics. Rell responded that no law had been broken, as the rule Moody violated was Rell's own and not imposed by the state. Prior to the televised debate, Rell also ran her campaign commercial, which featured dozens of young children, including her grandson. Political commentators have said Rell's campaign has effectively portrayed her as a steady and moderate grandmother, a move they said has increased her appeal among liberal and moderate voters. During the debate, DeStefano questioned Rell's track record on policies affecting Connecticut youth. He also said the governor has done little to make higher education affordable, offered her inaction as explanation for why university faculties support Destefano's candidacy. In response, Rell pointed to increased grant and scholarship accessibility, her proposal for a tuition freeze, and the fact that 68 percent of high-school graduates choose to attend an in-state college. DeStefano also reiterated the theme of many of his recent campaign ads: Rell's reluctance at their last debate to name the worst mistake she made while in office. This week, Rell recanted her original response to that question, jokingly calling it "probably the worst mistake" she's made so far. She went on to say that her handling of her proposed cut in automobile taxes was actually her greatest misstep. There was one unexpected guest at the debate. At the stroke of seven, as the program was about to begin, a political advertisement for one of the gubernatorial candidates came on screen - and it wasn't for DeStefano or Rell. It was Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton, who nearly emptied his war chest on the last-ditch publicity effort. Surrounded by demonstrators chanting, "This is not democracy," Thornton protested the television station's decision to exclude him from the debate. "We want to talk about issues, but these candidates are not going to talk about them," he said. According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, released in late September, Rell is leading DeStefano 63 percent to 30 percent. 42 percent of Democrats and 67 percent of independents said they were planning to vote for the Republican incumbent. var bnum=new Number(Math.floor(99999999 * Math.random())+1); document.write(""); Add Yale Daily News RSS feeds Advertising Books Business Subscribe Privacy Rights & Permissions Classifieds Copyright ? 1995-2006 Yale Daily News Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 19 08:55:49 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (UConn)Commercial During Debate Exposes Left Out Candidates Message-ID: <20061019125549.89206.qmail@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Commercial During Debate Exposes Left Out Candidates Steven Durel Posted: 10/19/06Viewers that watched last night's gubernatorial debate between Republican Governor Jodi Rell and Democratic challenger John DeStefano on television, might have been a little surprised to see the event accompanied by an unlikely television ad from Clifford Thornton, the Green Party nominee for governor. Many voters had not previously heard of Thornton, nor the Concerned Citizens Party nominee Joe Zdonczyk, probably in part because these men were both shut out from debating Rell and DeStefano in this year's live televised procedures. The purpose of last night's advertisement was to send a message to viewers at home - money and power have corrupted the electoral process. The Green Party's commercial opened with a graphic reading, "Only 2 podiums?? Cliff Thornton excluded from debates." The ad then showed a crowd of Green party supporters protesting outside New London's Garde Arts Center during the first debate on Oct. 9. The camera moves around the group as two voiceovers can be heard. "We want to have freedom of speech," the first voice said. "I'm here to protest the fact that Cliff Thornton is being left out of the debates," another said. The viewer then sees Thornton's campaign manager, Tim McKee, who said, "We want to talk about issues that these candidates are not going to talk about." Thornton himself finally appeared on the screen. "In many respects, being Green is like being black because you're being excluded left and right on many issues," Thornton said. "I'm Cliff Thornton and I approve this message." At the end of the commercial there is another graphic reading, "CT 4 CT Let all voices be heard. Let Cliff in the debates," while the crowd can be heard chanting, "This is not democracy!" According to Thornton's field manager, Ken Krayeske, the commercial cost $400 to produce and $3,300 to air. Krayeske noted that, running by that same average of $110 per second, the major party candidates each got almost $396,000 of free airtime during the two debates. He questioned why the small parties with no money are forced to pay for short spots on television while the rich ones are given sustained periods at no cost. "They have their boots firmly entrenched on our windpipes," Krayeske said. Neither Rell nor DeStefano seemed to walk away from the first debate as a clear winner. According to polls done by UConn's Center for Survey Research and Analysis for the Hartford Courant, before the debate 56 percent of voters said that they would vote for Rell and 28 percent for DeStefano. Afterwards, however, Rell's support fell to 50 percent while DeStefano's showing stayed the same. At the same time, the portion of those polled who chose "no choice" rose from 15 percent to 21 percent. Both major party nominees blame each other for the exclusion of minor party candidates. While the DeStefano campaign demanded that third parties be absent from two of the debates, suggesting that they would only be a distraction, Gov. Rell had simultaneously refused to meet more than twice for what Rell spokesman Richard Harris called "an extended series of debates." Still, Thornton himself blames both parties equally for his banishment. "They're both complicit in this," Thornton said, adding, "Why are they so afraid of us?" Ultimately, the third-party candidate hypothesizes that it is probably because of his overall progressive message that he is being shut out. He suggests that Canadian-style healthcare, free college tuition and an end to the War on Drugs are concepts that have all been deemed far too radical by local ruling elites. Despite the risk that the Connecticut Green Party is taking by devoting all of its funds and effort into making an impact in this one election, Thornton nevertheless remains confident that they are doing the right thing. "The most important thing is getting the ideas out to the people," Thornton said. --------------------------------- ? Copyright 2006 The Daily Campus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 19 09:03:45 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (Man. J.I.) Green Party to Air Debate Protest Ad Message-ID: <20061019130345.36243.qmail@web81401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 10/18/2006 Green Party to air debate protest ad By Keith M. Phaneuf , Journal Inquirer The Connecticut Green Party will have its say at today's gubernatorial debate - whether the major political parties like it or not. The Green Party released a 30-second commercial it will air once, on WVIT-30, today. Party spokesman Ken Krayeske said Monday that the commercial would air either one minute before the 7 p.m. debate, or just after the hourlong forum ends. '); } // --> '); } //--> "There was no other way for our voice to be heard," Clifford Thornton of Manchester, the Green Party's gubernatorial candidate, said. "While I am generally opposed to renting the public airwaves ... we have to tell the general public that the two parties actively suppress free speech." The 30 seconds of air time, which cost the party $3,300, will be its only voice at today's forum, which features a head-to-head matchup between Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democratic nominee John DeStefano Jr., the mayor of New Haven. Both the Green Party and the Concerned Citizens Party - which again is running Joseph Zdonczyk of Wolcott - complained last month when Rell and DeStefano agreed to two forums featuring only the two front-runners. The new commercial, posted Monday on the Green Party's Web site, opens with party members protesting last week outside of The Garde Arts Center in New London, where the first gubernatorial debate was held. The crowd chants "more voices, more choices," and "we want freedom of speech." Then Thornton, who is black, appears on screen and says, "In many respects, being Green is like being black, because you're being excluded left and right on many issues." The commercial ends with the crowd chanting, "This is not democracy. This is not democracy." The Rell-DeStefano debate will be aired live on WVIT and is expected to be the last debate between the two. The candidates for lieutenant governor, Democrat Mary A. Glassman of Simsbury and Republican Michael Fedele of Stamford, will meet for one debate. That forum, set for 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 27, at the Hartford studios of Connecticut Public Radio, will be broadcast live on CPR. David Pond, a freelance video producer, prepared the Green Party commercial from Hartford, Krayeske said. Rell and DeStefano have blamed each other for the minor-party candidates' exclusion. Rell initially said she wanted all candidates featured at the debate, but that she only wanted two forums in total. DeStefano said that since he and Rell are the only candidates with any quantifiable support in the polls, there should be at least two exclusive debates. But DeStefano also said in addition to that he would participate in as many group forums as Rell wanted. '); } // --> '); } //--> ?Journal Inquirer 2006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Last modified on 10/19/2006 at 12:58 am Renewable energy development urged By CLAIR JOHNSON Of The Gazette Staff Environmentalist Winona LaDuke on Wednesday urged Montana's Indian tribes to develop renewable energy such as wind power rather than mining coal or drilling for coalbed methane. LaDuke, an Ojibwe from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, is the executive director of Honor the Earth, a national American Indian foundation working on renewable energy issues and the transition to a sustainable economy. She ran with Ralph Nader on the Green Party presidential ticket in 1996 and 2000. LaDuke spoke at a press conference at Rocky Mountain College and met with students from Rocky and from Montana State University-Billings. LaDuke will speak about renewable energy options and energy development in Lame Deer at 6 p.m. today. The meeting at the Allen Rowland Gym is open to the public. Tribes in general are told they have to trade their ecosystem for an economy, LaDuke said. But she rejects that notion, saying tribes should develop sustainable energy plans. "We believe in energy sovereignty," she said. If tribes move toward sustainable energy development, "all of us and our generations ahead will be in much better shape," she said. Questions about development of coal and coalbed methane resources on the reservation are ballot issues Northern Cheyenne tribal members will be deciding on in the Nov. 7 general election. Montana's coal development and power plants contribute to global warming through carbon dioxide emissions and other pollution, which blows downwind to her state and reservation, LaDuke said. Drillings for coalbed methane in the Powder River Basin produces 1.85 billion gallons of saline water a day and leads to declines in aquifers, she said. "Once you lose your water, you can't make more water," she said. Montana and its tribes could be harnessing wind and producing biofuels and "growing energy in this generation" rather than relying on fossil fuels, LaDuke said. A wind turbine is "homeland security," she said. "And you don't have to invade anybody to get it." Copyright ? The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Fri Oct 20 09:46:42 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:46:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Durfee to drop out? Message-ID: <20061020134642.56437.qmail@web81406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-green3oct20,0,3776992.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines Green Party may drop candidate, switch support to FarrellBy Mark Ginocchio Staff Writer October 20, 2006 To avoid being a spoiler for Democrat Diane Farrell's congressional bid, state Green Party officials plan to meet this weekend to discuss dropping their candidate in the 4th District race and supporting the former Westport first selectwoman. When the party nominated Stamford resident Richard Duffee in July, many party members said they should run a candidate only if it didn't hurt Farrell's chances of ousting U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Bridgeport, said David Bedell, secretary for the Green Party's Fairfield County chapter. Tomorrow's closed meeting for the party's leadership came at the suggestion of Farrell's camp and the Green Party, Bedell said. A Green Party flier for its members suggested Farrell could make "concessions in exchange for our withdrawal," though Bedell would not discuss specific expectations. "We discussed this happening a number of times, and now we're looking at it again," Bedell said. The party's members will vote on dropping Duffee, and the results should be made public next week, Bedell added. Since the Green Party does not have minor-party status for the 4th District office -- meaning it has not gained 1 percent of the vote in past elections -- it cannot cross-endorse another candidate. The party could replace Duffee with another candidate up until Oct. 30. "If he were to withdraw, the party can nominate another candidate, but not another existing candidate on the ballot," state elections officer Arthur Champagne said. Shays' camp criticized Farrell and the Green Party, calling the closed-door meeting "questionable." "At this late stage in the game, the meeting should be open to the public," said Michael Sohn, Shays' campaign manger. "What concessions is she going to make? After all the debates, what is going to change?" The candidates finished their last of 11 debates yesterday at the Norwalk Inn & Conference Center. Farrell's campaign manager Adam Wood dismissed the attack, calling the meeting one of many the Democrat is using "to persuade people to vote for change." Wood said he wouldn't define the "concessions" expected by the Greens in their flier because "I wouldn't want the Greens to speak for me. I wouldn't want the Republicans to speak for me. I wouldn't want the Libertarians to speak for me. So I won't speak for them." Duffee, who has appeared in the fewest debates among the candidates since the campaign started, said he has always understood the party could eventually drop him, and he wouldn't be disappointed if it happened. "I never had the notion that it was possible for the Green Party to win this election," Duffee said. "I know people say you run to win, but it would be irresponsible for me to think that. My purpose was to get information into the campaign and to get into political discussions. I wanted to make some of these ideas more accessible." The 4th Congressional District election has been considered by most political analysts to be a toss-up. A Reuters/Zogby poll released this month put Farrell ahead of Shays 46 percent to 41 percent with 13 percent still undecided; a poll by the University of Connecticut and The Advocate and Greenwich Time taken during the same period showed Shays up 44 percent to 40 percent with 16 percent undecided. -- Assistant City Editor Jonathan Lucas contributed to this story. Copyright ? 2006, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. =0)document.write(unescape('%3C')+'\!-'+'-') //--> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Fri Oct 20 11:34:30 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:34:30 -0400 Subject: {news} Feature: Prominent Drug Reformers Run for Statewide Office in Connecticut, Message-ID: Drug War Chronicle - world's leading drug policy newsletter Feature: Prominent Drug Reformers Run for Statewide Office in Connecticut, Maryland Two of the country's most well-known drug reformers are on the November ballot, and while, barring a miracle, they have no chance of winning, both are taking the drug reform message to new audiences and, hopefully, gaining new support for undoing drug prohibition. In Connecticut, Cliff Thornton, head of the reform group Efficacy is running as the Green Party nominee for governor. In Maryland, Kevin Zeese, of NORML and early Drug Policy Foundation (forerunner of the Drug Policy Alliance) fame and president of Common Sense for Drug Policy is running for US Senate as a "unity" candidate as the nominee of the Green, Libertarian, and Populist parties. (In Alabama, drug reform activist Loretta Nall won the Libertarian Party nomination for governor, but having failed to overcome the state's onerous third party ballot qualification requirements, has been reduced to doing a write-in campaign.) Cliff Thornton on the campaign trailIn Connecticut, Thornton is up against Democratic challenger John DeStefano and the incumbent, Republican Gov. Jodi Rell, who, according to most recent polls, is cruising to victory with a margin of greater than 20 percentage points. Although Thornton has not been included in the polls and has been squeezed out of Wednesday night televised debate -- he did manage to get a campaign ad placed right before the debate -- he told Drug War Chronicle his campaign has been opening new space for drug reform in Connecticut. "You know we're having an impact," he said. "There have been about 175 shootings and killings here in the last three months, and I talk about why. That's the main reason Rell and DeStefano don't want me in the debates -- they don't want to defend a failed drug policy." They may not want to talk drug policy, but for Thornton it is the centerpiece of his campaign. "I don't always lead with the drug issues, but everyone wants to know about the drug issue. Everybody gets it," said Thornton. "Rell and DeStefano are shying away from the whole issue, although sometimes their staff members will talk about it." Thornton's year of work in the trenches of drug policy reform in Connecticut and nationwide have made him a known quantity in local political and media circles, and this year's gubernatorial run has provided plenty of fodder for articles on Thornton and the drug issue. The issue is now gaining an even higher profile in Connecticut thanks to Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which is currently engaged in a statewide speaking tour. While LEAP doesn't campaign for candidates, the timing of Thornton's campaign is adding fire to their Connecticut efforts. The group has already had some 70 speaking engagements or media interviews during this current blitz, with more scheduled. "It is difficult to measure LEAP's impact," said Thornton, "but it is very powerful." With only weeks left in the campaign, Thornton is going full-bore. "We have a helluva schedule between now and election day," he said. "They don't want us in the debates, they don't want us in the polls, but they can't keep our message from getting out, and in that sense, we've already won." While in Connecticut, a vote for Thornton instead of Rell or DeStefano is unlikely to have any impact on Rell's presumptive victory, it's a different story in the Maryland US Senate race. In that open seat, Democrat Ben Cardin is locked in a tight race with Republican Michael Steele. According to most recent polls, Cardin has a slight lead, but at least one poll shows a dead heat, with each candidate getting 46% of the vote and Zeese getting 3%. In Maryland, the Zeese campaign could be a real spoiler, or as Zeese prefers to put it, "competition." Zeese has already had some noticeable achievements. He has managed to forge an outsider alliance with his Green-Libertarian-Populist candidacy and he has become the first third-party candidate in Maryland to win a seat in Senate debates. Since he lacks the campaign funds to mount a full-scale media campaign, the debates will be critical to the Zeese campaign's success. "I've broken through to get in the debates -- there may be as many as six of them -- and that's key for the whole campaign. We have to be heard and seen, and this will help make the media acknowledge my candidacy," Zeese told the Chronicle. "I think my poll numbers will go up significantly once the debates start because then people will hear my message." He is having a hard time getting heard now. "The Zeese campaign is invisible," said University of Maryland government professor Paul Hernson. "He hasn't gotten much coverage." Still, said Hernson, with the race as tight as it is, Zeese could have an impact. "If this race ends up very close, it is possible a minor party candidate like Zeese can play the role of spoiler," he told the Chronicle. Zeese may benefit from the tangled racial politics of this race. The Democrat, Cardin, is white and trying to appeal to his black Democratic base, which is still stung by Cardin's victory over Kweisi Mfume in the primaries, while the Republican, Steele, is black and trying to appeal to white conservatives as well as picking up some black Democratic voters. Zeese is taking advantage of the drug policy issue where he can. "At the Urban League debate, in my introduction I talked about the need for treatment, not incarceration, and I talked about the prison population," he related. "When someone asked about whether African-Americans should support Democrats, I talked about Maryland being the most racially unfair state in the nation, with 90% of those incarcerated for drug offenses being black. That's what you get for electing Democrats, I told them." With Steele closing in on Cardin, Zeese could make the difference. The only question is who he is more likely to pull votes from, and that is by no means clear. Two other prominent drug reformers not running for office, Drug Policy Alliance executive director Ethan Nadelmann and Criminal Justice Policy Foundation executive director Eric Sterling, told the Chronicle they generally welcomed such third-party campaigns by drug reformers, although Nadelmann worried about the impact they could have on the Democratic Party. "Historically, third parties play a critical role in legitimizing controversial subjects for national political action," said Sterling, who was quick to note he had contributed to both the Zeese and Thornton campaigns. "The Republican Party was a third party when it formed and organized around the issue of the abolition of slavery. Third parties in the 1920s and 1930s advanced labor management issues that were enacted in the 1930s and 1940s that we now completely take for granted as part of the American way of life, such as paid vacations and the five day work week. The idea that there are only two political parties is unique to the United States and doesn't exist in the Constitution," he pointed out. "In Connecticut, the problems of prohibition, crime, and drug abuse have been major problems in the three major cities," Sterling said, pointing to revolving police chiefs in Hartford, the cocaine-using current mayor in Bridgeport, and historically high drug prohibition-related crime levels in New Haven. "Given this background, Cliff Thornton's candidacy, his unique personal biography and his uncommon ability to speak powerfully and effectively to many audiences has enabled him to speak about the drug issue in Connecticut and caused many people to think about the nature of our drug problem, our means of approaching it, and the consequences of approaching it that way." In Maryland, said Sterling, it is a three-way race and Zeese deserves support whether it hurts the Democratic candidate or not. "If you accept that there is a legitimate role for third parties in our democratic process, then it can't be the case that it's only when it makes no difference," he argued. "If Ben Cardin is unable to mobilize his allies in the African-American community, that is his fault, not Kevin Zeese's." Such campaigns are "unquestionably worth it," said Sterling. "Those of us who read the Drug War Chronicle understand that the struggle to change the world's drug laws is a long-term struggle and to make our ideas the conventional wisdom requires that they be articulated in the conventional forums of policy debate, such as election campaigns. In Connecticut, the Thornton campaign has done more than any single thing to legitimize the debate about drug policy, and that is unquestionably a good thing." The Drug Policy Alliance's Nadelmann largely concurred, but he raised concerns about possible negative consequences. "If you're talking about a race for governor, the question is how are the other candidates on this issue and is this helping the likely winner to arrive at a better drug policy position or not," he said. "In Connecticut, Thornton is playing a constructive role talking about drug policy and is unlikely to have an impact on who wins. But will Gov. Rell hold that against us when we need her to sign a medical marijuana bill or a bill on drug free zones?" It's a slightly different equation for legislative office, Nadelmann argued, especially this year. "It is clear that drug policy reform will fare better under a Democratic House and Senate than a Republican one. In Maryland, Kevin Zeese has broken new ground with his coalition, and that's a good thing. What you don't want to see happen is to have votes for Kevin end up throwing the election to the candidate and the party that is worse on drug policy." Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cliffthornton.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 86609 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Oct 20 14:30:34 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:30:34 +0000 Subject: {news} RE: Duffee to drop out? In-Reply-To: <20061020153436.9C36333C0BF@gandhi.greens.org> Message-ID: For better or for worse, the word is out. Of course, when the Advocate reports a "closed meeting for the party's leadership" it really means an open meeting for all Green Party members and supporters. Party members in the 4th District will be allowed to vote. RSVP or cast a vote on Evite: http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=NSABLCIXDCVNPTYXVWDI David Bedell ----Original Message Follows---- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:46:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Green Party-CT Subject: {news} Durfee to drop out? To: ElectionsCTGP , ctgp-news@ ml.greens.org, newhavengreens@ yahoogroups.com http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-green3oct20,0,3776992.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines Green Party may drop candidate, switch support to Farrell By Mark Ginocchio Staff Writer October 20, 2006 To avoid being a spoiler for Democrat Diane Farrell's congressional bid, state Green Party officials plan to meet this weekend to discuss dropping their candidate in the 4th District race and supporting the former Westport first selectwoman. When the party nominated Stamford resident Richard Duffee in July, many party members said they should run a candidate only if it didn't hurt Farrell's chances of ousting U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Bridgeport, said David Bedell, secretary for the Green Party's Fairfield County chapter. Tomorrow's closed meeting for the party's leadership came at the suggestion of Farrell's camp and the Green Party, Bedell said. A Green Party flier for its members suggested Farrell could make "concessions in exchange for our withdrawal," though Bedell would not discuss specific expectations. "We discussed this happening a number of times, and now we're looking at it again," Bedell said. The party's members will vote on dropping Duffee, and the results should be made public next week, Bedell added. Since the Green Party does not have minor-party status for the 4th District office -- meaning it has not gained 1 percent of the vote in past elections -- it cannot cross-endorse another candidate. The party could replace Duffee with another candidate up until Oct. 30. "If he were to withdraw, the party can nominate another candidate, but not another existing candidate on the ballot," state elections officer Arthur Champagne said. Shays' camp criticized Farrell and the Green Party, calling the closed-door meeting "questionable." "At this late stage in the game, the meeting should be open to the public," said Michael Sohn, Shays' campaign manger. "What concessions is she going to make? After all the debates, what is going to change?" The candidates finished their last of 11 debates yesterday at the Norwalk Inn & Conference Center. Farrell's campaign manager Adam Wood dismissed the attack, calling the meeting one of many the Democrat is using "to persuade people to vote for change." Wood said he wouldn't define the "concessions" expected by the Greens in their flier because "I wouldn't want the Greens to speak for me. I wouldn't want the Republicans to speak for me. I wouldn't want the Libertarians to speak for me. So I won't speak for them." Duffee, who has appeared in the fewest debates among the candidates since the campaign started, said he has always understood the party could eventually drop him, and he wouldn't be disappointed if it happened. "I never had the notion that it was possible for the Green Party to win this election," Duffee said. "I know people say you run to win, but it would be irresponsible for me to think that. My purpose was to get information into the campaign and to get into political discussions. I wanted to make some of these ideas more accessible." The 4th Congressional District election has been considered by most political analysts to be a toss-up. A Reuters/Zogby poll released this month put Farrell ahead of Shays 46 percent to 41 percent with 13 percent still undecided; a poll by the University of Connecticut and The Advocate and Greenwich Time taken during the same period showed Shays up 44 percent to 40 percent with 16 percent undecided. -- Assistant City Editor Jonathan Lucas contributed to this story. Copyright ? 