Green Party press release via email and Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
Congress should reject President Obama’s request for fast-track authority on the secretly negotiated pact, say Greens
The Green Party today called for an immediate halt in the Obama Administration’s closed-door negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), following the publication by Wikileaks of the TPP’s intellectual property chapter on Nov.… Read more ...
Green Party Watch held a presidential poll with the following results:
1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%. There were 35 votes for Kent Mesplay, and 8 votes for Harley Mikkelson
GPW reports that Roseanne Barr is very active on Twitter, and had tweeted a challenge to Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to have both herself and Jill Stein on their programs.… Read more ...
On July 12, Carl Romanelli, Green Party nominee for U.S. Senate in 2006, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the state employees who worked on challenging his petition while they were supposed to be working on state business. The eleven-page complaint also points out that the challengers used state government computers and the legislature’s database of registered voters.… Read more ...
Yesterday, local Green Parties and Greens across Pennsylvania participated in protests against natural gas drilling in the state. There was a protest at each regional Department of Environmental Protection, including one in the state capital, Harrisburg. A press release announcing the protests can be found here.
I (Ross Levin) attended the rally in Norristown, which is the county seat of Montgomery County. … Read more ...
Press release:
GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA
http://www.gpofpa.org
LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA
http://www.lppa.org
The Green Party of Pennsylvania and the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania
condemned a decision by federal Judge Lawrence Stengel last week. Stengel
concluded that the lawsuit, brought by the Green, Constitution, and
Libertarian Parties of Pennsylvania, targeted the wrong plaintiffs, and thus
threw out the case.… Read more ...
Based on a Green Party of the United States press release, with commentary and photos added by Ian Wilder at onthewilderside:
IW: Green Tea: It’s Good for You.
Green Party leaders and candidates said that many Tea Party activists might be in the wrong party and urged them to consider going Green.… Read more ...
From a Green Party list-serve, an announcement
sent out January 28, 2010:
… Read more ...MEDIA ADVISORY
For more info contact:
Hillary Kane
Steve BakerGreen Party Announces Press Conference on Bonusgate
Will connect Bonusgate to bogus Romanelli challenge
Will call on state to dig deeper in Bonusgate investigationOn Monday, February 1, Green Party of PA members Steve Baker and Carl Romanelli, as well as Romanelli’s attorney Larry Otter, will speak to members of the press about the ongoing Bonusgate investigation.
Posted at Green Party Watch by Gregg Jocoy
Carl Romanelli was charged over $80,000 for daring to run for US Senate in Pennsylvania. That cost was a result of Democrat Bob Casey Jr.’s successful effort to keep Romanelli off the ballot. By scrutinizing every ballot access signature, Casey was able to throw Romanelli off the ballot, and he then turned around and charged Romanelli for the lawyers and party hacks he had do the scrutinizing.… Read more ...
Hat tip to Ballot Access News.
(excerpt from) Citizen’s Voice of Wilkes-Barre, PA
Romanelli prepares to take fight to state court
By Erin Moody / Friday, March 20, 2009
… Read more ...Former Green Party senatorial candidate Carl Romanelli and his lawyer are quickly preparing their argument why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court should overturn a lower court’s ruling that makes the two responsible for $80,000 in court expenses, costs and attorneys’ fees.
Heavy costs of a run by a third party in Pa.
But 2 challenges are part of the Bonusgate probe.
By Ralph Nader
Independent candidate for president in 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer
If you want to run for public office in Pennsylvania, and you’re neither a Republican nor a Democrat, you’d better be prepared to bet the farm.… Read more ...
On January 15, 2009, the Pennsylvania Green Party’s US Senate candidate from 2006, Carl Romanelli, again asked the Commonwealth Court for relief from having to pay over $80,000 to the people who challenged his petition. Here is his brief. It mentions the constitutional issue, and argues that U.S.… Read more ...
In a message posted at Greens for Greens, former Green Party senatorial candidate Carl Romanelli reports that thirteen Democratic Party apparatchiks have been indicted
on charges of theft, conflict of interest, and conspiracy. Some of these charges were related to a crushing petition challenge of the Carl Romanelli U.S. Senate campaign…
At a reported cost of four million dollars to the Pennsylvania taxpayer, the thirteen people were charged with crimes that, if convicted on all charges and given the harshest sentences, would land them behind bars for a reported 1,873 years.… Read more ...