[statecom-discuss] [media-states] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WFP Accused of Misleading New York Anti-War Voters with 11th Hour Mailer.

[Colby E. Peterson]

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> From: "Alex Montanez" <montanez.alex at gmail.com>
> Date: November 5, 2006 9:01:12 PM EST
> To: peaceslate2006 at topica.com
> Subject: [media-states] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WFP Accused of  
> Misleading New York Anti-War Voters with 11th Hour Mailer.
>
> PEACE ACTIVIST CINDY SHEEHAN REITERATES ENDORSEMENTS OF GREEN PARTY  
> CANDIDATES HAWKINS AND MCCOURT IN NEW YORK RACES. SLAMS 'RUBBER  
> STAMP' DEMOCRAT HILLARY CLINTON ON EVE OF ELECTION.
>
> For Immediate Release:
> Sunday, November 5, 2006
>
> Contact:
> Alex Montanez, Media Coordinator
> Malachy McCourt for Governor
> 310.650.7481
> montanez.alex at gmail.com
>
>
> Working Family Party (WFP) Accused of Misleading New York Anti-War  
> Voters with 11th Hour Mailer. Anti-War Candidates Demand Retraction.
>
>
> NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- A mailer from the Working Families Party that  
> arrived in thousands of voters' mailboxes on Friday and Saturday  
> depicts Cindy Sheehan, along with Pete Seeger and Michael Moore,  
> urging voters to support bringing the troops home by voting for  
> Democrats running on the Working Families Party line.
>
> Sheehan immediately issued the following clarification of her  
> position:
>
> "I support a lot of the work of the Working Families Party and  
> especially Mr. Pete Seeger who has been an amazing warrior for  
> peace. However, I cannot support the candidacy of Hillary Clinton  
> who is ensconced in the all-Democratic slate. She is not pro-peace,  
> or even anti-war and has been a rubber stamp for George Bush's war  
> of terror. Many of the candidates that the WFP supports are worthy  
> of support, but certainly not Senator Clinton."
>
> "I support Howie Hawkins in his campaign against Hillary Clinton  
> and I support Malachy McCourt in his campaign for governor."
>
> Last month, Cindy Sheehan had endorsed the Green Party candidates  
> Howie Hawkins for US Senator and Malachy McCourt for Governor.  
> McCourt issued the following statement Sunday:
>
> "Cindy Sheehan does not support pro-war candidates like Eliot  
> Spitzer and Hillary Clinton and I challenge the WFP, a subsidiary  
> of the Democratic party, to prove otherwise."
>
> Hawkins issued the following statement:
>
> "WFP should issue a retraction. It is absurd to claim that a vote  
> for Spitzer or Clinton is a vote against the war. The Green  
> candidates have remained clear about our opposition to George Bush  
> and the Iraq war and that's where anti-war votes should go."
>
> Jonathan Tasini, Ms. Clinton's opponent in the Democratic Primary,  
> posted the following statement:
>
> "To tell voters to vote for a pro-war Democrat as a way to protest  
> the war is simply ugly. It is entirely disrespectful of the tens of  
> thousands of people who were killed in this war."
>
> Mr Tasini received a surprising 17% of the vote in his bid to upset  
> the Senator.
>
> The Working Families Party endorsed all the Democrats running for  
> statewide office. These Democratic candidates also appear on the  
> Working Families Party line on Row E. The Green Party's candidates  
> appear on the next line, Row F.
>
>
> -- 
> Alex Montanez
> Media Coordinator
> Malachy McCourt for Governor
> VoteMalachyMcCourt.org
> 310 650 7481
> 646 229 2547