2006, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. _________________________________________________________________ Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more?then map the best route! http://local.live.com?FORM=MGA001 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Oct 20 15:00:11 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:00:11 +0000 Subject: {news} Duffee profiled in Fairfield Citizen-News In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This appeared alongside a profile of Libertarian candidate Phil Maymin in the Brooks newspapers, including the Darien News-Review, New Canaan News-Review, etc. http://www.fairfieldcitizen-news.com/local/ci_4510280 Richard Z. Duffee By Erin Lynch Fairfield Citizen-News Article Launched:10/18/2006 10:03:55 AM EDT Richard Z. Duffee, the Green Party candidate for the 4th Congressional District, said he decided to run for office because he didn't see anyone representing his views on the state of the world today. Duffee is challenging incumbent Republican Christopher Shays, Democratic candidate Diane Farrell and Libertarian candidate Phil Maymin. "I knew if I didn't [run], nobody was going to take the position of those that I believe in. I've been listening for a long time and they all seem to be speaking on behalf of American citizens but I haven't heard them express what I believe," Duffee said during a meeting with the editorial board of Brooks Community Newspapers. "Fundamentally, I think the world as a whole is more important that any particular country, and I am very disturbed about our role in the world since 1941; we basically use the occasion of World War II to fill the power vacuum that was left after the collapse of French and British empires." He added, "Basically I think we took the bait of imperial power and we now have 725 military bases in about 120 counties and the world is terrified of us." It is "shocking" that so many United States military servicemen and -women are stationed throughout the world, Duffee said. "The fact that the United States believes that in order to keep our place in the world and to serve American interests it is necessary to have that amount of military, when we only have about 4.7 percent of the population that there is on Earth, is truly shocking." Instead of placing servicemen and -women throughout the world, Duffee believes the United States should focus on multinational disarmament conferences discussing all weapons with all countries and not just solely on the issue of nuclear weapons. Because he objects to the amount of U.S. military presence throughout the world, Duffee obviously is against the war in Iraq. If elected, Duffee said he will work toward impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for lying about the reason for entering into a war with Iraq, a war he believes is unjustified. When asked what his position is on the hundreds of thousands of troops fighting in the war, Duffee said, "I think we should get out immediately." "We have no business being there, we never should have gone there, this is illegal. We were lying, we were violating the Constitution, we are violating article 2.4 of the charter of the [United Nations], we're violating the entire tradition of the U.N., we're lying in the [United Nations] Security Council, the Bush administration was lying to Congress [and] they were lying to the public." "We should leave and we should pay reparations; we have injured that country enormously for no fault of their own," Duffee said. "The Bush administration is fooling us, they're fooling themselves but they are not fooling the rest of the world." Duffee's platform on domestic policies are to put the Federal Reserve Bank under congressional control, to forbid the FBI from political spying and repression, to begin paying reparations to descendants of slaves by a tax on inheritors of estates of slave owners, traders and those who profited from slave labor, according to his Web site, www.duffee.politicalgateway.com . His site also states that if elected, he will put a 20 percent tax on fossil fuels and use the proceeds for research into reducing costs of renewable energy and conservation and mass transit. If elected, he also plans to "create a national program to redesign suburbia to lower the cost of transportation, heating, and construction [and to] model this on [President Franklin D.] Roosevelt-era programs," his site states. He would also support setting up "a National Institute of Land Use to experiment with permaculture, with ways of returning land to its original condition, or to farmland or garden, while people live below ground, or in housing on stilts, or in housing in which the roof is productive agricultural space," according to his site. He also believes the "most serious problem facing Connecticut" is the fact that the state has the third highest Gini coefficient in the country. The Gini coefficient, he said, is the equation measured by economists to study the difference between rich and poor financial distribution. The fact that the state is putting more money into the federal government than it receives, he said, is the root of the lack of equality found between rich and poor districts. "Statewide, it's pretty clear there should be more done in the poorer districts and I think that it's most dramatic in education," he said. Duffee said he would support educational funding to come from income taxes and not through property taxes to offer better support to school districts. In an e-mail, Duffee wrote that "education as a whole is not under-funded in the U.S. But it is not funded as a genuinely public system; instead it is funded as though it were partially private. Using property tax as a basis for funding allows wealthy districts with high property values to raise more money using low mill rates than poor districts can raise using high mill rates. Consequently, landowners in prosperous areas get their children a bargain in education while people in areas of low property value get poor education even when paying taxes at higher rates." "I see a strong connection between the fact that the U.S. scores far below other developed countries on educational tests and the fact that most of those countries, like France and Germany, fund education nationally and equally for all students," he wrote. Duffee said he believed the reason why U.S. education "is so poor" is because the money goes to where "it does the least good," which is on wealthier districts instead of spending it where it is most needed. Duffee, who taught chemistry and environmental science to juniors and seniors at the Stamford Academy, said, " I have never been in a suburban high school where it was not evident that more resources were offered to the students with wealthier parents than were offered to those with poorer parents. The wealthy always have more social pressure on their side in any public institution. It should be the duty of school administrators to resist the continuous temptation to treat wealthier students better and poorer students worse." As for other issues, Duffee said there should be a universal single-payer health care system, similar to the Canadian single-payer model, and the pharmaceutical industry should become nationalized. While Duffee said he ran on the Green Party ticket because it is "more meaningful to my views that anyone else that I knew," he was very much involved with the Democratic Party up until 1995. His Web site states that he "went to law school to become a Legal Services lawyer but in 1995 [former President Bill] Clinton reduced the Legal Services Corporation to a telephone referral service." When his profession was eliminated he decided to move to India where he taught law and poverty courses before returning to the United States in 2004. Although he has virtually no political experience, Duffee said, "I certainly have been thinking about it for a long time." Even though he hasn't held a seat in a local, state or national office, Duffee did work on Lawrence Grunberger's senatorial campaign in Hudson Valley in New York in 1984 and 1986. He also helped Grunberger, for seven years, on the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation newsletter. Duffee also admitted that he doesn't expect to win the congressional seat. "I don't expect to win. Am I qualified? No, but by 19th-century standards, I am. Presently most of the politicians in Washington are lifelong politicians; they simply don't leave office. Once they're in, they're in, that's it." If elected, Duffee acknowledged that his first term would be a learning experience. "In the first couple of years I would not be very effective. I would try to figure what on Earth you have to know and who you have to talk to for what. However, every beginning congressman has that problem and I don't think it's that critical." Duffee also said he isn't encouraging any of his would-be constituents to vote for him either; in fact, he's very candid on his intentions for this race. "I won't encourage people to vote for me. I'd like to have 1 percent of the vote so my [Green Party] successor's job will be a lot easier. If I think that 1 percent would threaten Farrell's chances because I think it is so essential to get Bush out of office, to impeach him then I would give up the 1 percent." _________________________________________________________________ Try Search Survival Kits: Fix up your home and better handle your cash with Live Search! http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improve&locale=en-US&source=hmtagline From greenpartyct at earthlink.net Sun Oct 22 18:50:24 2006 From: greenpartyct at earthlink.net (Green Party of CT Tolland County Chapter) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:50:24 -0400 Subject: {news} e tu In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, I would suggest that Amy's behavior and attacks have no business on any GPCT listserv, nor at any meetings, and are not appropriate nor Green. How ironic her mention of people leaving the Party behind. The same behavior (s) she is perpetuating now are the behaviors both written and at meetings, etc. which caused the exodus of many good Greens. You'd think having been sanctioned she might have learned but no, she is starting up all over again. Again, this is not appropriate for the News or the Forum or anywhere else. At 3:58 PM -0400 10/11/06, Amy Vas Nunes wrote: yOU HAVE NOT ATTENDED A ctgp MEETING IN AT LEAST A YEAR i BELIVE YOU AND YOUR CHAPTER ARE NO LONGER PART OF ctgp. i HAVE MY RIGHT UNDER FREE SPEECH TO EXPRESS MY OPIONS. I WAS CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES BY VOTE OF THE SCC. TIM BROUGHT UP AT THE SCC BEFORE ARIZ. THAT YOU WANTED TO BE THE SECOND REP SINCE CHARLIE COULD NOT GO AND IT WAS VOTED DOWN BY SCC AND CLIFF WENT. I NEED NOT APPOLOGIZE TO ANYONE GET REAL. PEOPLE ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW THAT YOU AND JUSTINE DONATED $10,000 TO CTGP AND I BELIVEIN MY OPINION AND BY YOUR ACTIONS EXPECTED AN BID PRO QUO ON PALISTINIAN ISSURES AND HEALTH CARE. AS A JEW IT IS MY DUTY TO POINT OUT ANTISEMITUIC SPEACH OR AGENDAS. MANY JEWS HAVE QUIT THIS PARTY OVER PAST YEARS EVER WONDER WHY? >From: "John Battista" >To: "Amy Vas Nunes" , >, , >, >Subject: Re: {news} e tu >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:06:15 -0400 > >Amy, >I was not a CT representative in Tucson. I did not ask to go as a >CT representative. Please get your facts straight before making >accusations. That is insult number one you need to apologize to me >about. Second, I consider what you said about me "milking" a >financial contribution to the Green Party to be a second insult. >Please apologize for that also. Third, your use of the CT Green >Party news to post your personal opinions is a misuse of the news >service. Please refrain from doing this in the future and apologize >to the listserve for having done so. > >This is the first email I have read from you in years. You continue >to do what you were sanctioned for doing in the past. Making >insults and false accusations in combination with the misuse of the >CT Green party email listserve. If you keep up this kind of >behavior I will seek to file another ethics complaint against you. >John Battista >----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Vas Nunes" >To: ; ; >; >Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:30 PM >Subject: {news} e tu > > >>Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >>http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ >> >>to unsubscribe click here >>mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >> >>Why have you not been to nor reported to anyCTGP meetings yourself >>as IC "cochair" in over a year?Not even the convention. Yet you >>and your husband went to Ariz as "reps" of CT and he dared ask >>after a year of no shows at CTGP meetings to go as our elected rep. >>Money talks? How long can you milk thre $10,000 you donates to CTGP >>years ago***A*** >> From efficacy at msn.com Sun Oct 22 19:31:59 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:31:59 -0400 Subject: {news} e tu References: Message-ID: I did not know her in the past. But from what you are saying nothing has changed. My question is; what has she done lately to help anyone that is campaigning?? Cliff Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer ----- Original Message ----- From: Green Party of CT Tolland County Chapter To: riverbend2 at earthlink.net ; justinemccabe at earthlink.net ; chapillsbury at igc.org ; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ; timmckee at sbcglobal.net Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:50 PM Subject: Re: {news} e tu Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Dear All, I would suggest that Amy's behavior and attacks have no business on any GPCT listserv, nor at any meetings, and are not appropriate nor Green. How ironic her mention of people leaving the Party behind. The same behavior (s) she is perpetuating now are the behaviors both written and at meetings, etc. which caused the exodus of many good Greens. You'd think having been sanctioned she might have learned but no, she is starting up all over again. Again, this is not appropriate for the News or the Forum or anywhere else. At 3:58 PM -0400 10/11/06, Amy Vas Nunes wrote: yOU HAVE NOT ATTENDED A ctgp MEETING IN AT LEAST A YEAR i BELIVE YOU AND YOUR CHAPTER ARE NO LONGER PART OF ctgp. i HAVE MY RIGHT UNDER FREE SPEECH TO EXPRESS MY OPIONS. I WAS CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES BY VOTE OF THE SCC. TIM BROUGHT UP AT THE SCC BEFORE ARIZ. THAT YOU WANTED TO BE THE SECOND REP SINCE CHARLIE COULD NOT GO AND IT WAS VOTED DOWN BY SCC AND CLIFF WENT. I NEED NOT APPOLOGIZE TO ANYONE GET REAL. PEOPLE ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW THAT YOU AND JUSTINE DONATED $10,000 TO CTGP AND I BELIVEIN MY OPINION AND BY YOUR ACTIONS EXPECTED AN BID PRO QUO ON PALISTINIAN ISSURES AND HEALTH CARE. AS A JEW IT IS MY DUTY TO POINT OUT ANTISEMITUIC SPEACH OR AGENDAS. MANY JEWS HAVE QUIT THIS PARTY OVER PAST YEARS EVER WONDER WHY? >From: "John Battista" > >To: "Amy Vas Nunes" >, >>, >, >>, > >Subject: Re: {news} e tu >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:06:15 -0400 > >Amy, >I was not a CT representative in Tucson. I did not ask to go as a >CT representative. Please get your facts straight before making >accusations. That is insult number one you need to apologize to me >about. Second, I consider what you said about me "milking" a >financial contribution to the Green Party to be a second insult. >Please apologize for that also. Third, your use of the CT Green >Party news to post your personal opinions is a misuse of the news >service. Please refrain from doing this in the future and apologize >to the listserve for having done so. > >This is the first email I have read from you in years. You continue >to do what you were sanctioned for doing in the past. Making >insults and false accusations in combination with the misuse of the >CT Green party email listserve. If you keep up this kind of >behavior I will seek to file another ethics complaint against you. >John Battista >----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Vas Nunes" > >To: >; >; >>; > >Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:30 PM >Subject: {news} e tu > > >>Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >>http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ >> >>to unsubscribe click here >>mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >> >>Why have you not been to nor reported to anyCTGP meetings yourself >>as IC "cochair" in over a year?Not even the convention. Yet you >>and your husband went to Ariz as "reps" of CT and he dared ask >>after a year of no shows at CTGP meetings to go as our elected rep. >>Money talks? How long can you milk thre $10,000 you donates to CTGP >>years ago***A*** >> To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org _______________________________________________ CTGP-news mailing list CTGP-news at ml.greens.org http://ml.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news ATTENTION! The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or general mischief. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. 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My question is; what has she done lately to help anyone that is > campaigning?? > > Cliff > Thornton for Governor > PO Box 1971 > Manchester, CT 06045 > votethornton at yahoogroups.com > www.votethornton.com > 860 657 8438-H > 860 268 1294-C > 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager > 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager > Paid for by Thornton For Governor > Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Green Party of CT Tolland County Chapter > *To:* riverbend2 at earthlink.net ; justinemccabe at earthlink.net ; > chapillsbury at igc.org ; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ; timmckee at sbcglobal.net > *Sent:* Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:50 PM > *Subject:* Re: {news} e tu > > Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > > to unsubscribe click here > mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > Dear All, I would suggest that Amy's behavior and attacks have no > business on any GPCT listserv, nor at any meetings, and are not > appropriate nor Green. How ironic her mention of people leaving the > Party behind. The same behavior (s) she is perpetuating now are the > behaviors both written and at meetings, etc. which caused the exodus > of many good Greens. You'd think having been sanctioned she might > have learned but no, she is starting up all over again. Again, this > is not appropriate for the News or the Forum or anywhere else. > > At 3:58 PM -0400 10/11/06, Amy Vas Nunes wrote: > > yOU HAVE NOT ATTENDED A ctgp MEETING IN AT LEAST A YEAR i BELIVE YOU > AND YOUR CHAPTER ARE NO LONGER PART OF ctgp. i HAVE MY RIGHT UNDER > FREE SPEECH TO EXPRESS MY OPIONS. I WAS CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES BY > VOTE OF THE SCC. TIM BROUGHT UP AT THE SCC BEFORE ARIZ. THAT YOU > WANTED TO BE THE SECOND REP SINCE CHARLIE COULD NOT GO AND IT WAS > VOTED DOWN BY SCC AND CLIFF WENT. I NEED NOT APPOLOGIZE TO ANYONE GET > REAL. PEOPLE ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW THAT YOU AND JUSTINE DONATED > $10,000 TO CTGP AND I BELIVEIN MY OPINION AND BY YOUR ACTIONS > EXPECTED AN BID PRO QUO ON PALISTINIAN ISSURES AND HEALTH CARE. AS A > JEW IT IS MY DUTY TO POINT OUT ANTISEMITUIC SPEACH OR AGENDAS. MANY > JEWS HAVE QUIT THIS PARTY OVER PAST YEARS EVER WONDER WHY? > > >From: "John Battista" > >To: "Amy Vas Nunes" , > >, , > >, > >Subject: Re: {news} e tu > >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:06:15 -0400 > > > >Amy, > >I was not a CT representative in Tucson. I did not ask to go as a > >CT representative. Please get your facts straight before making > >accusations. That is insult number one you need to apologize to me > >about. Second, I consider what you said about me "milking" a > >financial contribution to the Green Party to be a second insult. > >Please apologize for that also. Third, your use of the CT Green > >Party news to post your personal opinions is a misuse of the news > >service. Please refrain from doing this in the future and apologize > >to the listserve for having done so. > > > >This is the first email I have read from you in years. You continue > >to do what you were sanctioned for doing in the past. Making > >insults and false accusations in combination with the misuse of the > >CT Green party email listserve. If you keep up this kind of > >behavior I will seek to file another ethics complaint against you. > >John Battista > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Vas Nunes" < > amyvasnunes at hotmail.com> > >To: ; ; > >; > >Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:30 PM > >Subject: {news} e tu > > > > > >>Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS > >>http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >> > >>to unsubscribe click here > >>mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > >> > >>Why have you not been to nor reported to anyCTGP meetings yourself > >>as IC "cochair" in over a year?Not even the convention. Yet you > >>and your husband went to Ariz as "reps" of CT and he dared ask > >>after a year of no shows at CTGP meetings to go as our elected rep. > >>Money talks? How long can you milk thre $10,000 you donates to CTGP > >>years ago***A*** > >> > > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > _______________________________________________ > CTGP-news mailing list > CTGP-news at ml.greens.org > http://ml.greensorg/mailman/listinfo/ctgp-news > > ATTENTION! > The information in this transmission is privileged and confidential and > intended only for the recipient listed above. If you have received this > transmission in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the > original message. The text of this email is similar to ordinary or > face-to-face conversations and does not reflect the level of factual or > legal inquiry or analysis which would be applied in the case of a formal > legal opinion and does not constitute a representation of the opinions of > the CT Green Party. The responsibility for any messages posted herein is > solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party > hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post > confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and > although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always > possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an > illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or > general mischief. > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please > immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail > transmission may contain confidential information. This information is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is > intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if > you are not the intended recipient. 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The responsibility for any messages posted herein is > solely that of the person who sent the message, and the CT Green Party > hereby leaves this responsibility in the hands of it's members. > > NOTE: This is an inherently insecure forum, please do not post > confidential messages and always realize that your address can be faked, and > although a message may appear to be from a certain individual, it is always > possible that it is fakemail. This is mail sent by a third party under an > illegally assumed identity for purposes of coercion, misdirection, or > general mischief. > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please > immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This e-mail > transmission may contain confidential information. This information is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is > intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if > you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. > > To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From efficacy at msn.com Sun Oct 22 19:58:01 2006 From: efficacy at msn.com (clifford thornton) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:58:01 -0400 Subject: {news} e tu References: Message-ID: I am sorry and will not do it again. Cliff Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Derr To: ct greens news Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:41 PM Subject: Re: {news} e tu Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.orgIMHO, this entire discussion does not belong the NEWS list serve. Everyone should refrain from using this list serve to for anything but NEWS! Andy Derr, NL Greens On 10/22/06, clifford thornton > wrote: Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org I did not know her in the past. But from what you are saying nothing has changed. My question is; what has she done lately to help anyone that is campaigning?? Cliff Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer ----- Original Message ----- From: Green Party of CT Tolland County Chapter To: riverbend2 at earthlink.net ; justinemccabe at earthlink.net ; chapillsbury at igc.org ; ctgp-news at ml.greens.org ; timmckee at sbcglobal.net Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:50 PM Subject: Re: {news} e tu Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ to unsubscribe click here mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org Dear All, I would suggest that Amy's behavior and attacks have no business on any GPCT listserv, nor at any meetings, and are not appropriate nor Green. How ironic her mention of people leaving the Party behind. The same behavior (s) she is perpetuating now are the behaviors both written and at meetings, etc. which caused the exodus of many good Greens. You'd think having been sanctioned she might have learned but no, she is starting up all over again. Again, this is not appropriate for the News or the Forum or anywhere else. At 3:58 PM -0400 10/11/06, Amy Vas Nunes wrote: yOU HAVE NOT ATTENDED A ctgp MEETING IN AT LEAST A YEAR i BELIVE YOU AND YOUR CHAPTER ARE NO LONGER PART OF ctgp. i HAVE MY RIGHT UNDER FREE SPEECH TO EXPRESS MY OPIONS. I WAS CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES BY VOTE OF THE SCC. TIM BROUGHT UP AT THE SCC BEFORE ARIZ. THAT YOU WANTED TO BE THE SECOND REP SINCE CHARLIE COULD NOT GO AND IT WAS VOTED DOWN BY SCC AND CLIFF WENT. I NEED NOT APPOLOGIZE TO ANYONE GET REAL. PEOPLE ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW THAT YOU AND JUSTINE DONATED $10,000 TO CTGP AND I BELIVEIN MY OPINION AND BY YOUR ACTIONS EXPECTED AN BID PRO QUO ON PALISTINIAN ISSURES AND HEALTH CARE. AS A JEW IT IS MY DUTY TO POINT OUT ANTISEMITUIC SPEACH OR AGENDAS. MANY JEWS HAVE QUIT THIS PARTY OVER PAST YEARS EVER WONDER WHY? >From: "John Battista" > >To: "Amy Vas Nunes" >, >>, >, >>, > >Subject: Re: {news} e tu >Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:06:15 -0400 > >Amy, >I was not a CT representative in Tucson. I did not ask to go as a >CT representative. Please get your facts straight before making >accusations. That is insult number one you need to apologize to me >about. Second, I consider what you said about me "milking" a >financial contribution to the Green Party to be a second insult. >Please apologize for that also. Third, your use of the CT Green >Party news to post your personal opinions is a misuse of the news >service. Please refrain from doing this in the future and apologize >to the listserve for having done so. > >This is the first email I have read from you in years. You continue >to do what you were sanctioned for doing in the past. Making >insults and false accusations in combination with the misuse of the >CT Green party email listserve. If you keep up this kind of >behavior I will seek to file another ethics complaint against you. >John Battista >----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Vas Nunes" > >To: >; >; >>; < timmckee at sbcglobal.net> >Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:30 PM >Subject: {news} e tu > > >>Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >>http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ >> >>to unsubscribe click here >>mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org >> >>Why have you not been to nor reported to anyCTGP meetings yourself >>as IC "cochair" in over a year?Not even the convention. Yet you >>and your husband went to Ariz as "reps" of CT and he dared ask >>after a year of no shows at CTGP meetings to go as our elected rep. >>Money talks? 