[PEN-L] Horton Sheff Exits Green Party

2004-11-02 Thread Michael Hoover
Horton Sheff Exits Green Party City Councilwoman Chooses Unaffiliated Status By OSHRAT CARMIEL Courant Staff Writer October 28 2004 Hartford Courant Elizabeth Horton Sheff, the city councilwoman who was the first African American Green Party member in the country to be elected to office on a

Re: [PEN-L] Horton Sheff Exits Green Party

2004-11-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Michael Hoover wrote: Horton Sheff also said she was disenchanted with fellow members' insistence on supporting the Green Party's presidential candidate, David Cobb, in a year when the race for president among the two major party candidates is so close. "This is not the time" to back a third-pa

Re: [PEN-L] Horton Sheff Exits Green Party

2004-11-02 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Lou wrote: Michael Hoover wrote: Horton Sheff also said she was disenchanted with fellow members' insistence on supporting the Green Party's presidential candidate, David Cobb, in a year when the race for president among the two major party candidates is so close. "This is not the time" to back

Re: [PEN-L] Horton Sheff Exits Green Party

2004-11-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: You have reasons to build the Green Party or something like it only if you are really, really desperate to address the most burning issues of national politics -- like slavery in the mid-19th century -- that the Democratic Party won't touch. Actually the Democratic Party wou

Re: [PEN-L] Horton Sheff Exits Green Party

2004-11-02 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Lou wrote: Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: You have reasons to build the Green Party or something like it only if you are really, really desperate to address the most burning issues of national politics -- like slavery in the mid-19th century -- that the Democratic Party won't touch. Actually the Democrati