Green Party Wins Back Ballot Line in New York

[Renew Deal]

Somehow this has been missed by almost everyone.

Howie Hawkins is not the governor elect of New York State, but his party has walked away from the election with the best they could have hoped for: with 84 percent of districts reporting, Green Party candidate Hawkins passed the 50,000 vote mark, which will give the Green Party a guaranteed line on state ballots during the next four years.

It's the first time the Green Party achieved such success since 1998, when the Al Lewis-Alice Green ticket took in 52,000 votes—and that's back when there was still a Liberal Party! The Party was kicked off in 2002 (Nader backlash?), when Stanley Aronowitz took in about 42,000 votes; Malachy McCourt failed to win the line back in 2006, when he pulled in just slightly more.
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http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/11/03/green-party-wins-back-ballot-line-in-new-york

This is good for democracy and bad for Democrats. Ironically, this is probably Paladinos fault. He was so terrible that people felt comfortable voting all over the board.

[Tesha]

1. Outsanding! Here in New Hampshire, the only "Democrat" to survive last night's bloodbath...

was John Lynch, the fellow who almost single-handedly gave
Kelly Ayotte (our newly-elected Republican Senator) the platform
from which she ran.

It took every bit of my self-control to vote for that asshole Lynch,
but if there had been a candidate to his left (a Green, a Socialist,
even a real Democrat!), I couldn't have done it.

Tesha

[LoZoccolo]

2. We'll kick them back off, I hope. n/t