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Green Party’s Inclusion on PA Ballot Remains Uncertain
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jul 17, 2012 02:04am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Randy LoBasso |
| News Date | Monday, July 16, 2012 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Philadelphia activist Cheri Honkala accepted the vice presidential nomination to the national Green Party ticket in Baltimore over the weekend. She introduced herself to the national party and gave a CliffsNotes version of her life—from the time she was homeless in Minnesota to her current work on behalf of the poor—before introducing Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
“I bring you greetings from poor and working people in the United States of America,” Honkala told the crowd, before mentioning how she and her son Mark made the decision 25 years ago to “Occupy a heated abandoned house” instead of freezing to death on the streets.
Honkala then spoke of the potentially massive cuts to welfare programs going on in Washington, saying the Green Party must “refuse … the politics of fear and scarcity.” She continued, saying both the Democrats and Republicans are controlled by Wall Street and that the Untied States as a whole is “controlled by the corporations, the 1 percent and the greedy.”
But the Green Party is different, she said: “We are the new and unsettling force that Dr. Martin Luther King spoke of.”
But before one can become that unsettling force, one must get on the ballot. And whether that happens is still unknown.
Petitions to get on the ballot in Pennsylvania are due in about two weeks, on August 1st. And as it currently stands, the Green Party is not on it. Or close. The national Green Party has recently put out an “urgent call” on its official website, asking for donations and volunteers to help the Greens get on the ballot." |
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