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To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Sun Oct 22 22:03:39 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:03:39 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT The new Jewish bi-nationalism (Mark Levine, History News Network) Message-ID: <023c01c6f647$759b9800$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" To: ; ; Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:34 PM Subject: USGP-INT The new Jewish bi-nationalism (Mark Levine, History News Network) > The New Jewish Bi-Nationalism > > By Mark A. LeVine > History News Network (George Mason University), > October 14, 2006 > http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/30789.html > > Mr. LeVine is professor of modern Middle Eastern > history, culture, and Islamic studies at the > University of California, Irvine, and author of > the forthcoming books: Why They Don't Hate Us: > Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil; and > Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the > Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948. He is also a > contributor, with Viggo Mortensen and Pilar > Perez, to Twilight of Empire: Responses to > Occupation. Click here to access his homepage > . > > > One of the things that has made Judaism unique > among world religions is that from the start Jews > have considered themselves members not just of > the same faith, but of the same nation. Unlike > Islam, in which the "ummah" comprises a > world-wide community not grounded in any specific > territory, the people of Israel--'Am > Yisrael--have always been tied to a specific > territory, the Land of Israel. > > It is natural, then, that while the pioneers of > Zionism were mostly secular Jews, the Zionist > movement and subsequently Israeli identity have > always had a strongly religious core, which > became increasingly powerful after the conquest > of Israel's biblical heart land in the West Bank > in 1967. > > The combination of religion, nationalism and > territory within Jewish peoplehood has made it > very difficult for Israelis, and Diaspora Jews, > to accept that Palestinians could have an equal > claim to the Land of Israel. To do so would call > into question the fundamental basis of Jewish > religious and national identity. > > From the beginnings of Zionist colonization in > Palestine, however, there have been Jews who felt > that the movement's maximalist > territorial-nationalist aims were both > unrealizable and immoral. Already in 1889 the > great Hebrew writer Ahad Haam sent a scathing > dispatch to the Russian Hebrew language newspaper > Ha Melitz, documenting the mistreatment of > Palestinian Arabs by Zionist immigrants. And in > the 1920s, as the conflict over land between Jews > and Palestinian Arabs was reaching crisis > proportions, a group of prominent Jewish leaders, > including Martin Buber, Gershom Sholem and Judah > Magnes created the Brit Shalom (Covenant of > Peace), which advocated a bi-national solution to > the worsening intercommunal conflict. > > Not surprisingly, few Palestinians were willing > to accept Brit Shalom's call for equal rights to > Palestine when Jews still constituted a small > minority of the country's population. And few > Zionist leaders were willing to consider giving > up their dreams of an exclusively Jewish state, > particularly when their benefactor, Great > Britain, held the mandate to prepare the country > for independence. Sharing the land became ever > less likely in the wake of the Holocaust and 1948 > war. > > In the wake of the establishment of Israel, and a > generation later the conquest of the West Bank > and Gaza Strip, the idea of bi-nationalism fell > into the intellectual and political wilderness. > The few Jews who advocated it were castigated as > dangerous dreamers, self-hating Jews, or worse. > The Oslo peace process , which was clearly--if > not officially--premised on a two state solution, > seemed to relegate the binational idea to the > proverbial dust bin of history. > > But as the last decade has shown, Oslo was a > fatally flawed process. Palestinians share the > blame for its collapse, but its failure was most > deeply rooted in the inability of most Israelis, > even the politicians behind the peace process, to > pay the economic and territorial price for real > Palestinian self-determination: a truly > independent state, free of Jewish settlements, > with full economic sovereignty and control of its > resources. And so the years of the peace process > saw the number of settlers double, while land > expropriations, the expansion of by-pass roads, > and the destruction of Palestinian homes all > continued at an alarming rate. This during the > very period Palestinians were supposed to be > moving towards independence. > > By the fall of 2000, all that was needed was the > right spark--provided by Ariel Sharon's > provocative visit to the al-Aqsa mosque--to set > off a new intifadah. Six years later, the idea of > a viable Palestinian state being established in > the foreseeable future is hard to imagine. > > The current impasse in Israeli-Palestinian > negotiations, coupled with the intensification of > the West Bank occupation and increasing > militarization of Israeli-Jewish identity has led > a small but growing number of Jews to rediscover > the bi-national option as a morally, politically > and historically viable solution to the > Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Such a vision sees > Jews and Palestinian Arabs living throughout the > Land of Israel/Palestine in peace, and with equal > political and civil rights. > > One of the more recent advocates of > bi-nationalism is NYU Professor and > internationally renown historian Tony Judt, a > British-born Jew who lost much of his family in > the Holocaust. In the last month Judt has had two > talks canceled after phone calls from Jewish > leaders, including one at the Polish Consulate in > New York City. This is on top of frequent and > often strident attacks against him because of his > advocacy of bi-nationalism and periodic criticism > of Israeli policies. > > The attacks on Judt are not exceptional. Most > every Jewish scholar or activist I know who has > criticized Israeli policy has met with similarly > virulent attacks by the organized Jewish > community (non-Jewish scholars naturally fair > even worse). Anti-Israel, self-hating Jew, > Holocaust denier, terrorist apologist--these are > just a few of the epithets hurled at anyone who > challenges right wing Jewish orthodoxy concerning > Israel. Visiting Israeli scholars routinely face > similar accusations for expressing views that are > the daily fare of Israeli opinion pages and news > programs. > > I believe these intense clashes within the Jewish > community over the future of Israel reveal the > emergence of a new bi-nationalism; one related > but not identical to Jewish territorial > bi-nationalism. It reflects a deepening rift > within Judaism, as Jews move farther apart from > each other over the issue of Israel, and through > it, what it means to be a Jew in the era of > globalization. > > One half of the Jewish nation (sadly, the smaller > half) imagines Judaism as a religion of peace and > tolerance, one that fulfills the biblical > commandment to be a light unto the nations by > returning to the front lines of world-wide > struggles for justice, democracy, sustainable > development and healing the environment. The > other half of the Jewish people is following the > path of the Jewish founders of neo-Conservatism > in the United States. Similar to their > counterparts in the Christian and Muslim worlds, > they see humanity as divided by a clash of > civilizations and a zero-sum competition for > power, territory and resources, in which > compromise, never mind true coexistence with the > Other, is impossible. In such an amoral world, > their vision of Judaism celebrates achieving > maximal Jewish political and economic power as a > supreme good, whether in Israel/Palestine or the > United States. > > The two binationalisms are in fact intimately > related. As it becomes evident that a two-state > solution is no longer possible, the Jewish > community will divide even more sharply over the > future of Israel, and through it, of Judaism as a > religion and system of values. Many will support > even harsher repression against Palestinians, > which in the context of looming demographic > parity between Jews and Palestinians will evolve > either towards a Jewish-dominated apartheid state > in historical Palestine, or towards the forced > transfer of most of the country's Palestinian > population so that, similar to 1948, only a small > and manageable Palestinian community remains. > (Indeed, Israeli scholars have been warning of > "creeping" annexation, transfer and apartheid in > the Occupied Territories since before the > collapse of the peace process.) > > Others will choose reimagine Jewish and Israeli > identity in a manner that embraces Palestinians > as equal partners in the country's future, with > Jews able to live freely in the heartland of > biblical Israel while Palestinians are free to > return to the more than two thirds of Palestine > from which they have been exiled since 1948. > Viewing themselves as "pro-Israeli and > pro-Palestinian," they conceive of Jewish/Israeli > or Palestinian security as unattainable absent a > secure life for the Other. > > Of course, Palestinians, and the Muslim ummah > more broadly, face a similar choice between > peaceful coexistence and permanent war with Jews > and the West at large. The divisions within their > communities on these fundamental questions are > becoming starker by the day. > > Few proponents of a bi-national solution to the > Israeli-Palestinian conflict claim that it is an > ideal solution. But given the failure of the > two-state discourse and the unpalatability of > most conceivable alternative solutions, it > certainly deserves a hearing. At the very least, > those who advocate it don't deserve to be accused > by Jewish leaders of offering "offensive > caricatures" of Israel (as ADL head Abraham > Foxman accused Judt of doing), of being Holocaust > deniers, or of supporting terrorists and even the > "genocide" of our people. > > That kind of language will only sharpen the > divisions within the Jewish community, weakening > solidarity at the same time it violates the > self-critical spirit of Judaism's prophetic > heritage. Such a development will do more harm to > Israel and Judaism than Hamas, Hezbollah and > al-Qa'eda could ever hope to do. From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Oct 23 01:16:41 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:16:41 +0000 Subject: {news} article on CT Working Families Party In-Reply-To: <1161388900.2b12e62a7452d911.10488177@persist.google.com> Message-ID: You may have seen this article last month--it was in the Fairfield County Weekly. If you're in the 5th District and were planning to vote for Chris Murphy (since there's no Green running), you may want to vote for him on the WFP line instead of the Democrat line. This strengthens the role of minor parties. http://www.ctnow.com/custom/nmm/fairfieldweekly/hce-fcw-0921-ff39-nc-electionhtfd39.artsep21,0,5916410.story Blue-Collar State The Ever-expanding Influence Of The Working Families Party By Adam Bulger September 21 2006 The Sept. 12 Connecticut Working Families Party state convention was held at the Il Monticello restaurant in Meriden. With its wall-mounted chandeliers and dim lighting, the banquet room seemed suited more for weddings than the unadorned political language and attitude used by the Working Families Party speakers. An outline of the evening?s agenda was handed out to attendees. It listed the three main issues the speakers would discuss?universal health care, outsourcing and the earned income tax credit?and gave the schedule for the event in 15 minute increments. Moderator Deborah Noble, who was elected to the Windham Board of Selectmen solely on the WFP ticket in 2003, warned that the schedule would be followed to the minute . After a five-minute break, she cleared her throat on the mic to assemble the crowd of about 40 union members, activists and politicians for the presentation of candidates. For the upcoming election, which will take place on Nov. 7, the WFP is running two candidates under its own banner and cross- endorsing over 70 candidates in other parties. Several candidates cross-endorsed by the WFP attended, including state senator Gary LeBeau (D-3rd District) and state representative Henry Genga (D-10th District). Gubernatorial hopeful John DeStefano attended, despite not having been endorsed by the WFP (state law requires parties to run petitioning candidates in races before they can endorse candidates). The New Haven mayor said he attended the convention because of common issues. ?This group cares about the same things I do. We share a value, everybody has a responsibility to work,? DeStefano said in a later interview. ?We need families to be strong, and for that, folks need to earn living wages and have access to health care.? When candidates are cross-endorsed, they get two lines on a ballot, one for their national party (predominantly Democratic, but the WFP does endorse Republicans) and one for the WFP. ?[Cross-endorsing] gives progressive voters a way to send a message about issues like health care, jobs and living wages and let elected officials know they want them to focus more on economic issues that affect working-class people,? Connecticut WFP director Jon Green said. ?They get to do that without the stigma of wasting a vote on some hopelessly unelectable candidate. It?s an attractive option for people who want to send a message, and still have their vote count for an electable candidate.? State representative Joe Aresimowicz (D-30th District), who spoke at the convention, was a priority for the WFP in his first run for office. He received 226 votes on the WFP line and said the party?s energy was key to his campaign. ?They have shown they?re an effective voice in the races. They?re an unusually strategic and effective third party,? Aresimowicz said. This year, the WFP has prioritized Chris Murphy?s race for Congress against 12-term incumbent Republican, Nancy Johnson. ?We?re going to target our efforts on the places where we think we?ll have the biggest impact on getting people elected who will fight for our issues,? Green said. Geronimo Valdez, an East Hartford machinist and union shop steward who is running under the WFP banner for state representative, indicated that the party?s message is strong enough to sway anyone who hears it. ?The money doesn?t vote. It takes people to vote, not money. As long as I?m contacting the people I have a chance,? Valdez said. editor@ fairfieldweekly.com Copyright ? 2006, Fairfield County Weekly _________________________________________________________________ Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more?then map the best route! http://local.live.com?FORM=MGA001 From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Oct 23 12:12:03 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} CCSU- Rell still claims she wants Thornton in debate! balks at Thorntons' ideas on Guard Message-ID: <20061023161203.29595.qmail@web81403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Current issue: October 18, 2006Central Connecticut State University News October 18, 2006 Interview with Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell By Mark T. Rutkowski Copy Editor Governor Jodi Rell entered office in 2004 under a dark cloud of dishonesty and exploitation. Former running mate Governor John Rowland plead guilty to corruption charges and has since served 10 months in a federal prison. Despite this precarious introduction, today Rell enjoys a record 80 percent approval rating. Her opponents in the 2006 race for Governor include Democrat John DeStefano, Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton and Joe Zdonczyk of the Concerned Citizens party. Mark Rutkowski: Governor Rell, Democratic nominee John DeStefano has balked at the idea of an open debate that would also include Cliff Thornton of the Green Party and Joe Zdonczyk of the Concerned Citizens. You, however, are agreeable to such a debate. Why? Governor Jodi Rell: I believe that candidates who qualify for the ballot deserve to have a place in the debates. It is as simple as that. MR: In your July 2004 inauguration speech you promised that your administration would ?work steadfastly to create jobs and grow [Connecticut?s] economy.? In August the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said the state faces ?near stagnation? in job growth. In addition, this past month a report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ranked Connecticut 45th in the nation for job growth. What is your administration doing to address the shortcomings in Connecticut?s economy? JR: We have added nearly 20,000 jobs since I took office. At the same time we have protected tens of thousands of existing jobs, not just the 31,500 jobs associated with the U.S. Navy submarine base in Groton but thousands more at ING, MetLife, Traveler?s and elsewhere. My economic development strategy is multidimensional. We must address not only traditional incentives for employers to grow or locate in Connecticut and we have. GlobeOp Financial Services, for example, is moving to Hartford to take advantage of two new tax credits I proposed, one for companies that create 50 or more new jobs and one for companies that hire workers laid off elsewhere. We must also address root issues such as education, tax policy, energy, transportation and so on. Am I satisfied with job creation? No. I won?t be happy until we?re number one. But with unemployment running well below the national average, our average annual incomes rising steadily and a solid plan for growth, I do know now is not the time to be hitting our employers with enormous new taxes and government mandates. MR: A July 2006 Quinnipiac University poll found that 66 percent of Connecticut voters believe going to war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do. Green Party gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton says that if elected he would not send any more Connecticut National Guard troops to Iraq. Are you willing to make the same promise? JR: No governor has the authority to refuse to send National Guard troops to Iraq. When the National Guard is on active duty in the state, during a severe storm for example, then the governor is their Commander-in-Chief. But when the National Guard is called to federall service, they are subject to the orders of the Congress and the President of the United States. MR: Same-sex civil unions became legal in Connecticut one year ago. However, such unions are not recognized outside the state as traditional marriages are. Furthermore, the law does not grant same-sex couples divorce proceedings. Do you think Connecticut should extend the right of marriage to same-sex couples? JR: I was proud to sign the civil union bill passed by the legislature in 2005 because it extends civil rights to all couples, no matter their gender, and sends the unmistakable message that discrimination in any form is unacceptable in Connecticut. I believe, however, that marriage should be defined as the union of one man and one woman. MR: One year after Katrina, people are still refugees and schools remain closed. What has your administration done to prevent catastrophes similar to Katrina from happening in Connecticut? JR: I believe very strongly that government has no higher responsibility than to safeguard its citizens, not only from terrorist attack but all threats, including natural disasters. To that end I have fought tooth and nail for Connecticut?s fair share of federal Homeland Security funding, despite shortsighted federal distribution formulas. I have also insisted that state authorities our own Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security as well as our state police, our Military Department, local police and fire departments and municipal governments have planned and prepared for all forms of disasters then tested those plans with drills and exercises. Last year Connecticut was the host state for the international terrorism exercise called TOPOFF3, which provided many valuable lessons for local and state officials on issues as diverse as incident management and coordination with federal authorities. In addition, the ample evidence of poor preparation for the devastating hurricanes last summer at all levels of government led me to immediately order a series of statewide drills that continue even now. Every department in state government and local governments across Connecticut have joined in making preparations to deal with a catastrophic storm, identifying places of shelter, marking and testing evacuation routes, checking on supplies and emergency equipment and so on. Most recently Connecticut?s Department of Public Health and other state agencies have prepared to deal with a possible outbreak of avian influenza. 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URL: From greenpartyct at sbcglobal.net Mon Oct 23 12:19:31 2006 From: greenpartyct at sbcglobal.net (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} CT Post columnist- Ferrucci (and Nader) steal the debate with Lieberman Message-ID: <20061023161931.53658.qmail@web81411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Capitol ViewJoe's challengers make some dentsArticle Launched:10/22/2006 08:01:05 AM EDT It doesn't appear that Alan Schlesinger is going to take enough votes away from U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman for Ned ? or as CBS News star Bob Scheiffer said, "Ted" ? Lamont to win the November election. Schlesinger, "The Voice of the Valley," as it says on his always-closed Shelton campaign office, tried the other afternoon at The Bushnell to point out Lieberman's appeal to moderate Connecticut Republicans the incumbent will need to win. But as Schlesinger heads for what the polls call single-digit support, Lamont and Lieberman talked around him, literally and figuratively, on a crowded stage that was testament to democracy, with the appearance of Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci and Timothy Knibbs, the Concerned Citizens nominee. There was Ralph Nader, Green Party icon and 2000 presidential spoiler, shuffling into The Bushnell's main auditorium like Methuselah. Better yet, he was Jacob Marley's ghost, rattling the chains ? in this case a folder of papers ? as a reminder of the last time Lieberman tried to have it all by running for vice president and senator at the same time. I was thinking it was too bad that Nader ? born in Winsted, up there where Route 8 runs out of four lanes, shifts to starboard and winds toward the Berkshires ? isn't a Senate candidate. He would have had a blast nailing Lieberman for his service to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for exporting jobs out of the country and supporting anti-consumer legislation. As it was, Ferrucci scored big points on the issue, but it would have made a nice scene for Nader, a little reward for him at age 72, to get under Lieberman's hide once more with pronouncements about the incumbent's political past, present and future. It didn't take very long for Bill Curry, the guy who couldn't beat the crooked John "Why Should I Resign if I've Done Nothing Wrong" Rowland in the 2002 gubernatorial race, to spot Nader. Curry drifted down an aisle toward Nader like a slightly under-inflated parade balloon, his ego tenuously tethered, his head still big enough to take out a streetlight if one were handy there, high above the crowd. It wasn't much of an audience either, with less than half the orchestra-level seats filled for the mid-afternoon WFSB-TV taping. The exercise was marred by microphone problems and at least two miscues by Schieffer. The TV station seemed more interested in cashing its checks for the never-ending series of attack ads, than actually understanding this crazy Senate race and the national attention it has accumulated since Ned Lamont dropped his membership in Greenwich's exclusive Round Hill Club and emerged, out of the blue, to become Lieberman's bete noire. Incredibly, the station actually tried to, briefly, prevent reporters from witnessing the taping, thinking they could keep a lid on it until its broadcast about 30 hours later. The TV station, which over the last few years has had a negligible presence in the state Capitol, seemed to have no familiarity with the newspapers and reporters that have been covering this Senate circus since the late winter, when Lamont and Tom Swan, his campaign manager/doppelganger made their marriage in political heaven. Lamont, who seemed less bug-eyed than the first debate with Lieberman, touched his usual anti-Bush themes. He said the savings from an Iraqi withdrawal could be used to expand health-care coverage. He made at least one mistake when he referred to "47 million people with health insurance" when he meant those without coverage. "We will never fix Washington with more partisan game playing," Lieberman said in what has been his standard public stump pronouncement, even as his campaign has shown no restraint in attacking Lamont on anything and everything. "We will only fix Washington by putting the interests of the people who elect us ahead of politics." Maybe the big disappointment, for sheer entertainment value alone, was the relative restraint Schlesinger exhibited so soon after his comic, scary, borscht-belt routine in Stamford a couple days earlier. But in a state where President Bush has one of the lowest approval rates in the nation, promising to march to the Republican tune in Washington isn't exactly a great marketing plan. At the end, I think Schlesinger offered many reasons to vote for Lieberman, who opposed recent jingoistic legislation. "Nah, he was the deciding vote against the flag-burning amendment and actually voted against English first," Schlesinger said. Still, if seen by enough Republican voters who haven't made up their minds on Lieberman, Schlesinger's nearly coherent performance might have finally lifted his candidacy out of the single-digit ghetto he's had in the polls. Is it enough to take votes from Lieberman and lift Lamont? I don't think so In the end, or at least before the various campaign aides offered up their people for post-debate spin, there was a lot of meat to chew on. Knibbs, who was conveniently positioned to the right of Ferrucci on the stage, sounded like a slightly conservative version of the Green Party, until his final appeal to the anti-abortion vote. Ferrucci, an artist and bread truck driver, was going for a look more appropriate for a country-music wards ceremony than a political debate ? was less nervous than he's been, but still appeared to be in deep water. "We really need to pull these troops out right now," he said as the debate continued to return to the main issue facing the nation. "If we're going to sit there as long as it takes, we'll never leave Iraq." While Knibbs and Ferrucci, the fringe candidates, took up 20 percent of the hour, they did add a couple more fronts against Lieberman. If he wins on Election Day, as it appears he will, barring a late-surging anti-incumbent mood in the state, Lieberman can't say opponents didn't take their best shots at him. Ken Dixon's Capitol View appears Sundays in the Connecticut Post. 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Oct 23 15:45:03 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} GP,Democrats form Alliance to back Farrell Message-ID: <20061023194503.48113.qmail@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Green Party, Democrats Form Alliance To Back Farrell ADVERTISERS --------------------------------- Advertise on ctnow -->Associated Press The Hartford Courant October 23 2006, 1:39 PM EDT HARTFORD, Conn. -- With polls showing a tight matchup in this year's 4th Congressional District race, the Green Party is withdrawing its candidate and throwing support to Democrat Diane Farrell. "We decided to have a strategic alliance with the Democratic Party because we believed this was the quickest way to achieve peace in the Middle East," said John Sieh, treasurer for Richard Duffee, the Green Party's 4th District candidate. Farrell, who hopes to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays in the southwestern Connecticut district, has called on President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. She has also urged Congress to set benchmarks for the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. Shays has supported the war. But in August, he said the U.S. should consider setting a timeline for troop withdrawals from Iraq. The race is a rematch of the 2004 contest, which Shays won with 52 percent of the vote to Farrell's 48 percent. Shays won by about 14,000 votes. The Green Party believes it can deliver about 1,300 votes from the 4th District. Statewide, there are approximately 2,000 registered Green Party members and about 1,000 mostly unaffiliated voters who support Green Party candidates in elections. A news conference announcing the endorsement was scheduled for 2:30 p.m. in Norwalk. Sieh said Farrell's campaign approached the Greens about three weeks ago. Both sides have been negotiating ever since. On Saturday, 4th District Green Party members held a convention and decided to notify the Secretary of the State to black out Duffee's name on the Nov. 7 ballot. The deadline for such a request is Tuesday. Aside from the war in Iraq, Sieh said the Greens like Farrell's position on the environment, including her support for biodiesel fuel and mass transit. In return for Greens' support, Farrell has agreed to post the Green Party's issues on her campaign web site and to support the party's participation in future debates. Duffee, 57, is a poet and writer who also has worked as an environmental lawyer and a high school science teacher. He has participated in two of 11 debates. Sieh called the alliance with the Democrats "an historical event" and said it will ultimately empower the Greens and improve voters' perceptions of the minor party. "We are not spoilers. We want to let the press and the country know that we are modern 21st century politicians," he said. "We're way beyond egos. 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(PDA only endorses Democrats as they are essentially an arm of the Democratic Party and put party before principles.) Cindy is highly critical of the Democrats to the point of saying that she is looking at starting a new third party that will be "viable and credible" and not ruled by the "corporate elite." Cindy's endorsement is particularly important in Maryland where Mike Hersh, the leader of Progressive Democrats of Maryland, has been on a Cardin crusade -- misstating Cardin's record by closing his eyes to Cardin's record of voting $320 billion for the war, opposing exit strategy amendments, supporting stay the course resolutions and voting for the Patriot Act as well as many other corporate-friendly pieces of legislation. See http://kevinzeese. com/content/view/205/5/ for Cardin's record. Cardin has also refused to take the bombing of Iran off the table and is an ardent supporter of Israel no matter what they do. The Jewish peace group, Jewish Voice for Peace gives Cardin a failing grade of 40%. Rather than allying with the peace movement in the Jewish community, Cardin allies with the hawks and is one of the top recipients of Israeli lobby money. Indeed, when one looks at Cardin's funding sources he fits exactly what Cindy is concerned about -- politicians who are funded by the corporate elite and have a history of doing their bidding in Congress. (Michael Steele is also wrong on these issues. For his record see http://kevinzeese. com/content/view/207/5/.) My hope is that peace advocates will vote peace -- if they do there is only one choice in Maryland. Further, voters that see that the broader issue of the day is corporate control of government will vote for the only candidate that is not taking money from the big business special interests. We can change the direction of this country -- and it can begin in Maryland on November 7 if people vote for what they want and are not manipulated by the two party trap of voting for what you don't want. As Cindy says "Instead of voting for the 'lesser of two evils' we should be voting for a candidate that reflects our 'beatitudes' and not the war machine's." If people want a copy of the DVD of the debate we held at the Urban League we have high quality copies available (better than the one on the web, this one has four camera angles rather than one). Please get one and invite all of your neighbors over to watch it. This was a historic debate for Maryland with three candidates sharing the stage -- this has never happened before in a statewide election in Maryland. We will be having a televised debate on October 25th. It will be on News Channel 8 as well as on Maryland Public Television. Spread the word so voters can really see their choices by comparing the three candidates as they stand together and exchange ideas. Kevin www.ZeeseForSenate.org www.Zeese.US (wiki site) *An Interview with Cindy Sheehan* by Joshua Frank (repost and link) /Saturday Oct 21st, 2006 10:14 PM / /Cindy Sheehan responds to Joshua Frank's questions about her cooperation with the PDA (Progressive Democrats of America) and her future political plans./ *An Interview with Cindy Sheehan Independent Politics and the Antiwar Movement * Joshua Frank: Cindy, we are in the armpit of another election season and it seems that the mainstream antiwar movement is rallying behind the Democrats once again, hoping if the Dems can just recapture the House that the Republicans will finally be held accountable for all their horrible faults. Impeachment will follow and the war will end. What do you think? Where do you stand on all of this? Cindy Sheehan: I hold very little hope that, due to the utter corruption of our electoral system, and the Republican reign of terror and fear against the American public, the Democrats will even take back one or more Houses of Congress. Even if the Democrats take back the lower House, the potential Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) has already said that impeachment would not be "in the cards." Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi) has also backed off of impeachment rhetoric. Since Bush has said over and over again that the troops aren't coming home while he is president, it is up to us to make sure that his presidency is cut short. We all know that the Vietnam War ended when Congress cut its funding. There is a bill that has been sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern, (D-Ma) HR4232 that cuts funding to leave our troops in Iraq, but he has very little support and even a smaller chance of getting it to the floor for a vote. I believe that most representatives don't support the bill because they will be accused of "not supporting the troops." I believe that it is not supporting the troops to leave them in that nightmare. Although I admire the Democrats on many issues, when it comes to war and peace, most get their pockets lined by the same corporate interests. No matter which party has control of Congress come November, we the people have to keep the pressure up to stop the current course our country is taking. Frank: You are currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Progressive Democrats of America, a pro-Democrat organization that calls for reform of the Democratic Party from within. The PDA consistently ignores progressive antiwar alternatives to the Democrats. Do you think that such a position could actually hurt the antiwar movement? Should we instead be supporting antiwar candidates who want to hold both parties accountable? Sheehan: I think that the PDA endorses candidates based on their entire platforms. Of course, I only care about candidate's record on the war and what they say about peace. I prefer to call our movement a "peace" movement, because "antiwar" is too narrow. I think it would be great if we didn't need a PDA, if all Democrats were progressive peace candidates, but we know they are not. I would vote for a Republican if they were calling for the withdrawal of troops and for impeachment, and I definitely think a viable third party could rein in the "two" parties we have now. We will never have a viable third party, though, as long as we vote out of fear and not out of integrity. Instead of voting for the "lesser of two evils" we should be voting for a candidate that reflects our "beatitudes" and not the war machine's. Frank: The PDA may endorse candidates based on their entire platform, but they still won't support antiwar candidates that are not Democrats -- and they've received a fair amount of criticism for that position. Do you think that such a policy may be a problem for those who want to build an independent antiwar movement that seeks to challenge both parties? Sheehan: Yes, well the group is called Progressive Democrats of America. They have had no problem with me endorsing third party candidates. I completely support a viable third party. I don't know if PDA's position is holding up an independent antiwar party as much as the mainstream Republican and Democrats are. I think reform of the Democratic Party could only reinforce antiwar efforts and all progressive causes in general. I don't think the PDA is hurting the antiwar movement because I don't think they have enough consolidated power to affect it one-way or the other. Frank: It seems to me that working to reform the Democratic Party, like the PDA is, sidelines other issues, most importantly right now, the war effort. I guess you don't agree? Sheehan: I think it will take all of us working for all kinds of issues; the PDA can focus on their piece. I will continue to focus on mine just like you will continue to focus on yours. Frank: Who are the peace candidates you are supporting this year? Sheehan: So far I have supported three who ended up losing in the primaries: Marcy Winograd, Jonathan Tasisni and Christine Cegelis -- all of whom are Democrats, first two up against pro-war incumbents. I have also supported Jeanne Cricenzo, a Democrat, Malachy McCourt for Governor of New York who is a Green and Michael Berg and Todd Chretien, both of whom are Greens. Kevin Zeese of Maryland who is an independent candidate. And most recently I told Howie Hawkins, who is running against Hillary Clinton in New York as a Green, that I would support his antiwar campaign. Frank: I've heard a rumor that you may be looking to start your own third party. Is that true? Sheehan: Yes, it is true. I think that to save our democracy our country needs a viable and credible third party. This nation was founded on rule by a few rich white males, and for all intents and purposes, we are still ruled by a corporate elite. We need a third party that will represent all the people, not just the wealthy. http://brickburner. blogs.com/my_weblog/200... blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/10/an_interview_wi.html> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Mon Oct 23 15:53:41 2006 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:53:41 -0400 Subject: {news} AFSC newsletter:Iraq exhibits at Yale; Free Danbury 11 petition; bus trip to see Rachel Corrie play Message-ID: <016401c6f6dc$f9b69b90$ab864c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> 6-Story Newsletter Template + Images ----- Original Message ----- From: AFSC Connecticut To: [Ed DuBrule] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:00 PM Subject: Eyes Widen Open Exhibit coming to Yale Divinity school Oct 20-31 American Friends Service Committee Connecticut In This Issue: October 19, 2006 . Eyes Wide Open Coming to Yale Divinity School Oct 20-31 . A bus trip to New York City to see . Dreams and Nightmares: an Exhibit on Life and Death in Iraq Coming to Yale Divinity School . Support Immigrant Rights. Sign the Free the Danbury 11 Petition Eyes Wide Open Coming to Yale Divinity School Oct 20-31 The well known AFSC exhibit Eyes Wide Open will be installed and on display on the quad of the Yale Divinity School in New Haven from October 20 through October 31. Eyes Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee's widely-acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War, features a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty, a field of shoes and a Wall of Remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict, and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war. We will have boots honoring U.S. casualities from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and New Hamsphire. If you would like to help volunteer during the exhibit we are looking for people to help with set up on Friday, October 20 starting at 10:00am, taking down the display on Tuesday, October 31st starting at 3:00pm, and for people to be on hand during the display to talk with those who come to see it. Please contact David Amdur at 860-523-1534 or 781-249-9320 or at damdur at afsc.org if you can help out. The address of the Yale Divinity School is 409 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511-2167 http://afsc.org/eyes/index.php Dreams and Nightmares: an Exhibit on Life and Death in Iraq Coming to Yale Divinity School From October 23-25 the new AFSC photo exhibit Dreams and Nightmares: an Exhibit on Life and Death in Iraq will be on display for the first time in Connecticut at the Yale Divinity School. Dreams and Nightmares is a memorial to Iraqis who have lost their lives in the war and occupation. With photographs, names and personal stories, it conveys the unseen side of the war in Iraq - the tragedy being experienced by everyday Iraqis. Careful estimates put Iraqi deaths at more than at 655,000* - most of them civilians. http://afsc.org/eyes/dreams-and-nightmares.htm Support Immigrant Rights. Sign the Free the Danbury 11 Petition AFSC Connecticut is actively involved in the campaign to free 11 Ecuadorian day laborers detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and Danbury police in a joint operation on September 19th in Danbury. Please sign the petetion and distribute it widely. [The initiators of this petition ask that all friends of the immigrant rights movement take a moment to read and sign it as a show of opposition to the ongoing attacks on immigrants in Danbury and across the country. If you and/or your organization would like to endorse, please email FreeTheDanbury11 at yahoo.com or call (203) 417-3590. Thank you.] Dear Representative Johnson, Governor Rell, and Mayor Boughton: On Tuesday, September 19, the city government of Danbury collaborated with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in an attack on working people. A federal agent, disguised as a contractor, lured 11 immigrant day laborers into a van with the promise of work and drove them to the Danbury police station, where federal agents awaited to whisk them away to jail in Hartford, then on to detention in Boston. With no justification, 7 of them have since been moved to a prison in Texas, making it even more difficult for families to contact them or petition for their release. On Wednesday, October 12, the ICE attacked again, raiding the homes of 3 immigrant workers in Danbury and arresting them. On the same day, a fourth immigrant was pulled over and arrested for not using his turn signal, and Danbury police called the ICE to take him away. These people are not criminals. They came here to work and contribute to the wealth of our society and have committed no crime. We view all of these arrests as audacious attacks on civil liberties, due process, workers' rights, and human dignity. No attack on immigrant workers can improve the lives of American-born workers. On the contrary, every raid that goes unchallenged is an assault on the living standards of working people, regardless of legal status, because it weakens the resolve of immigrants to stand up for themselves and makes it easier for employers to get away with paying everyone less. We demand that all the Danbury 11 be freed immediately with charges dropped. We demand an immediate end to the attacks on the immigrant community. We demand that the State of Connecticut and the City of Danbury end collaboration with ICE. Finally, we demand equal rights and legalization for all immigrants. An injury to one is an injury to all. Sincerely, Initiators: Leonel Villavicencio, President, Danbury Area Coalition for the Rights of Immigrants Franklin Pea, President, Ecuadorian Civic Center of Danbury Wilson Hernandez, Vice President, Ecuadorian Civic Center of Danbury Pastor Juana Jourdain-Villavicencio, Hispanic United Church of Christ Christopher Towne, Danbury Coalition for Peace Endorsers (list in formation): John Olsen, President of Connecticut AFL-CIO Art Perry, Political Director of SEIU/32BJ Connecticut Carol Lambiase, Education Director, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Roger Vann, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut Rabbi Donna Berman, Executive Director, Charter Oak Cultural Center Rachel Meeropol, Center for Constitutional Rights Gabriel Camacho, Coordinator of New England American Friends Service Committee's Project Voice A bus trip to New York City to see Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice, American Friends Service Committee, Greater New Haven Peace Council, and West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice invite you on a: Bus trip to New York to see this play: "My Name is Rachel Corrie" Saturday, November 11 The Hartford Courant has a review of the play tht has just opened in New York: http://www.courant.com/hc-rachelcorrierev.artoct16,0,2403092.story The New York Times has a review here: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/theater/reviews/16rach.html Minetta Lane Theatre 18 Minetta Lane New York City, New York Taken from the words left behind in the diaries, letters and emails of American activist Rachel Corrie, MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE chronicles the human, social and political evolution in the life and controversial death of a young woman. The play traces the life of Rachel Corrie From her early days in Washington State, through her experiences as an activist seeking to learn more about the community within Gaza. Performed by Megan Dodds, MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE has been developed by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, in collaboration with Royal Court Theatre's International Department and produced with the kind permission of Rachel Corries's Family. Cost: $90 for the bus and theater ticket For more information: AFSC-CT office (860)523-1534 or Wayne (860)234-5405 or go to http://www.hopeoutloud.org/rachelcorrie.html American Friends Service Committee Connecticut Area Office 56 Arbor Street, Suite 213 Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860.523.1534 Fax: 860.523.1705 Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Confirm | Forward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Oct 23 16:09:54 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} (NewHaven Independent) "Hey, Ralph: How Can You be in Two Places at Once?" Message-ID: <20061023200954.38948.qmail@web81408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hey, Ralph: How Can You Be Two Places At Once? by Melissa Bailey | October 20, 2006 08:14 AM | Permalink | Melissa Bailey Photo "Wooo, Ralphie!" cried a local fireman as New Haven's perennial underdog candidate, Ralph Ferrucci, appeared on the plasma screen at Rudy's Bar & Grill -- aka campaign headquarters -- in a nationally watched U.S. Senate debate broadcast Thursday night. Ferrucci, who ran his whole campaign out of the Elm Street bar when he ran for mayor on the Guilty Party ticket in 2003, sat down with a couple friends and some Belgian frites to watch the TV broadcast. Ferrucci, a New Haven native in his 30s, came in his usual outfit: All black, with a rock T-shirt and a campaign-pin-studded dress jacket. This year, the pins are Green Party green: "Ferrucci for Senate". "Hey, how can you be in two places at once?" a Rudy's regular asked Ferrucci, looking up at the screen. "We filmed it yesterday," replied the candidate. After making earlier runs for New Haven mayor and congressman, Ferrucci saw the biggest moment in his political career Wednesday as he stood up on the stage of Hartford's Bushnell alongside Sen. Joe Lieberman and Democratic challenger Ned Lamont in a five-way candidates' debate. The debate, cosponsored by WFSB-TV, Channel 3, was broadcast Thursday night at 7 p.m. (Footage is available on this website) "It took me two hours to calm down" after Wednesday's excitement, Ferrucci told a friend through his cell phone, standing in the Rudy's front doorway as a half-dozen patrons followed the debate inside. "Hey, dude, is that you?" asked a man at one of the heavily carved tables. "Yeah, it is me. That's why it's on!" said Ferrucci. As the Republican candidate, Alan Schlesinger, described Lieberman as "one of the most liberal senators," Ferrucci coughed loudly. During the debate, he stressed immediate withdrawal from Iraq, ending the nuclear arms race, and fighting for working families. "You should've talked about Wal-Mart more," suggested a local carpenter. "I can't, I deliver to them," said Ferrucci, who makes a living driving a truck, delivering Pepperidge Farm cookies. "Listen to this!" he said to a trio of pint-sipping debate-watchers as he came on the screen touting solar power and decrying energy deregulation. "I'm the only candidate who called for regulation." Ferrucci said two people coached him before the debate: Ralph Nader, the former Green Party presidential candidate, and Tom Swan, Lamont's campaign manager. Nader told him to attack Lieberman for being "one of only two Democratic senators to be endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce." He told him to mention NAFTA, which Lieberman supported. In Ferrucci's closing speech, which he said he delivered without a script, Ferrucci took Nader's advice: "I'm sorry to say this, Joe, that NAFTA does not support American jobs." He slid in another Nader tidbit, spoken against congressmen in general: "You take money from pharmaceutical companies, yet you say, 'I'm gonna support universal health care.'" Ferrucci said Tom Swan gave him some anti-Joe blows that Ned wasn't going to use. One example: "Joe, you're running an outsider campaign from within Washington." Ferrucci said he didn't use Swan's tips because the debate "didn't go that dirty." Stepping outside the Bushnell after the debate Wednesday, Ferrucci told inquiring reporters: "It was nerve-wracking, I'm not going to lie." Was there anything the candidate wished he had said? 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URL: From amyvasnunes at hotmail.com Mon Oct 23 19:53:46 2006 From: amyvasnunes at hotmail.com (Amy Vas Nunes) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:53:46 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT The new Jewish bi-nationalism (Mark Levine, History News Network) In-Reply-To: <023c01c6f647$759b9800$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> Message-ID: This is an anti-semetic view and has been sent to the CT ADL***Amy*** >From: "Justine McCabe" >To: "CTGP Women's Caucus" ,"CTGP-NEWS" > >Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT The new Jewish bi-nationalism (Mark >Levine,History News Network) >Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:03:39 -0400 > >Connecticut Green Party - Part of the GPUS >http://www.ctgreens.org/ - http://www.greenpartyus.org/ > >to unsubscribe click here >mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott McLarty" >To: ; ; > >Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:34 PM >Subject: USGP-INT The new Jewish bi-nationalism (Mark Levine, History News >Network) > > >>The New Jewish Bi-Nationalism >> >>By Mark A. LeVine >>History News Network (George Mason University), >>October 14, 2006 >>http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/30789.html >> >>Mr. LeVine is professor of modern Middle Eastern >>history, culture, and Islamic studies at the >>University of California, Irvine, and author of >>the forthcoming books: Why They Don't Hate Us: >>Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil; and >>Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the >>Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948. He is also a >>contributor, with Viggo Mortensen and Pilar >>Perez, to Twilight of Empire: Responses to >>Occupation. Click here to access his homepage >>. >> >> >>One of the things that has made Judaism unique >>among world religions is that from the start Jews >>have considered themselves members not just of >>the same faith, but of the same nation. Unlike >>Islam, in which the "ummah" comprises a >>world-wide community not grounded in any specific >>territory, the people of Israel--'Am >>Yisrael--have always been tied to a specific >>territory, the Land of Israel. >> >>It is natural, then, that while the pioneers of >>Zionism were mostly secular Jews, the Zionist >>movement and subsequently Israeli identity have >>always had a strongly religious core, which >>became increasingly powerful after the conquest >>of Israel's biblical heart land in the West Bank >>in 1967. >> >>The combination of religion, nationalism and >>territory within Jewish peoplehood has made it >>very difficult for Israelis, and Diaspora Jews, >>to accept that Palestinians could have an equal >>claim to the Land of Israel. To do so would call >>into question the fundamental basis of Jewish >>religious and national identity. >> >>From the beginnings of Zionist colonization in >>Palestine, however, there have been Jews who felt >>that the movement's maximalist >>territorial-nationalist aims were both >>unrealizable and immoral. Already in 1889 the >>great Hebrew writer Ahad Haam sent a scathing >>dispatch to the Russian Hebrew language newspaper >>Ha Melitz, documenting the mistreatment of >>Palestinian Arabs by Zionist immigrants. And in >>the 1920s, as the conflict over land between Jews >>and Palestinian Arabs was reaching crisis >>proportions, a group of prominent Jewish leaders, >>including Martin Buber, Gershom Sholem and Judah >>Magnes created the Brit Shalom (Covenant of >>Peace), which advocated a bi-national solution to >>the worsening intercommunal conflict. >> >>Not surprisingly, few Palestinians were willing >>to accept Brit Shalom's call for equal rights to >>Palestine when Jews still constituted a small >>minority of the country's population. And few >>Zionist leaders were willing to consider giving >>up their dreams of an exclusively Jewish state, >>particularly when their benefactor, Great >>Britain, held the mandate to prepare the country >>for independence. Sharing the land became ever >>less likely in the wake of the Holocaust and 1948 >>war. >> >>In the wake of the establishment of Israel, and a >>generation later the conquest of the West Bank >>and Gaza Strip, the idea of bi-nationalism fell >>into the intellectual and political wilderness. >>The few Jews who advocated it were castigated as >>dangerous dreamers, self-hating Jews, or worse. >>The Oslo peace process , which was clearly--if >>not officially--premised on a two state solution, >>seemed to relegate the binational idea to the >>proverbial dust bin of history. >> >>But as the last decade has shown, Oslo was a >>fatally flawed process. Palestinians share the >>blame for its collapse, but its failure was most >>deeply rooted in the inability of most Israelis, >>even the politicians behind the peace process, to >>pay the economic and territorial price for real >>Palestinian self-determination: a truly >>independent state, free of Jewish settlements, >>with full economic sovereignty and control of its >>resources. And so the years of the peace process >>saw the number of settlers double, while land >>expropriations, the expansion of by-pass roads, >>and the destruction of Palestinian homes all >>continued at an alarming rate. This during the >>very period Palestinians were supposed to be >>moving towards independence. >> >>By the fall of 2000, all that was needed was the >>right spark--provided by Ariel Sharon's >>provocative visit to the al-Aqsa mosque--to set >>off a new intifadah. Six years later, the idea of >>a viable Palestinian state being established in >>the foreseeable future is hard to imagine. >> >>The current impasse in Israeli-Palestinian >>negotiations, coupled with the intensification of >>the West Bank occupation and increasing >>militarization of Israeli-Jewish identity has led >>a small but growing number of Jews to rediscover >>the bi-national option as a morally, politically >>and historically viable solution to the >>Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Such a vision sees >>Jews and Palestinian Arabs living throughout the >>Land of Israel/Palestine in peace, and with equal >>political and civil rights. >> >>One of the more recent advocates of >>bi-nationalism is NYU Professor and >>internationally renown historian Tony Judt, a >>British-born Jew who lost much of his family in >>the Holocaust. In the last month Judt has had two >>talks canceled after phone calls from Jewish >>leaders, including one at the Polish Consulate in >>New York City. This is on top of frequent and >>often strident attacks against him because of his >>advocacy of bi-nationalism and periodic criticism >>of Israeli policies. >> >>The attacks on Judt are not exceptional. Most >>every Jewish scholar or activist I know who has >>criticized Israeli policy has met with similarly >>virulent attacks by the organized Jewish >>community (non-Jewish scholars naturally fair >>even worse). Anti-Israel, self-hating Jew, >>Holocaust denier, terrorist apologist--these are >>just a few of the epithets hurled at anyone who >>challenges right wing Jewish orthodoxy concerning >>Israel. Visiting Israeli scholars routinely face >>similar accusations for expressing views that are >>the daily fare of Israeli opinion pages and news >>programs. >> >>I believe these intense clashes within the Jewish >>community over the future of Israel reveal the >>emergence of a new bi-nationalism; one related >>but not identical to Jewish territorial >>bi-nationalism. It reflects a deepening rift >>within Judaism, as Jews move farther apart from >>each other over the issue of Israel, and through >>it, what it means to be a Jew in the era of >>globalization. >> >>One half of the Jewish nation (sadly, the smaller >>half) imagines Judaism as a religion of peace and >>tolerance, one that fulfills the biblical >>commandment to be a light unto the nations by >>returning to the front lines of world-wide >>struggles for justice, democracy, sustainable >>development and healing the environment. The >>other half of the Jewish people is following the >>path of the Jewish founders of neo-Conservatism >>in the United States. Similar to their >>counterparts in the Christian and Muslim worlds, >>they see humanity as divided by a clash of >>civilizations and a zero-sum competition for >>power, territory and resources, in which >>compromise, never mind true coexistence with the >>Other, is impossible. In such an amoral world, >>their vision of Judaism celebrates achieving >>maximal Jewish political and economic power as a >>supreme good, whether in Israel/Palestine or the >>United States. >> >>The two binationalisms are in fact intimately >>related. As it becomes evident that a two-state >>solution is no longer possible, the Jewish >>community will divide even more sharply over the >>future of Israel, and through it, of Judaism as a >>religion and system of values. Many will support >>even harsher repression against Palestinians, >>which in the context of looming demographic >>parity between Jews and Palestinians will evolve >>either towards a Jewish-dominated apartheid state >>in historical Palestine, or towards the forced >>transfer of most of the country's Palestinian >>population so that, similar to 1948, only a small >>and manageable Palestinian community remains. >>(Indeed, Israeli scholars have been warning of >>"creeping" annexation, transfer and apartheid in >>the Occupied Territories since before the >>collapse of the peace process.) >> >>Others will choose reimagine Jewish and Israeli >>identity in a manner that embraces Palestinians >>as equal partners in the country's future, with >>Jews able to live freely in the heartland of >>biblical Israel while Palestinians are free to >>return to the more than two thirds of Palestine >>from which they have been exiled since 1948. >>Viewing themselves as "pro-Israeli and >>pro-Palestinian," they conceive of Jewish/Israeli >>or Palestinian security as unattainable absent a >>secure life for the Other. >> >>Of course, Palestinians, and the Muslim ummah >>more broadly, face a similar choice between >>peaceful coexistence and permanent war with Jews >>and the West at large. The divisions within their >>communities on these fundamental questions are >>becoming starker by the day. >> >>Few proponents of a bi-national solution to the >>Israeli-Palestinian conflict claim that it is an >>ideal solution. But given the failure of the >>two-state discourse and the unpalatability of >>most conceivable alternative solutions, it >>certainly deserves a hearing. At the very least, >>those who advocate it don't deserve to be accused >>by Jewish leaders of offering "offensive >>caricatures" of Israel (as ADL head Abraham >>Foxman accused Judt of doing), of being Holocaust >>deniers, or of supporting terrorists and even the >>"genocide" of our people. >> >>That kind of language will only sharpen the >>divisions within the Jewish community, weakening >>solidarity at the same time it violates the >>self-critical spirit of Judaism's prophetic >>heritage. 