Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of NY’ s candidate for Governor of NY State, speaking at the Albany press conference at the filing of more than 27,000 signatures to get on the ballot for November’s election. Hawkins’ challenges Andrew Cuomo on NYS’s Stock Transfer Tax of which NYS collects in excess of $16 billion annually, [Video] Continue Reading »

[From: Green Party NY]

Candidates: Cecile Lawrence, Colia Clark, Julia Willebrand, Howie Hawkins, Gloria Mattera

Candidates Challenge the Two Corporate Parties to Debate the Issues

The Green Party qualified its statewide candidates today, headed by Howie Hawkins for Governor, by filing 27,500 signatures, with more than 100 signatures coming from 26 out of the 29 Congressional Districts.

Also qualifying were four women for statewide office: Gloria Mattera for Lt. Governor, Julia Willebrand for State Comptroller, Colia Clark for US Senate(full term); and Cecile Lawrence for US Senate (Special term).

Key issues for the Greens this fall include support for a state and national New Green Deal to provide for living wage jobs for all New Yorkers, starting with massive investments in renewable energy; bringing America troops home from war and slashing the military budget; a single payer Medicare for All universal health program at the state and national level; and a ban on the proposed hydrofracking for natural gas.

The Greens also called for the end to the corruption that dominates all levels of the American government; full funding for education, including college; strong action to reduce climate change; an end to the war on drugs and the prison industrial complex; and, support for immigrant rights and same sex marriage. Continue Reading »

The Green Party NY candidates Howie Hawkins for Governor and Gloria Mattera for Lt. Governor urged the NYC Charter Commission to include preferential voting – also known as Instant Runoff Voting – for all single member elections.

The Greens also urged the Charter Commission to adopt proportional representation for City Council elections. Proposal representation, the election system used by almost all of the world’s democracies, allocates seats in legislative bodies based on the percentage of votes that each party represents. The Greens said proportional representation would be far more democratic than Bloomberg’s push for non-partisan elections. While the Greens would benefit from non-partisan elections, since the Greens win about a third of the non-partisan elections they enter nationwide, they also said that in NYC it would greatly benefit rich, self-financed candidates like Bloomberg. The three current Green Party Mayors in New York were elected in nonpartisan village elections.

“Despite what we are taught in school, our present system of winner-take-all (plurality) elections actually makes the US once of the least democratic democracies in the world,” said Gloria Mattera, a Park Slope resident who is the Green Party candidate for Lt. Governor.

Continue reading Greens Call for IRV, Proportional Representation Voting for NYC at Howie Hawkins for Governor.

 

Designated candidates of the Green Party of NY State: Governor of New York State: Howie Hawkins Lieutenant Governor of New York State: Gloria Mattera Comptroller of New York State: Julia Willebrand U.S. Senate: Cecile Lawrence U.S. Senate: Colia Clark Other candidates petitioning to be on the Green Party Ballot. US Congress from the 13th district: Hank Bardel US Congress from the [...]