Green Party Watch

The Green Party of Pennsylvania calls for an end to drilling for natural gas and other fossil fuels

After a blowback spewed gas and toxic water in Clearfield, PA, plus serious
incidents including deaths of oil and gas employees in West Virginia and
Texas, nearly 2 months of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and years of
mountain top removal, the Green Party of Pennsylvania says “enough already.” read more »

Mel Packer, the Pennsylvania Green Party’s candidate for US Senate, recently issued this call for volunteer help:

We are still looking for more volunteer petitioners to collect signatures so my campaign can achieve ballot status. Our immediate need is to get folks out to polling places this Tuesday, May 18th, where we can get LOTS of signatures if we get LOTS of you out. Email melpacker [at] aol [dot] com or ebbortz [at] gmail [dot] com NOW if you can help out. We only have a couple of days in order to get petitions to you. And if you can’t do the 18th, but CAN get signatures as you go through your day/workplace, etc., we still need your help. We need to get about 40,000 signatures before they put us on the November ballot and we get into the debates. Please help.

You can watch a recent debate at Robert Morris University with Mel Packer and five other candidates at PCN TV.

From the Green Party of Pennsylvania:

The Green Party of Pennsylvania needs your help to get our U.S. Senate candidate, Mel Packer, on the ballot. We must turn in 19,000+ valid signatures to the Pennsylvania Department of State by August 1, 2010. Because some signatures will likely be invalid, we need to collect as many as we can. read more »

From Scranton Public Policy Examiner:

The Green Party of Luzerne County has announced that its regular monthly meeting for April will be scheduled for April 10, at 11:00 AM, at Barnes and Noble, South Main St., Wilkes-Barre; due to the Easter holiday weekend. The meetings of the party are normally held the first Saturday of each month.

The April meeting will also be a regional meeting for Northeastern PA Green chapters, in order to plan activities for the upcoming Earth Day celebration. Greens from Luzerne, Wyoming, Wayne, Susquehanna, and Lackawanna counties are expected to participate. Details of events for Earth Day will be publicized after the meeting, though this year’s focus is on Marcellus Shale issues in Pennsylvania.

Additionally, Green Party Nomination Papers will be available for signing and circulating. The Pennsylvania Green Party has nominated Pittsburgh area resident and physician assistant, Mel Packer for US Senate in 2010. Jay Sweeney of Wyoming County will be on hand at the meeting. Sweeney is seeking the office of State Representative in the 111th District.

The Green Party of Pennsylvania is an independent political party dedicated to principles of ecology, justice, peace, and diversity. The Luzerne County party has been in existence since 2000 and has met monthly ever since. Meetings are free of charge and the public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Green Party Nominates Packer for U.S. Senate, Bortz for US House, D’Agostino, Giordano, Farrington and Sweeney for State Rep.

Monroeville, PA – On Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, the Green Party of Pennsylvania
approved nominations for six candidates to compete in the November general
election. Long-time peace activist Mel Packer will be at the top of the
ticket as the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate. read more »

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