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August 10, 2006
Colorblind in Pennsylvania
UPDATE 8/13: I just read the inimitable Richard Winger's comment on Third Party Watch, which serves to cool much of my below rhetoric. Still, though.
These people are not acting like Greens (scroll down to Pennsylvania). I don't know what color their party is, but this stuff has me cursing a blue streak. First it was the whoring about for GOP money. (And re-elect Santorum? That's not in the 10 Key Values.) Now it seems that a review of the signatures collected to put the gubernatorial and senatorial candidates on the ballot has turned up a real "Mickey Mouse" operation.
I've had my issues with the Green Party, at national, state, and local levels; but I still expect Greens to promote honesty and fairness in elections. Most of them do, so don't get the wrong idea here. These particular ones, though, are a disgrace, if the Democrats can be believed.
This whole thing smells: how crazy is it for me to imagine a Republican ploy to infiltrate the GP and use it as a tool in their bid to outmaneuver Casey? Pretty crazy, yes; but I was at a GP meeting in Chattanooga a few years ago and, as far as I could tell, a couple of new guys that showed up one day were plants of some kind. One was very aggressive in a sudden bid to control the group -- but, as the cliché goes, working with Greens is like herding cats, so he kind of bit off more than he could chew. I never saw him again. Maybe he relocated to Pennsylvania.
Political News | By joe lance | 01:57 PM