{news} Presidential Campaigns

[RALPH FERRUCCI]

It has been brought to my attention that there is a
good chance that Cynthia will not have ballot access
in CT.

I need your help to get Ralph Nader on the ballot. We
are out doing Sail Fest this weekend on Sat 10AM-11PM
and Sun. 10AM-6PM and will have a booth on Bank ST.

If you will help me this weekend get Ralph on the
ballot I will help coordinate to get Cynthia on the
ballot.

Also if you like you can double petition at this
event.
Ralph

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>    1.  minutes of 7/7 party nominating meeting
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>    2.  Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for
> McKinney's Green Party
>       Bid (Tim McKee)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:10:07 -0400
> From: "David Bedell" <dbedellgreen at hotmail.com>
> Subject: {news} minutes of 7/7 party nominating
> meeting
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> Minutes from the 7/7/08 Nominating Meeting of the
> Fairfield County Green
> Party
> 
> Location: UConn-Stamford
> In attendance: Paul Bassler, David Bedell, Zaac
> Chaves, Remy Chevalier,
> Richard Duffee, Mary Farrell, Hector Lopez, German
> Tedesco
> 
> The following candidates for public office were
> individually nominated and
> approved by unanimous consensus:
> - Zaac Chaves for State Senate District 36
> (Greenwich, part of Stamford and
> New Canaan)
> - David Bedell for Stamford Registrar of Voters
> - Mary Farrell for Stamford Board of Education
> 
> The following office, for which we have ballot
> access, remains vacant but
> may be filled at a later date if a candidate is
> identified:
> - State Assembly District 135 (Easton, Weston, part
> of Redding)
> (Background: Nancy Burton ran for this office in the
> past and established
> the ballot line, but this year she is unable to run
> due to her all-consuming
> work for the CT Coalition Against Millstone, the
> Mothers Milk Project, and
> CT Residents Opposed to Relicensing of Indian
> Point.)
> 
> David Bedell, Secretary
> Fairfield County chapter, CT Green Party
> http://www.ctgreens.org
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:42:49 -0500
> From: "Tim McKee" <timmckee at mail.com>
> Subject: {news} Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for
> McKinney's Green
> 	Party	Bid
> To: "CT Greens News" <ctgp-news at ml.greens.org>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Drew Johnson"
> To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org
> Subject: [usgp-nc] FW: Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP
> Bid for McKinney's
> Green Party Bid
> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:46:43 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> 
> ---------------------------- Original Message
> ----------------------------
> Subject: [GPCA-MediaComm] Hip Hop Activist Accepts
> VP Bid for McKinney's
> Green Party Bid
> From: "Hank Chapot"
> Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 16:11
> To: "gpca forum"
> "GPCA Media comm comm"
> Cc: "Hank Chapot"
> ------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------
> 
> http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=4427
> 
> 
> 
> Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green
> Party Bid
> 7/9/2008 11:59:05 AM by Davey D
> 
> 
> Rosa Clemente accepting a bid to run as VP on
> Cynthia McKinney's Green
> Party ticket is big news. In fact its great news.
> First Rosa is no
> joke. This Bronx born-Puerto Rican-African sista is
> sharp on the
> issues and uncompromising on the principals she
> stands for. She stands
> tall and fights fiercely for the communities and
> people she has long
> represented. She is more than qualified.
> 
> 
> 
> The other thing that is equally important is that
> Rosa gives voice to
> a variety of issues impacting the community that
> have been
> increasingly put on the back burner during this
> election season. many
> of us have waited eagerly for important issues like
> the prison
> industrial complex, media justice, gentrification, a
> just immigration
> policy, police brutality (i.e Sean Bell), war crimes
> and impeachment
> proceedings being levied on those in high office
> responsible and the
> Palestinian perspective in the Middle East to be
> addressed. With each
> passing day they seem to be tossed under the bus
> with the conventional
> wisdom being middle of the road white voters from
> small towns need to
> be appeased. Hence important issues like the
> aforementioned keep
> getting sacrificed.
> 
> 
> 
> The other day, a prominent TV News commentator made
> a highly
> offensive, arrogant remark when addressing the
> recent shift to the
> right by Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He was
> talking about how
> those who see themselves as progressive and
> grassroots and played
> significant roles in the success of the Obama
> campaign, were feeling
> disenchanted and had gone so far as to stage a
> financial protest by
> withholding campaign donations until Obama reversed
> himself.
> 
> 
> 
> The pundit was asked if this will hurt Obama, he
> said it would not.
> Obama can afford to sacrifice those issues because
> that group of
> people have nowhere else to go. In other words they
> (we) can be taken
> for granted. That is never a good way to go into a
> campaign. See the
> way things work is like that. We start off making
> the sacrifice as our
> candidate goes for these so called middle of the
> road white rural
> voters. The game plan is once he/she gets in office
> he/she will start
> addressing our issues.
> 
> 
> 
> Unfortunately what usually happens is that as soon
> as 
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