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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn Rachel Maddow she reported that the Green Party was knowingly working with trump operatives
to get the Green Party on the ballot this late in the process to delay the sending out of absentee ballots in ballots to get them on the ballot, and cause a significant delay of absentee ballots getting sent out on time
Fortunately by 3 to 2 the Wisconsin SC ruled it was too late to have the Green Party added to the ballot, and to immediately start sending out the ballots
msongs
(67,405 posts)StClone
(11,683 posts)Republican Wisconsin Supreme Court. It is bad here but one Con judge went rogue and voted sanely.
still_one
(92,187 posts)Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)jrthin
(4,835 posts)Elected Every November=Green Party.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...to any of the other Green Parties throughout the world, and are persona non grata with the global organization. Its sort of like the Kansas homophobic crew calling themselves the Westboro Baptist Church despite having nothing to do with any Baptist denomination.
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)Was not the Green Party of your youth.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 15, 2020, 12:05 AM - Edit history (1)
They know they can't win without dirty tricks.
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,010 posts)Republicans were recruiting homeless people to run as Greens for state legislature. One of my friends lost her democratic seat due to that sort of ratfucking.
I used to think it was a fluke due to local disorganization - now I think it's by design.
jorgevlorgan
(8,291 posts)I'm 100% sure they would form a coalition with the fascists at this point.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)..must be a faux, shell party syphoning campaign funds to? Trump? I suppose i just can't image of Jill Stein sitting at dinner table with tRump's boss.
Green Party platform soynds good on paper but do they really promote green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory, grassroots democracy; gender equality; LGBTQ rights; anti-war; anti-racism and ecosocialism.
Seems they would be better served as part of democratic party-rather than syphoning votes from Democrtaic candidates only ensuring that republicans win.
Republican party will never support environmental protections, science that supports climate change; they want to believe end of end of times extremists. Have you ever tuned into evangelical armagedden finatics..isome scarry shite! Can't sway them y [ee] and donthe con --he's nothing but a racist knownothing about anything. How many years before Florida to be under water due to warming of the oceans, melting of polar ice caps. Unless, climate change affwcts them directly [as with anything else pandemic, violence against them [repubs] by cops etc, that's the only time they'll care
NOAA Climate.gov news-features
Climate Change
BComplex
(8,049 posts)I wish they'd just crawl under a rock.
JI7
(89,248 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)They cant help but work against there own interests.
dalton99a
(81,479 posts)whose sole purpose of existence is to help Republicans get elected
samsingh
(17,595 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Anyone who is still in the Green Party at this point is an idiot...at best.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)I will never forgive nader Rove funded Nader in 2000 and 2004 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html
Furthermore, Karl Rove and the Republican Party knew this, and so they nurtured and crucially assisted Naders campaigns, both in 2000 and in 2004. On 27 October 2000, the APs Laura Meckler headlined GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads. She opened: Hoping to boost Ralph Nader in states where he is threatening to hurt Al Gore, a Republican group is launching TV ads featuring Nader attacking the vice president [Mr. Gore]. ... Al Gore is suffering from election year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be proud of, Nader says [in the commercial]. An announcer interjects: Whats Al Gores real record? Nader says: Eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken. Mecklers report continued: A spokeswoman for the Green Party nominee said that his campaign had no control over what other organizations do with Naders speeches. Bushs people - the group sponsoring this particular ad happened to be the Republican Leadership Council - knew exactly what they were doing, even though the liberal suckers who voted so carelessly for Ralph Nader obviously did not. Anyone who drives a car the way those liberal fools voted, faces charges of criminal negligence, at the very least. But this time, the entire nation crashed as a result; not merely a single car.....
On July 9th, the San Francisco Chronicle headlined GOP Doners Funding Nader: Bush Supporters Give Independents Bid a Financial Lift, and reported that the Nader campaign has received a recent windfall of contributions from deep-pocketed Republicans with a history of big contributions to the party, according to an analysis of federal records. Perhaps these contributors were Ambassador Egans other friends. Mr. Egans wife was now listed among the Nader contributors. Another listed was Nijad Fares, a Houston businessman, who donated $200,000 to the Bush inaugural committee and who donated $2,000 each to the Nader effort and the Bush campaign this year. Furthermore, Ari Berman reported 7 October 2004 at the Nation, under Swift Boat Veterans for Nader, that some major right-wing funders of a Republican smear campaign against Senator John Kerrys Vietnam service contributed also $13,500 to the Nader campaign, and that the Republican Party of Michigan gathered ninety percent of Naders signatures in their state (90%!) to place Nader on the ballot so Bush could win that swing states 17 electoral votes. Clearly, the word had gone out to Bushs big contributors: Help Ralphie boy! In fact, on 15 September 2005, John DiStaso of the Manchester Union-Leader, reported that, A year ago, as the Presidential general election campaign raged in battleground state New Hampshire, consumer advocate Ralph Nader found his way onto the ballot, with the help of veteran Republican strategist David Carney and the Carney-owned Norway Hill Associates consulting firm.
It was obvious, based upon the 2000 election results, that a dollar contributed to Nader in the 2004 contest would probably be a more effective way to achieve a Bush win against Kerry in the U.S. Presidential election than were perhaps even ten dollars contributed to Bush. This was a way of peeling crucial votes off from Bushs real opponent - votes that otherwise would have gone to the Democrat. Thats why the smartest Republican money in the 2004 Presidential election was actually going to Nader, even more so than to Bush himself: these indirect Bush contributions provided by far the biggest bang for the right-wing buck.