[statecom-discuss] Re: Fwd: Natlcomaffairs Digest, Vol 43, Issue 77

[BillCunningham]

I do not know how to add items to the GRP website

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>From: Yarden <yen.yarden at verizon.net>
>Sent: Jun 22, 2007 1:01 PM
>To: StateCommittee <statecom-discuss at green-rainbow.org>, Adcom <adcom at green-rainbow.org>
>Cc: Cunningham Bill <etwee at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Fwd: Natlcomaffairs Digest, Vol 43, Issue 77
>
>Bill,
>Perhaps this should go onto the GRP website.  Please check it out 
>independently.
>Elie
>
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>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:10:58 -0400
>> From: "Julia Aires" <julia.aires at verizon.net>
>> Subject: [usgp-dx] Ralph Nader at Annual Meeting in PA
>> To: <natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org>
>> Message-ID: <017201c7b4df$8cf26130$2f01a8c0 at Laptop>
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>> sorry if this is a dupe - I had not seen it posted.
>>
>> For Immediate Release
>> Contact:
>> Hillary Aisenstein, 267-971-3559
>> David Kurzweg, 610-823-5770
>>
>> Ralph Nader to Speak at Green Party Annual Meeting
>> Consumer Activist will speak about Ballot Access at Reading meeting 
>> this
>> July
>>
>> GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA
>> http://www.gpofpa.org
>>
>> Reading, PA - The Green Party of Pennsylvania announces that longtime
>> consumer advocate and three-time Presidential candidate Ralph Nader 
>> will
>> speak at the party's national convention this summer. Nader will
>> headline an event on the evening of Saturday, July 14, at the Sovereign
>> Performing
>> Arts Center.
>>
>> Nader will speak as part of a series of evening events aimed at
>> attracting new people to the Green Party and its "10 key values" which
>> include democracy, ecology, social justice, and nonviolence. Nader's
>> talk will focus on "ballot access," a term which describes the
>> procedures which allow or block potential candidates' ability to get
>> their names on the ballot.
>>
>> In 2004, Nader was forced off the Pennsylvania ballot by the Democratic
>> Party and charged fines close to $90,000. He was trying to qualify as 
>> an
>> independent for President.
>>
>> Capital University Law Professor Mark Brown studied the 2004 legal
>> wrangling that took Nader off the ballot in Pennsylvania and recently
>> published a law review article on the affair. Brown discovered that the
>> Democrats were aided by a judge who may have been motivated by animus
>> towards Nader's
>> candidacy.
>>
>> Carl Romanelli, last year's Green Party Senatorial Candidate, will also
>> speak at Saturday's event. Like Nader, he was also kicked off the
>> Pennsylvania ballot by Democrats. Romanelli commented on his experience
>> with the Democratic Party and Pennsylvania judiciary, "More than the
>> nasty politics, the inexcusable behavior of the Pennsylvania court
>> system must be reviewed. The fact that the Pennsylvania Commonwealth
>> Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court are blatant partisans is cause
>> for an investigation and sanction."
>>
>> After an 8-week signature review process last fall, Democrats were able
>> to find enough loop holes and technicalities to disqualify tens of
>> thousands of legitimate voters' signatures from Romanelli's petitions.
>> Furthermore, Romanelli was also ordered to pay fines close to $90,000.
>> Romanelli has vowed to fight this verdict and has taken his case all 
>> the
>> way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Said Romanelli, "I will pursue this
>> matter to its highest levels in order to right this injustice. 2006 is
>> not an isolated case. It is part of a distinct, evolving Democratic
>> strategy. Ralph Nader and I shatter the myth that the Democrats are the
>> good guys."
>>
>> Supporters of ballot access are worried that if the tactics employed in
>> Pennsylvania are ultimately successful, Democratic legislators around
>> the country will likely introduce similar punitive election laws in
>> other states particularly "swing states", in a preventive effort to 
>> keep
>> independents and newer political parties off the ballot.
>>
>> Earlier this year, Pennsylvania was singled out by European human 
>> rights
>> groups for particularly bad ballot access laws.
>>
>> DC-based hip hop act Head Roc will also perform on Saturday. Thursday
>> and Friday nights' line ups will feature more local bands. The
>> convention, which will attract close to 200 Green Party delegates from
>> all over the country and the world, will take place at the Abraham
>> Lincoln Wyndham hotel in Reading July 12-16.
>>
>> For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.gpanc.org.
>>
>> The Green Party of Pennsylvania is an independent political party that
>> stands in opposition to the two corporate parties. The Green Party of
>> Pennsylvania stands for grassroots democracy, sustainable economics,
>> nonviolence, and ecology. The Green Party of Pennsylvania stands in 
>> firm
>> opposition to the War in Iraq and has always advocated for energy
>> conservation and sustainable energy policies.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Bill Cunningham