The Steuben County Green Party has endorsed Joe Duffy in his campaign for Hornell City Council. Joe is one of two candidates for 10 Ward Alderman. Please contact us at info@steubengreens.org if you would like to help with Joe's campaign.
Cecile Lawrence for Tioga County legislature
Cecile Lawrence, who visited Steuben County last year during her Green Party campaign for US Senate, is running this year for Tioga County legislature. Click here to read Cecile's press release about why she is running.
NY State Green Party Wins 2010 Victory,
Reclaims Ballot Line
The more than 58,000 votes cast
for Howie Hawkins and Gloria Mattera in the 2010 elections have
secured
the Green
Party a ballot line for the next four years.
Support for all the Green candidates was
strong. Unofficial figures show Comptroller
candidate Julia Willebrand receiving almost
98,000 votes, and US Senate candidates
Colia Clarke and
Cecile Lawrence receiving about 40,000
and 34,000 votes respectively. Each of
our candidates came in third in their races..
"This is the best showing ever for
statewide Green Party candidates. It is
the culmination of months of hard work
on the part of many party members, and
the candidates themselves. Voters are fed
up with Democrats and Republicans taking
their votes for granted, and are open to
hearing ideas from a party not beholden
to Wall St. and special interests. Howie
Hawkins campaigned tirelessly to promote
the idea of a Green New Deal, funded by
progressive taxation on the wealthy, and
using the stock transfer tax we already
collect to fill the budget gap. Voters
who heard the message understood that Howie's
platform made sense, and that it's the
austerity plans of Cuomo and Paladino that
are nonsense," said Peter LaVenia,
co-chair of the NY State Green Party.
"This
is a building block for the future. We
are going to use this victory to elect
Greens statewide, starting at the local
level and moving on up to the state," stated
Eric Jones, co-chair of the NYS Green Party.
Greens Nominate Hawkins,
Mattera,
Clark, Lawrence and Willebrand
Syracuse labor activist
Howie
Hawkins was nominated for Governor
and Gloria Mattera, a
long time peace activist from Brooklyn,
was nominated for Lt. Governor at the
Green Party state convention in Albany
May 15,
2010. Colia
Clark was nominated for
the US Senate seat presently held by Chuck
Schumer. Cecile Lawrence was picked
to fill out the Senate seat previously
held by Hillary Clinton. Julia Willebrand
from Manhattan, who received amost 118,000
votes for Comptroller four years ago,
was
chosen to run for comptroller again.
Videos of the nominating speeches of the
candidates
are at www.gpnys.org.
Steuben Greens on YouTube
Meet members of the Steuben
Greens on
YouTube talking about politics and the
Green Party to help promote our candidates.
Recorded at our April 28, 2010 meeting
in Bath.
Green Party
candidates in New York had some of their
best results ever this year. Mary Jo Long
who won re-election to a seat on the Town
Board of Afton in Chenango
County. Lynne Serpe, Howie
Hawkins and Joe Duffy had excellent
showings in their races for NYC Council,
Syracuse City Council and Mayor of the
City of Hornell. They won 44%, 41% and 34%
of the vote in their respective races.
Non-offical returns for
all NYS Green Party Candidates:
Jeff Green Town Board, Kent
(Two Seats)
Louis D. Tartaro 1,238 22.53%
John A. Greene 1,115 20.29% Jeff Green (Grn) 998 18.16%
Karl R. Rohde 771 14.03%
Thomas F. Maxson 704 12.81%
Edward C. Durkee 669 12.17%
David Pechefsky City Council, 39th district, Brooklyn
Bradford Lander (Dem) 15,279 69.7%
Joe Nardiello (GOP) 3,650 16.6% David Pechefsky (Grn) 1,524 7.0%
Roger Sarrabo (Lib) 815 - 4%
George Smith (Con) 658 – 3%
William Talen Mayor, New York City
Michael Bloomberg (GOP) 557059 50.61%
William Thompson (Dem) 506717 46.04%
Stephen Christopher (Con) 18277 1.66% Billy Talen (Grn) 8964 0.81%
Francisca Villar (PSL) 3517 0.32%
Jimmy McMillan (Oth) 2615 0.24%
Joseph Dobrian (Lib) 2004 0.18%
Daniel Fein (SWP) 1496 0.14%
Russell Ziemba City Council, 3rd district, Troy
Bodnar R/I/C 513 42%
Hoffmeister D/TA 394 32% Ziemba WF/G 321 26%