Green Party Allegations in PA

Green Party want-to-be Senatorial candidate Carl Romanelli in Pennsylvania wrote last October about his exclusion from the PA Senate race.  His story, published in the Green Party online quarterly known as “Green Pages,” discusses how he was excluded from the race, and, in his words, Democrats in the state:

…[M]oney was used in the effort to remove my name from the 2006 ballot, and for the effort to displace Ralph Nader from the ballot in 2004. In the challenge against me, the Democrats are accused of using a caucus of up to 36 staffers to research the campaign signatures for flaws, negative public relations, and other dubious activities. In the Nader case, the same technique was used and a caucus of up to 50 state workers was used.

Mr Romanelli points to indictments against key PA Democrats as proof that Democrats were willing (and indeed obligated by party loyalty) to engage in gross misuse of taxpayer funds and even in committing “serious constitutional crimes” against all who dare to oppose the state two-party duopoly.  The indictments could lead to hundreds of years of sentences for the parties involved.  And the wrangling still isn’t over, as recently pointed out in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Indeed, the Post-Gazette even refers to court motion documents by some of the Democrat defendants that even manage to suggest participation by other Democrats as a kind of “everyone-does-it” excuse.  Based on what I saw in the Post-Gazette, those Democrats are decidedly unhappy to find themselves so named, and are vigorously denying the reports.

It should be interesting to watch how this and the Governor scandals in New York and Illinois affect party politics.  Not just for the Democrats, but for the Greens.

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