Reply #3: Where to start...

[davsand]

OK--I REALLY resent some of the crap thrown out here about how narrow minded the Dems are here. I'm absolutely struggling NOT to blow up--so excuse me if I sound a bit abrupt.

First, two of the candidates cited in this article CLEARLY do not reside in district, NOR do they even live at the addresses they filed at. Sorry gang, but that is a clear violation of Illinois election code. It has little to do with the fact that they are Green, but a lot to do with the fact that they broke the law.

The five County wide Green candidates couldn't be bothered to comply with even the simplest and most direct provision of the law since each of them submitted petitions a THOUSAND signatures short of the requirement at the outset.

By contrast, the Dems who were allowed on the ballot were using the paperwork distributed by the County Clerk--our local election authority--who had vouched for the correctness of the language used.

This isn't about choice for voters. This is about keeping Champaign County government from being handed back to the GOP the same way the White House was handed back to Bush. None of these Green candidates had any chance of winning. The ONLY possible outcome of a "successful" Green candidacy in any of these districts would have been the election of Repugs in what are profoundly liberal districts.

If these Green candidates were truly interested in moving either the Dem party or Champaign County government further to the left they should have run in the Dem primaries (which they actually might have had a chance of winning) so that they could run behind a united front in the fall as a legitimate Dem candidate against the GOP.

Greens have no f*&^ing place running against any Dem on a General election ballot, IMO.

Laura