In New York State, along with several other states, multiple parties can endorse a single candidate in an election.  This is called fusion, and it is frequently used by the Working Families Party, although they do occassionally run candidates of their own.  The party mostly endorses Democrats, and has become a somewhat large and powerful [...]

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Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping (and the Green Party of New York City) recently published a post on his blog about the new “inverted Western” film Avatar and its “earth-based spirituality.”  Read the full thing here.
John Wayne’s shoot-em-ups helped the American public learn to handle imperial war. Avatar is an inverted western. [...]

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Reverend Billy, running for Mayor of New York City, says, “I feel closer to solving the riddle of activism in 2009. We’ve known how conservative the Democrat/Working Families and the Republican/Independence Parties are. It’s Coke and Pepsi, it’s McDonalds and Burger King. The two party system enforces a strict censorship. We had to experience first-hand the harsh silence of it…”

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Once again, New York City’s public campaign financing system is to thank for an unusually high budget Green Party campaign.  This time, Green city council candidate David Pechefsky planned to dig into his $35,000 war chest in the final days before the election, while the Democratic candidate he is running against only had about $26,000 [...]

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Among the quotations in the Village Voice article with Green Party candidate for Mayor of NYC Reverend Billy Talen:

“What is the city? We’re the city. The “City” will go on with its bubble economy. But we have homes, loved ones, children. And as the corporations fade away we’re starting our own companies, we’re making our own arrangements, we’re counting on our neighbor’s genius to help pull us through. As we say in the Church of Life After Shopping, Change-allujah!”

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On Thursday, a week before the November 3 election, Reverend Billy will be taking animals native to the rainforest through Washington Square Park. He is the Green Party’s candidate for mayor of New York City. Reverend Billy claims that the city is the single largest purchaser of wood from the rainforest in the nation.

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The Freedom Socialist Party comments on candidates in the New York City elections. It includes endorsements for candidates from the Party for Socialism & Liberation, as well as the Socialist Workers Party.

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“The [New York City Campaign Finance] Board finds that political contributions made by Bloomberg, and all candidates, with their personal funds to political committees that support candidates in New York City and throughout New York State are campaign expenditures in furtherance of their campaigns.”

“The Board has never previously clarified for candidates that they must report to the Board political contributions made with personal funds. Therefore, candidates – including Bloomberg – who have not reported these political contributions for the 2009 election cycle will not be found in violation of the Act or Board Rules…”

As noted by political blogger Elizabeth Benjamin, this decision reflects contributions and candidates related to NY’s Republican Party, Independence Party, and Working Families Party.

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Reverend Billy has been running a very active campaign as the Green Party candidate for mayor in New York City, and as he comes into the last month of it, he’s not slowing down.  In an email to supporters, the campaign announced an endorsement from The L Magazine (a local New York City magazine with [...]

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Lynne Serpe, the Green Party candidate for City Council in Queens’ District 22, has raised over $100,000 with the help of the city’s public campaign financing program. She has also recently written an op-ed piece for the New York Daily News in favor of instant runoff voting. H/T to Green Party Watch.

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The latest Quinnipiac Poll on the New York mayoral race included Conservative Party candidate Stephen Christopher along with incumbent Michael Bloomberg, an independent on the ballot as a Republican and Independence Party candidate, and Democrat William Thompson. The poll did not include other alternative candidates.
Christopher polled two percent in the survey of 1,513 likely [...]

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A widely published AP story about clashes with police and protesters at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh mentions Reverend Billy Talen (though, the story does not mention that Talen is running for Mayor of New York City on the Green Party line.)

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New York University’s Washington Square News reports that Green Party mayoral candidate Billy Talen held a rally at Judson Memorial Church on Tuesday evening to honor Jane Jacobs, “an activist who criticized American urban renewal policies in the 1950s. Jacobs, who died in 2006, passionately fought against large-scale city development projects and expressways and [...]

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Socialist Workers Party candidates in New York City held a campaign rally on health care, the economy, and foreign policy issues on September 11, The Militant reports. Mayoral candidate Dan Fein “spoke about why the economic depression is not ending but just beginning” and Manhattan borough president candidate Tom Baumann “spoke out against Washington’s [...]

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Ballot Access News reports:
The September 14 U.S. edition of Metro has this story about Frances Villar’s campaign for Mayor of New York city. Villar is the candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Metro is an international daily newspaper published in 100 cities in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In the U.S. it exists [...]

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