Posted at Green Party Watch by Dave Schwab. Reposted to IPR by Paulie.
In an article for the Brooklyn Paper, Gersh Kuntzman describes David Pechefsky’s mission to get on the ballot as the Green Party candidate for NYC City Council in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The article highlights how Greens have the odds stacked against them in the onerous process of gaining ballot access:
He has one month — starting from yesterday morning — to collect 2,700 signatures, and got his first 34 in about two hours. (Democratic candidates need only collect 900 names.)
Of course, there’s a catch: To be considered valid, the signature cannot appear on anyone else’s petitions — and the five Democrats in the race have already spent a month seeking every last John Hancock.
Evergreen Chou has also thrown his hat in the ring as the Green candidate for City Council District 20 in Flushing, Queens.
Hot Indie News carried Green mayoral candidate Reverend Billy Talen’s response to the undemocratic Working Families Party candidate forum.
The July 2nd mayoral candidate forum hosted by the Working Families Party –with only Mike Bloomberg, Tony Avella and Bill Thompson– hurts New York City and hurts us all. The threesome represents the Republicans and Democrats. No mayoral candidate from any other party was invited, despite our own efforts to reach WFP, and so we’re stuck with these three guys.
The Working Families Party leadership has still not clarified why they excluded Billy Talen from their mayoral forum, as we reported earlier.
In other news, NYC Greens came away from a June meeting with a plan to establish a citywide Green committee. The newly formed Green Party of NYC represents the first effort to coordinate Green Party activities in all 5 boroughs of New York City. On July 20th, representatives from each borough will meet and work out the details. For more information on this exciting venture, keep an eye on http://greenpartynyc.org/.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Donald Raymond Lake // Jul 11, 2009 at 1:15 pm
The next TPW and IPR ??????
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2 paulie // Jul 11, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I sure hope so. I miss having some competition to keep us on our toes.
3 paulie // Jul 11, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Took a look at hotindienews, it does not appear that it is anything like ipr or tpw.
4 Third Party Revolution // Jul 11, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Nothing at all.
5 Donald Raymond Lake // Jul 11, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Open minded non Lib partisans can only hope!
6 paulie // Jul 12, 2009 at 6:30 am
Hope in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up first.
7 Peter Orvetti // Jul 12, 2009 at 8:59 pm
The site referenced here has nothing do do with third parties. The only similarity is the use of the word “independent”. That’s like saying the National Enquirer is meant to compete with the Cincinnati Enquirer.
8 Independent Lurker // Jul 12, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Yes, not even remotely similar. However, it has a comments section with a similar format to this one, so I might begin commenting there and expounding my philosophy of the truth of life and the great awakening of Catholic Trotskyism on that site as well.
9 Catholic Trotskyist // Jul 12, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Ah yes, I have been unmasked again. I forgot to change my identity. Didn’t anyone wonder previously why Independent Lurker only talked about Catholic Trotskyism and Robert Milnes?
10 Dave Schwab // Jul 13, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Dude, I unmasked you, like, weeks ago.
11 Third Party Revolution // Jul 14, 2009 at 6:43 am
And who may CT’s identity be?
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