Howie Hawkins for Governor
Gloria Mattera for Lt. Governor
Green Party of New York
www.hawkinsmattera.org <[link removed]>
Dear Friend,
We want to thank Greens who donated, petitioned, and encouraged us in our gubernatorial ballot access petition drive.
The state Board of Elections found our Green Party petition had 8,592 signatures, well short of the 45,000 required by the draconian new ballot access exclusion law enacted in 2020. We were not alone. Seven other independent nominating petitions attempted to place a gubernatorial ticket on the ballot and all of them failed.
The result is that only the Democratic and Republican candidates will appear on the 2022 ballot. With the single exception of the post-war 1946 election, 2022 will be the only year that just the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates will be on the ballot since 1891 when state-authorized secret ballots began in New York.
We still hope to make the ballot as a result of our lawsuit against the new ballot access law. We argue that the law is a violation of our 1st and 14th Amendments political rights. We lost in US District Court but our appeal is being heard by the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals in September. We hope to prevail and be placed on the ballot for 2022. If not, we are committed to mounting write-in campaign.
Our opponents are conservative and corrupt.
Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul is a corporate centrist with a penchant for pay-to-play corruption, from another Buffalo Billion <[link removed]> for the Buffalo Bills’ billionaire owner to state contracts worth hundreds of millions <[link removed]> to donors who gave hundreds of thousands <[link removed]> to Hochul’s campaign.
Republican Lee Zeldin is an election-denying Trump extremist who is an insufferable hypocrite and fraudster. He alleged fraud in voting in Congress against certifying the 2020 presidential election and then got caught committing fraud <[link removed]> by sprinkling photocopies of petition sheets worth over 11,000 signatures throughout his petition to create another ballot line for himself.
Our Green ticket offers the only progressive option in this election. We want to give voice to New Yorkers who want an ecosocialist Green New Deal for 100% clean energy in ten years, universal public health care, a guaranteed income above poverty, progressive criminal justice reforms, affordable housing and child care, tuition-free public college, and an inclusive multi-party democracy based on fair ballot access, ranked choice voting for statewide offices, and proportional representation in the state legislature.
Please help us bring this program to the public and build the Green Party as the progressive alternative in New York.
We will have an online campaign organizing meeting at 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 8. Please click the Volunteer tab below to receive the details for that meeting.
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In Solidarity,
Howie Hawkins and Gloria Mattera
www.hawkinsmattera.org <[link removed]>
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