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David McReynolds makes the case for voting for the Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins for NY Governor.
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Green Party Governor candidate Howie Hawkins in Nassau County 10/27/14
Posted on October 25, 2014 by iwilder
Nassau Meet-and-Greet With Green Party Governor candidate Howie Hawkins! A chance for Nassau Howie Hawkins supporters to meet the candidate! Find out how you can help get out the vote in the final days of the campaign. Light refreshments served. Please RSVP or contact Jim Brown, Chair of the Green Party of Nassau County, in […]
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Suffolk Green Party Update on Esposito, Long, and Cuomo/Astorino Pay-to-Play
Posted on October 11, 2014 by iwilder
Cuomo and Astorino both take pay-to-play contributions-for-contracts, while both are hypocrites for calling out the other for unethical transactions.
Filed under: election, governor, grassroots democracy, Green Party, howie hawkins, Long Island Politics, New York State Politics, News, progressive politics | Tagged: 3rd state senate, Adrienne Esposito, andrew cuomo, howie hawkins, Paul Senzer, pay-to-play, Rob Astorino, Steve Hackeling, Walter Long | Leave a Comment »
Hawkins: Teachout Primary Shows Path for Green Party to November Victory
Posted on September 14, 2014 by iwilder
NY Green Party Governor candidate Hawkins will work hard to win the votes of the principled progressives who were inspired by the Zephyr Teachout campaign.
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Astorino Must Desegregate Housing to Improve Schools
Posted on August 10, 2014 by iwilder
NY Green Party Governor candidate Hawkins says Westchester County Executive Astorino’s housing desegregation record shows he can’t resolve this statewide.
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8th Boog City Fest Sked 8/1-8/5/14
Posted on June 25, 2014 by iwilder
8/1-8/5/14: Boog will be celebrating its 23rd anniversary by putting on the eighth annual Welcome to Boog City poetry, music, and theater festival.
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GP Guv Hawkins Says Working Families Party Nomination of Cuomo Betrays Working Families
Posted on June 9, 2014 by iwilder
Howie Hawkins said today that the decision by the Working Families Party to nominate Governor Andrew Cuomo for a second term of Governor was an abandonment of working class and progressive voters, just further proof that the WFP is merely a liberal wing on the Democrats. Hawkins said that the door to the Green Party was open to […]
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Green Party NY nominates Governor candidate and State Slate
Posted on May 22, 2014 by iwilder
Hawkins/Jones need to receive at least 50,000 votes in the 2014 Governor election for the Green Party to retain the ballot line in NY.
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Activists Frack Themselves
Posted on June 30, 2011 by iwilder
During last year’s election, anti-fracking activists wasted time protesting Andrew Cuomo. He could care less. All he cared about was money and votes, and they did not get in the way of either. Fracking activists ignored calls to raise funds for and get votes for fracking-ban governor candidates like the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins. Now […]
Filed under: 3rd party, Action Alert!, activism, afghanistan, Anti-War, Ecology, election, Election 2010, elections, Global Warming, governor, grassroots democracy, green, Green Party, health, howie hawkins, nature, new york, New York State Politics, News, politics, safe, safety, sustainability, sustainable | Tagged: andrew cuomo, green, Green Party of New York, howie hawkins, hydraulic fracturing, natural gas, new york, new york city | 5 Comments »
Will Guv-elect Cuomo Promised Tea Party Education Cuts Cause Protests In NY Like London?
Posted on November 12, 2010 by iwilder
New York Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo has has moved forward with his Tea Party austerity budget. Cuomo announced that he will balance the state budget on the back of working families instead of rescinding the the rebate of the stock transfer tax as Green Party Guv cand Howie Hawkins demanded. According to the Wall Street Journal, […]
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New York State Green Party Victorious: Reclaims Ballot Line
Posted on November 3, 2010 by iwilder
Green Party of Suffolk Increases Vote Totals by 40% With 56,868 votes, the Green Party of New York State Governor candidate Howie Hawkins has surpassed the 50,000 votes mark need to reclaim the automatic ballot line for the next four years. It will be much easier for Green Party candidates to run for local, state […]
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Green Party New York: Guv cand Hawkins Challenges Cuomo to Oppose Paterson’s Efforts to Leave Superfund
Posted on November 2, 2010 by iwilder
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, today called on Democrat Andrew Cuomo to join him in opposing Governor Paterson’s proposal to have the state pull out of the federal Superfund program. “Governor Paterson is increasingly erratic,” noted Hawkins, “and one has to wonder who is actually running the state. Paterson appears to have […]
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