Leading Independent Green, Michael Bloomberg
Thank You for the poll, and having included Michael Bloomberg.
Bloomberg has taken positive green action. With his deeds Bloomberg has reached out to the Green Party.
That is why we've have collected 11,000 petition signatures in Virginia, and submitted them to the state board of elections. Putting Michael Bloomberg on the ballot for President, and Ron Paul on the ballot for Vice President as Independent Greens in in Virginia.
Our petition drives continue. Our state Green Party is on course, as we did in 2006 to put a record number of Independent and Independent Greens on the ballot for U.S. Congress.
So far in 2008:
Gail "for Rail" Parker has submitted over 15,000 signatures to state board to appear on ballot for U.S. Senate. Gail "for Rail" is a retired U.S. Air Force officer, retired civilian executive budget analyst at the pentagon. Mother, and grandmother.
Joseph Oddo, businessman, husband, father, and our candidate for Congress in Virginia's 11th district (Fairfax, Prince William counties) submitted 1,100 signatures last week, and another 300 this week.
Nathan Larson, certified public accountant, our Indy Green candidate for Congress in Virginia's 1st distict (eastern Virginia) submitted over 1,000 signatures to the state board of elections.
Neeraj Neejam, computer consultant, husband, father, has collected over 800 signatures. Neeraj is in Virginia's 10th congressional district. It runs from suburbs of Washington D.C. to West Virginia.
Col. Albert Burckhard received almost 26% of vote in 2006 - nearly 50,000 votes. It was the most votes of any Independent, or Green on ballot for congress in 2006. His petition drive is undeway in 4th district. This is south of Richmond.
The Indy Greens Dr. Jonathan Bern in Virginia's 6th district is scheduled to launch his petition drive for congress shortly. The 6th district borders almost all of West Virginia. Dr. Bern is a medical doctor.
Virginia's Indy Greens have collected over 40,000 petition signatures and talked with over a half a million Virginians face to face in 2008. Advocating:
"More Candidates, Less Apathy"
"More Trains, Less Traffic"
"Fiscally Conservative, Socially Responsible"
Balance the budget, pay off the federal debt. Install auditable accounting system at pentagon. Stop no bid, uncontested contracts.
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"With his deeds?" You're going to need to be a lot more specific than that.
For example, you might start off with, say, an example of where Bloomberg has done anything to promote the Green Party to the general public.
Sorry, never heard of you or your political organization.
If you are Green...why not join the Green Party of Virginia?
Can't help myself from laughing, Bloomberg and Ron Paul?... Green?... Give me a break...
Our Nation needs Rail. Bloomberg could take the issue nation-wide. We need a Rail Champion to raise this issue to the Nation. Bloomberg is a true Patriot and a fine man!
Support Rail candidates in your state... Better yet: Be a Rail Candidate!
If the question is whether or not we need to increase our countries mass transit, or shift our dependence on trucks, over to rail carriers...yes...I agree with you.
But you are asking for support for Bloomberg and Paul...that has to be one of the strangest combos I have seen yet...
One of the few areas in which I agree with Ron Paul, is his stance against the Iraq War and the Patriot Act. As for the rest of his ideas, I wrote a post in my blog, http://bryansliberalvoice.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-paul-issue.html that outline my concerns with him as an elected official. Sorry Ron but I'm not part of your "Revolution".
What makes this such a strange combo, is that Bloomberg supports the Patriot Act, and continued involvement in Iraq. As a "ticket", there are many other contradictions in social issues which Bloomberg and Paul are 180 degrees apart. (Abortion rights is one of the "biggies" as Paul wants to see the right of women to have control of their bodies abolished... Period.)
Bloomberg, as previously stated, supports the War in Iraq, and the Patriot Act. He is also one of the richest men in the world, and got that way catering to the software needs of Corporate America, he runs a radio station, that provides information targeted to Corporate America, and Bloomberg never met Development he didn't like...he even supported tearing down an area with historical/cultural significance to build...you guessed it...a parking lot. How can I support that???
I am running for a County office, and I consider myself a "rail candidate", in the sense that roads and transportation issues are county wide issues and I do consider mass transit and commercial rail, options for solutions to some of the problems.
But support Bloomberg/Paul...I don't think so....
Yes, we definitely need to work on the rail system. Oddly enough, Investment hotshot Warren Buffet has been investing in rail lines and barges in the US. Not only will OTR trucking be out in the post-petrol era, but our whole infrastructure in terms of food markets and diversified agriculture will need to change.
Moving things via waterways will be "more efficient" in the accounting sense, but will be problematic in other ways.
I envision a time when rail systems will be built on the existing freeway grades.
Maybe fuel it using bio-diesel electric until something better comes along.
Incidentally, the primary is here in Kentucky tomorrow, and I cannot vote b/c I refused to change my party affiliation. Monopoly on enfranchisement?
Jimmy Mundane
www.thejimmyundanes.com
I have a friend who lives in the D.C. suburbs and thinks Gail Parker is great. He called me long-distance here in California to tell me all about her.
I don't know anything about the others. What is Col. Albert Burckhard about? If he got 25% in a congressional race and we haven't heard about it then, then he must doing something right and *NOT BE* a racist warmonger, otherwise the mainstream media would be trumpeting him as a "new trend."
As for Bloomberg and Paul...
(sigh)
I fear this is another case of "celebrity chasing" which we have discussed at length on this web site. Having Bloomberg on the ballot would probably help Obama, since Bloomberg would probably take votes away from McCain. On the other hand, having Paul on the ballot would probably hurt Obama by taking antiwar votes away from him. Thus, in a way, this kind of liquidates the "spoiler" argument.
I must say this would be considered very weird in California, but it might "play" in Virginia.
martin holsinger
http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/
I think we're suffering from an overly loose definition of "Green" here. As I understand it, the Green Party is not just about sensible energy policy, it's about a more inclusive and egalitarian form of decision making, which Bloomberg and Paul are emphatically not about--I mean, Paul wants to deny women the right to make decisions about their own bodies (which doesn't even seem very "Libertarian" to me), and Bloomberg has not, as far as I know, been inclusive/favoring local decision-making in the way he has run NYC. They guy's a billionaire, for chrissake, and not known for sharing his wealth.
If you guys want to have a state party with ecological values, cool, but I don't get the impression you are much in synch with the Green Party's core values, and I wonder about the appropriateness of your using the name. The Chinese are building "green" cities, but that doesn't make them "Green" or any less authoritarian. You can have eco-friendly fascism, but that ain't the Green Party...not that I'm accusing you guys of that, just trying to make the point about whether we are talking about "Green" or "green."
Why don't you put Cynthia McKinney on the ballot?
Or Jesse Johnson?
Or Kent Mesplay?
Or Kat Swift?
Or anyone who is actually running for President, preferably a Green?
babblemur
http://www.babblemur.com