Joe Percoco’s 6-year sentence is deserved. Unfortunately, his briber, Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., former treasurer and finance director of the national Democratic Party, can only geta maximum of 5 years when he is sentenced next week. The biggest crime here – which can still be stopped by the governor – is permitting the Competitive Power Ventures plant.Getting CPV permitted by state government is what the bribery was for. If CPV goes online, the 10% addition to the state’s total greenhouse gas emissions is a climate crime in which we will all be victims.
Notice of News Conference Date: Friday, September 21 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Mezzanine, Autumn Leaves Used Book Store, 115 East State St. Ithaca Who: Howie Hawkins for Governor; Mark Dunlea for State Comptroller
Hawkins and Dunlea to Kick Off General Election Campaign in Ithaca on Friday, September 21 at 2:00 PM
Howie Hawkins will kick off his Green Party Gubernatorial campaign for the general election with a news conference on Friday, September 21 at 2:00 PM on the mezzanine in the Autumn Leaves Used Bookstore, 115 East State St. Ithaca.
Hawkins will be joined by Mark Dunlea, the Green Party candidate for Comptroller, who will talk about divesting the state pension fund from fossil fuels and cracking down on corruption.
Hawkins will outline why he is Plan B both for the 500,000 who recently voted for Nixon and the better choice for liberals who presently think Cuomo is their candidate.
Hawkins will discuss his agenda on climate, housing, single payer healthcare, criminal justice reform, upstate cities, job creation, and replacing Cuomo’s property tax cap with increased state revenue sharing with local governments.
Hawkins will also address the sentencing of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and the 1st anniversary of Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico.
Notice of News Conference Date: Friday, September 21 Time: 11:30 AM Location: Peacemaker Stage, 7 Court St, Binghamton Who: Howie Hawkins for Governor; Mark Dunlea for State Comptroller
Hawkins and Dunlea to Kick Off General Election Campaign in Binghamton on Friday, September 21 at 11:30 AM
Howie Hawkins will kick off his Green Party Gubernatorial campaign for the general election with a news conference on Friday, September 21 at 11:30 AM at the Peacemaker Stage, 7 Court St., Binghamton.
Hawkins will be joined by Mark Dunlea, the Green Party candidate for Comptroller, who will talk about divesting the state pension fund from fossil fuels and cracking down on corruption.
Hawkins will outline why he is Plan B both for the 500,000 who recently voted for Nixon and the better choice for liberals who presently think Cuomo is their candidate.
Hawkins will discuss his agenda on climate, housing, single payer healthcare, criminal justice reform, upstate cities, job creation, and replacing Cuomo’s property tax cap with increased state revenue sharing with local governments.
Hawkins will also address the sentencing of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and the 1st anniversary of Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico.
Howie Hawkins, right, the Green Party candidate for governor, campaigned at Buffalo’s Broderick Park on Thursday. (Keith McShea/Buffalo News)
By Keith McShea
Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins is billing himself as "Plan B" for New Yorkers who didn't vote for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in last month's Democratic primary.
Hawkins, who garnered about 5 percent of the vote in finishing third in the 2014 gubernatorial election won by Cuomo, made that his overriding message Thursday as he kicked off his general election campaign at Broderick Park in Buffalo.
"We had half a million people vote for the progressive Democrats" in the primary, Hawkins said, "and I'm here to tell them that I'm Plan B when we get to the general election for those progressive voters. And also to appeal to those progressives who according to public opinion polls think Cuomo's a liberal ... no, look at the platforms. I should be your vote."
Howie Hawkins Says Green Party is the Progressive Choice in November
(Buffalo) Howie Hawkins kicked off his general election campaign in Buffalo today by saying he was Plan B for the 500,000 people who voted for Nixon last week as well as for other voters who think Cuomo is liberal.
Hawkins also said that the disgraceful response by the federal government to the devastation one year ago today in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands highlighted the need for New York to take much stronger action on climate issues and provide aid to the Puerto Rican environmental refugees who have come to New York. Hawkins’ running mate for Lieutenant Governor, Jia Lee, a public school teacher and union organizer, spent a week in August helping the Puerto Rican teachers union organizing to resist the full-scale privatization of public schools there sought by the Trump administration in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
The Greens are calling for the cancelling of the debt, eliminating the control board, fully funding reconstruction and solarizing the power grid. Hawkins added that “Cuomo doing photo-ops is not enough to solve the crisis in Puerto Rico.”
