{news} re: Thornton to Protest Debates

[ken krayeske]

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 <http://www.votethornton.com/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."
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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*