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Thank you for your compliance. > >To be removed please mailto://ctgp-news-unsubscribe at ml.greens.org From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Oct 23 20:07:20 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:07:20 +0000 Subject: {news} Duffee withdraws In-Reply-To: <35ebf29c0610230911r4db922a2m4f412bd1dfa6adcb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: October 23, 2006 Connecticut Green Party Announces Endorsement of Diane Farrell for Congress The Connecticut Green Party has agreed to endorse Diane Farrell in her race for Congress in the 4th Congressional District and accept the strategic withdrawal of its candidate, Richard Duffee. Duffee and Farrell made the announcement at a joint press conference at Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk at 2:30 P.M. "On Saturday, October 21, 2006, the Fairfield Green Party decided that Republican threats to the future and to our form of government are so serious that it is more important to bring the House of Representatives under the control of the Democrats than to run a Green candidate for Congress in the 4th District," said Duffee. "Our decision is a vote of confidence in Diane Farrell's seriousness about putting some brakes on Bush's imperial presidency and at least returning us to the rule of law," said Duffee, a former law professor. By Connecticut law, Duffee alone has the right to take his name off the ballot. He chose in July to allow the Fairfield Greens to make that decision in caucus as the campaign developed. "I would like to thank the Green Party and Richard Duffee for their decision today," said Farrell. "I would also like to mention the valuable voice brought to the table by Richard Duffee in this year's debates especially on topics such as human rights, the War in Iraq and socio-economic issues affecting our country and I believe that the Green Party should be included in future debates here in Connecticut's 4th district." "We share a common belief that the Bush administration has led us astray especially as it pertains to the War in Iraq, energy policy, education and environmental issues," Farrell said. Farrell met with members of the Fairfield County chapter of the Green Party on Saturday and explained her position on issues of concern to the Greens. Duffee said that the Greens decided to back Farrell because she appeals to a larger audience than the Greens at the present time and she can be most effective in reversing the current war policies on Iraq. "Our decision to back Diane Farrell is not a decision to become Democrats," Duffee said. "Nearly all of us became Greens because we believed that the Democratic Party does not adequately serve the public interest because it is not sufficiently committed to resist corporate pressure." "But the Bush Administration is not only negligent and infinitely pliable to corporations. It is also deceitful, flagrantly unconstitutional, criminal, and more impeachable than any previous government. So the choice between Democrats and Republicans is now a choice between the status quo before 2001 and rapidly growing graft, fascism, war, and chaos. If we want any competent government at all, if we want a future, we must side with the Democrats," Duffee said. Farrell noted that the Democrats and Greens share common goals that include universal literacy, universal pre-kindergarten education, fully funding transportation initiatives such as mass transit that we so desperately need here in Fairfield County, and refocusing the nation on the development and use of clean energy sources. "Diane will work in Congress to bring about a full review of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, which is upwind of hundreds of thousands of Fairfield County residents and a target for terrorists," said Nancy Burton, the Green Party candidate for Attorney General. "I am pleased to join Eliot Spitzer and others in working to ensure that adequate replacement power is developed and available in the region to allow for an orderly and phased shutdown of this facility," Farrell said. "I enjoyed sharing a stage with Richard Duffee and the Green Party in the debates and I look forward to working with him and the Fairfield County Green Party in the future," Farrell said. Duffee said among other reasons given by the Greens for their decision to back Farrell are their conviction that current war policies be reversed, that Shays must be removed because he is a prime promoter of the war in Iraq, war against Iran must be prevented, a Bush impeachment can only occur with a Democratic majority and the Bush environmental legacy and failure to address global warming require a Democratic House to undo. The Connecticut Green Party continues to present candidates for U.S. Senate, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney General and state legislative races. _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Tue Oct 24 07:18:45 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Online Town hall meeting on "Mental Health in CT Message-ID: <20061024111846.94592.qmail@web81408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Government Technology Connecticut Holding First Electronic Town Hall Meeting on Mental Health Initiative By News Release Oct 23, 2006 Connecticut will use cyberspace this week to reach citizens across the state in a first-ever Electronic Town Hall Meeting on the quality and availability of mental health services. The live, interactive, and web-based videoconference will be held Thursday October 26 to receive citizen input into the five-year, $13.7 million federal/state effort to transform the delivery of mental health services in the state. Citizens will be able to view the webcast, log onto the internet to ask a question, or attend a Town Hall meeting in person at any of seven locations across the state. Information is available the state Web site. "The state is reaching out to help citizens speak up on the systems supporting the state's delivery of mental health services," Governor M. Jodi Rell said. "This is a unique opportunity to provide feedback and insight into this ongoing collaborative effort to improve the quality of care and services in Connecticut." Connecticut is one of only seven states chosen for this grant, announced by Governor Rell in September 2005. Over the past year, seven workgroups with representatives from 14 state agencies and the Judicial Branch, consumers and family members, state and private providers and other key stakeholders have collaborated to develop 48 key areas of focus and have issued these key strategies for action over the next year: Prevent suicide and increase mental health awareness through health education in schools Give individuals and families a voice regarding mental health care services through a universal feedback tool Identify and eliminate mental health disparities through standardized data collection Expand access to prevention, screening, early intervention and treatment by maximizing state and federal dollars Prevent youth from becoming involved in or having repeated involvement in the juvenile justice system through the use of evidence-based practices Provide Connecticut citizens with a first of its kind comprehensive mental health Web site to improve access to mental health information and resources Expand and enhance mental health training throughout Connecticut's workforce Protect and enhance the rights of persons with mental illness. Dr. Thomas Kirk, Commissioner of the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, stated "Citizens can participate either onsite or online. We ask that citizens pre-register for the event, review materials online prior to the webcast, and present recommendations and responses either onsite or online on the 26th." For those unable to participate, the webcast will be available online during the month of November. The goal of the $13.7 million, five-year transformation initiative, awarded by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is to offer services and supports that are culturally responsive, person and family-centered, and have as their primary aim the promotion of resilience, recovery and inclusion in community life for any Connecticut citizen and family impacted by mental illness. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edubrule at sbcglobal.net Wed Oct 25 01:18:16 2006 From: edubrule at sbcglobal.net (edubrule) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:18:16 -0400 Subject: {news} New Jersey Greens' opinions on Duffee's withdrawal Message-ID: <006901c6f7f5$b5748b80$41994c0c@edgn2b574u14bi> Re: [GPNJ-Campaigns] FW: [gpnj-GreenCouncil] Demogreen?Sent to the CT Green Party website. I post this on the News listserve (because the press release on the Duffee withdrawal was posted there) and to the Forum listserve (because discussion generated by this e-mail should occur on the Forum listserve). --Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: elizarnone To: greens at ctgreens.org Cc: GPNJ-Campaigns Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [GPNJ-Campaigns] FW: [gpnj-GreenCouncil] Demogreen? CT Greens, some comments from NJ. Some of us are very disappointed that you are caving in to the "lesser evilism" fear mongering which brings us to a brick wall every time. This is no way for the GP to behave. Are you going to cave in 2008 again also? Liz Arnone - NJ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Spector Reply-To: Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:16:06 -0400 To: Subject: Re: [GPNJ-Campaigns] FW: [gpnj-GreenCouncil] Demogreen? (see comment at end of messages_ Richard Giovanoni wrote: Withdrawing at this point of the election is absolutely the wrong thing to do. If the candidate and/or the Green Party of Connecticut want to stop campaigning - then that is one thing. But it is an insult to anyone who signed or circulated Duffee's petition or who contributed any time or money to his campaign to deny them an opportunity to vote Green in November. Greens and non-Greens in the district can decide for themselves how to vote. If any 4th District Green is extremely concerned about "spoiling", then let her/him stand at the polls on Election Day and urge people to vote for Farrell instead of a Green candidate. elizarnone wrote: I can't believe we still do this. We're speaking with forked tongues. On the one hand we're saying we have to break the duopoly because there is no difference between the two. We know down to the very core of our being and history repeats itself over and over, yet we're still cow towing and not trying to spoil races. I find this so ludicrous it's beyond reproach. Liz ------ Forwarded Message From: elizarnone Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:47:32 -0400 To: "steeringcom at green.gpus.org" , Brent McMillan , Scott McLarty , Emily Citkowski Conversation: [gpnj-GreenCouncil] Demogreen? Subject: FW: [gpnj-GreenCouncil] Demogreen? What???? Are we crazy? Are we going to stand by on this one? Liz http://www.zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=13887 Green Party may drop candidate, switch support to Farrell To avoid being a spoiler for Democrat Diane Farrell's congressional bid, state Green Party officials plan to meet this weekend to discuss dropping their candidate in the 4th District race and supporting the former Westport first selectwoman. When the party nominated Stamford resident Richard Duffee in July, many party members said they should run a candidate only if it didn't hurt Farrell's chances of ousting U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Bridgeport, said David Bedell, secretary for the Green Party's Fairfield County chapter. Tomorrow's closed meeting for the party's leadership came at the suggestion of Farrell's camp and the Green Party, Bedell said. A Green Party flier for its members suggested Farrell could make "concessions in exchange for our withdrawal," though Bedell would not discuss specific expectations. "We discussed this happening a number of times, and now we're looking at it again," Bedell said. The party's members will vote on dropping Duffee, and the results should be made public next week, Bedell added. Since the Green Party does not have minor-party status for the 4th District office -- meaning it has not gained 1 percent of the vote in past elections -- it cannot cross-endorse another candidate. The party could replace Duffee with another candidate up until Oct. 30. "If he were to withdraw, the party can nominate another candidate, but not another existing candidate on the ballot," state elections officer Arthur Champagne said. Shays' camp criticized Farrell and the Green Party, calling the closed-door meeting "questionable." "At this late stage in the game, the meeting should be open to the public," said Michael Sohn, Shays' campaign manger. "What concessions is she going to make? After all the debates, what is going to change?" The candidates finished their last of 11 debates yesterday at the Norwalk Inn & Conference Center. Farrell's campaign manager Adam Wood dismissed the attack, calling the meeting one of many the Democrat is using "to persuade people to vote for change." Wood said he wouldn't define the "concessions" expected by the Greens in their flier because "I wouldn't want the Greens to speak for me. I wouldn't want the Republicans to speak for me. I wouldn't want the Libertarians to speak for me. So I won't speak for them." Duffee, who has appeared in the fewest debates among the candidates since the campaign started, said he has always understood the party could eventually drop him, and he wouldn't be disappointed if it happened. "I never had the notion that it was possible for the Green Party to win this election," Duffee said. "I know people say you run to win, but it would be irresponsible for me to think that. My purpose was to get information into the campaign and to get into political discussions. I wanted to make some of these ideas more accessible." The 4th Congressional District election has been considered by most political analysts to be a toss-up. A Reuters/Zogby poll released this month put Farrell ahead of Shays 46 percent to 41 percent with 13 percent still undecided; a poll by the University of Connecticut and The Advocate and Greenwich Time taken during the same period showed Shays up 44 percent to 40 percent with 16 percent undecided. (10/20/2006) - By Mark Ginocchio, The Advocate ------ End of Forwarded Message ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. Ah, what a donkey I was! Toward the end of the week I began to get this large and disenchanting fact through my head: that the mass of the nation had swung their caps and shouted for the republic for about one day, and there an end! The Church, the nobles, and the gentry then turned one grand, all-disapproving frown upon them and shriveled them into sheep! From that moment the sheep had begun to gather to the fold -- that is to say, the camps -- and offer their valueless lives and their valuable wool to the "righteous cause." Why, even the very men who had lately been slaves were in the "righteous cause," and glorifying it, praying for it, sentimentally slabbering over it, just like all the other commoners. 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Wed Oct 25 10:00:25 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Write a letter to the editor: Debate sponsors must invite Green candidates! Message-ID: <20061025140025.27014.qmail@web81410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Scott McLarty wrote: From: Scott McLarty To: media-states at lists.gp-us.org Subject: [media-states] Write a letter to the editor: Debate sponsors must invite Green candidates! Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Please forward this widely to all Greens & friends, Green lists, Green candidates, and Greens working on campaigns Hey Greens! Let's show our candidates some urgent support by writing LETTERS TO THE EDITOR of local newspapers calling for inclusion of Greens running for office in all candidates' debates and forums. Along with letters to the editor, we can also write messages to online discussion groups and neighborhood bulletin boards calling for inclusion of Greens and other third party and independent candidates in debates. Here are some important points to make... ??? Voters have a right to know about all the names they'll see on the ballot on Election Day, and to know which candidate best represents their interests and ideals. When debate sponsors bar candidates, they violate this right. If a voter wants US troops returned home from Iraq right now or supports national health insurance or livable wages or repeal of NAFTA, that voter has a right to know that there's a Green candidate on the ballot who takes the same positions, and to make a decision about who to vote for based on this information. ??? When debate sponsors (especially media) base their decision to bar candidates on opinion poll percentages or candidates' campaign treasuries, then opinion polls and campaign treasuries become more important than the ballot box in determining who gets elected. Opinion polls are not democracy. Some polls omit Greens and other parties' candidates, and only mention Democratic and Republican candidates in their questions. Any candidate whose name is on the ballot is a 'legitimate' and 'viable' candidate. ??? Democratic and Republican candidates all across the US take millions in campaign contributions from corporations. Voters deserve to hear from candidates -- like Greens -- who represent WE THE PEOPLE and take no corporate money, not just candidates who represent corporate interests. If you want to get specific about the amount of corporate money that's funding the Democratic & Republican opposition, visit the Center for Voting & Democracy . ??? Praise organizations that have sponsored inclusive debates. In some states, the League of Women Voters withdrew in protest when cosponsors insisted on excluding Greens and other candidates from debates. They deserve our thanks. ??? Don't forget to mention the name of a local Green candidate who has been excluded from a debate. Talk about strong positions your candidate has taken and include a web site. Use your own ideas and words, or adapt the above language. Remember to keep your letter concise and to the point. The shorter the letter, the more likely it'll get published -- you don't have to include all the points listed above. Four to six sentences is a good length. If you make the letter personal in some way ("I'm a tenant, and the Green candidate will fight for rent control") or some humor, it's even more likely to get published. Start writing, and let us know if your letter gets published! Scott Media Committee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ media-states mailing list media-states at lists.gp-us.org http://lists.gp-us.org/mailman/listinfo/media-states ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 26 12:11:46 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} New Elected Green is a "Cemetery District Commisioner" (???) Message-ID: <20061026161146.82353.qmail@web81414.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear NC Delegate: We have a new elected Green in Washington State! Joe Marino was elected to Cowlitz County Cemetery District Commission. He joins Tim White, also from Washington State as the only elected Green Cemetery District Commissioners in the country. He had recently become a 'Card Carrying Green' and had listed on his application that he was also an elected official. I followed up with a phone call to him and he confirmed that his primary political affiliation is the Green Party. (You can not register in Washington State by Political Party.) I went to the Cowlitz County Auditor office online and confirmed his election. He ran unopposed for Cowlitz County Cemetery District 3, Commissioner P1 on November 8, 2005. He received 709 votes for 98.2% and took office in Dec. of 2005. In Service: Brent McMillan, Political Director Green Party of the United States 202-319-7191 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Thu Oct 26 12:30:26 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:30:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} StamfordTimes- "GP candidates say their youth is a plus" Message-ID: <20061026163026.99430.qmail@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Green party candidates say their youth is a plus --------------------------------- By A.J. O'CONNELLaoconnell at thestamfordtimes.com STAMFORD ? At 23 and 24, the Green party's two candidates are by far the youngest running for the school board. But Nina Sherwood, 23, and Matt Loter, 24, don't think their campaigns should be taken lightly just because they're half the age of some of the incumbents. &lt;script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"&gt; document.write('&lt;a href="http://access.thehour.com/b_cl.php?id=305&amp;clickthroughURL=http%3A%2F%2Fclk.atdmt.com%2FAST%2Fgo%2Fcnoccest0010000025ast%2Fdirect%2F01%2F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://view.atdmt.com/AST/view/cnoccest0010000025ast/direct/01/"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;a href="http://access.thehour.com/b_cl.php?id=305&amp;clickthroughURL=http%3A%2F%2Fclk.atdmt.com%2FAST%2Fgo%2Fcnoccest0010000025ast%2Fdirect%2F01%2F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://view.atdmt.com/AST/view/cnoccest0010000025ast/direct/01/" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt; "I think my age is an asset," said Sherwood, a recent graduate of UConn-Stamford, who works at the Giuliani School of Music in Darien. "I know what it's like to be a student."Sherwood, a Stamford native who was asked to run for school board by the Green Party leadership, thinks some new blood on the board would be a good thing, and feels she could broaden the viewpoint of the district. "Because of my age and because of my experience in the schools, I think I have a lot to offer," she said. "I think I'd bring a new dynamic to the board of education." Loter, a recently-married Stamford native, is running his second school board campaign this year. He also feels his age is a plus for his campaign, although it takes a back seat to issues such as No Child Left Behind and the treatment of teachers. "The board of education has no [members] who are educators," said Loter. He takes issue with incumbents like Democrat Susan Nabel, who insists it is not the job of the board to be educators, but to manage an educator ? the superintendent ? who runs the schools. Loter says the board members must become educators because they are responsible for running the schools. "They're the boss," he said. "They're telling [the superintendent] what to do." Loter, who works at Go Vertical Indoor Rock Climbing in Stamford while he studies to be a teacher, was raised by teachers. His mother, Carol Loter, is a first grade teacher at Springdale Elementary School. He said the city's teachers are being hung out to dry by Superintendent Joshua Starr and the current board. "Teachers get charged with all the responsibility for failure, yet they have no real control outside of their classrooms," he said. Sherwood is dismayed by the amount of money allotted Stamford under the current Education Cost Sharing [ECS] formula. She feels the feels the district, which is already involved in a lawsuit to receive more funds, should be pushing harder for better funding. She thinks Stamford ought to present a mock budget to legislators to convince them the district needs more money. "They should come up with a budget saying exactly what they would do with the money if they were to get it," she said. Sherwood is also a supporter of arts programs as a way of reaching students who don't like school. She said there were times when Stamford High School's arts programs kept her in school. "It gives a more positive feel to school," she said. Both Green Party candidates also acknowledge that in a town where two parties have dominated for so long, they run the risk of not being taken seriously by older voters or traditional supporters of the Democrats or Republicans. "I think instantly, people look at us and they write us off because [we] look so young,'" said Sherwood. "I think it's a challenge for us. But I'm really serious about it. I've done my research." Loter says that after his first debate at Westover School he heard from several people in the community and he thinks that the message of achievement for all students espoused by himself and Sherwood is reaching the community. "If I ran the exact same campaign but I were a Democrat, I think I would pick up a lot more votes," he said. "And that's a shame." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Thu Oct 26 19:11:43 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:11:43 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Prominent Jews Attack Attempts to Silence Criticism of Israel Message-ID: <041701c6f954$1ac56130$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Walton" To: Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:58 PM Subject: USGP-INT Prominent Jews Attack Attempts to Silence Criticism of Israel > Hi: The Financial Times is a reputable publication but I do wish it had > cited a few names. The entire list is probably available somewhere. > Maybe the full article would have more. The URL is at the bottom. > Peace. Richard Walton. > > > PROMINENT JEWS SIGN LETTER ATTACKING ISRAEL LOBBY > > GUY DINMORE, FINANCIAL TIMES - An open letter signed by more than 150 > people - including prominent academics, former diplomats and officials - > decries what they allege is a campaign of political vigilantism waged by > American Jewish groups to set the public agenda. "Indeed, students [in a > practice reminiscent of the most sordid aspects of the McCarthy years] > have been enlisted to act as informers on their teachers. Institutions > deemed to be insufficiently supportive of Israel have been subjected to > pressure by state legislatures or private donors," says the letter, signed > by many prominent Jews. > > "They've constructed a Warsaw Ghetto of the mind," Norman Birnbaum, > professor emeritus at Georgetown University and one of the organizers of > the letter, told the Financial Times. > > The letter accuses Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, of > inducing the Polish consulate to deny its premises to Prof Judt, an > allegation the league rejected as "baseless". Mr Foxman said the ADL was > proud of its 93-year record of defending free speech in its fight against > anti-Semitism, hatred, prejudice and bigotry. > > Few serving Democrats are willing to wade into this debate, but Zbigniew > Brezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, was > outspoken during the Lebanon conflict, calling Israel's response to > Hizbollah's attacks "dogged, heavy-handed, politically counter-productive > and morally unjustifiable". > > "When we supply Israel with cluster bombs, that's an act of > international friendship and peace. When Iran supplies Palestinians with > weapons, that means terror," he told a dinner hosted by the New America > Foundation. "Bush should say either I make policy on the Middle East or > AIPAC does > > http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8677351c-62cb-11db-8faa- 0000779e2340.html > > "The only way out of our crisis (terrorism) is to reduce the anger of the > most rational, thus also reducing the constituency of the least rational." > Sam Smith. > > "When they come for the innocent without crossing over > your body, cursed be your religion and your life." Anon. But often > quoted by Dorothy Day. > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > "Richard Walton" > ----------------------------------------------------------- From roseberry3 at cox.net Thu Oct 26 20:14:15 2006 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:14:15 -0400 Subject: FW: {news} agenda for 10-31-06 SCC meeting at new location>>>>>>>>>Portland Senior Center, 7pm to 9pm Message-ID: <20061027001423.BAVT19165.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Agenda for 10-31-06 SCC Meeting Place:********* Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT (a block east of Portland Public Library) Phone: 860-342-6760 ******** Time: 7PM to 9PM Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of attendees and chapters. Recruit timekeeper. 2. (1 minute): Identify attendees who are NOT voting representatives. 3. (1 minute): Adopt ground rules. 4. (3 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, additions and deletions. 5. (3 minutes): Comments and approval of 8-29-06 and 9-26-06 SCC minutes. 6. (3 minutes): 9-11-06 and 10-17-06 EC meetings presentation and approval. 7. (3 minutes): Treasurer's report by Christopher Reilly . . Reports: 1. (10 minutes): Discussion all CTGP candidates 2. (15 minutes): Discussion of CTGP candidate events and fundraisers and merchandise. 3. (5 minutes): Discussion about donations from CTGP PAC to candidates. 4. (10 minutes): Candidate debates. 5. (2 minutes, each for): Chapter reports. 6. (5 minutes): U.S. Green Party report by CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury. 7. (5 minutes): Budget Committee suggestions 8. (2 minutes): V.O.T.E.R. update: ACLU lawsuit regarding 2005 CT "campaign finance reform" law. 9.(5 minutes): Articles for and deadline for "CT Green Times" newspaper. www.mapquest.com www.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00126.txt URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Thu Oct 26 22:32:56 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:32:56 +0000 Subject: {news} "Green party candidates say their youth is a plus" (Stamford School Board) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Nice profile of Nina and Matt in the Stamford Times: http://www.thestamfordtimes.com/stamford_templates/stamford_story/287348852280226.php Thursday, October 26, 2006 Green party candidates say their youth is a plus By A.J. O'CONNELL aoconnell@ thestamfordtimes.com STAMFORD ? At 23 and 24, the Green party's two candidates are by far the youngest running for the school board. But Nina Sherwood, 23, and Matt Loter, 24, don't think their campaigns should be taken lightly just because they're half the age of some of the incumbents. "I think my age is an asset," said Sherwood, a recent graduate of UConn-Stamford, who works at the Giuliani School of Music in Darien. "I know what it's like to be a student." Sherwood, a Stamford native who was asked to run for school board by the Green Party leadership, thinks some new blood on the board would be a good thing, and feels she could broaden the viewpoint of the district. "Because of my age and because of my experience in the schools, I think I have a lot to offer," she said. "I think I'd bring a new dynamic to the board of education." Loter, a recently-married Stamford native, is running his second school board campaign this year. He also feels his age is a plus for his campaign, although it takes a back seat to issues such as No Child Left Behind and the treatment of teachers. "The board of education has no [members] who are educators," said Loter. He takes issue with incumbents like Democrat Susan Nabel, who insists it is not the job of the board to be educators, but to manage an educator ? the superintendent ? who runs the schools. Loter says the board members must become educators because they are responsible for running the schools. "They're the boss," he said. "They're telling [the superintendent] what to do." Loter, who works at Go Vertical Indoor Rock Climbing in Stamford while he studies to be a teacher, was raised by teachers. His mother, Carol Loter, is a first grade teacher at Springdale Elementary School. He said the city's teachers are being hung out to dry by Superintendent Joshua Starr and the current board. "Teachers get charged with all the responsibility for failure, yet they have no real control outside of their classrooms," he said. Sherwood is dismayed by the amount of money allotted Stamford under the current Education Cost Sharing [ECS] formula. She feels the feels the district, which is already involved in a lawsuit to receive more funds, should be pushing harder for better funding. She thinks Stamford ought to present a mock budget to legislators to convince them the district needs more money. "They should come up with a budget saying exactly what they would do with the money if they were to get it," she said. Sherwood is also a supporter of arts programs as a way of reaching students who don't like school. She said there were times when Stamford High School's arts programs kept her in school. "It gives a more positive feel to school," she said. Both Green Party candidates also acknowledge that in a town where two parties have dominated for so long, they run the risk of not being taken seriously by older voters or traditional supporters of the Democrats or Republicans. "I think instantly, people look at us and they write us off because [we] look so young,'" said Sherwood. "I think it's a challenge for us. But I'm really serious about it. I've done my research." Loter says that after his first debate at Westover School he heard from several people in the community and he thinks that the message of achievement for all students espoused by himself and Sherwood is reaching the community. "If I ran the exact same campaign but I were a Democrat, I think I would pick up a lot more votes," he said. "And that's a shame." _________________________________________________________________ Try Search Survival Kits: Fix up your home and better handle your cash with Live Search! http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improve&locale=en-US&source=hmtagline From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Fri Oct 27 01:49:26 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:49:26 +0000 Subject: {news} 36th State Senate debate reported in Stamford Advocate In-Reply-To: <1161900990.aee7d608c71d0557.125d4555@persist.google.com> Message-ID: In Wednesday's debate in Greenwich, besides education funding as reported below, I was able to bring up Indian Point nuclear plant, the Drug War and prisons vs. schools, suburban sprawl, clean energy, and diesel emissions (an area where the incumbent is weak). In Thursday's debate in New Canaan, I had a chance to elaborate more on Indian Point (and Millstone), address universal healthcare, and touch on clean energy, diesel emissions, campaign finance, and the Drug War. The debates will be cablecast on the government cable channel 79 in each town starting next Wednesday and repeating through Election Day. http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-debate6oct26,0,5080847.story (Another version of this was in sister paper the Greenwich Time): Incumbent faces off against two challengers By Neil Vigdor October 26, 2006 GREENWICH -- State Sen. William Nickerson, R-Greenwich, faced off against Democrat Frank Farricker and Green Party candidate David Bedell in a two-hour League of Women Voters of Greenwich debate at Town Hall. They are running to represent the 36th District seat in the state Senate, which includes Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan. Farricker, 43, characterized Nickerson as being reactive instead of proactive on issues such as transportation, saying Connecticut lawmakers were slower than their New York counterparts in passing legislation to replace the state's aging fleet of Metro-North Railroad cars. "People thought ahead in New York. It was obvious 20 years ago," said Farricker, a Planning and Zoning Commission member who works in real estate management. Nickerson, 67, who is a member of the legislature's Transportation Committee, took credit for helping to craft the $1 billion bill that will fund new railroad cars, an accomplishment that he said earned him the endorsement of the Business Council of Fairfield County. He also cited the creation of state Transportation Strategy Board under his leadership. "So we are on our way to an entirely new and reoriented transportation world in Connecticut," said Nickerson, who has represented Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan for 16 years. Bedell, 44, used the debate to promote his party's agenda in support of a so-called millionaire's tax and educational cost sharing. The state should move away from a system where it relies on municipal property taxes to fund education, he said. "It creates great inequality from district to district," said Bedell, who works for a public health nonprofit organization. Each candidate received two minutes for a parting shot, in which Nickerson underscored his experience. "My opponent has delivered largely talk," said Nickerson, who manages a real estate investment business. Farricker touted himself a progressive alternative in changing times. "If we're careful, things are going to change for the negative," he said. Bedell, who got the final word in the debate, said the election was about choice. "Most of the time, he's gone unchallenged," he said of Nickerson. "That sounds like elections in the Soviet Union." Copyright ? 