If Republicans, Democrats or Libertarians aren't doing it for you, the Progressive Party a.k.a the Green Party is making its pitch to get on the November ballot.
According to a Wednesday press release, the party has filed petitions with 14,932 signatures with Robin Carnahan. The party has six candidates for statewide and congressional offices. They say they eclipsed the minimum number of signatures by 49%.
Carnahan has until August 22 to accept or reject the petitions.
What are they about? Among the hilights:
- Single payer universal health care
- Ban logging in Missouri's old-growth forests
- Reverse the corporate takeover of our media which have become agencies for business interests and mouthpieces for our imperial government
Let's hope they've been practicing their penmanship.
Tim Barnhart, the coordinator of the petition drive, said the party isn't ready to release names of the candidates until they know for sure if they'll actually be on the ballot. He did say they have folks ready to run for U.S. Senate, auditor and a challenger to Rep. Ike Skelton in the 4th Congressional District.
I asked about the name change. He said there is a Green Party still on the ballot in St. Louis city, unaffiliated with the national Green Party.
1 comment:
Same here. The more the merrier. Personally, though, I can't get past their idea of "universal" health care which would involve *massive* government expansion (think "Hillarycare")... but, it's still good to see more non-RepubliCrats getting into the mix. I wish them luck. It took a long time for my party to make the ballot cut.
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