State Green Party Press Release

Prindle for State Rep. - Pennsylvania Green Party

Many Valley Voters to See Full Green Party Slate in November.

Eric Prindle for State Representative

P.O. Box 214
Selinsgrove, PA 17870-0214
570-372-0503, prindle@greens.org
http://home.ptd.net/~prindle

For immediate release: August 1, 2002

HARRISBURG Voters in a portion of the Central Susquehanna Valley will have the opportunity to vote for a full slate of Green Party candidates for every office on the ballot in November, after the Department of State this week accepted nomination papers for Michael Morrill and Vicki J. Smedley for governor and lieutenant governor; Kurt J. Shotko for U.S. Representative, District 10; and Eric J. Prindle for State Representative, District 85.

These were among 17 Green candidates certified by the department's Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation, a record for the party and more than filed by any independent political body.

Except for a portion of western Union County, the 85th District lies within State Senate districts that are not up for election this year. That means that voters in Selinsgrove, Lewisburg, Mifflinburg and surrounding communities will be able to give a "straight ticket" vote to the Green Party, automatically casting votes for every race on the ballot.

"We have gotten our volunteers energized gathering signatures, and we're going to carry that energy through to November and bring democracy back to the voters," Prindle said at a Capitol press conference announcing the results of the petition drive to place the Green candidates on the ballot.

Green volunteers collected approximately 30,000 signatures to place Morrill and Smedley on the statewide ballot. The minimum requirement was 21,028, more than 10 times what Republican and Democratic candidates are required to collect. The Green Party was the only party to collect these signatures entirely with volunteers, not paid petitioners.

The official filing in the 85th District lists Amy Day-Lewis, secretary of the Union County Green Party, as the Green candidate. Day-Lewis was selected as a stand-in candidate before Prindle decided to run. She has already filed papers to withdraw from the race, and Prindle will be certified as the permanent candidate before the Aug. 22 deadline.