{news} (Hartford Courant) Green Party Nominates Deshefy For Courtney's Seat

[Tim McKee]

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Green Party Nominates Deshefy For Courtney's Seat
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By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER

Courant Staff Writer

April 13, 2008

Members of the Green Party on Saturday nominated 56-year-old
environmental scientist G. Scott Deshefy to run for the 2nd Congressional
District seat, challenging first-term incumbent Democrat Joe Courtney.

Deshefy, 56, of Lebanon, has a wide-ranging agenda, with goals that
include ending the war in Iraq as soon as possible, providing
single-payer universal health care and changing the nation's agricultural
policies to favor a greater diversity of crops and family farms over
corporate agriculture.

To do that requires viable third-party candidates, said Deshefy, who
describes the Republican and Democratic parties as having converged on
major issues into a "uniparty."

"We need a viable alternative," he said. "Somebody in Congress who isn't
your run-of-the-mill lawyer and career politician."

Deshefy was nominated at a convention — the party's first ever in the
district — at the Otis Library in Norwich.

Contact Arielle Levin Becker at alevinbecker at courant.com.

Copyright © 2008, The Hartford Courant



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