Edgeleft: The Case for Howie Hawkins for NY Governor

David McReynolds makes the case for voting for the Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins for NY Governor.

Green Party Governor candidate Howie Hawkins in Nassau County 10/27/14

Nassau Meet-and-Greet With Green Party Governor candidate Howie Hawkins! A chance for Nassau Howie Hawkins supporters to meet the candidate! Find out how you can help get out the vote in the final days of the campaign. Light refreshments served. Please RSVP or contact Jim Brown, Chair of the Green Party of Nassau County, in […]

Suffolk Green Party Update on Esposito, Long, and Cuomo/Astorino Pay-to-Play

Cuomo and Astorino both take pay-to-play contributions-for-contracts, while both are hypocrites for calling out the other for unethical transactions.

Hawkins: Teachout Primary Shows Path for Green Party to November Victory

NY Green Party Governor candidate Hawkins will work hard to win the votes of the principled progressives who were inspired by the Zephyr Teachout campaign.

Astorino Must Desegregate Housing to Improve Schools

NY Green Party Governor candidate Hawkins says Westchester County Executive Astorino’s housing desegregation record shows he can’t resolve this statewide.

Green Party seeks NY 3rd State Senate District candidate to support women and fight corruption

Democratic Party insiders have petitioned to open a write-in primary  for the Green Party line  in the New York Third (3rd) State Senate race.  Green Party members interested in running as a candidate in the primary can contact 631-925-6104 or info@gpsuffolk.org.  The district runs along the south shore of Long Island from Brentwood to Center […]

8th Boog City Fest Sked 8/1-8/5/14

8/1-8/5/14: Boog will be celebrating its 23rd anniversary by putting on the eighth annual Welcome to Boog City poetry, music, and theater festival.

GP Guv Hawkins Says Working Families Party Nomination of Cuomo Betrays Working Families 

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixou-mW6-s] Howie Hawkins said today that the decision by the Working Families Party to nominate Governor Andrew Cuomo for a second term of Governor was an abandonment of working class and progressive voters, just further proof that the WFP is merely a liberal wing on the Democrats. Hawkins said that the door to the Green Party was open […]

Green Party NY nominates Governor candidate and State Slate

Hawkins/Jones need to receive at least 50,000 votes in the 2014 Governor election for the Green Party to retain the ballot line in NY.

Activists Frack Themselves

During last year’s election, anti-fracking activists wasted time protesting Andrew Cuomo.  He could care less.  All he cared about was money and votes, and they did not get in the way of either.  Fracking activists ignored calls to raise funds for and get votes for fracking-ban governor candidates like the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins.  Now […]

Will Guv-elect Cuomo Promised Tea Party Education Cuts Cause Protests In NY Like London?

New York Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo has has moved forward with his Tea Party austerity budget.  Cuomo announced that he will balance the state budget on the back of working families instead of rescinding the the rebate of the stock transfer tax as Green Party Guv cand Howie Hawkins demanded.  According to the Wall Street Journal, […]

Green Party New York: Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY) Says the Green Campaign Continues

“We won the ballot line. Now we aim to win our Green New Deal policies for New York State,” Howie Hawkins said Friday, reflecting on the next steps for the Green Party after it passed the 50,000 votes for Governor threshold needed to secure a ballot line in New York for the next four years. […]

New York State Green Party Victorious: Reclaims Ballot Line

Green Party of Suffolk Increases Vote Totals by 40% With 56,868 votes, the Green Party of New York State Governor candidate Howie Hawkins has surpassed the 50,000 votes mark need to reclaim the automatic ballot line for the next four years. It will be much easier for Green Party candidates to run for local, state […]

Green Party New York: Guv cand Hawkins Challenges Cuomo to Oppose Paterson’s Efforts to Leave Superfund

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, today called on Democrat Andrew Cuomo to join him in opposing Governor Paterson’s proposal to have the state pull out of the federal Superfund program. “Governor Paterson is increasingly erratic,” noted Hawkins, “and one has to wonder who is actually running the state. Paterson appears to have […]