{news} As Dodd loses in polls- Time to draft a GREEN candidate for Senate in 2010??

[Amy Vas Nunes]

i I THINK DODD HAS DONE SOME GOOD THINGS  ALSO BAD AND HAS NO REAL OPPOSITION AND WILL EASILY BE RELECTED. I THINK ITS A WASTE OF ENERGY AND ANY SMALL MONEY WE HAVE. WE REALLY NEED TO TARGET LIEBERMAN INSTEAD, AMY
 
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:44:13 -0400
> From: james at jameslavin.com
> To: ctgp-news at ml.greens.org
> Subject: {news} As Dodd loses in polls- Time to draft a GREEN candidate for Senate in 2010??
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> A month ago, Tim McKee wrote 
> (http://ml.greens.org/pipermail/ctgp-news/2009-March/003141.html):
> 
> Dear Greens,
> 
> Dodd is losing to Republicans in the polls. He is tainted with several 
> scandals and conflicts of interests. Most people can trace the financial 
> meltdown to his BIG money donations and looking the other way as the 
> crooks made off with our money.
> 
> We have NOTHING to lose by running a candidate for U S Senate- we can't 
> spoil this race at all! Odds are the republicans will WIN this seat!
> 
> Let us begin to discuss the race. I have one BIG TIME candidate in mind 
> as a draft, and i want to win the race,, let;s begin dicussing this race 
> on the FORUM list serve.
> 
> Tim McKee
> (860) 778-1304
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> ----
> 
> I could not agree more. Because Connecticut voters deserve/need a better 
> 2010 Senate option than Dodd vs. Simmons, I wondered who the Green Party 
> is considering running. I visited your website and saw Mr. McKee's 
> message, but it seems no one has yet replied.
> 
> My only foray into politics began in January 2006 when I read about a 
> guy in Greenwich named Ned Lamont who was thinking about running for the 
> Senate. People laughed at the idea of a complete unknown taking on Joe 
> Lieberman, but I sat in Ned's office two months before he announced his 
> campaign, and I urged him to run, saying he could win. As we met, 
> Connecticut's powerful Democratic leaders kept calling and urging him 
> not to run because they all supported Lieberman. I'm proud of the 
> research and advice I gave Ned as he wrested the Democratic Party 
> nomination from Lieberman. (I was scarcely involved in the general 
> election because "professional" political consultants took over Ned's 
> campaign.)
> 
> It's unlikely the Green Party candidate will win the Senate seat, but it 
> IS a possibility... if the candidate runs an attention-grabbing 
> grassroots campaign. Dodd's unpopularity and the public's (totally 
> deserved) disgust with Republicans means voters will seriously consider 
> a third option. And if the Green candidate grabs enough early attention, 
> he/she could muscle his/her way into debates and -- at worst -- 
> positively impact the debate and public consciousness and -- possibly -- 
> shock the world by establishing the Green Party as a real alternative as 
> the Republican Party continues to self-destruct.
> 
> I'm sick of corporate media and corporate political control. I'm beyond 
> mad at our broken economy, our broken government, our broken healthcare 
> system, our broken educational system, our broken electoral process, our 
> broken regulatory bodies, and our our failing environment. About the 
> only things not failing in America today are the prison-industrial 
> complex, warfare spending, and incomprehensibly large taxpayer bailouts 
> of failed megabanks... the same megabanks that blew up our economy and 
> bought our politicians with campaign contributions. I've been mad for 
> decades. In recent years, I've laughed my pain away with "The Daily 
> Show" and "The Colbert Report," but the Obama Administration's 
> continuation of the Bush Administration's pro-war, pro-big business, 
> anti-privacy, and anti-Constitution policies proves our major parties 
> are hopelessly addicted to green... money, that is, not the party.
> 
> Someone needs to act before we leave our children a country and a planet 
> broken beyond repair. I doubt I'm the person for this challenge, but I 
> sure hope someone waves the Green Party banner in 2010 and takes the 
> fight to Dodd and Simmons on behalf of working people, 
> small-enough-to-fail businesses, and future generations.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James Lavin
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