For those claiming Tasini (Hilary Challenger) is a Green

A cool picture:



"Team Tasini gets ready to deliver the petitions to the Board of Elections in Albany tomorrow."

Notice the "Gore Lieberman" signs in the background as well as many others.

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I mean, what is the criteria for being a Democrat? Other than being a goddamn democrat!

campaigning style really irks me. I intensely dislike it when democrats savage fellow democrats in the primaries. Up till now, I've heard nothing from this fellow, other than what a scoundral HRC is. He needs to explain why he thinks he's qualified to be a US Senator and what he stands for. Once he's done that, then maybe I'll take him seriously enough to hear why he thinks he can do a better job than the sitting Senator.

The incumbant can pretend to take the high road because she is already well-known. Continuing the lie that Tasini is somehow "green" is much dirtier politics because it is a lie. Those of us in NY know that Tasini is very well qualified and is a great progressive. The man really has his feet on the ground and fights for what is right. He will serve NY well. Hillary, on the other hand, is a little preoccupied by presidential ambition.

If Hillary wins, that's fine. But calling someone a "green" is dirty politics these days. It's saying someone is a shill for Bush and Tasini is by no means that.

http://www.tasinifornewyork.org/

I think *what he stands for* is explained there very well.

But here in Washington we had a guy running in the Dem primary against Cantwell who had had two earlier runs -- once as a Green and once as a Libertarian. And his positions now were basically what they had been then -- as a member of those other parties.

I would expect libertarian positions to be radically different from Green positions.

registration to "Democrat"?!

Or, am I getting that wrong?

lol

the more the merrier.

(Kidding, of course.)

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as long as they plan to remain Democrats even if their preferred candidates don't win the primary.

Her lock on that senate seat is amazing.

I'm more interested in those candidates with a real chance of stopping Senator Clinton in her likely run for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

don't you and your kin tend to stay that way?

Hugh is married to Barbara Boxer's daughter, if I'm not mistaken. Thats just an example. Apparently, nearly every congressional spouse of either party appears to have a "plum" job. Once you get elected, no one in your family need worry again.

Nauseating.

Perhaps Tasini will do to Clinton what Ned Lamont has just done to Lieberman in Connecticut, i.e. offer a REAL challenge...at least that's what I'm hoping.

While gathering signatures to place Tasini on the ballot, I was surprised how many people had never even heard of him. I think that will all change in the next two months.

last spring, I'd have thought you were dotty. Now he's trailing. Its gonna be an interesting election.

Because I think NYers need an alternative.

Who gives a good goddamn about greens! Tasini is an old-school progressive Dem labor activist!

I always regret spreading misinformation. Our enemies do a good enough job of that.



















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My bad.

It's a conspiracy I tell ya!

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Jonathan Tasini in the primary and a dutiful vote for Senator Clinton in the general.

I think November is going to be real blue in the Empire State on November 7th.

One is anti-war the other isn't.

He is running in a democratic primary. A number of people who support his opponent have been increasingly pushing the "Tasini is a Green" misinformation as the vote comes closer. There are only two reasons they would do this: {1} they are purposefully lying, or {2} they are ignorantly repeating a lie. Either way, they discredit themselves.

I think that there are Clinton supporters who are concerned not so much that she will not win the primary, but that Mr. Tasini will make a loud and clear statement. She does not want to be identified with the neoconservative democratis senator, Lieberman. However, because she channels the Bush-Cheney-AIPAC message that we can't afford to begin a withdrawal from Iraq, more voters in this state may view her similarly to old Joe.