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In response to the previous commentator:
1. We agree that the GRP should focus most of its electoral attention on state legislative races. I say "we" because earlier last year, the GRP's State Committee voted on a proposal from its Candidate and Legal Development Committee to make state legislative races our number one electoral focus for 2010. As of this date, we have a small number of our members who are actively considering running for either statewide office, Congress or the state legislature. If you are a GRP member or an Unenrolled voter who shares our values, we are very interested in encouraging you to run and will actively consider supporting your campaign. Please contact us.
2. My assumption about your comment about Jill's campaign splitting the "center-left" vote leads me to think that you are concerned that our current Governor will not be re-elected. The political spectrum is an interesting concept. Your short list of very important issues in the last paragraph leads me to believe that not one of the other candidates on the "center-right" will support policies that you think are important. However, Jill Stein's campaign for Governor will be the mechanism to broaden the public debate and to bring to the public a critique of the current system and the direction our Commonwealth and Planet is heading and an alternative vision of a Green-Rainbow future.
Please support our Green-Rainbow Team of Candidates!
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Only one species on earth does not have full employment and that is Homo sapiens.
--Paul Hawken (Blessed Unrest)
We built what history will record is the broadest and best-organized grassroots organization this Commonwealth has ever seen... We didn't build up this grassroots just to win an election. We built up the grassroots to govern in a whole new way, to make change real, and lasting, and meaningful.
Deval Patrick acceptance speech
Nov. 7, 2006
and Now...
We had this incredibly rich relationship that we built with the grass-roots network the last time. And then we got in, and we let it go. And there are reasons for that. But I think it's a terrible thing. We missed it. I missed it personally. And I think a lot of the folks in the organization missed it.
Governor Deval Patrick, to a room of supporters, trying to reignite the grassroots
February, 2010
1. We agree that the GRP should focus most of its electoral attention on state legislative races. I say "we" because earlier last year, the GRP's State Committee voted on a proposal from its Candidate and Legal Development Committee to make state legislative races our number one electoral focus for 2010. As of this date, we have a small number of our members who are actively considering running for either statewide office, Congress or the state legislature. If you are a GRP member or an Unenrolled voter who shares our values, we are very interested in encouraging you to run and will actively consider supporting your campaign. Please contact us.
2. My assumption about your comment about Jill's campaign splitting the "center-left" vote leads me to think that you are concerned that our current Governor will not be re-elected. The political spectrum is an interesting concept. Your short list of very important issues in the last paragraph leads me to believe that not one of the other candidates on the "center-right" will support policies that you think are important. However, Jill Stein's campaign for Governor will be the mechanism to broaden the public debate and to bring to the public a critique of the current system and the direction our Commonwealth and Planet is heading and an alternative vision of a Green-Rainbow future.
Please support our Green-Rainbow Team of Candidates!
Thanks,
Mike Heichman