Green
Party of Ohio Main Page
Newsletter Archive Index
--------------------------------------------------
Newsletter of the Green Party of Ohio
Vol. II, No. 13 -- April 20, 2002
(This newsletter distributed to 2,784)
--------------------------------------------------
***************************************************
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
***************************************************
1) FINAL CALL FOR
GREEN CANDIDATES IN OHIO
2) GREEN PARTY OF OHIO (GPO) RECOGNIZED BY
FEC
3) DEBATE GROUP SENDS NADER CHECK, APOLOGY
4) GPO WEB
SITE RANKS HIGH ON ALEXA SERVICE
5) ETHICS PANEL SPLITS VOTE ON CARTER
ALLEGATIONS
6) GREEN PARTY IN CALIFORNIA CAN'T BE IGNORED
7)
N.Y. GREEN PARTY GOV. CANDIDATES VISIT ITHACA
8) UTILITY BUYS OUT CONTAMINATED
OHIO TOWN
9) THIS WEEKEND'S MARCH ON WASHINGTON
10) U.S. PAPERS
HAIL COUP AS PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVE
11) EX-CIA CHIEF DISSES ALASKAN OIL
12)
CLEVELAND SAYS "NO" TO NUKE WASTE TRANSPORT
13) NO HELP ON HEALTH
INSURANCE FOR THOSE OVER 55
14) GREAT WEB SITE FROM POVERTYUSA
15) DAVIS-BESSE
NUKE PLANT FIX MAY NOT BE SOON
16) MISCELLANEOUS STORIES OF INTEREST
***************************************************
Join the Green Party of Ohio:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/register.html
List of current Green Party members:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/.
***************************************************
1) FINAL CALL FOR GREEN CANDIDATES IN OHIO
***************************************************
The Green Party of Ohio is targeting seats in Ohio
that are uncontested by
the Democratic party. In one
congressional seat, one state senate seat and
11
state seats (10% of the House) the Democrats have
failed to field candidates.
Logan
Martinez, who is heading the search for Green
Party candidates, says that
"it's the disorganization
and disunity in the Democratic Party and the
power of
corporate money that has given the Republicans such a
grip on
Ohio." Martinez says that the Greens are look-
ing for candidates across
the board but are particu-
larly targeting seats in the Ohio House. (Filing
date
for Greens/Independents in Monday May 6th.)
The
Green Party is fielding lifelong Zanesville resident
Chad Perry in the 18th
US House race. No Democrat is
running in this race. Frank Doden, Yellow Springs
resi-
dent and English teacher at The Columbus School for Girls
in Bexley,
will be in the 7th US House race against Demo-
crat Kara Anastasio and the
winner of the Republican pri-
mary. Also, Alan Amstutz is a candidate for
the Ohio House,
District 22, running against Republican Jim Hughes and the
winner of the Democratic primary.
While
looking for candidates in all races this year,
the Green Party of Ohio Candidates
Committee is also
targeting the Ohio house seats in the following areas:
Ohio
Senate District 31 (Licking, Fairfield, Perry, Hocking,
and
eastern Pickaway Counties)
Ohio House District 35 (eastern & southern
Warren County)
Ohio House District 55 (eastern Butler County)
Ohio House
District 66 (northwestern Clermont County)
Ohio House District 67 (western
& north central Warren County)
Ohio House District 71 (northern &
central Licking County)
Ohio House District 74 (Williams, Fulton & Defiance
Counties)
Ohio House District 75 (Paulding, Van Wert, Putnam & Henry Counties)
Ohio House District 77 (Preble, Mercer & 2/3 Darke Counties)
Ohio House
District 86 (Clinton, Highland & Pike Counties)
Ohio House District 88
(Brown, eastern Clermont & western Adams Counties)
Ohio House District
94 (Coshocton & most of Muskingum Counties)
If
you are thinking of running for any of the above political
offices or other
offices as a Green, please contact Logan
Martinez (937-275-7259 or loganmartinez@hotmail.com)
of the
GPO Candidates Committee.
But, hurry! Filing deadline for petitions is May 6 at 4 PM.
The
party is also looking for people to work with these
candidates as campaign
managers and other campaign volunteers.
For
more information about running for political office
as a Green, visit:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/candidates/
To
join the Green Party of Ohio, complete the form at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/register.html
For a list of members of the Green Party of Ohio, see:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/
***************************************************
2) GREEN PARTY OF OHIO (GPO) RECOGNIZED BY FEC
***************************************************
In a letter dated 4/11/02, the Federal Election
Commission (FEC) states, in
part:
" . .
. the Commission concludes that the Green Party
of Ohio qualifies as a State
committee of a political
party under the Act and Commission regulations."
The
FEC action was taken at the request of the GPO,
supported by the Green Party
of the United States in
Washington, DC.
***************************************************
3) DEBATE GROUP SENDS NADER CHECK, APOLOGY
***************************************************
Ralph Nader received a letter of apology and a check
from the Commission on
Presidential Debates April 16,
but no guarantees that he or other third-party
presi-
dential candidates would get to participate in future
debates.
