The New York State Green Party gained an automatic ballot line for the next four years by reaching the 50,000 vote mark in this past Gubernatorial election. This is a serious hurdle to reach and in a time when progressive third party options are needed more than ever what do they do with it?
I can haz Congress?
This is why despite my very left leaning views I cannot be a Green. At a time when we need a real Green Party in this nation they make themselves wholly irrelevant. They have no idea what to do with the opportunity that voters gave them. So they squander it.
New York is having a special election for Congress in NY-26. This is the first major election following the achievement of an automatic ballot line. If the Green Party was serious about providing what they claim to provide:
“Ian’s call, and his campaign, reject the imperialism of our Democrat-Republican duopoly and our corporate oligarchy, whether in Wisconsin, New York, or in the Arab world. We consider the austerity measures being pushed by President Obama and Congress to be as illegitimate as the war the President has started in Libya. Ian is the only candidate in the race for the 26th that will articulate these values, and that is why we nominated him,” stated party co-chair Howie Hawkins.
So what values are being articulated by Ian Murphy? Here is his first press release:
“Blah. Why are we writing press releases? It’s already all over the Facebooks tubes and the Twitter machines. I think they get the point – go to MurphyCanHasCongress.com.”
They can't even spell "haz" right! I'm supposed to take these guys seriously?
Here's what you find at his misspelled website:
I am very much in favor of finding and sharing humor in all aspects of life but I also take my politics very seriously. If these guys are really angry about wearing stupid sweaters, unending wars, wall street con artists that have get out of jail free cards, and not being able to read the writing on their palms then they would build a party capable of getting candidates elected to office so that they can actually make change.
But this is all they have to offer?
Color me disgusted and very, very disappointed.