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Vote Green Nov. 7th
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1. The War
Howie Hawkins is the Green Party candidate for US Senate. Hawkins, former Marine, long-time anti-nuclear activist and working teamster, opposes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Clinton stands by her vote to invade. Both Hawkins and Green Party Governor candidate Malachy McCourt are endorsed by Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan is quoted as saying, “I support Howie Hawkins in his campaign against Hillary Clinton and I support Malachy McCourt in his campaign for governor.”
See her endorsement of McCourt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B6jFzKthsY
2. The Governor’s Race: Regaining the Ballot & Promoting Independence
By voting for Malachy McCourt, the Green Party candidate for governor, you will help the party regain official ballot status in New York and insure that there are progressive candidates on the ballot for the next four years who do not take corporate money.
Eliot Spitzer has taken enormous donations from Wall Street lobbyists and investment firms from around the country. This includes William McGuire, former CEO of United Health Care, who resigned after was forced to resign after he had taken 1.6 billion in stock options. Alan Hevesi, the current comptroller, has spent public funds for personal use.
McCourt, a well-known author and actor, worked as a longshoreman, a truck driver and dishwasher. He knows what it?s like to be poor. McCourt, when asked about the death penalty, said, “My son is a police officer and I am proud of him. But if he were killed, it would give us no consolation to have his killer put to death.”
Mr. Spitzer is for the death penalty and plans to reintroduce it for particular crimes. Malachy McCourt is unequivocally opposed to the death penalty – ALWAYS. He believes that the state should never be in the business of death, and that there is no such thing as a just killing of any human being.
When Mr. Spitzer had the opportunity to embrace same-sex marriage, he instead issued a formal opinion opposing the courageous action taken by Green Party New Paltz Mayor Jason West in recognizing same-sex marriage. While the Chief Judge of New York State disagreed with the Spitzer opinion, the rest of the Court of Appeals sadly ruled against same-sex marriage. Mr. Spitzer thus helped kill the best chance we had to legalize same-sex marriage in NYS and to help promote it nationwide. While Mr. Spitzer says he supports legislative action, that’s unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled State Senate.
3. Health Care for All
The Green Party candidates advocate for a publicly-funded, publicly-administered national health insurance program. While Hawkins will champion a move to cover all US residents through a national health program with support for HR 676, McCourt will spearhead a statewide initiative to cover all New Yorkers by immediately setting up a legislative commission to determine the most effective way of providing statewide universal health coverage.
U.S Senate candidate Hillary Clinton continues to oppose a single-payer health system, just as she did in 1993 when she promoted the growth of HMOs. Now Clinton wants to mandate that individual consumers must buy private health insurance. Clinton is so opposed to real health care reform that only one politician in the country receives more in donations than she does from the health care industry.
4. The Environment
Hawkins supports cutting the military budget by $300 billion and investing the savings in a worldwide program to halt climate change through energy conservation and renewable energy.
The Boston Globe has described Clinton as a “no show” on global warming, repeatedly voting against needed action.
5. Real progressive alternatives
Along with McCourt for governor and Hawkins for senator, the Green Party is running candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general, and comptroller.
Lt. governor candidate Alison Duncan is a trade union and LGBT activist who puts fully-funded, quality education and access to quality health care as her priorities.
Rachel Treichler, attorney general candidate, is committed to protecting the rights of all New Yorkers by protecting civil liberties, ensuring fair elections, and stopping greedy developers from demolishing our communities.
Comptroller candidate Julia Willebrand will make sure that the $140 billion in state pension funds is invested in companies that protect the environment, will deal honestly with consumers, and give working people a fair shake.
The Green Party wants to create an alternative, a genuine opposition that stands up to corporate power and will advocate for the majority. The only chance to realize our hopes and ideals is to vote for those candidates who support them.
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