Monday, November 27, 2006
This article in Frontpage by P. David Hornik only scratches the surface of how bad the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts really is. We've looked at this group many times here, and have no doubt, the Massachusetts party is simply a reflection of the national party which is overrun by that alliance of pro-jihadis and the far-far left you keep reading about (no joke).
Hornik:
The party was founded back in 1996 as Massachusetts affiliate of the Green Party of the United States. In 1998 Green-Rainbow candidate Stephen Elliot received 12% of the vote for the State Senate, and in 2000 the party achieved official political status when the national Green presidential candidates, Ralph Nader and Winona Duke, got 6% of the Massachusetts vote.
It lost that status in 2004 when the Green-Rainbow ticket didn’t make the 3% threshold in the Massachusetts elections. But it regained it in 2006 when the party came back stronger than ever...
In fact, the GRP got extremely high vote counts even in cities with large Jewish populations like Brookline and Newton. Why? How? First of all, there was no Republican on the state ticket in the Treasurer or Secretary of State races. That left no one for conservatives, or even moderates, to vote for on those tickets at all, and even in the Governor's race, the left-leaning members of those communities could feel completely at ease ticking off the loony-left candidate knowing the Republican had no chance.
Further, the MSM was silent, utterly silent, on the fact of the GRP's anti-semitic, anti-Israel and anti-American positions.
Slime is green.
Many voters, including me, voted for Jill Stein for Secretary of State as a way of expressing dissatisfaction with the incumbent, Bill Galvin.
Galvin isn't awful, but he has come across as arrogant, aloof, and somewhat negligent in his duty to make sure that elections run smoothly. He seems to assume that he is Secretary-for-Life and therefore dodged debates with both Stein and his primary opponent, John Bonifaz.
Galvin's decision to test Diebold touch-screen voting machines in some Massachusetts towns rubbed many people the wrong way.