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New York City Petitioning Begins for Alternative Parties

By on July 9, 2009 10:09 AM

Article at Ballot Access News:

July 7 was the first day in which it was possible to circulate petitions for minor party and independent candidates for New York city office. The Green Party is running Rev. Billy Talen for Mayor; the Party for Socialism and Liberation is running Frances Villar for Mayor; and the Socialist Workers Party is running Dan Fein for Mayor.

The SWP also has candidates for Public Advocate and Manhatten Borough President. The Green Party also has a candidate for City Council. Whereas offices voted on by the city as a whole need 7,500 valid signatures, candidates for City Council need 2,700, which is proportionately much more difficult. See this story about the Green Party’s petition for David Pechefsky for council:

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/27/32_27_gk_pechefsky.html

In the comments on the article at BAN, Mike Drucker says he has been collecting signatures for Mayor Bloomberg; former Libertarian Party national political director and current Free and Equal employee Sean Haugh links his name to the campaign site of Green mayoral candidate Rev. Billy, and says the Greens have three candidates for city council; and Green Party US political director Brent McMillan says there are four Green city council candidates.

18 Comments

  1. paulie July 14, 2009

    I’d imagine that libertarians would support Reverend Billy’s stance against the crackdowns on civil liberties and free speech under NYC’s last two mayors. As you may know, Rev. Billy was arrested in 2007 for reciting the first amendment at NYPD thru a bullhorn. He is known for demonstrating with ‘no permit but the First Amendment.’ He also opposes the warrantless, racist ’stop-and-frisk- police tactics and the for-profit immigrant detention centers that Republicans have brought NYC.

    Absolutely!

  2. Gary Fincher July 14, 2009

    LibertyForAll.net (sic) is a JOKE site

  3. Gary Fincher July 14, 2009

    Please click on my name for a warning for this Free & Equal (sic) employee with a shady past

  4. Dave Schwab July 12, 2009

    I’d imagine that libertarians would support Reverend Billy’s stance against the crackdowns on civil liberties and free speech under NYC’s last two mayors. As you may know, Rev. Billy was arrested in 2007 for reciting the first amendment at NYPD thru a bullhorn. He is known for demonstrating with ‘no permit but the First Amendment.’ He also opposes the warrantless, racist ‘stop-and-frisk- police tactics and the for-profit immigrant detention centers that Republicans have brought NYC.

  5. Third Party Revolution July 12, 2009

    Those people sound more like social centrists, even though they maybe laissez-faire.

  6. paulie July 12, 2009

    And taking it in a different direction, some self described libertarians – and LP members (NOT me), support more military interventionism, and/or more immigration control, and/or oppose marriage equality for LGBT people, and so on.

  7. paulie July 12, 2009

    TPR,

    liberals and libertarians are the same when it comes to social issues, fiscally they are opposites.

    Not exactly. Some thought experiments to get beyond that overgeneralization:

    Is gun control a social or economic issue? Military spending? Eminent domain abuse? The drug war? Corporate welfare? Police violence, harassment and corruption?

    For a more comprehensive view of where some Libertarians (like me) agree and disagree with Greens, see

    http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=2825

    If you find a little more time, read

    http://aaeblog.com/?s=greensleeves

  8. Third Party Revolution July 12, 2009

    I know him too, but I was wondering if there were any others. But probably the reason why Libertarians would support Rev. Billy would be for social reasons. I mean liberals and libertarians are the same when it comes to social issues, fiscally they are opposites.

  9. paulie July 11, 2009

    Read the last paragraph of the story.

  10. Third Party Revolution July 11, 2009

    And what so-called “Libertarian” supports Rev. Billy that you know of?

  11. Richard Cooper July 10, 2009

    No true Libertarian would support the anti-capitalist, clownish Rev. Billy.

  13. Kimberly Wilder July 10, 2009

    Oh, well…Found your comment in the spam folder. I think it went there because so many links. It’s up above, now.

    Great to see that Evergreen is running. He is awesome, wise, gentle, effective and a great speaker.

  14. Kimberly Wilder July 10, 2009

    To Dave Schwab –

    I think because some of them are vampires…

    😉
    KW

  15. Dave Schwab July 10, 2009

    I tried to post the names and websites of NYC Green candidates – any reason why the comment won’t register?

  16. Dave Schwab July 10, 2009

    Green Party candidates in NYC:

    Rev. Billy Talen – Mayor
    http://voterevbilly.org/

    Evergreen Chou – City council, District 20 (Flushing, Queens)
    http://www.myspace.com/evergreen_chou

    Walter Nestler – City council, District 18 (Bronx)
    http://www.waltnestlerforcitycouncil.org/

    David Pechefsky – City council, District 39 (Park Slope, Brooklyn)
    http://pechefskyforcitycouncil.com/

    Lynne Serpe – City council, District 22 (Astoria, Queens)
    http://www.serpeforcouncil.com/

    Petitioning is underway – Green is growing in NYC!

  17. Catholic Trotskyist July 10, 2009

    I wonder if Reverend Billy can get a lot of libertarian support because of his relatively high profile and anti-establishment campaign. Robert Milnes, since you’re near New York City, try to get Dobrian to drop out so we can try the first real Progressive Alliance strategy race in the Big Apple.

  18. Richard Cooper July 9, 2009

    Joseph Dobrian is the Libertarian Party candidate for NYC mayor.

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