Ms. Lee issued her own statement: "One year after Hurricane Maria, we are seeing the blatant indifference to human suffering and loss. Further, disaster capitalism is forcing more instability in communities with more than 230 school closures, mismanagement of the school system, and the government's promise to continue privatization. The only hope is with the grassroots and militant efforts of the Federation of Teachers (FMPR) and its alliances.”
Hawkins also vowed to end the culture of corruption that dominates the State Capitol, with two of the Governor’s top aides being convicted for corruption, including a case involving the Buffalo Billion. Joe Percoco is being sentenced today for his conviction earlier this year. Over 50 New York State officials have been convicted or forced to resign since 2000 for improper activities.
Howie Hawkins 'relaunched' his Green Party gubernatorial campaign in front of Syracuse City Hall, seeking more attention now that primary elections are completed.
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Green Party Opportunity with Progressive Voters? Green Gov Candidate Howie Hawkins Thinks So
By Chris Bolt & Brianna Yates
Gubernatorial Candidate Howie Hawkins says his Green Party has an opportunity to capitalize with progressive voters, many of whom did not want to back Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the recent primary. Hawkins believes he is the best candidate for Governor in the upcoming November election at a time when the nation is going through a political shift, especially for democrats who supported Cynthia Nixon and her policies.
Jia Lee, a special education teacher and union gadfly, wants to be New York’s next lieutenant governor
by Christina Veiga
Earth School teacher Jia Lee is running for New York lt. governor. An advocate against high-stakes testing, she spoke about the issue in 2015 before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
With 18 years in the classroom, special education teacher Jia Lee has seen a lot of change. Now, she wants to be the one who makes it.
Lee is running for lieutenant governor on the Green Party ticket, facing off against the incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul and a Republican challenger, Julie Killian, in the November general election.
Even during an election cycle that has propelled underdog candidates closer to office, Lee knows her odds of victory are long. But that hasn’t stopped her before. In 2016, Lee challenged United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew in a bid for the union’s top post. She lost but managed to garner more than 20 percent of the vote as part of the MORE caucus — an opposition party that calls itself the Movement of Rank and File Educators and champions pocketbook issues such as pay, but also social justice causes.
When she’s not teaching fourth and fifth grades at Earth School in the East Village,campaigning, or agitating within the union, Lee is active in the opt-out movement that protests high-stakes standardized tests — an issue that she once testified about before Congress.
Legislative Gazette photo by Austin Fearnley Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, left, and Green Party comptroller candidate Mark Dunlea, right, speak to reporters at an Albany press conference on Tuesday.
The Green Party’s gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins made an appeal to progressive voters who pulled the lever for Cynthia Nixon, Jumaane Williams and Zephyr Teachout on Primary Day – support the Green ticket on November 6.
“The Green general election ticket is Plan B after the primaries for progressive voters,” Hawkins said during a stop in Albany Tuesday.
The Green Party wants New York to set a goal of 100 percent clean energy by 2030, single-payer health care, ethics and criminal justice reforms, ranked-choice voting, proportional representation in the Legislature, full public campaign finance based on the Clean Money system used in Arizona and Maine, term limits for state officials, bail abolition, speedy trial, marijuana legalization, and sanctuary state policies to protect immigrants.
As the focus shifts to the general election, Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins is calling himself the most progressive candidate in the race for governor.
He's pushing a platform that includes some of the issues that came up in the Democratic primary, like education and health care, and some completely different ideas, like replacing the property tax cap with local revenue sharing.
And he's calling for a series of regional debates for all the candidates to talk policy.
The Green Party candidate for governor made the pitch as he announced his campaign Tuesday in Albany.
By Yancey Roy
ALBANY – The Green Party is “Plan B” for progressives, gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins said Tuesday in kicking off the minor party’s general election campaign.
Hawkins said he is calling on progressives who supported Cynthia Nixon’s unsuccessful bid against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in last week’s Democratic primary to choose the Green Party as an alternative in November.
Hawkins also is seeking to recruit voters who supported other liberal candidates in the primaries such as lieutenant governor candidate Jumaane Williams and attorney general candidate Zephyr Teachout.
Hawkins said the Green Party offers a choice to liberals frustrated with Cuomo over the energy policy, single-payer health care, bail abolition and legalization of recreational marijuana.
