State Green Party Press Release

Prindle for State Rep.- Pennsylvania Green Party

Prindle Supports Valley's Working Families Every Day.

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: Sep. 2, 2002

SELINSGROVE Eric Prindle, the Green Party candidate for state representative in the 85th District, marked Labor Day today by pointing out that, unlike politicians who pay lip service to labor for one day, he will be an advocate for working families every day of the year.

"My agenda is the agenda of working Pennsylvanians," Prindle said. "I am the only candidate in this race supporting universal healthcare; a living wage; the right to form a union in your workplace; the security of public jobs in our schools, state stores and other public institutions; equal pay for equal work; and other platform points of the national, state and local labor movement."

Prindle said that, if elected, he hopes to have support from across the state for these initiatives. "I want to see us elect a Green governor, Michael Morrill, and enough Green representatives to hold the balance of power," he said. "Instead of dividing the state between east and west, rural and urban, the Green Party will unite us behind an agenda that supports working families, small business and strong communities across the state."

Prindle also pointed out that traditional tensions between labor and small business can be overcome. "Many small businesspeople, for instance, are afraid of universal healthcare," Prindle said. "That's because the proposal Hillary Clinton put together made the dominance of large corporations the price we would have paid for healthcare. That's not how it has to be. True, single-payer universal healthcare includes a plan for 'just transition' and does not place the burden of healthcare costs on small business owners."

"Working families are the bedrock of our communities," Prindle said. "All the corporate investment in the world doesn't create jobs; workers create jobs with their the labor of their hands and minds. That's the perspective we need in our state legislature."