Green Party candidates for Mayor of the Twin Cities did well on September 13 elections. In St. Paul, Elizabeth Dickinson polled 19%, and in Minneapolis Farheen Hakeem polled 14%.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Green Party candidates for Mayor of the Twin Cities did well on September 13 elections. In St. Paul, Elizabeth Dickinson polled 19%, and in Minneapolis Farheen Hakeem polled 14%.
Hmmmmmmmmm, how will this effect the Jesse Ventura hold overs and one state national group “Independence Party”? Like current VeteransParty.us national chair Dennis F. Bradley, the OTHER U. S. Senate Candidate in FLorida in 2004, the Minnesota Only Independence Party ‘does not play well with others’.
Will the Minnesota (AND NEW YORK STATE) Independence Party think of hooking up (as state affiliates of national movements*) with larger, out of state groups?
*even with the spector of one time KKK shill and white supremist George Wallace, the California state American Independence Party has successfully used the affiliation mode with the national U. S. Constitution Party for many years. Infact their ‘Minute Man Civilian Border Patrol’ leader Jim Gilchrist is expected to do well under the AIP lable in this year’s Congressional race in Orange County and an Asian named AIP member got nominated to a state board of something or other over the weekend by embattled governator Schwarzenegger.
SCHWARZEN FAKER OOPS ON AIP NOMINEE:
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The buzz: Error by Governor’s Office tangles party line
Published 2:15 am PDT Monday, September 19, 2005
Story appeared on Page A3 of The Bee
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been known to appoint a fair number of Democrats along with his fellow Republicans to state posts.
But when the Governor’s Office announced last week that he had chosen a member of the American Independent Party to fill a prestigious slot on the University of California Board of Regents it was received with some surprise.
Embracing the presidential run of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1968, the AIP has been an official California party ever since. It supports conservative stands on abortion, guns and border security and wants to eliminate the federal income tax, trade agreements and foreign aid, according to the party platform.
Could it be that Schwarzenegger’s pick for the regents, real estate investor Leslie Tang Schilling, is an AIP adherent?
Schilling says it was all a mistake. She told the Governor’s Office she was “independent,” and “I guess somehow it got translated as American Independent Party.” When the governor’s staff read her the release before sending it out, she didn’t catch the error. But Schilling said her sister called her, asking ” ‘Are you really American Independent Party?’ And I said, ‘Well, what’s that?’ She said, ‘Well, it’s this splinter, sort of radical … group.’ I said, ‘Oh no, I didn’t know that.’ ”
Other friends called her on it, too. “We’ve all had kind of a good laugh about it,” Schilling said. The Governor’s Office has deemed it an “administrative error.”
For the record, Schilling declines to state a party affiliation, according to the San Mateo County voter roll.
Dancing with lemons
Schwarzenegger, during a speech seeking support for the teacher tenure initiative, said he’d recently learned about the “dance of the lemons” from educators.
He told the Republican Party state convention’s delegates on Saturday that the “dance” refers to the movement of incompetent teachers from “school to school to school” by principals who can’t fire the teachers because of tenure.
“I say they shouldn’t dance from school to school but dance them right out the door,” he said.
Controller Steve Westly, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, later responded on behalf of teachers, saying “there are more lemons in Sacramento than in our public schools.”
Name that law
This was such a light year in legislative production that some veteran staff members in the state Senate resurrected one of the Capitol’s longest-running, but recently neglected, inside jokes – known as “mythical tombstones.”
That’s using the names of real legislators to describe mythical legislation that is “tombstoned,” or named for them. All-time classics from the past include the Lockyer-Boatwright Marina Security Act and the Seymour-Katz Pet Safety Act.
But the advent of Latino and Asian American legislators in recent years, and the subsequent dearth of easily adapted Anglo-Saxon names such as “Boatwright,” have made the game more difficult to play.
Current entries making the e-mail rounds include the Chu-Baca-Spitzer Smokeless Tobacco Control Act and the Denham-Bermudez Tasteless Apparel Eradication Act.
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* The Bee’s Kevin Yamamura can be reached at (916) 326-5548 or kyamamura@sacbee.com. Bee staff writers Dan Walters, Dan Smith and Laura Mecoy contributed to this report.
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^^ Simply put, no. They do not have the money nor have the desire to run other states’ organizations. As the former Reform Party arm, Ventura got very tired of the other party arms that used him for a cheap fundraiser but did little real work themselves.