Our drop-off was also much smaller in Orange County, home to our Attorney General candidate, Michael Sussman.In the New York City area, we almost maintained our 2010 vote in Brooklyn and actually got slightly higher votes in the Bronx and Queens. New York needs a Green Wave to move our elected officials to care about all of us.Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins is billing himself as "Plan B" for New Yorkers who didn't vote for Gov. Howie Hawkins, right, the Green Party candidate for governor, campaigned at Buffalo’s Broderick Park on Thursday.
How to vote for Howie Hawkins in New York The Green Party of New York is holding their presidential preference vote via snail mail this year. If you are at a polling place that is the correct polling place for where you presently live at, and the poll workers says you are not listed as a registered voter, you should ask to fill out a provisional ballot, known as an affidavit ballot.Please remind your friends and neighbors about the importance of voting green.By voting Green Party on this Election Day you will make sure that we can field independent candidates who take no corporate money, who are teachers, teamsters, college students. After the primary debate which largely ignored upstate New York and many critical issues starting with climate change, I proposed four regional debates (NYC Metro area, Capital District, Central NY and Western NY) to each focus on a topic area: The Economy, Government Reform, The Environment and Climate, and Social Policy, including education, health care, housing, transit, criminal justice, and civil rights. It is wrong to invest the pension fund in companies that are destroying the planet through global warming.If you do not know where to vote, you can find it here. Unlike the primary debate, the rules should be determined by all of the candidates and the media, not just Mr. Cuomo. Sixty-five-year-old Howie Hawkins, of Syracuse, is the co-founder of the Green Party and played a major role in his party’s presidential runs with candidate Ralph Nader.
The ballots must be postmarked by May 9, 2020. Mark’s campaign has focused on climate change, starting with the need to get the state to Divest its pension fund from fossil fuels. In fact, Howie Hawkins, long time Green Party candidate for governor of New York and, more recently, member of the US Postal Service, was the first. Andrew M. Cuomo in last month's Democratic primary.Hawkins, who garnered about 5 percent of the vote in finishing third in the 2014 gubernatorial election won by Cuomo, made that his overriding message Thursday as he kicked off his general election campaign at Broderick Park in Buffalo. “We’re running to deal with life and death issues”, Hawkins told Green World in a Zoom interview last week from his home in Syracuse in upstate New York. Most important is our ticket of Howie Hawkins and Jia Lee. He ignores that the root cause of the problem is not spending but the huge tax cuts for the wealthy that began when he was helping his father as Governor. In 2014, we received 184,419 votes.The biggest drop offs were liberal college areas (St. Lawrence, Tompkins, Ulster counties), where Cuomo seems to have got the anti-Trump Democratic vote, and the capital district, where public employees had given us the most votes in 2010.Our smallest drop-off upstate was in the Buffalo area, where local Greens organized several good events and we received the Buffalo Teachers Federation endorsement. Only votes for Governor / Lt Gov count towards the 50,000 threshold needed to continue as a ballot qualified party, which makes it much easier for us to field candidates.Our other statewide candidates are Mark Dunlea for Comptroller and Michael Sussman for Attorney General. Script: Please divest the NYS pension from fossil fuels. "WHEN OUR Green Party campaign for governor and lieutenant governor of New York settled on the campaign slogan of First, we wanted to “raise our expectations,” as Ralph Nader always enjoins us to do. To provide every child a good education, we must not only fully fund high-poverty school districts. Hawkins was the Green Party of New York's candidate for the United States Senate in the state of New York.