Article at Ballot Access News:
July 7 was the first day in which it was possible to circulate petitions for minor party and independent candidates for New York city office. The Green Party is running Rev. Billy Talen for Mayor; the Party for Socialism and Liberation is running Frances Villar for Mayor; and the Socialist Workers Party is running Dan Fein for Mayor.
The SWP also has candidates for Public Advocate and Manhatten Borough President. The Green Party also has a candidate for City Council. Whereas offices voted on by the city as a whole need 7,500 valid signatures, candidates for City Council need 2,700, which is proportionately much more difficult. See this story about the Green Party’s petition for David Pechefsky for council:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/27/32_27_gk_pechefsky.html
In the comments on the article at BAN, Mike Drucker says he has been collecting signatures for Mayor Bloomberg; former Libertarian Party national political director and current Free and Equal employee Sean Haugh links his name to the campaign site of Green mayoral candidate Rev. Billy, and says the Greens have three candidates for city council; and Green Party US political director Brent McMillan says there are four Green city council candidates.
19 responses so far ↓
1 Richard Cooper // Jul 9, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Joseph Dobrian is the Libertarian Party candidate for NYC mayor.
2 Catholic Trotskyist // Jul 10, 2009 at 12:41 am
I wonder if Reverend Billy can get a lot of libertarian support because of his relatively high profile and anti-establishment campaign. Robert Milnes, since you’re near New York City, try to get Dobrian to drop out so we can try the first real Progressive Alliance strategy race in the Big Apple.
3 Dave Schwab // Jul 10, 2009 at 2:01 am
Green Party candidates in NYC:
Rev. Billy Talen – Mayor
http://voterevbilly.org/
Evergreen Chou – City council, District 20 (Flushing, Queens)
http://www.myspace.com/evergreen_chou
Walter Nestler – City council, District 18 (Bronx)
http://www.waltnestlerforcitycouncil.org/
David Pechefsky – City council, District 39 (Park Slope, Brooklyn)
http://pechefskyforcitycouncil.com/
Lynne Serpe – City council, District 22 (Astoria, Queens)
http://www.serpeforcouncil.com/
Petitioning is underway – Green is growing in NYC!
4 Dave Schwab // Jul 10, 2009 at 2:15 am
I tried to post the names and websites of NYC Green candidates – any reason why the comment won’t register?
5 Kimberly Wilder // Jul 10, 2009 at 6:05 am
To Dave Schwab -
I think because some of them are vampires…
KW
6 Kimberly Wilder // Jul 10, 2009 at 6:08 am
Oh, well…Found your comment in the spam folder. I think it went there because so many links. It’s up above, now.
Great to see that Evergreen is running. He is awesome, wise, gentle, effective and a great speaker.
7 Third Party Revolution // Jul 10, 2009 at 6:10 am
You forgot to list Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is Too Damn High Party. http://rentistoodamnhigh.org/id23.html
8 Richard Cooper // Jul 10, 2009 at 10:46 pm
No true Libertarian would support the anti-capitalist, clownish Rev. Billy.
9 Third Party Revolution // Jul 11, 2009 at 11:01 am
And what so-called “Libertarian” supports Rev. Billy that you know of?
10 paulie // Jul 11, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Read the last paragraph of the story.
11 Third Party Revolution // Jul 12, 2009 at 6:39 am
I know him too, but I was wondering if there were any others. But probably the reason why Libertarians would support Rev. Billy would be for social reasons. I mean liberals and libertarians are the same when it comes to social issues, fiscally they are opposites.
12 paulie // Jul 12, 2009 at 7:16 am
TPR,
Not exactly. Some thought experiments to get beyond that overgeneralization:
Is gun control a social or economic issue? Military spending? Eminent domain abuse? The drug war? Corporate welfare? Police violence, harassment and corruption?
For a more comprehensive view of where some Libertarians (like me) agree and disagree with Greens, see
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=2825
If you find a little more time, read
http://aaeblog.com/?s=greensleeves
13 paulie // Jul 12, 2009 at 7:24 am
And taking it in a different direction, some self described libertarians – and LP members (NOT me), support more military interventionism, and/or more immigration control, and/or oppose marriage equality for LGBT people, and so on.
14 Third Party Revolution // Jul 12, 2009 at 10:36 am
Those people sound more like social centrists, even though they maybe laissez-faire.
15 Dave Schwab // Jul 12, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I’d imagine that libertarians would support Reverend Billy’s stance against the crackdowns on civil liberties and free speech under NYC’s last two mayors. As you may know, Rev. Billy was arrested in 2007 for reciting the first amendment at NYPD thru a bullhorn. He is known for demonstrating with ‘no permit but the First Amendment.’ He also opposes the warrantless, racist ’stop-and-frisk- police tactics and the for-profit immigrant detention centers that Republicans have brought NYC.
16 In NYC: Mayor Bloomberg creating an alternative party line | Independent Political Report // Jul 14, 2009 at 8:07 am
[...] Background story at IPR on candidates petitioning for pre-existing third party/independent ballot lines in NYC races: here. [...]
17 Gary Fincher // Jul 14, 2009 at 8:49 am
Please click on my name for a warning for this Free & Equal (sic) employee with a shady past
18 Gary Fincher // Jul 14, 2009 at 8:51 am
LibertyForAll.net (sic) is a JOKE site
19 paulie // Jul 14, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Absolutely!
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