Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan Reiterates Endorsements of Green
Party Candidates Hawkins and McCourt in New York Races
Green Party of New York State
www.gpnys.org
Malachy McCourt for Governor
www.VoteMalachyMcCourt.org
November 06, 2006
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Sheehan Calls Hillary Clinton for 'Rubber
Stamping' George Bush's War on Terror
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Working Family Party (WFP) Accused of Misleading New York Anti-War Voters
with 11th Hour Mailer; Anti-War Candidates Demand Retraction.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- A mailer from the Working Families Party that arrived
in thousands of voters' mailboxes on Friday and Saturday depicts Cindy
Sheehan, along with Pete Seeger and Michael Moore, urging voters to support
bringing the troops home by voting for Democrats running on the Working
Families Party line.
Sheehan immediately issued the following clarification of her position:
"I support a lot of the work of the Working Families Party and especially
Mr. Pete Seeger who has been an amazing warrior for peace. However, I cannot
support the candidacy of Hillary Clinton who is ensconced in the all-Democratic slate. She is
not pro-peace, or even anti-war and has been a rubber stamp for George Bush's war of terror. Many of the candidates that
the WFP supports are worthy of support, but certainly not Senator Clinton."
"I support Howie Hawkins in his campaign against Hillary Clinton and I
support Malachy McCourt in his campaign for governor."
Last month, Cindy Sheehan had endorsed the Green Party candidates Howie
Hawkins for US Senator and Malachy McCourt for Governor. McCourt issued the
following statement Sunday:
"Cindy Sheehan does not support pro-war candidates like Eliot Spitzer and
Hillary Clinton and I challenge the WFP, a subsidiary of the Democratic
party, to prove otherwise."
Hawkins issued the following statement:
"WFP should issue a retraction. It is absurd to claim that a vote for
Spitzer or Clinton is a vote against the war. The Green candidates have
remained clear about our opposition to George Bush and the Iraq war and
that's where anti-war votes should go."
Jonathan Tasini, Ms. Clinton's opponent in the Democratic Primary, posted
the following statement:
"To tell voters to vote for a pro-war Democrat as a way to protest the war
is simply ugly. It is entirely disrespectful of the tens of thousands of
people who were killed in this war."
Mr Tasini received a surprising 17% of the vote in his bid to upset the
Senator.
The Working Families Party endorsed all the Democrats running for statewide
office. These Democratic candidates also appear on the Working Families
Party line on Row E. The Green Party's candidates appear on the next line,
Row F.
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Malachy McCourt for Governor
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Alison Duncan for Lieutenant Governor
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Rachel Treichler for Attorney General
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Julia Willebrand for Comptroller
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Howie Hawkins for US Senate from New York
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