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Working Families Party Accused of Misleading New York Anti-War Voters with 11th Hour Mailer
By James Lane, HOT INDIE NEWS .com
Date Published: November 6, 2006
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- A mailer from the Working Families Party
that arrived in thousands of voters' mailboxes on Friday and
Saturday depicts Cindy Sheehan, along with Pete Seeger and Michael
Moore, urging voters to support bringing the troops home by voting
for Democrats running on the Working Families Party line.
Sheehan immediately issued the following clarification of her
position:
"I support a lot of the work of the Working Families Party and
especially Mr. Pete Seeger who has been an amazing warrior for
peace. However, I cannot support the candidacy of Hillary Clinton
who is ensconced in the all-Democratic slate. She is not
pro-peace, or even anti-war and has been a rubber stamp for George
Bush's war of terror. Many of the candidates that the WFP supports
are worthy of support, but certainly not Senator Clinton."
"I support Howie Hawkins in his campaign against Hillary Clinton
and I support Malachy McCourt in his campaign for governor."
Last month, Cindy Sheehan had endorsed the Green Party candidates
Howie Hawkins for US Senator and Malachy McCourt for Governor.
McCourt issued the following statement Sunday:
"Cindy Sheehan does not support pro-war candidates like Eliot
Spitzer and Hillary Clinton and I challenge the WFP, a subsidiary
of the Democratic party, to prove otherwise."
Hawkins issued the following statement:
"WFP should issue a retraction. It is absurd to claim that a vote
for Spitzer or Clinton is a vote against the war. The Green
candidates have remained clear about our opposition to George Bush
and the Iraq war and that's where anti-war votes should go."
Jonathan Tasini, Ms. Clinton's opponent in the Democratic Primary,
posted the following statement:
"To tell voters to vote for a pro-war Democrat as a way to protest
the war is simply ugly. It is entirely disrespectful of the tens
of thousands of people who were killed in this war."
Mr Tasini received a surprising 17% of the vote in his bid to
upset the Senator.
The Working Families Party endorsed all the Democrats running for
statewide office. These Democratic candidates also appear on the
Working Families Party line on Row E. The Green Party's candidates
appear on the next line, Row F.
MORE INFORMATION
http://www.nypeaceslate.org
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