To
read the Washington Post story (4/17/02), see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62825-2002Apr16.html
***************************************************
4) GPO WEB SITE RANKS HIGH ON ALEXA SERVICE
***************************************************
The Green Party of Ohio Web site now ranks the highest
of any state Green
Party Web site on the Alexa Internet
service. The site ranks 423,522 among
Alexa users. Of
Green sites in the U.S., only greens.org ranks higher
at 301,244. The Green Party of the United States site
ranks 622,655. (The
Ohio Democratic Party ranks 1,178,051
and the Ohio Republican Party ranks
3,074,766.)
Alexa
Internet takes a unique approach to Web navigation
by injecting human intelligence
into it. "At any given
moment, there are millions of people on the Internet
experiencing firsthand what works, what doesn't work,
what's relevant, what's
cool and what isn't. Alexa taps
into this collective reserve of information,
knowledge
and experience and transforms it into a free navigation
service
that benefits everyone. Said another way, Alexa
provides the technology that
allows everyone to share
their knowledge with everyone else, to everyone's
benefit."
To
learn more about Alexa, see:
http://info.alexa.com/
To download the Alexa toolbar, go to:
http://download.alexa.com/alexa6/startpage.html?p=destination_site
***************************************************
5) ETHICS PANEL SPLITS VOTE ON CARTER ALLEGATIONS
***************************************************
A split vote on the state ethics panel Wednesday left
Maine Democratic Party
officials pondering their next
move in a continuing effort to challenge Jonathan
Carter's publicly funded candidacy.
Carter,
the Green Independent Party's nominee for
governor, said he will know Friday
whether he will be
certified as a Maine Clean Elections candidate. Staffers
at the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Elections
Practices must certify
at least 2,500 of the nearly 3,500
signatures and individual $5 contributions
submitted by
the candidate.
To
read the Bangor Daily News article (4/18/02), see:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020420/maine.html
***************************************************
6) GREEN PARTY IN CALIFORNIA CAN'T BE IGNORED
***************************************************
Peter Miguel Camejo, who wants to be California's next
governor, has the kind
of endorsement any Green Party
candidate would die for: Ronald Reagan once
called him
"one of the 10 most dangerous people in California."
Camejo
-- now a financial services executive -- doesn't
have the hefty campaign war
chest of his rivals, Demo-
cratic incumbent Gray Davis and Republican Bill
Simon.
But just as Green Party presidential hopeful Ralph Nader
made his
own mark on the 2000 presidential race, Camejo
could prove dangerous in the
2002 governor's race --
particularly for Davis.
To
read the San Francisco Chronicle article (4/16/02), see:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020420/california.html
***************************************************
7) N.Y. GREEN PARTY GOV. CANDIDATES VISIT ITHACA
***************************************************
While two of New York's Green Party candidates for
governor agree that current
lawmakers are not doing
enough to protect the environment, they have different
ideas about which policy changes are the most urgent.
Read
the Ithaca Times article (4/3/02) at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020420/new_york.html
***************************************************
8) UTILITY BUYS OUT CONTAMINATED OHIO TOWN
***************************************************
American Electric Power has agreed to buy an entire
town in Ohio that has
been contaminated by sulfuric
acid from one of the utility's coal burning
plants.
The company will spend $20 million to acquire about
200 parcels
of land that make up the southeastern
Ohio community of Cheshire, relocating
all 221 resi-
dents of the tiny hamlet.
To
read the Environmental News Service article (4/19/02),
visit:
http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-19-06.html
Also
see:
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/entire_town.htm
***************************************************
9) THIS WEEKEND'S MARCH ON WASHINGTON
***************************************************
Organizers Claim Largest Showing of Solidarity with
Palestinians in U.S. History
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21114&group=webcast
Demonstrators
Rally to Palestinian Cause
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22230-2002Apr20.html
Protesters
March Peacefully in D.C.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/3100814.htm
Middle
East Takes Center Stage at D.C. Rallies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19891-2002Apr20.html
***************************************************
10) U.S. PAPERS HAIL COUP AS PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVE
***************************************************
When elements of the Venezuelan military forced presi-
dent Hugo Chavez from
office last week, the editorial
boards of several major U.S. newspapers followed
the
U.S. government's lead and greeted the news with enthusiasm.
To
read the entire Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
(FAIR) article of 4/18/02,
see:
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/venezuela-editorials.html
***************************************************
11) EX-CIA CHIEF DISSES ALASKAN OIL
***************************************************
From The Progressive Review's Undernews (4/18/02):
At
a Capitol Hill press conference former Director
of Central Intelligence James
Woolsey dismissed
claims that opening the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge
to oil drilling would improve America's
national security, and asserted that
drilling the
Arctic would in fact weaken our energy security by
increasing
our reliance on the vulnerable Trans
Alaska Pipeline.
