FYI Republicans funded the ENTIRE Green Party (save
$30 from the
candidate himself)
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001256.php
Even if it makes PA Democrats look like bullies, it
makes PA Greens
look like tools.
"The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in
the month of June in
order to fund a voter signature drive. The Philly
Inquirer reported
yesterday that $40,000 came from supporters of Rick
Santorum's
campaign (or their housemates). Also yesterday, we
confirmed that
another $15,000 came from GOP donors and
conservatives. Only three
contributions, totaling $11,000, remained as
possible legit donations.
Today, I confirmed that those came from GOP sources.
- The Green Party listed a $1,000 check from a Bill
Wickerman of
Covington & Burling. There is no such person.
However, a Bill
Wichterman works there. He's a Republican lobbyist
who has also given
to Santorum this campaign.
- James Holman, who in the past has supported GOP
House candidate
Howard Kaloogian, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and
Rep. J.D. Hayworth
(R-AZ), was incorrectly listed by the Greens as
"James Howmen." He
disclosed that he was an editor at the San Diego
Review; a James
Holman is the publisher there.
- The Green Party disclosed that a "Franklin
Schoneman" of Pottsville,
Pa. gave $5,000. A "Franklin Schoeneman" of
Pottsville has given
$8,000 to Santorum so far this election.
That leaves only one contribution, for $30, as a
legitimate donation
from a Green Party supporter. That came from the
candidate himself,
Carl Romanelli. He made it to his own campaign fund,
not the local
Green Party.
Romanelli's latest FEC report shows his campaign
currently has $17.20 on hand."
On 8/2/06, ban@richardwinger.com
<richardwinger@yahoo.com> wrote:
Today, the Pennsylvania Democratic state chair
announced that the party will challenge the Green
Party's ballot access petition.
By contrast, in 2002, Ed Rendell, Democratic
gubernatorial nominee, signed the Green Party
statewide petition, and that was widely
publicized.
Rendell looked self-confident, open-minded,
tolerant,
by his action. He won the general election with
53%.
Has it occurred to the Pennsylvania Democratic
Party
that the real reason Republicans contributed funds
for
the Pennsylvania Green petition, was not so much
that
having the Greens on the ballot would cause the
outcome to change, but because they knew the
Democrats
would react the way they are reacting? They look
like
bullies.
At least one minor party candidate has been on the
Pennsylvania general election ballot in all
even-year
elections ever since the start of
government-printed
ballots in 1891 (except only 1990). It's just
normal
for minor parties to be on in Pennsylvania.
Furthermore, it's normal around the U.S. There
are 33
Senate races this year, and in at least 28 of
them,
there will be a minor party or independent
candidate
on the ballot in that race, and perhaps 31 of
those
U.S. Senate races will have such candidates on the
ballot (only Ohio and Rhode Island US Senate races
are
definitely Dem-Rep and no one else races so far).
So Pennsylvania Democrats will get the blame for
giving Pennsylvania voters fewer choices than they
are
accustomed to, and fewer choices than the voters
of
other states enjoy. Voters like having choices.
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