… Read more ...On November 24, Dennis Spisak said that he will seek the Green Party’s nomination for Governor of Ohio. He was the party’s nominee in 2010, and he polled 1.52% in a four-party race. It is very likely that the Green Party will intervene in the pending Libertarian Party lawsuit, arguing that the new ballot access law cannot be applied for the 2014 election.
Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:
Illinois Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney led all Green Party gubernatorial candidates in 2010 in total votes and percentage of the total vote, with 99,625 votes, 2.70% of the vote.
Only three times in history have Green Party gubernatorial candidates exceeded 10% of the vote.… Read more ...
Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
In a year that has seen the biggest upsurge of activism against marijuana prohibition in American history, Green Party candidates across the country are leading the fight for marijuana legalization while Democrats and Republicans defend the failed, destructive “war on drugs” prohibition regime.
The eyes of Americans who oppose prohibition are on California’s Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010.… Read more ...
Cincinatti’s CityBeat has provided a soapbox for Green gubernatorial candidate Dennis Spisak to speak out on the recent decision to exclude minor party candidates from two upcoming televised debates. At the present time, only Democrat Ted Strickland and Republican John Kasich will participate. The article quotes Spisak as saying,
… Read more ...“As the Green Party nominee for Ohio governor, I think it’s a sham that myself and the Libertarian candidate for governor are not invited to the debates,” Spisak said in a prepared statement.
Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Vaughn Stull:
Fire Dog Lake ponders endorsing Dennis Spisak (OH Governor, Green)
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/40556
FDL, Please Support Dennis Spisak for Ohio Governor
By: El Duderino
I am asking FDL to formally endorse Green Party candidate Dennis Spisak for governor of Ohio. This is not something I write lightly.… Read more ...
Green Party candidate for Ohio governor, and current member of the Sruthers City School Board, Dennis Spisak was interviewed on Ohio Public Radio recently. You can listen here. The story is about a minute long.… Read more ...
Posted by Dennis Spisak at Green Party Watch:
Ohio’s Dennis Spisak’s Petitions Certified, on the ballot in November
Dennis Spisak, one of the first Greens elected in Ohio back in 2005, has had his petitions certified by the Mahoning County Board of Elections and will seek re-election to the Struthers City Schools Board of Education this November 3, 2009.… Read more ...
Posted at newmenu.org by Dennis Spisak
… Read more ...As Green Party Candidate for Congress in the 6th district, I have read reports of Green Job programs springing up all over the country. Why not Ohio? Why not the 6th District?
Is it because Charlie Wilson is told what to do by the coal lobbyists?
Dennis Spisak, the Green candidate in Ohio’s Sixth U.S. House District, filed as a write-in candidate but is now “demanding his name be printed on the ballot due to a recent ruling regarding the Green Party,” the Salem News reports.
Spisak “cited a federal court ruling Tuesday which said Cynthia McKinney had the right to be placed on the Ohio ballot as a presidential candidate for the Green Party because of a previous ruling which allowed Libertarian candidates to be placed on the ballot.”… Read more ...