2006, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Sat Oct 28 15:12:03 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {news} Ralph Nader in Windham! Message-ID: <20061028191203.39832.qmail@web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Jean de Smet wrote: From: "Jean de Smet" To: Subject: Ralph Nader in Windham! Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:23:18 -0400 There may be a short time available for private meetings with Ralph. Contact Ken at 955-5842 for info. Civil Rights Advocate Ralph Nader Growing the Greens: on Creating Diverse Political Voices Willimantic Country Club Dining Room Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 8 - 9 pm $10 pp at the door Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader will discuss the need for strong local political organizations in the face of unprecedented federal power grabs, like the recent repeal of Habeas Corpus. For more information: info at voteThornton.com or call 860 995-5842. This message paid for by Thornton for Governor, Max Wentworth, treasurer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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POLITICAL DIRECTOR - Brent There are now 394 candidates. So far in this year's elections, there have been 24 wins out of 62 races, a 39% win rate. Brent is preparing a written account for the Media Committee on races to look out for on election night; will run it by the CCC for comment first. This will include a lot more data than in the past, more polling data, relevancy of certain races. There are several big stories developing. The overall quality of races is improving. Greg Gerritt is working on a spreadsheet # of poll votes for previous cycles to compare to this year's results to use in press releases. Executive session 8:48 p.m. - 8:54 p.m. Matters relating to duties of political director. Steve asked about Cindy Sheehan's recent comments about the need for another progressive party. He suggests that a group of Greens meet with her to suggest the Green Party as that option. Brent stated that when people realize what it really takes to create a party, they run in horror. He suggested if SC members have an opportunity to reach out to her, to do so. People expect more from us - even when they get a lot from us (for instance, Brent's fundraisng work for the Aaron Dixon campaign in Washington). b. FUNDRAISING - Brent - Contributions are increasing over last month, more responses. - Next fundraising mailng is ready to go. This will include something new, a tracking code for each donor in this mailing. This will help update addresses and phone #'s, looking to the possibility of automatically updating the database. This would be a huge help, we could take on more phone canvassers and do this in a more technical way. - Brent sent out the proposed contract for base+commission phone canvasser to the SC for review. PROPOSAL - Jody, that the contract language be approved. APPROVED. Brent would like to hire someone right away to start on December 1st. Executive session 8:11 p.m. Matters relating to personnel and hiring. c. OPERATIONS - Emily Online Outreach and Fundraising - Emily has just hired a new intern from Howard University, and has another lined up from a high school. This is part of this school's program, the 3rd year in a row, and has worked really well. Interviewed and offered an internship to someone moving to DC from Arizona. She will also post job ad for internship on the website. - Emily will send out code for two banner ads for state or local websites, blogs, etc., tomorrow. One is an animated banner with "Bring the Troops Home Now" to scroll across the top of a site, linking to he new "peace slate" appeal; after Nov, 7 this will link to the home page. The other is a button linking directly to the "peace slate." - We have taken in almost $7000 this month. This is a pretty good month for us, maybe close to a record. - Gregg Jocoy (SoCarolina) is organizing a blogstorm soliciting fund to match the matching funds challenge donation. Outreach - Scott McLarty spoke with Evan Messinger, VP of CNN, about possible people to have on for interviews. This came out of the Lou Dobbs action alert we sent out. 2) VOTING QUEUE - Holly See separate Voting Queue Report 3) UPDATE on CAMPUS GREENS - Echo Echo hopes to have proposal for a Campus Greens Network finalized by the end of next week. 4) UPDATE on FORUM MANAGERS - Holly There is one volunteer and one potential volunteer for the alternate. Holly will follow up with both. If there is a clear response, SC will agree online to approve volunteer(s) to be sent to the voting queue for NC approval. 5) MISC - Secretary Report - Holly Updating welcome message and delegate manual. Delegate manual was begun long ago and never completed, some of the outline and material is now outdated or inaccurate. Holly will review for needed updates (for instance, there are directions on sending votes to the NC list, not the voting page). 6) PORTFOLIO REPORTS FINANCE - Liz: In reference to the budget information we are requesting from various committees, someone asked if the SC were working with their committees to get their budgets in order. Liz asked if, as portfolio managers, SC co-chairs were working with committees on their budgets? She has only gotten back 3 budgets so far. Jody noted some committees traditionally have not spent any money (AC, BRPP). POLICY - Budd IC: Still working on getting subscribed to IC list. Eco-Action: No action on Eco-Action, GPAX: A ton of traffic on GPAX. OUTREACH - Echo DivCom: Still not on DivCom. Echo will send another email, but may have to think of some other action. Steve plans to contact co-chairs within his portfolio. 7) TREASURER'S REPORT/FINANCES - Jody Jody is working on some ways of tracking income better. We should be able to pay October bills in October. The budget is coming along reasonably well, should get to the voting queue on time. Jody will be getting out the financial reports tomorrow before the FunCom and FInCom calls, as usual. She is working on a third paper and would really would like feedback from the rest of the SC. Jody is considering cash reporting as opposed to accrual reporting in the treasurer's reports to the NC, easier to understand. Katey noted that donor lists include income from donors for things like attending the national conference. Does this skew the report of what funds are actually sending contributions to the party? Brent responded: this is a two-dimensional snapshot of a three-dimensional database. We do track these individual streams. Donor lists simply give candidates people they may want to contact. Katey also asked if cash reporting would end up posing more questions? Jody explained that the accountant's report will still be accrual reporting, and those with questions can still access them online. Liz brought up the situation in Pennsylvania with the Romanelli Campaign getting hit with humongous court costs. In the future, what will we come up against over and over again with similar situations, and how do we prepare in advance? Should we be thinking about a strategy or budget niche to either assist some states when they get into these situations? Brent responded that he doesn't want to see the GP get into a situation where some might attempt to use such situations as a trap to bankrupt the party. However, we must build a legal committee, legal resources; what came at Ralph Nader in 2004 is now coming at us. Steve suggested we think about getting a budget line item, ballot access or legal, where we could save to apply to things of this nature. NEXT MEETING: Sunday, November 5, 2006. 8:00 p.m. ET _______________________________________________ Natlcomvotes mailing list To send a message to the list, write to: Natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org To unsubscribe or change your list options, go to: http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/natlcomvotes If your state delegation changes, please see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/documents/delegate_change.html For other information about the Coordinating Committee, see: http://gp.org/committees/nc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282 National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut) Cliff Thornton for Governor- Campaign Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer- www.VoteThornton.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As it turns out, Thorton was free, even though the second and last gubernatorial debate was going on. Save for one notable exception, Connecticut's political debates have decidedly been for the two major parties - third-party candidates need not apply. Even though four gubernatorial candidates met the secretary of state's criteria for candidacy, only two were included in either of the televised debates. Say what you want about the democratic process, but it failed here. Only two candidates participated in what is arguably the largest (and most accessible) forum available for voters. Come Election Day, voters won't have the whole picture. Neither will voters in the state's overheated senatorial race. There, only one of three debates included all five candidates. The others only included three candidates - yet strangely, one of those, Joseph Lieberman, is running as an independent whose presence in the debates has never been questioned. (The two mostly missing U.S. Senate candidates are Ralph A. Ferrucci of the Green Party and Timothy A. Knibbs of the Concerned Citizens Party.) "But that's not fair," one student said at the CCSU meeting. It's not fair. Nor is it democratic (or republican). And we should be ashamed of ourselves. We're proving to disaffected voters that democracy is restricted to big-ticket participants with deep pockets. And the people who broadcast the debates do so by borrowing the airwaves. Those airwaves belong -- so says the Federal Communications Commission - to the citizens. And the citizens deserve to see and hear everyone. This argument sounds downright "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"-esque, doesn't it? But the fact is it's true. Yet here, during the debate, Thornton is leaned back in a plastic chair, jacket open, ready to answer questions while he watches the television mounted on the wall overhead. He put 700 miles on the car in the last two days. Thornton is beat, and he said as much when he came into the room and set a Wild Oats paper bag of campaign paraphernalia on the table. When he asks Strong how many students to expect, he doesn't seem disappointed with the answer - anywhere from 15 to 25. But compare that to the roughly 64,000 homes tuned in for the Oct. 18 gubernatorial debate, and you can see that the two major-party candidates got so much more exposure than Thornton, or Joseph A. Zdonczyk of Concerned Citizens, the other candidate for governor. To a small but rapt audience, Thornton quickly lays out the Green Party platform: free college and enhanced mass transportation and a radically different drug policy. Overhead, his party's first-ever television commercial pops up (a protest to get Thornton into the debate), and the candidate shakes his head. The ad was filmed outside the first debate. He did not call for a protest at the second one. "I would be na?ve if I placed all this on race and class," Thornton said. "It's about ideas. My background is athletics. I played basketball and baseball. I don't go into anything without looking to win. But I have to be realistic. We are looking at building the Green Party." He had asked one journalist involved in the debate to ask the Republican and Democratic candidates why all candidates weren't included. I bet him a dollar the journalist (a respected reporter) would. But the reporter didn't. In the polished world of two-party politics, going off-script would have been entirely too much to ask. And here is where you lose so many would-be voters. If they think that the fix is in and the game is locked, why ever would they want to get involved? Susan Campbell is at scampbell at courant.com or 860-241-6454. 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UConn hosted a small gubernatorial debate on Friday evening sponsored by Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP). Several people gathered into College of Liberal Arts and Sciences room 105 shortly before 6 p.m. to hear a spirited exchange between Cliff Thornton of the Green Party and Joe Zdonczyk of the Concerned Citizens Party. Incumbent Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democratic nominee John DeStefano were both also invited to participate in the debate, but neither was able to attend. The two minor-party candidates spoke for one full hour on a variety of topics, ranging from marijuana legalization to the influence of money on politics. Stephanie Molden of the SSDP asked most of the evening's questions, though one excited member of the audience also made some inquiries. "The Green Party is a party of social and environmental justice," Thornton said during his opening statement. "We are a party that is looking to make great change in the state of Connecticut for our educational, environmental and social programs." Thornton also made note of his plan to provide free college tuition to Connecticut students. "Over the years I've seen the state of Connecticut deteriorate in so many areas," Zdonczyk said. "And it's simply because the major parties have their own agendas. They don't know what it is that's affecting the people in the state of Connecticut. All they know is, they're funded by sources and those sources expect, after the elections, to have an ear. They're the ones that the governor listens to, who funded their campaigns." Thornton agreed that the major-party candidates are not in touch with average citizens. "These two people that are running for office have virtually shut us out of the debates and all types of media," Thornton said. "Everywhere I go where DeStefano is, I get the loudest ovations and I get the thumbs up from the crowd. It just goes to show you that he's not speaking to the people. Rell, I don't know where she is, she never appears anyway." Thornton and Zdonczyk were both recently kept out of the state's televised gubernatorial debates, even though the League of Women Voters, an original sponsor of the first debate, had invited Thornton to attend. The New London Day, the other sponsor of the event, accepted responsibility for excluding Thornton, saying that he did not have enough financial contributors to warrant a podium. Though the Day took blame for barring Thornton, DeStefano's campaign had reportedly threatened not to participate in the first two debates if minor-party candidates would also appear and even publicly suggested that their presence would serve only as a distraction. Similarly, Gov. Rell refused to meet more than twice for what her staff called "an extended series of debates." Even though they were prohibited from standing alongside the major-party candidates, both of the third-party nominees showed up at the first gubernatorial debate in New London's Garde Arts Center. Zdonczyk got on stage before the event to address the crowd for a short time before politely being escorted out. Thornton rallied with dozens of Green Party supporters outside, in a scene that was filmed for a commercial later aired right before the second debate. At UConn, discussing the topic of transportation, Thornton suggested that Connecticut invest in mass transit undertakings like railcars. Zdonczyk said he would like to see more people working at home, since that would cut back greatly on the need to commute. The candidates were eventually asked for their opinions on medical marijuana. "I would like to see the outright legalization of marijuana," Thornton said. "And along with it, hemp, because hemp is one of those alternative energy sources that we could possibly use to help with the energy problem in this particular state and in the country. It produces much more biodiesel-type fuel than corn for a lot less money." Zdonczyk sharply disagreed with Thornton over marijuana. "It would seem to me that there are all kinds of medical alternatives-you talked about alternative energy-I would think there are all kind of other alternatives to ease the pain and suffering of people who are insistent upon using marijuana as their form of relief. Marijuana, I believe, is a gateway drug," Zdonczyk said. "Cannabis has been used for medical purposes for thousands of years all over the world," Thornton said. "So when you speak of marijuana, marijuana has the ability and is much cheaper than synthesized drugs. This is why they don't want to make it legal. It's cheaper, in many respects it's much more effective and [another] reason they really don't want marijuana legalized is because of hemp. Now, you talk about money and say it's all about money. This is all we're talking about. Any time that you talk about legalizing, medicalizing or decriminalizing drugs, you're only talking about one thing-the redistribution of economic power." Unexpectedly, one male member of the audience interjected and began speaking to the candidates for a few minutes. "I feel that there's much bigger issues at hand than a lot of these things that we are saying, because the structure of power is so small," Hugo Barecca, a 3rd-semester philosophy major, said. The young man criticized the Federal Reserve banking system, as well as the passage of legislation establishing military commissions for the War on Terror that deny illegal enemy combatants habeas corpus and the right to cite the Geneva Conventions. "You're frustrated," Thornton said. "I'm very frustrated with the system," Barecca. "Right and I hear your frustration," Thornton said. "However, if you don't participate in this thing called democracy, then you're just as much at fault as they are." Thornton linked the audience member's fears about diminishing American freedoms back to the subject of drugs. "When you look at it and you look at the decades of this Drug War, you will see the erosion of our rights through this Drug War," Thornton said. "You will see the conspiracy theory that allows a police officer to frisk you or stop you just because he thinks you may have drugs. So the Drug War is at the core of most of our problems. If we didn't have the Drug War, we couldn't have passed the PATRIOT Act." "Reasonably, what you're saying is, we've got to get back to our Constitutional fundamentals," Zdonczyk said. "You know, when the Constitution was put together, it strictly defined the limits of those three branches of government-the executive, judicial and legislative. And also the Ninth Amendment and the Tenth Amendment, particularly, say in effect that all of the authority that is vested in the central branches is strictly defined and that all other rights, which is what you're talking about, are reserved to the states and/or the people." The Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The Tenth Amendment reads: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." "Going back, if you're looking at the Constitution, you have to look back even further than that," Zdonczyk said. "You have to look at the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence: it was the birth certificate of this country. Now what does it say? We have certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and that government is created to assure these rights." The candidates were then asked by the SSDP's Stephanie Molden to define their land ethic. "I don't want to see any more roads built anywhere," Thornton said. "I want to see mass transit. I want to use the farmland that we have to produce hemp. I want to make sure that, when we start building businesses, we don't start changing the codes." "The other thing that is very important is eminent domain," Thornton said. "Eminent domain has changed over the last ten years. Eminent domain is supposed to be when the government takes over private property and uses it for highways, libraries or schools. But now they are taking away people's personal property and putting businesses in there. I'm gonna stop that. I don't want that to happen." By comparison, Zdonczyk denied that government could assert any authority over personal property. "Going back once again to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, that is involved in that whole concept," Zdonczyk said. "Life and liberty, how you use what you're going to earn by your own sweat and toil. That's a personal thing and it belongs to you. And the idea that you could be working a lifetime to put together a few bucks and buy a piece of property and live there and make it your home, the idea that some governmental agency is going to come in and, just by reason of this vague concept of the greater good being served if we can grab your property, is repulsive. And what we need to do is understand that, once the government comes in and asserts its supposed authority to grab your own home, we're in serious trouble. And we have to fight this for as long as we have a breath, because once we give up that right, that is just giving away that authority over our property." Both men referenced Rell and DeStefano in their closing statements. "I'm running as a taxpayer advocate," Zdonczyk said. "I'm face-to-face with two big spenders who have absolutely no concept about where that money comes from and how hard we have to work to get it." "If you're not satisfied with Tweedledee and Tweedledum, then listen," Thornton said in his concluding remarks. "What I'm going to do, if elected to office, is challenge the federal government to bring these drugs inside the law by setting up programs like heroin maintenance and cocaine maintenance that have been effective not only in Europe, but in Canada. The next thing I'm going to do is shore up education within this state. And the third thing that I'm going to do, I'm going to have an audit on every single department, over the last ten years, to find out where they're spending the money and how they're spending it." While neither of the two minor-party candidates is expected to win the election, third parties have traditionally helped to push taboo issues like slave abolition and labor rights into mainstream political discourse. During an interview with the Daily Campus last January, Thornton said that he would personally be happy to secure only five to 10 percent of the vote. The election for this office and others is scheduled to happen on Tuesday, Nov. 7. Thornton for Governor PO Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 votethornton at yahoogroups.com www.votethornton.com 860 657 8438-H 860 268 1294-C 860 778 1304-Tim Mckee-Campaign Manager 860 293 0222-Ken Krayeske-field Manager Paid for by Thornton For Governor Max H. Wentworth, Treasurer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Accompanying Burton will be Katie the Goat and her twin kids, Cindy-Lu and Joe-Joe. Katie's milk is used to monitor strontium-90 releases from the Millstone Nuclear Power Station. The message: strontium-90 in milk is not good for baby goats or human babies either. The "Goat Caravan" will commence with a stop at the Attorney General's Office, 55 Elm Street, Hartford, on Monday, October 30, at 11 A.M. The complete itinerary for Monday, October 29, is attached. The tentative itinerary for the remainder of the week follows. Go to www.VoteBurton.org for updates. CLEAN AIR - CLEAN WATER CLEAN GOVERNMENT NANCY BURTON for ATTORNEY GENERAL Goat Caravan Itinerary Monday, October 30 - Hartford 11 AM - office of the Attorney General, 55 Elm Street 12 noon - State Capitol (east parking lot facing Bushnell Park) 12:30 PM - Supreme Court, 231 Capitol Avenue 1 PM - Legislative Office Building 2 PM - Department of Environmental Protection, 79 Elm Street 3 PM - Department of Public Health, 410-474 Capitol Avenue 4 PM - Joe Lieberman Re-Election Headquarters, 10 Columbus Blvd. Tuesday, October 31 - New Haven and Fairfield Counties 8 AM - A public school in New Haven (location to be announced) 9 AM - Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St., New Haven 11 AM - Westport Public Library, 20 Jesup Road, Westport 12 noon - Congressman Chris Shays Re-Election Headquarters, 98 East Avenue, Norwalk 1 PM - New Canaan (location to be announced) 2 PM - South Norwalk (location to be announced) Wednesday, November 1 - New London and Windham Counties 10 AM - Katie's Poisoned Pasture, 120 Dayton Road, Waterford 11 AM - Pleasure Beach, Waterford (view to Millstone) 12 noon - New London Cancer Center, Cross Road 1 PM - 8 East Street, New London (Condemned home of Susette Kelo) 3 PM - Horsebarn Hill, University of Connecticut 5 PM - Willimantic Food Co-Op, Willimantic 9 PM - Event with Ralph Nader (Location to be announced) Thursday, November 2 - Redding, Weston, Easton Locations and times to be announced Friday, November 3 Locations and times to be announced _________________________________________________________________ Try Search Survival Kits: Fix up your home and better handle your cash with Live Search! http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improve&locale=en-US&source=hmtagline From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Oct 30 16:16:11 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:16:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} State Central meeting- Tuesday night- GOTV MEETING Message-ID: <20061030211611.64523.qmail@web81415.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ken krayeske wrote: To: Clifford Thornton From: ken krayeske Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:48:29 -0500 Subject: [VoteThornton] re: State Central GOTV MEETING Tomorrow Night - Tuesday Oct 31 at 7 pm at the Portland Senior Center The CT GP will have its state central meeting. Thornton for Governor will be sharing its GOTV strategy , and we hope to see everyone there to take a responsibility on Election DAY! Thanks - T-minus seven days and counting! -- Peace, Ken Krayeske Campaign Manager Thornton for Governor P.O. Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 www.votethornton.com 860-995-5842 *This message is paid for and approved by Thornton for Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer* __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS Campaign and election American politics Yahoo! News Kevin Sites Get coverage of world crises. Yahoo! TV "The 9" Daily count down of top Web finds. In Year 2020 Where Will You Be? The Yahoo! 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URL: From greenpartyct at yahoo.com Mon Oct 30 16:28:34 2006 From: greenpartyct at yahoo.com (Green Party-CT) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:28:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: {news} Burton "Goat Caravan" tours CT to shut down Millstone & Indian Pt Message-ID: <20061030212834.6614.qmail@web81401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> David Bedell wrote: To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org CC: newhavengreens at yahoogroups.com, nlgreens at yahoogroups.com, nectgreens at lists.riseup.net From: "David Bedell" Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:42:49 +0000 Subject: [newhavengreens] Burton "Goat Caravan" tours CT to shut down Millstone & Indian Pt NANCY BURTON for ATTORNEY GENERAL www.VoteBurton.org MEDIA ADVISORY BURTON ANNOUNCES "GOAT CARAVAN" TO MAKE STOPS ACROSS THE STATE FOR MILLSTONE & INDIAN PT SHUTDOWN For Release: October 29, 2006 Contact: Nancy Burton 203-938-3952/Cell 203-545-9252/ NancyBurtonCT@ aol.com David Bedell, Campaign Manager, 203-581-3193/ dbedellgreen@ hotmail.com, The Green Party campaign of Nancy Burton for Attorney General will take a "Goat Caravan"? to stops across the state during the week of October 30-November 3. Accompanying Burton will be Katie the Goat and her twin kids, Cindy-Lu and Joe-Joe. Katie's milk is used to monitor strontium-90 releases from the Millstone Nuclear Power Station. The message: strontium-90 in milk is not good for baby goats or human babies either. The "Goat Caravan" will commence with a stop at the Attorney General's Office, 55 Elm Street, Hartford, on Monday, October 30, at 11 A.M. The complete itinerary for Monday, October 29, is attached. The tentative itinerary for the remainder of the week follows. Go to www.VoteBurton.org for updates. CLEAN AIR - CLEAN WATER CLEAN GOVERNMENT NANCY BURTON for ATTORNEY GENERAL Goat Caravan Itinerary Monday, October 30 - Hartford 11 AM - office of the Attorney General, 55 Elm Street 12 noon - State Capitol (east parking lot facing Bushnell Park) 12:30 PM - Supreme Court, 231 Capitol Avenue 1 PM - Legislative Office Building 2 PM - Department of Environmental Protection, 79 Elm Street 3 PM - Department of Public Health, 410-474 Capitol Avenue 4 PM - Joe Lieberman Re-Election Headquarters, 10 Columbus Blvd. Tuesday, October 31 - New Haven and Fairfield Counties 8 AM - A public school in New Haven (location to be announced) 9 AM - Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect St., New Haven 11 AM - Westport Public Library, 20 Jesup Road, Westport 12 noon - Congressman Chris Shays Re-Election Headquarters, 98 East Avenue, Norwalk 1 PM - New Canaan (location to be announced) 2 PM - South Norwalk (location to be announced) Wednesday, November 1 - New London and Windham Counties 10 AM - Katie's Poisoned Pasture, 120 Dayton Road, Waterford 11 AM - Pleasure Beach, Waterford (view to Millstone) 12 noon - New London Cancer Center, Cross Road 1 PM - 8 East Street, New London (Condemned home of Susette Kelo) 3 PM - Horsebarn Hill, University of Connecticut 5 PM - Willimantic Food Co-Op, Willimantic 9 PM - Event with Ralph Nader (Location to be announced) Thursday, November 2 - Redding, Weston, Easton Locations and times to be announced Friday, November 3 Locations and times to be announced _________________________________________________________________ Try Search Survival Kits: Fix up your home and better handle your cash with Live Search! http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improve&locale=en-US&source=hmtagline Yahoo! 