Hawkins Schedule NYC September 29

For immediate release: September 28, 2018

CNY Vision: September 28, 2018

Independent Political Report: September 28, 2018

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, said he would be open to creating a joint ticket with the Working Families Party (WFP) to “unite the progressive vote for governor”.

Hawkins said he would be reaching out to the WFP co-chairs urging them to consider his offer. The WFP state committee is meeting Thursday night.

“We feel the pain of the WFP voters who can’t stand the thought of nominating Cuomo again. Our campaign is here to help. I am confident that running a unified left campaign will generate far more than the 50,000 votes both parties need to maintain ballot status,” Hawkins said.

“Running the Hawkins/Lee ticket jointly on the Green and Working Families ballot lines would electrify progressives who want unity. It would multiply the vote for the policies both parties support, including single-payer health care, 100% clean energy, affordable housing, fixing the MTA, fully-funded public schools, tuition-free public college, public campaign finance, bail abolition, and marijuana legalization. Win or lose, a big united vote for this agenda will compel the legislators and governor who are elected to act on our demands,” Hawkins said.

Gotham Gazette: September 28, 2018

Cuomo is widely favored to win, but Republicans express hope that they can combat national trends and Cuomo’s massive advantages to pull off an upset of a governor they argue has wide but shallow popularity and a long list of scandals and failures. In 2014, Cuomo dispatched Republican nominee Rob Astorino by a 52.7 percent to 39.2 percent margin, with Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins, who is running again this year, winning about 4.7 percent of the vote. Cuomo beat Carl Paladino in 2010 by an even greater margin, 63 percent to 33.5 percent....

No post-primary general election polls have been taken, but two polls over the summer showed Cuomo with a substantial lead over Molinaro, who was already on a quest to build name recognition, raise funds, and prepare for the September to November sprint. A June Siena poll gave Cuomo 56 percent to Molinaro’s 37 percent and a July Quinnipiac poll gave Cuomo 57 percent to Molinaro’s 31 percent in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups. When the Quinnipiac poll included third party candidates, Cuomo got 43 percent on the Democratic line, Molinaro got 23 percent on the Republican line, Nixon got 13 percent on the Working Families line, Larry Sharpe got 3 percent on the Libertarian line, Howie Hawkins got 2 percent on the Green Party line, and Stephanie Miner got 1 percent on the Serve America Party line.

NY State of Politics, Spectrum News: September 27, 2018

Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins on Thursday said he would be willing to run on the Working Families Party ballot line should liberal organization drop Cynthia Nixon.

“We feel the pain of the WFP voters who can’t stand the thought of nominating Cuomo again,” Hawkins said. “Our campaign is here to help. I am confident that running a unified left campaign will generate far more than the 50,000 votes both parties need to maintain ballot status.”

The Green Party has in the past been leery of cross-party endorsements

But Hawkins has said this before. In 2014, during his second bid for governor and as Cuomo was seeking a second term, the WFP was publicly wavering over whether to endorse the incumbent or Zephyr Teachout.

At the time, Hawkins suggested the WFP and the Green Party ticket unite against Cuomo. In the end, the party wound up giving Cuomo its nod.

Four years later, the WFP endorsed Nixon, an actress and public education advocate amid her unsuccesfully Democratic primary against Cuomo.

“Running the Hawkins/Lee ticket jointly on the Green and Working Families ballot lines would electrify progressives who want unity,” Hawkins said. “It would multiply the vote for the policies both parties support, including single-payer health care, 100% clean energy, affordable housing, fixing the MTA, fully-funded public schools, tuition-free public college, public campaign finance, bail abolition, and marijuana legalization. Win or lose, a big united vote for this agenda will compel the legislators and governor who are elected to act on our demands.”

The WFP is expected to meet today and later next week to discuss who will lead its ticket going into the general election.

For immediate release: September 27, 2018

Hawkins to WFP: Let’s Unite the Progressive Vote

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, said he would be open to creating a joint ticket with the Working Families Party to unite the progressive vote for governor.

