{news} Fw: Comments from my Travels
clifford thornton
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Tue Oct 31 14:37:34 EST 2006
Thornton for Governor
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From: Martha Kelly<mailto:martha_s_kelly at yahoo.com>
To: Ken Krayeske<mailto:ken at votethornton.com> ; Clifford Thornton<mailto:efficacy at msn.com> ; Jean de Smet<mailto:jeandesmet at galaxyinternet.net>
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 <ken at votethornton.com> wrote:
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/columnists/hc-susan1029.artoct29,0,4843137.column<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 naïve 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<mailto:scampbell at courant.com> or 860-241-6454.
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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
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