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URL: From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Oct 30 19:51:46 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:51:46 +0000 Subject: {news} Colin Bennett in The Day Message-ID: Here's a profile of Colin from the New London Day: http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=b251c7a2-d3e0-4d13-bd33-6f60d37812f0 Bennett Hopes To Make late Push To Get Votes By Eileen McNamara Published on 10/30/2006 As a third-party candidate in a district where he's running against a popular incumbent this year, Colin Bennett recognizes he will need to do a lot of grass-roots work. But just two weeks before the election, Bennett, a member of Connecticut's Green Party, has yet to start much campaigning. That's because, said the ardent activist, he has been too busy volunteering for various community action groups to work on his own election bid. ?I'm going to have start soon,? he said. Bennett, who is 27 and lives in Westbrook, is challenging seven-term incumbent Democrat Eileen Daily. He ran against her in 2004 as well, along with candidates from the Republican and Working Families parties. Bennett garnered just 603 votes to Daily's 20,557. His lackluster support in 2004, however, did little to dampen Bennett's enthusiasm and commitment. He's also on the Green Party's ticket this year to run for state comptroller but said that ballot position is simply a place-holder for his party, to help it fill out its roster of candidates and give it more visibility in elections so it can qualify for future public financing. It's really the 33rd Senate District Bennett hopes to capture. A former teacher who now works for a Hartford-based environmental advocacy group called Clean Water Action, it's no surprise that one of Bennett's top priorities is Connecticut's environment. ?I'm interested in protecting land and preserving our green spaces,? he said, ?not just creating parks for kids.? When pressed for specific initiatives or issues he would pursue if elected, Bennett said he has not developed a detailed platform but rather has broad ideas and concerns he would bring to Hartford. ?I really don't think it should be about what I want,? he said. ?I think I should be a voice for the people of the district and do what they want me to do.? Mostly, he said, he hopes to become the district's senator so he can advocate for those who have no voice at the capitol, particularly the poor and disadvantaged. ?I want to be accountable to the citizens of Connecticut. I want to make the people's issues my issues,? he said. ?I want to go to bat for people who need help. Someone who's making $100,000 a year, I'm not necessarily going to bat for them.? A lifelong resident of Connecticut, Bennett said he supports efforts to find alternatives to the state's dependence on fossil fuels. He said would push for more support of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, as well as biodiesel and ethanol fuels, which give off fewer destructive emissions, he said. ?Global warming is going to be the biggest issue our nation is going to face,? Bennett said. One specific environmental issue he said he would pursue if elected is limiting diesel exhaust emitted by school buses. Bennett, who is single and has a 7-year-old daughter, said he was shocked to learn the extent that school bus exhaust fumes permeate the interior of a school bus. ?The air inside a school bus is dirtier than the air outside,? he said. So far, he said, most politicians have balked at requiring bus companies to install filters on buses that would reduce the emissions. ?And it's all because of cost,? he said. ?But do we want to poison our children or spend a few hundred dollars on this filter? It's a problem that's easy to solve.? Bennett said he wants to serve in the state's legislature because ,?I look around Connecticut, and I see a lot of problems.? He said he loves it here and wants to make it a better place for his daughter and future generations. ?For every problem here, there's at least 10, 15 or 100 solutions to that problem,? he said. ?We just have to want to embrace them.? He said he also supports campaign finance and property-tax reform. A justice of the peace in Westbrook and a member of that town's Forest Commission, Bennett founded a group called Great Land Conservation Trust Inc., a nonprofit agency that seeks, through conservation and education efforts, to preserve undeveloped land. _________________________________________________________________ Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more?then map the best route! http://local.live.com?FORM=MGA001 From dbedellgreen at hotmail.com Mon Oct 30 20:01:04 2006 From: dbedellgreen at hotmail.com (David Bedell) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:01:04 +0000 Subject: {news} Colin Bennett in the Middletown Press In-Reply-To: <4546570D.6070401@votethornton.com> Message-ID: Here's an Oct 24 article from the Middletown Press: http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17367865 10/24/2006 Candidates challenge 14-year incumbent for 33rd District seat By: Stan Fisher Eileen Daily has not lost a race for the 33rd District Senate seat in 14 years, a record that deters Salvatore Nucifora and Colin D. Bennett not a bit. Nucifora, 37, a Republican from East Hampton, is making his first attempt at elective office in challenging Daily, the veteran Democrat from Westbrook. This is Bennett's second campaign as the Green Party's candidate for the seat, but this year he is also running as the party's nominee for state comptroller. A 32-year resident of East Hampton, Nucifora says he understands the challenge but points out, "I'm not a career politician, and people seem to like that." He says his talks with voters revealed a disenchantment with Daily's track record for the smaller communities in the 12-town district. An environmental activist in Westbrook and a campaign organizer for the nonprofit group Clean Water Action, Bennett, 27, has a clear understanding of his prospects, and of the inspiration for his candidacy, he said. "I don't have any illusions ... I'm running to give people a choice" outside the two-party system, he said. Daily, 63, a former Westbrook first selectwoman first elected to the state Senate in 1992, has defeated her Republican challengers for the seat by large margins in recent elections, winning with 68 percent of the votes in the 2004 elections. The motivation for her eighth Senate campaign, she says, is that "there's still so much work to do," particularly in her role as Senate chairwoman of the influential Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee. Daily says "getting the biggest bang for the buck" as the legislature continues to evaluate the state's tax structure is an important task of the committee. And, "We're going to need a steady hand at the helm" of the finance committee as the legislature addresses transportation issues. While Nucifora lacks Daily's legislative experience, he says he has equal skills in working with people and problem-solving. "My work experience is as a mechanical engineer. I'm now with Electric Boat, but I've worked with large and small companies ... and my main focus is to come up with solutions for problems and bring people together in solving them." Nucifora wants to revise state and local taxes on small-business people, eliminating property taxes on assets if the enterprise earns $20,000 or less. "Now you have to pay taxes on Post-it notes and sandpaper," he says. "My cousin has a small deli; he has to pay taxes on cheese and meat." He also wants tax relief for the elderly, including deferred property taxes and eliminating income taxes for working elderly. Bennett said his candidacy on the Green Party ticket appeals to voters, and he hopes to improve on his 2004 showing while planning ahead for the 2008 election. His "to do" list includes his own concerns - education and the environment among them - but he says, "I will represent the people of the 33rd District, and their problems and concerns. Their problems become your problems (as an elected official), and not the other way around." For Daily, the top priority is medical care: "It's such a big problem - we have to come up with something," she says, such as a state health insurance plan. Daily is also calling for wider availability of early-childhood education, for the state to assume the cost of special education and for the state to fully pay the educational cost-sharing component of local school budgets. Finally, Daily says, "We have a serious need to review and possibly revise state policies on energy." ?The Middletown Press 2006 _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us From smderosa at cox.net Mon Oct 30 22:52:00 2006 From: smderosa at cox.net (smderosa at cox.net) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:52:00 -0500 Subject: {news} Fw: INVITATION TO CT SOTS DEBATE AT ARTS SPACE HARTFORD, CT-Wed. NOV 1, 2006 7pm-8:30pm Message-ID: <000b01c6fc9f$ebe682f0$8201a8c0@userb649154f63> Dear Greens: Please attend this event if you can. We are hoping, but not expecting the present Sec. Of The State to attend. But we will have the Republican, the Green Candidate, and the Libertarian candidate for CT SOTS there. So it should be a great conversation. Please put this on any list servers that you think might be interested in this event. Please come and ask some questions and raise some issues. The details: What: Debate Between CT Secretary Of State Candidates When: WED. Nov. 1, 2006, 7PM-8:30PM Where: ArtSpace CT, 555 Asylum Avenue in Hartford (across from the Hartford Railroad Station) Who: All Candidates On The Nov. 7, 2006 CT Ballot for Sec. Of The State. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Tue Oct 31 00:18:10 2006 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:18:10 -0500 Subject: {news} agenda for 10-31-06 SCC meeting of CTGP Message-ID: <20061031051813.ICMU12366.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Agenda for 10-31-06 SCC Meeting Place:********* Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT (a block east of Portland Public Library) Phone: 860-342-6760 ******** Time: 7PM to 9PM Facilitator: To Be Determined A. Preliminaries: 1. (1 minute): Introductions of attendees and chapters. Recruit timekeeper. 2. (1 minute): Identify attendees who are NOT voting representatives. 3. (1 minute): Adopt ground rules. 4. (3 minutes): Approval of tonight's proposed agenda, additions and deletions. 5. (3 minutes): Comments and approval of 8-29-06 and 9-26-06 SCC minutes. 6. (3 minutes): 9-11-06 and 10-17-06 EC meetings presentation and approval. 7. (3 minutes): Treasurer's report by Christopher Reilly . . Reports: 1. (10 minutes): Discussion about Cliff Thornton's campaign for governor. 2. (15 minutes): Discussion of CTGP candidate events, fundraisers, phone banking and merchandise. 3. (3 minutes): Discussion about donations from CTGP PAC to candidates. 4. (10 minutes): Candidate debates and getting out the vote on election 11-7-06. 5. (2 minutes, each for): Chapter reports. 6. (5 minutes): U.S. Green Party report by CTGP representatives: Tim McKee and Charlie Pillsbury. 7. (5 minutes): Budget Committee suggestions 8. (2 minutes): V.O.T.E.R. update: ACLU lawsuit regarding 2005 CT "campaign finance reform" law. 9.(5 minutes): Articles for and deadline for "CT Green Times" newspaper, whether it will be mailed or hand delivered to chapters and/or drop off locations. 9. (3 minutes): National Security agency 8-30-06 response to CTGP freedom of information request. www.mapquest.com www.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Tue Oct 31 00:20:33 2006 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:20:33 -0500 Subject: FW: {news} agenda for 10-31-06 SCC meeting of CTGP Message-ID: <20061031052035.GTZP6841.centrmmtao02.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> Agenda for 10-31-06 SCC Meeting Place:********* Portland Senior Center, 7 Waverly Avenue, Portland, CT (a block east of Portland Public Library) Phone: 860-342-6760 ******** Time: 7PM to 9PM Facilitator: To Be Determined A. 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Yet, such a recommendation would threaten the profits of powerful interests - insurance and drug companies known more for their political contributions than for their consideration of public interest. So in its final report of Sept. 27, the Citizens' Health Care Working Group simply ignored the citizens. The working group, a panel of health care experts appointed by the U.S. Comptroller General, was created by Congress in 2003. The group was mandated to travel the country, seek citizens' advice for reform, and translate their wishes into recommendations for Congress. Wherever they went, ordinary citizens consistently asked for national health insurance. In fact, the group's own data show attendees favored a national health program over any other option by an average of 3 to 1. Connecticut ranked national health insurance first over the nine possible reforms by and average of 26 to 1. From Los Angeles to Memphis to New York, the message was the same: replace our broken system with the same public coverage for everyone. Yet the final recommendations to Congress make no mention of the national health program citizens chose. Instead, they offer half-measures while leaving the flawed private insurance structure untouched. Unfortunately for those families facing a choice between utility payments and medical bills, the working group's best suggestion is to ask taxpayers to help them buy deficient insurance products that offer little or no protection when serious illness strikes. As Connecticut health caregivers, we can see why national health insurance enjoyed such overwhelming public support. One in nine Connecticut citizens - 394,000 people - lacked health insurance in 2005. Even for those wealthy or healthy enough to afford coverage, the private policies offered are so riddled with exclusions, co-payments, and high deductibles that any major illness can threaten a family with financial ruin. By contrast, numerous studies demonstrate the benefits of creating a national health insurance system like that proposed by Physicians for a National Health Program: private insurance companies would be replaced with a single public payer - "Medicare for All," saving more than $300 billion annually by eliminating insurers' administrative costs and profits, and negotiating prescription drug costs. These savings would be enough to cover every American for all medically necessary services. Patients would regain full choice of health caregiver freed from corporate constraints on patient care. In fact, we proposed this single payer option to the Connecticut General Assembly in our Health Care Security Act of 1999. We argued that just as Social Security had successfully begun as an experiment in one state, a publicly-funded insurance plan could also begin in one state. And what better state than small and wealthy Connecticut? Unfortunately, that bill and its most recent version in the last legislative session died in committee. Indeed, the Citizens' Health Care Working Group report reaffirms that Connecticut's citizens will have to look beyond our current elected officials to make our voices heard. But what hope do we have for change in the upcoming elections? Not much. Despite ongoing lip service by Democratic and Republican candidates for "universal coverage," only Green Party candidates like gubernatorial contender Cliff Thornton explicitly support the wishes of Connecticut citizens for publicly-funded health insurance. Yet, most Connecticut voters won't know that Thornton and other Greens represent their views on November's ballot. Just as Connecticut citizens' support for single-payer insurance was "omitted" from the Citizens Health Care Working Group Report, candidates who most represent their views have also been "omitted" from expressing them - at least in televised gubernatorial debates. Sadly, the proposals of the working group and Connecticut's Democratic and Republican candidates offer nothing but business as usual: insurance and drug firms reaping kingly profits while so many go without needed care. Still, Connecticut's citizens know only public health insurance can provide the health security we all need. John Battista is a psychiatrist in private practice in New Milford with Justine McCabe, who is a clinical psychologist. They are members of the Green Party. Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Wentworth, Treasurer ----- Original Message ----- From: Martha Kelly To: Ken Krayeske ; Clifford Thornton ; Jean de Smet Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:36 PM Subject: Comments from my Travels 'Lo all, I went to Mystic yesterday for a conference on housing, afffordable housing, homelessness, etc. There I met I met Rosemarie Lee, the Community Lender Liason of the Savings Institute Bank and Trust, 803 Main Street , Willimantic. She knows you and is a fan. Thinks third Thursdays are just great, told me how much it has grown lately. I told her about your candidacy. And she listened attentively to my war on drugs speech tie-in. On my way home I stopped in to see my friend Cecelia (who lives in the woods of Montville and is a universal health advocate). At the Norwich meeting (one hosted by the faith based guys) she met a lady who volunteered the fact that "Cliff Thornton just makes a lot of sense." This unknown Eastern CT woman stated that she was going to vote for you. Hope all is well with you each. Martha ken krayeske wrote: http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/columnists/hc-susan1029.artoct29,0,4843137.column Voters Deserve To Hear From All Candidates October 29, 2006 If you want to understand what brings on voter apathy, a small meeting room just off the lobby at Central Connecticut State University's student center is a good place to start. Clifford Thornton, Green Party candidate for governor, has come to talk to members of the Progressive Student Alliance, an organization whose members seek to expose students to new ways of looking at the issues. The alliance's president, Wes Strong, a sociology major from East Hampton, tried to attract all the candidates for an open forum, but to no avail. But Thornton is here after a long day spent traversing around the state. As it turns out, Thorton was free, even though the second and last gubernatorial debate was going on. Save for one notable exception, Connecticut's political debates have decidedly been for the two major parties - third-party candidates need not apply. Even though four gubernatorial candidates met the secretary of state's criteria for candidacy, only two were included in either of the televised debates. Say what you want about the democratic process, but it failed here. Only two candidates participated in what is arguably the largest (and most accessible) forum available for voters. Come Election Day, voters won't have the whole picture. Neither will voters in the state's overheated senatorial race. There, only one of three debates included all five candidates. The others only included three candidates - yet strangely, one of those, Joseph Lieberman, is running as an independent whose presence in the debates has never been questioned. (The two mostly missing U.S. Senate candidates are Ralph A. Ferrucci of the Green Party and Timothy A. Knibbs of the Concerned Citizens Party.) "But that's not fair," one student said at the CCSU meeting. It's not fair. Nor is it democratic (or republican). And we should be ashamed of ourselves. We're proving to disaffected voters that democracy is restricted to big-ticket participants with deep pockets. And the people who broadcast the debates do so by borrowing the airwaves. Those airwaves belong -- so says the Federal Communications Commission - to the citizens. And the citizens deserve to see and hear everyone. This argument sounds downright "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"-esque, doesn't it? But the fact is it's true. Yet here, during the debate, Thornton is leaned back in a plastic chair, jacket open, ready to answer questions while he watches the television mounted on the wall overhead. He put 700 miles on the car in the last two days. Thornton is beat, and he said as much when he came into the room and set a Wild Oats paper bag of campaign paraphernalia on the table. When he asks Strong how many students to expect, he doesn't seem disappointed with the answer - anywhere from 15 to 25. But compare that to the roughly 64,000 homes tuned in for the Oct. 18 gubernatorial debate, and you can see that the two major-party candidates got so much more exposure than Thornton, or Joseph A. Zdonczyk of Concerned Citizens, the other candidate for governor. To a small but rapt audience, Thornton quickly lays out the Green Party platform: free college and enhanced mass transportation and a radically different drug policy. Overhead, his party's first-ever television commercial pops up (a protest to get Thornton into the debate), and the candidate shakes his head. The ad was filmed outside the first debate. He did not call for a protest at the second one. "I would be na?ve if I placed all this on race and class," Thornton said. "It's about ideas. My background is athletics. I played basketball and baseball. I don't go into anything without looking to win. But I have to be realistic. We are looking at building the Green Party." He had asked one journalist involved in the debate to ask the Republican and Democratic candidates why all candidates weren't included. I bet him a dollar the journalist (a respected reporter) would. But the reporter didn't. In the polished world of two-party politics, going off-script would have been entirely too much to ask. And here is where you lose so many would-be voters. If they think that the fix is in and the game is locked, why ever would they want to get involved? Susan Campbell is at scampbell at courant.com or 860-241-6454. -- Peace, Ken Krayeske Campaign Manager Thornton for Governor P.O. 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URL: From ken at votethornton.com Fri Oct 6 13:39:15 2006 From: ken at votethornton.com (ken krayeske) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:39:15 -0000 Subject: {news} re: Thornton to Protest Debates Message-ID: <452693E0.9000705@votethornton.com> For Immediate Release Oct. 6, 2006 for more information, contact campaign manager Ken Krayeske, 860-995-5842 Thornton Campaign to Protest Debates Green Gubernatorial Candidate calls for Demonstrations /Hartford /- The Thornton for Governor campaign will protest its exclusion from the televised statewide debates with a mass demonstration outside of the Garde Theatre in New London, starting at 6 p.m, Monday, Oct. 9. "The only way to address this grave injustice is to protest and demonstrate, loudly and non-violently," Green Party gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton said. "We want peace, so we will work through peaceful means. While the two parties and their servants in the business world have tried to silence our rights to free speech, they cannot obstruct our right to peaceably assemble. So we plan to gather, and gather in the largest numbers the Connecticut Green Party has ever seen." Thornton has tickets for the debates, and will attempt to enter the Garde Theatre with these tickets. The Thornton for Governor campaign will live blog the debate from the home of a local New London supporter. There Green Party is forming carpools to New London from Willimantic, New Haven and Hartford. "We respect the institution of the debates," Thornton said, "but we need to demonstrate to the two party system that we will not take this sitting down. The Republicans and the Democrats have lied and trampled our rights to free speech." -- Peace, Ken Krayeske Campaign Manager Thornton for Governor P.O. Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 860-995-5842 *This message is paid for and approved by Thornton for Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer* From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Oct 9 17:37:29 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:37:29 -0000 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT: Tony Judt and the Israel Lobby at Work Message-ID: <0b8001c6ebeb$1a6a3dd0$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Walton" To: Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 5:16 PM Subject: USGP-INT Certainly Not the First Time and Certainly Not the Last: Israel Lobby at Work > Hi: I fear no one will be surprised that the Israel lobby has again > succeeded in silencing a critic. These items appeared in The Progressive > Review today. Peace. Richard. > > PROMINENT SCHOLAR BANNED FROM SPEAKING THANKS TO PRO-ISRAEL EXTREMIST > GROUPS > > TONY JUDT - I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group > called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, > etc, from the US and many countries. Topic: the Israel Lobby and US > Foreign Policy. The meetings are always held at the Polish Consulate in > Manhattan. I just received a call from the President of Network 20/20. The > talk was canceled because the Polish Consulate had been threatened by the > Anti-Defamation League. Serial phone-calls from ADL President Abe Foxman > warned them off hosting anything involving Tony Judt. If they persisted, > he warned, he would smear the charge of Polish collaboration with > anti-Israeli anti-Semites (= me) all over the front page of every daily > paper in the city (an indirect quote). They caved and Network 20/20 were > forced to cancel." > > WASHINGTON POST - An hour before Judt was to arrive, the Polish Consul > General Krzysztof Kasprzyk canceled the talk. He said the Anti-Defamation > League and the American Jewish Committee had called and he quickly > concluded Judt was too controversial. "The phone calls were very elegant > but may be interpreted as exercising a delicate pressure," Kasprzyk said. > "That's obvious -- we are adults and our IQs are high enough to understand > that." > > Judt, who was born and raised in England and lost much of his family in > the Holocaust, took strong exception to the cancellation of his speech. He > noted that he was forced to cancel another speech later this month at > Manhattan College in the Bronx after a different Jewish group had > complained. Other prominent academics have described encountering such > problems, in some cases more severe, stretching over the past three > decades. The pattern, Judt says, is unmistakable and chilling. > > "This is serious and frightening, and only in America -- not in Israel -- > is this a problem," he said. "These are Jewish organizations that believe > they should keep people who disagree with them on the Middle East away > from anyone who might listen." > > The leaders of the Jewish organizations denied asking the consulate to > block Judt's speech and accused the professor of retailing "wild > conspiracy theories" about their roles. But they applauded the consulate > for rescinding Judt's invitation. > > "I think they made the right decision," said Abraham H. Foxman, national > director of the Anti-Defamation League. "He's taken the position that > Israel shouldn't exist. That puts him on our radar." > > David A. Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, took > a similar view. "I never asked for a particular action; I was calling as a > friend of Poland," Harris said. "The message of that evening was going to > be entirely contrary to the entire spirit of Polish foreign policy." > > Judt has crossed rhetorical swords with the Jewish organizations on two > key issues. Over the past few years he has written essays in the New York > Review of Books, the London Review of Books and in the Israeli newspaper > Haaretz arguing that power in Israel has shifted to religious > fundamentalists and territorial zealots, that woven into Zionism is a view > of the Arab as the irreconcilable enemy, and that Israel might not survive > as a communal Jewish state. > > The solution, he argues, lies in a slow and tortuous walk toward a > binational and secular state. > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006 > 100801053.html > > JUDT ON ISRAEL, THE COUNTRY THAT WON'T GROW UP > http://prorev.com/2006/10/israel-country-that-wont-grow-up.htm > > > "The only way out of our crisis (terrorism) is to reduce the anger of the > most rational, thus also reducing the constituency of the least rational." > Sam Smith. > > "When they come for the innocent without crossing over > your body, cursed be your religion and your life." Anon. But often > quoted by Dorothy Day. > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > "Richard Walton" > ----------------------------------------------------------- From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Oct 9 22:58:38 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:58:38 -0000 Subject: {news} German Chief Forges Accord on Financing Health Care Message-ID: <0bc701c6ec17$f8170920$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 6, 2006 German Chief Forges Accord on Financing Health Care By MARK LANDLER FRANKFURT, Oct. 5 - Chancellor Angela Merkel has survived the most serious threat to her fragile, 10-month-old government, emerging from a marathon, late-night negotiating session on Thursday with an agreement for new financing of Germany's straitened health care system. But the plan, which Mrs. Merkel once promoted as the centerpiece of her agenda, falls short of a basic overhaul of the huge system and puts off the most important changes until January 2009 - by which time, some critics say, her "grand coalition" may no longer exist. The noisy debate over health care has become a sort of crucible for the chancellor, testing her ability to reconcile differences between her Christian Democratic Party and its partner, the Social Democratic Party. This compromise, analysts say, shows how hobbled Mrs. Merkel is in taking radical steps. "The chancellor promised to deliver a grand solution, which was improbable from the start," said Reinhard B?tikofer, co-chairman of the opposition Green Party. "What really failed was this ill-conceived idea that a grand coalition produces grand solutions. It does not." The watered-down deal deprives Mrs. Merkel of the only bold measure left in her portfolio. Other proposed changes, like loosening Germany's hidebound labor market, were shelved even before the government took power because of ideological differences between the parties. Far from being a German Margaret Thatcher, as her most ardent supporters once hoped, Mrs. Merkel, 52, has had to devote most of her energy to tamping down internal disputes before they split the coalition. The dispute over health care is a case in point. After a broad agreement was reached in July, internal bickering forced Mrs. Merkel to delay carrying out the plan by three months, until April 2007. The stalemate hurt her political standing, reducing approval ratings for the Christian Democrats to their lowest level since the reunification of Germany in 1990. Another political cloud is Mrs. Merkel's insistence on substantially increasing the value-added-tax next year. With the party's regional bosses taking shots at her, political analysts had speculated that the coalition would splinter. Having set a do-or-die session for Wednesday evening, Mrs. Merkel was plainly relieved to have cut any deal. "We succeeded, and anyone who knows how complicated things are in health policy also knows that the coalition has succeeded in a very important step," she said in an interview with a German television news channel, before heading to Turkey and a respite from domestic politics. Few dispute that the health care system needs to be overhauled, and that none of the remedies are simple. Germany spends more on health care, as a percentage of its economic output, than all countries except Switzerland and the United States. With the rising cost of care, an aging population and chronic high unemployment, a shortfall of nearly $9 billion is projected this year. At the heart of the system are 252 public health insurance companies, which are financed through a premium paid by employers and employees that amounts to roughly 14 percent of workers' annual salaries. Conservatives in Mrs. Merkel's party originally pushed for a flat-rate premium, which would cut the link between income level and health care payments. This, they said, would lower Germany's labor costs and encourage companies to hire again. But the Social Democrats balked. In the end, the parties agreed to raise the premium to 14.7 percent of salaries in 2007, to allow the insurers to close their deficit. They also agreed to pool the contributions in a state-run central fund, which would disburse a uniform amount to each insurance provider to cover their policyholders. The rationale is to force inefficient health insurers to cut costs. But this proposal got stuck, among other things, on a disagreement over a separate provision that would add an extra premium to cover future shortfalls in insurance coverage. The government decided to delay the central fund by six months, until January 2009, to resolve these differences. "They are inventing new ways to raise revenue," said Thomas Mayer, the chief European economist at Deutsche Bank. "What I don't see are ways to reduce spending. It's the same old system." Mr. B?tikofer said the government would have done better to focus on smaller steps, like encouraging more competition among pharmacies, or between public and private health insurance providers. Some analysts argue that the fine points of Germany's health care system are almost beside the point, in what is basically a power struggle between Mrs. Merkel and rival conservative leaders. Bavaria's prime minister, Edmund Stoiber, who leads the Christian Social Union, a sister party of the Christian Democrats, said he would withhold judgment until he read the draft legislation. Mr. Stoiber, a former candidate for chancellor, has never masked his skepticism about the coalition. "These regional princes are trying to weaken her," said John C. 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"We must make state universities and colleges tuition and fee free. Education is the most powerful weapon against ignorance and poverty. To democratize our educational institution is to create long term prosperity and security." Thornton's new commercial explores how Governor M. Jodi Rell and the Democrats in the state legislature have failed to create affordable educational opportunities for students. "We have to keep bringing this up, because the two parties ignore it," Thornton says. "The state has spent hundreds of millions making the campuses look good, but why have new structures if students can't afford to enter them? What's worse is that these young people borrow thousands to gain access to those buildings, and then that debt forces them to leave Connecticut after graduation because we rank almost dead last in job growth nationally." Investing heavily in education costs spurs economic growth, and will create jobs, as any number of studies equate educational funding and economic growth. The National Education Association in 2004 correlated economic growth and educational investment. "We can grow jobs by redirecting tax dollars to build our collective intellectual capacity," Thornton says. Thornton himself went to college to better his employment prospects. "I wanted to advance my career, and the only way I could do that was with a college education," Thornton says. He graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1964, and had he gone to UConn then, it would have been free. But after his mother died of a heroin overdose, Thornton enrolled in the Army, and served in Germany. He finally earned his bachelors' degree in marketing until 1986 at Post University in Waterbury. He financed his tuition payments at the private university with help from his employer, SNET, and the Veterans Administration. "I understand everyone is not so lucky to have that kind of help, which is why we need to eliminate tuition as a hurdle for students to earn their education," Thornton says. "The retention rates at Connecticut's public colleges are poor." Pointing to Eastern Connecticut State University, like he does in the commercial, Thornton notes that its two year retention rate is 59 percent, . "A large percentage of students who drop out do so because they cannot afford school," Thornton says. "This is not right." Thornton is advocating that people who leave college - for whatever reason - should have the benefit of free tuition as well. "If Governor Rell is ever interested in completing her degree, I don't think, despite her years on the public payroll, that she should have to pay, either," Thornton says. "Making education accessible to all should be one of our top priorities. We need a GI Bill for all citizens. Until everyone who wants to go can attend college, we are failing on delivering the promise of the American dream." The text of the ad is as follows: "The two major parties consistently underfund education. Young people suffer and our economy shows the effects when government slashes grants to public universities. Consider Eastern Connecticut State University, where tuition has outpaced inflation, putting school out of reach for many worthy students. So how have the Republican governor and the Democratic state legislature responded? They cut funding! The gap between state funding and cost per student is almost $3,000. The problem is not unique to Eastern. Isn't it time to start investing in our young people. Let's eliminate tuition and fees at Connecticut's public colleges and universities. Vote free college. Vote Green." . For more information, contact Ken Krayeske at 860-995-5842. -30- -- Peace, Ken Krayeske Campaign Director Thornton for Governor P.O. 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This is the first time the Thornton and the Connecticut Green Party have ever purchased airtime, and the ad will run either at 6:59 pm or 7:59 pm, directly before or directly after the debate, according to NBC-30 sales rep David Aston. The ad decries Thornton's exclusion from the televised debates, and calls for Thornton's inclusion. Voters and the press can preview the 30-second spot at . The ad features footage from the 75 Green Party protesters outside the debate at Garde Center for the Arts in New London Oct. 9, calling for justice for their candidate. Since the upcoming debate Wednesday night takes place without a studio audience, on private property, and in an area directly at the bottom of a highway exit ramp without sidewalks, Thornton said he did not want to call a protest as it will be dark and unsafe for a pedestrian protest. "There was no other way for our voice to be heard," Thornton said. "While I am generally opposed to renting the public airwaves, and this ad is expensive at $3,300 for 30 seconds, we have to tell the general public that the two parties actively suppress free speech." Thornton is challenging Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democratic challenger Mayor John DeStefano to bring the debate to the people, particularly students. "Why is the debate in a locked studio where people are not allowed?" Thornton asked. "We have such trouble bringing youth into the political world, why not host the debate at Central Connecticut State University? I will be speaking there Wednesday at 8 p.m., and I invite Mayor DeStefano and Gov. Rell to meet me there. Why are they so afraid of what I have to say?" In a televised appearance with NBC-30 reporter Tom Monahan Sunday morning, Thornton challenged Monahan, who is moderating the debate, to ask the candidates why they have excluded Thornton. "We are waiting to see if Mr. Monahan will live up to his journalistic responsibilities. The major parties do not deserve a free pass on this," Thornton said. "Keeping me out of the debates hurts every voter in the state. We need to have at least two more debates with all candidates to properly inform voters of the problems and solutions." Thornton is calling for voters to pressure Rell and DeStefano to schedule more debates. For more information, contact Ken Krayeske at 860-995-5842 or email ken at votethornton.com. -30- *This message approved by Thornton for Governor and paid for by Thornton for Governor, Max Wentworth, treasurer.* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ken at votethornton.com Tue Oct 24 01:11:38 2006 From: ken at votethornton.com (ken krayeske) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:11:38 -0400 Subject: {news} Cliff Thornton/Jason West Press Conference Message-ID: <453DA08A.6090401@votethornton.com> Press Alert For Immediate Release Thornton for Governor Oct. 23, 2006 Hartford _ CT Green Party gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton and civil marriage pioneer Mayor Jason West of New Paltz, NY will host a press conference at the Connecticut State Legislative Office Building, Room 1B, Tuesday, Oct. 24 from 3:30 to 4:30 pm to discuss the human rights issue of civil marriage. Mayor West, who broke NY state law to marry 25 same-sex couples in front of a cheering crowd two years ago, will make three other stops in Connecticut today. Press are welcomed at all events. * From 2 to 3 p.m., Mayor West will speak at Javapalooza on Main Street in Middletown, CT * From 4:45 to 6:15 p.m., Mayor West will be at Tisane's on 537 Farmington Ave. in Hartford. * From 7 to 8 pm, Mayor West will speak at the New Haven Public Library's program room (on the Green). At all stops, West will discuss his vision of civil marriage as a human right. After the mass civil marriage ceremony, West was charged with two dozen misdemeanors, which a court later dismissed. Of course, the state appealed the ruling, and so the fight for equal rights for all people goes on. In August 2005, West, a Green Party member, published the book "Dare to Hope: Saving American Democracy." Amazon.com wrote that "Jason West has become a political force for his generation. With logic, charm, and conviction, he has used his platform as mayor of New Paltz, New York, to present a radical vision of human rights. This book is his manifesto. West has received the most press for marrying same-sex couples (and is defendant in numerous lawsuits for solemnizing without a license). But he sees the issue of gay marriage in the context of civil rights, basic equality under the law, which he extends to fair housing, property taxes, and energy use." For more information, contact Ken Krayeske, 860-995-5842. -- Peace, Ken Krayeske Campaign Manager Thornton for Governor P.O. Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 www.votethornton.com 860-995-5842 *This message is paid for and approved by Thornton for Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer* From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Fri Oct 27 20:38:10 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:38:10 -0400 Subject: {news} Israel's scandalous siege of Gaza Patrick Seale International Herald Tribune Message-ID: <04bd01c6fa29$61423590$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> http://www.iht.com/pages/opinion/index.php Israel's scandalous siege of Gaza Patrick Seale International Herald Tribune Published: October 27, 2006 Israel has killed 2,300 Gazans over the past six years, including 300 in the four months since an Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, was captured in a cross-border raid by Palestinian fighters on June 25. The wounded can be counted in the tens of thousands. Most of the casualties are civilians, many of them children. The killing continues on a daily basis - by tank and sniper fire, by air and sea bombardment, and by undercover teams in civilian clothes sent into Arab territory to ambush and murder, an Israeli specialty perfected over the past several decades. How long will the "international community" allow the slaughter to continue? The cruel repression of the occupied territories, and of Gaza in particular, is one of the most scandalous in the world today. It is the blackest stain on Israel's patchy record as a would-be democratic state. Some form of intervention is urgently required, perhaps in the form of an international force on the border between Israel and Gaza, to protect each side from the other, to allow some air into the moribund Gaza economy, and to bring relief to a humanitarian catastrophe. Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain - verbally, at least, a staunch supporter of a two-state solution - must feel a certain sense of guilt at having failed to persuade President George W. Bush to advance the cause of Palestinian self-determination. By joining Bush in the invasion of Iraq, he may have imagined he could persuade the president to advance the Israeli- Palestinian peace process. He had counted without Washington's pro-Israeli neoconservatives, and their influence on Bush's Middle East policy. Far from reining in the Israeli hawks, messianic settlers, Arab-killers and expansionists, Bush gave them a completely free hand - and continues to do so. This may explain why Blair, addressing his last Labour Party conference a month ago, announced that he would make resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the priority of his remaining time in office. Alas, no action has followed these brave words, save for a suggestion that Britain would help the Palestinians to build institutions. Institutions? What fantasy world does Blair inhabit? One and a half million Palestinians, two-thirds of them under the poverty line, suffering 45 percent unemployment, packed into a narrow strip of 360 square kilometers, are being besieged, starved, cut off from the world and bombed on a daily basis, and Blair talks about building Palestinian institutions! How about stopping the killing first? Does Britain's word count for nothing? I have scoured British government Web sites and have found stirring speeches and statements by the Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and other officials about Iraq, Africa, Afghanistan, climate change and so forth, but not a word about the ongoing criminal subjugation of Gaza. It has been left to Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian affairs coordinator, to describe Gaza as a "ticking bomb" and to warn of a social explosion. To end the shameful boycott of the democratically elected Hamas government, there are rumors that Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, may appoint Munib al-Masri, a rich businessman from Nablus, to head a government of independent technocrats. At the time of writing, however, Hamas had not agreed to stand aside. The endurance of Gaza is legendary, but even the bravest man must falter when he can no longer feed his children and his home is reduced to rubble. The situation is all the more urgent because, according to reports from Israel, something bigger and still more lethal is in prospect. Fresh from the indiscriminate slaughter they unleashed on Lebanon this summer - and no doubt eager to efface the memory of that fiasco - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, and the chief of staff, General Dan Halutz, are said to be about to mount a military offensive against Gaza, on a far larger scale than the bombardments and armored incursions of recent months. Their declared aim is to put an end once and for all to the home-made Qassam rockets that defiant Palestinians still manage to fire from time to time into the Israeli Negev. These are highly irritating but largely ineffectual weapons. Five Israelis have been killed by these rockets in the past six years. Another wider Israeli aim is to destroy Hamas and root out all armed Palestinian opposition to Israel in the Gaza Strip. General Halutz has been making lurid statements to the effect that Hamas and other Palestinian groups have smuggled millions of dollars worth of weapons into Gaza from Egypt - including antitank and antiaircraft weapons as well tons of explosives - and have built a whole underground city to store their arsenal. Gaza, he declares, cannot be allowed to become another Lebanon. Israel has already partially reoccupied the so-called Philadelphi corridor on the Gaza-Egyptian border in an attempt to put an end to cross-border tunneling and smuggling. In the West Bank, the situation is less violent but in its way just as desperate. According to UN officials on the spot, the territory has been fragmented by no fewer than 528 Israeli military checkpoints, a 40 percent rise since August, which severely restrict Palestinian freedom of movement. Not only has the territory been chopped up into three regions, but even within these zones Palestinian communities are isolated from each other, making it very difficult for people to reach their land or gain access to basic services such as health and education. As the economy stagnates and the population suffers, Israel's separation wall continues to gobble up Palestinian land, while dozens of illegal settlements enjoy a building boom. Even more disturbing than the silence from London at these developments, and the collusion of Washington, is the entry into the Israeli government of Avigdor Lieberman, as deputy prime minister. Born in Moldova, Lieberman, a burly 48-year-old, came to Israel at the age of 20. He is the leader of the far-right Yisrael Beitenu ("Israel Our Home") a party composed mainly of Russian immigrants. Best known for having recommended flooding Egypt by bombing the Aswan Dam, he is an ardent champion of the settlers and opposes any withdrawal from Palestinian territory. His solution is the "transfer" of Arabs out of Israel so as to create an ethnically pure country. He has advocated death for any Arab members of the Knesset who dare to meet members of Hezbollah or Hamas. In any truly democratic country he would be denounced and shunned as a dangerous fascist. Instead, Lieberman is to be given the job of formulating Israeli policy regarding the "strategic threat" facing the country - a code word for Iran's nuclear activities. As Haaretz, the left-of- center Israeli daily, commented: "The choice of the most unrestrained and irresponsible man around for this job constitutes a strategic threat in its own right." The fact that Lieberman will have access to Israel's atomic secrets - and will serve in fact as a sort of super-defense minister - must be a source of considerable anxiety, seeing that Israeli leaders and commentators have repeatedly hinted that if the United States fails to strike Iran, Israel may feel compelled to do so. With Lieberman's entry into the government, the Israeli- Iranian confrontation, one of the most dangerous in a volatile region, will be ratcheted up a notch or two. The Labor Party leader, Amir Peretz - already a huge disappointment to the left for his bellicose policies in Lebanon and Gaza - seems quite happy to sit at the same cabinet table with a notorious racist. With the world's attention focused on the unfolding disaster in Iraq, on the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and on how to how to moderate Iran's nuclear ambitions - three problems for which no credible solutions have yet been proposed - the Palestinians continue to bleed, starve and suffer unimaginable humiliations and hardships under Israel's pitiless rule. Patrick Seale, a leading British writer on the Middle East, is the author of "The Struggle for Syria," "Assad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East" and "Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire." Distributed by Agence Global. -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From smderosa at cox.net Sun Oct 29 21:10:52 2006 From: smderosa at cox.net (smderosa at cox.net) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:10:52 -0500 Subject: {news} INVITATION TO CT SOTS DEBATE AT ARTS SPACE HARTFORD, CT-Wed. NOV 1, 2006 7pm-8:30pm Message-ID: <005101c6fbc8$a10a0fe0$8201a8c0@userb649154f63> Dear Greens: Please attend this event if you can. We are hoping, but not expecting the present Sec. Of The State to attend. But we will have the Republican, the Green Candidate, and the Libertarian candidate for CT SOTS there. So it should be a great conversation. Please put this on any list servers that you think might be interested in this event. Please come and ask some questions and raise some issues. The details: What: Debate Between CT Secretary Of State Candidates When: WED. Nov. 1, 2006, 7PM-8:30PM Where: ArtSpace CT, 555 Asylum Avenue in Hartford (across from the Hartford Railroad Station) Who: All Candidates On The Nov. 7, 2006 CT Ballot for Sec. Of The State. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ken at votethornton.com Mon Oct 30 12:45:11 2006 From: ken at votethornton.com (ken krayeske) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:45:11 -0500 Subject: {news} Re: Ralph Nader in CT 11/1/06 Message-ID: <45463A27.9020200@votethornton.com> For Immediate Release Thornton for Governor 10/30/06 Nader to Praise Thornton, Criticize Lieberman Hartford - Presidential candidate and Connecticut native Ralph Nader will hold a press conference in Room 1E at the state Legislative Office Building at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 during a tour that will take him to five high schools and colleges down the I-91 corridor and finally to a fundraiser in Willimantic. Mr. Nader's press conference will endorse Greens for statewide office, including Cliff Thornton for Governor. Mr. Nader is also calling on the voters of Connecticut to end Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's tenure as Junior Senator. At the schools and universities, Mr. Nader will deliver a speech called "The End of Habeas Corpus and the Belligerent Despot-in-Chief." At 8 p.m., Mr. Nader will discuss the need for third parties at the Willimantic Country Club as a fundraiser for Thornton for Governor. Tickets are $10 each. For a full schedule of events in Enfield, Hartford, North Branford, New Haven and Willimantic, contact campaign manager Ken Krayeske at 860-995-5842. -- Peace, Ken Krayeske Campaign Manager Thornton for Governor P.O. Box 1971 Manchester, CT 06045 www.votethornton.com 860-995-5842 *This message is paid for and approved by Thornton for Governor, Max Wentworth, Treasurer* From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Tue Oct 31 16:59:37 2006 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:59:37 -0500 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens challenge warhawk Dems trying to grab antiwar votes Message-ID: <08ef01c6fd37$ddfde370$0402a8c0@JUSTINE> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org Greens tackle Democratic Party hypocrisy: pro-war Democrats campaigning for antiwar votes . According to polls, most Americans agree with Green candidates' call for U.S. troop withdrawal; voters urged to vote Green and send an Election Day message to Congress and the White House: end the war WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party candidates and leaders called on voters to reject Democrats who supported President Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq but now advertise themselves as the opposition to Republicans on the Iraq war. "We want voters to beware of warhawk Democrats who are trying to position themselves as the alternative to warhawk Republicans," said Chris Lugo, Tennessee Green candidate for the U.S. Senate , who is running against Democratic Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., who has consistently voted for the war. Mr. Ford said a year ago that he wanted to win the war in Iraq by sending 500,000 more U.S. troops, which spurred Mr. Lugo to run as a peace candidate. "Mainstream Democrats joined Republicans in Congress when they jumped on the Iraq war bandwagon and voted in favor of transferring war powers to the White House, for bigger military budgets to fight the war, and against bringing U.S. troops home. The only party that represents the views of most Americans on the war is the Green Party, which calls for immediate withdrawal from Iraq," Mr. Lugo added. . Green congressional candidate Byron De Lear's race against 12-term incumbent Rep. Howard Berman (D) in California's 28th District has emerged as a lively topic on the popular political blog Daily Kos. In a poll conducted by the pro-Democratic Kos, Mr. De Lear is ahead of Mr. Berman by 11 points, and the normally partisan Kos is now breaking ranks with a Democratic incumbent because of Mr. Berman consistent votes in favor of the Iraq war. As Code Pink member and Progressive Democrat Linda Milazzo posted, "Howard Berman might as well be Republican. He's a war hawk who has helped empower George Bush.... I support Byron DeLear. As should anyone who sees the destruction of our Democracy!" . Jeff Kravitz, Congress in California's 5th District , is challenging his Democratic competition in radio and TV ads: "Rep. Doris Matsui is no better than a Republican warhawk when it comes to the war in Iraq..." leads the radio spot. "Incumbent Doris Matsui has blood on her hands..." states the TV spot, referring to Ms. Matsui's votes to fund the war, although she claims she opposes the war. . Maryland Green candidate Kevin Zeese is challenging Rep. Ben Cardin (D) and Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R) for the U.S. Senate seat. Mr. Steele initially supported the war, but now says the U.S. should bring the troops home as soon as possible. Rep. Cardin has voted against every amendment calling for an exit strategy, in favor of 'stay the course' resolutions and for $320 billion in funding for the U.S. occupation. On NBC News' Meet the Press, Rep. Cardin claimed that his goal was to remove the troops in 2007 -- but said that this goal was not a timetable and depended on the circumstances. Mr. Zeese heads the anti-war group DemocracyRising.US and was co-founder of VotersForPeace.US . In addition to favor a rapid and responsible withdrawal of U.S. troops and corporations from Iraq, he favors taking the bombing of Iran off the table, a position neither of his opponents will take. . Michigan Green candidate David Sole notes that Debbie Stabenow, incumbent Democrat for Senate, has echoed the Bush-Rumsfield line and voted for every appropriation for the war and for the right to torture detainees. Mr. Sole, the only antiwar voice in the Michigan race for U.S. Senate, has faced refusal by most of Michigan media to cover his campaign, although he recently received an endorsement from the Michigan Citizen, Detroit's largest and most progressive African American weekly newspaper. . In New York, Green candidate Howie Hawkins is challenging Hillary Clinton for her U.S. Senate seat. Even though Ms. Clinton has called for 80,000 more U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq to maintain the occupation, she has drawn endorsements from groups like the Working Families Party and MoveOn.org, which claim to oppose the war. 63% of New Yorkers oppose the war. . Green congressional candidate Mike Miles is facing incumbent Democrat David Obey in Wisconsin's 7th District. "The problem with Dave is that while he is sincerely against the war he keeps paying for it. I was also disappointed to see that over the years he has accepted over $150,000 from AIPAC. It just shows how money has contaminated the whole political process," said Mr. Miles. "The 2006 election has more than ever exposed the Democratic Party's lack of backbone and revealed the need for a real opposition party," said Liz Arnone, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "A vote for a warhawk candidate, whether Democrat or Republican, is a vote for more war, more U.S troop deaths, and more dead Iraqi civilians. The disconnect between campaign rhetoric and the reality of voting records is a deadly disservice to American voters." Greens also noted that leading Democrats have claimed to defend working people from corporations while raking in huge corporate contributions ("Democrats Get Late Donations From Business," New York Times, October 28 ) and have preached health care reform while rejecting national health insurance (which Greens support). "The Green Party's message is this: if you want an end to the war, stop throwing away your vote on candidates who don't agree with you. Vote Green," said Steve Kramer, national Green Party co-chair. 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