Hawkins said he would be reaching out to the WFP co-chairs urging them to consider his offer. The WFP state committee is meeting Thursday night.

“We feel the pain of the WFP voters who can’t stand the thought of nominating Cuomo again. Our campaign is here to help. I am confident that running a unified left campaign will generate far more than the 50,000 votes both parties need to maintain ballot status,” Hawkins said.

“Running the Hawkins/Lee ticket jointly on the Green and Working Families ballot lines would electrify progressives who want unity. It would multiply the vote for the policies both parties support, including single-payer health care, 100% clean energy, affordable housing, fixing the MTA, fully-funded public schools, tuition-free public college, public campaign finance, bail abolition, and marijuana legalization. Win or lose, a big united vote for this agenda will compel the legislators and governor who are elected to act on our demands,” Hawkins said.

City Limits: September 27, 2018

BRIC TV, City of Syracuse

Howie Hawkins and Stephanie Miner

Nearly a quarter of the votes in New York’s last race for governor did not go to the Republican or Democratic line. A lot of those votes went to the major candidates running on other ballot lines, like the Conservatives’ or the Working Families Party’s. Some were blank, or write-ins. But more than 200,000 people voted for actual third-party candidates, the vast majority of those for Howie Hawkins, who in his second run for governor as the Green Party nominee netted nearly 5 percent of the vote.

Hawkins, a former construction worker and UPS worker, is on the ballot for a third time. He told WBAI’s Max & Murphy on Wednesday that he feels his strong showing in 2014 helped push the state left. And given the increasing leftward tilt of state politics, Hawkins is hopeful that this year the Greens will eclipse the vote total for the Conservatives, who have cross-nominated Republican Marc Molinaro, and move into the third slot on future ballots behind the Democrats and Republicans. His pitch to voters includes ideas like new public housing and a guaranteed minimum income.

If Hawkins, 21 times an unsuccessful candidate for office as a Green, has been fighting on the outside for years, Stephanie Miner has moved from the inside out. A two-term Democratic mayor of Syracuse who once co-chaired the state Democratic Party, she considered challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination this year, but opted instead for an independent bid on the newly crafted Serve America line. Miner told Ben Max and I about her nuanced views on the process behind the SAFE Act, her plans to go beyond rent regulation in protecting affordable housing and whether she worries that she will draw votes from the Democrats (she is still registered with them) and help boost the chances for Molinaro to return Republicans to the governor’s mansion for the first time in a dozen years.

The full show and individual interviews are below.

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Inside City Hall (NY1, Spectrum): September 26, 2018

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Green Party Candidate for Governor Lays Out Plan to Tax the 1 Percent by Adding Tax Brackets

Gotham Gazette, WBAI: September 26, 2016

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September 26, 2018 - Max & Murphy Podcast: Howie Hawkins, Green Party Nominee for Governor

For the third straight election cycle, Howie Hawkins is the Green Party nominee for Governor. He's improved the Green Party vote total each of his previous two runs, earning 5% of the vote in 2014, and is hoping to eclipse prior totals this year. Arguing that he is the true progressive alternative to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Hawkins is running on a socialist, "Green New Deal" agenda that includes single-payer health care, an aggressive shift to clean energy, and much more, as well as raising taxes on top earners. He joined the show to discuss his candidacy and the race.

For immediate release: September 26, 2018

Hawkins & Dunlea: Cuomo Should Take Climate Change as Seriously as the Weather

Responding to Andrew Cuomo's remarks that New Yorkers are fleeing upstate due to its climate, Howie Hawkins and Mark Dunlea - Green Party candidates for Governor and Comptroller - acknowledged that while the climate may motivate people, particularly retiring people, to move away, the governor is wrong to ignore the fact many people, particularly younger people, move away to find better jobs and a more affordable cost of living.

The Greens said that their plan for 100% clean energy by 2030 will create 100,000s of good jobs in construction and manufacturing and cut electric rates. “People will be moving to New York to take advantage of the job and business opportunities this emergency climate action plan will provide,” said Hawkins.