h/t Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch –
Hartford, CT-Green Party of Connecticut officials announced today that they are still pushing for Ralph Nader to enter the U.S. Senate race, despite the announcement of Senator Dodd’s retirement. Tim McKee, a Green Party spokesperson said “Thousands of people are asking Nader to run and are willing to commit to money and volunteer time if Nader seeks the Green Party nomination. On social networking sites, such Facebook and MySpace, over 2 thousand people are asking Nader to run for the Senate in just a few weeks. This is still a national race with people from all across the country saying they want to get involved”
Steve Fournier, State Co-Chair said “With Dodd out, nothing really changes. Where does a Richard Blumenthal stand of Green Party issues such Single Payer Health Care? Ending the Wars? Removing the influence of big money in politics? Only Nader and the Greens are answering those questions, not the Democrat machine.”
Mike DeRosa, State Co-Chair said “Blumenthal is still in Federal Court trying to defend the state’s unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform and would not debate the Republican and Green Party candidates for Attorney General in the last election. His stances on election reform and other issues are very weak.”
McKee added “This election was never about Dodd and his corruption or the national machine of the Democrats funding Blumenthal now. Drafting Nader is a grass roots effort by thousands of people who are sick of slick party bosses. We are stepping up our efforts to get Nader to run, raise 3-5 million dollars and win the race. Local meetings for the Nader campaign will be announced next week.”
Amen, between Dollar Dodd and ‘Independent’ Joe Lieberman, good riddance to bad rubbish!
Goodbye Chris Dodd. Good riddance!
if Ralph decides to run, it won’t be as a Green.
fec.gov indicates the national party is BROKE, 30k in the red & its future looks bleak.
the GP is trying to reclaim its Nader2K exposure & $$$$, by hitching a ride on his coat tails.
but it won’t work. Nader is no fool.
Schiff is polling 5%. Unless he can create some very clever and effective ads, he’ll capture less than 10% in the primary.
LOL, I doubt that.
paulie @ 4, maybe my profound comment @2 left citizen1 speechless.
Run Ralph, Run! It can only help Peter Schiff!
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Trent, agreed. But on the other hand this is a grassroots/draft Nader movement in his home state. Plus many progressives are turning sour on Obama. The timing is right regardless of Dodd. Now if Nader would only listen to me…
I think Nader was seriously considering running with Dodd–but Blumenthal’s positives are very high and liberals have no real reason to oppose him as vigorously as they would’ve opposed Dodd.