"The
bottom line is that we'll be dependent on
the Middle East as long as we are
dependent on
oil," said Woolsey, who served as Director of the
Central
Intelligence Agency from 1993 to 1995.
"Drilling in ANWR is not a recipe
for America's
national security. The only answer is to use
substantially
less petroleum."
Citing
USGS estimates that indicate the amount of
oil in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge would
be at best three tenths of one percent of the
world's known
reserves, Woolsey asserted that
such a minimal amount of oil was not worth
the
continued reliance on the pipeline. "A key
vulnerability of drilling
in the Arctic Refuge is
the Trans-Alaska Pipeline," said Woolsey. "It
was
shut down last fall by a drunk who shot one
bullet, it has been sabotaged
and incompetently
bombed twice, and these people are children
compared
with the sophistication of people who
attacked us September 11.
"Oil
from ANWR is so far in the future and such a
small amount, that the negative
features of it --
environmentally but primarily from my perspective
the
vulnerability of the pipeline -- outweigh any
national security benefit claimed."
Visit
the Progressive Review Index at:
http://prorev.com
***************************************************
12) CLEVELAND SAYS "NO" TO NUKE WASTE TRANSPORT
***************************************************
City of Cleveland Council passed a resolution, which
was signed by Mayor Jane
L. Campbell, on April 10,
"Renewing Council's opposition to the transportation
to high level nuclear waste through Ohio and the
storage of such hazardous
waste at a site in Yucca
Mountain, Nevada." This is Mayor Campbell's
first
public statement on nuclear waste since taking office
100 days ago.
***************************************************
13) NO HELP ON HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THOSE OVER 55
***************************************************
Proposed tax credits designed to help uninsured
Americans buy individual health
coverage would not
be effective for adults age 55 and older, according
to a new study released on April 17 on the Health
Affairs website. The study
also found that individual
coverage costs considerably more than group health
plans while providing inferior benefits, a finding
that was true for young
adults as well as for older
adults. The Commonwealth Fund provided support
for
the research, which was conducted by Jon Gabel and
colleagues at the
Health Research and Educational
Trust. While the study found that a $1,000
tax credit
would be adequate for a healthy male in his 20s, that
amount
would cover less than half the annual premium
costs for the majority of individual
health plans
available to a healthy 55-year-old man. Moreover,
many individual
plans provide neither prescription
drug benefits nor mental health coverage.
Health
Affairs published the article as a web-exclusive.
The
full text of the article is available at:
http://www.healthaffairs.org/WebExclusives/Gabel_Web_Excl_041702.htm
***************************************************
14) GREAT WEB SITE FROM POVERTYUSA
***************************************************
The PovertyUSA Web site describes the realities of
poverty in a compelling
way. It's a powerful presenta-
tion showing that people cannot live in poverty.
To
view the presentation, visit:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm
***************************************************
15) DAVIS-BESSE NUKE PLANT FIX MAY NOT BE SOON
***************************************************
FirstEnergy Corp. faces the likely prospect of going
through much of the summer
-- prime time to sell
electricity for air conditioning -- without the use
of its damaged Davis-Besse nuclear power plant.
To
read the Akron Beacon-Journal article (4/20/02), see:
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/3104094.htm
***************************************************
16) MISCELLANEOUS STORIES OF INTEREST
***************************************************
Global Warming:
'Catastrophic Threat' From World's Mountain Lakes, Warns UN
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0416-02.htm
Green
Teacher Threatened Under Special D.C. Hatch Act Rule
http://www.ohiogreens.org/features/020420/dc.html
Smoking
Costs $150 Billion Annually
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r020412.htm
An
Assisted-Suicide Verdict
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/opinion/_19FRI3.html
***************************************************
The views expressed in this newsletter are those
of the author or organization
noted and do not
necessarily reflect the opinions of the Green Party
of
Ohio.
***************************************************
To join the
Green Party of Ohio, complete the form at http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/register.html.
To see the membership list of the GPO, see
http://www.ohiogreens.org/membership/.
***************************************************
Miss an issue of our newsletter?
You can now read
past newsletters of the Green Party of Ohio by
visiting
the newsletter archives at:
http://www.ohiogreens.org/newsletters/
***************************************************
We publish this newsletter
weekly (with some
exceptions) to keep you informed about events,
activities,
and news of interest to the Green Party
of Ohio -- http://www.ohiogreens.org.
We
invite you to review our party Web site
after you've read this newsletter.
We welcome your
comments or suggestions about our site or party.
Send
comments: secretary@ohiogreens.org.
We
value our relationship with you. If at any time
you wish to leave our mailing
list and not receive
future newsletter mailings, reply to this message
with "unsubscribe" in the subject field.
We
also encourage you to help us spread the word
about our newsletter and the
Green Party. Please
feel welcome to forward a copy of it to your friends.
They can be added to our mailing list by submitting
the form at: http://www.ohiogreens.org/newsletter/register.html.
Copyright
© 2002, Green Party of Ohio.
All rights reserved.
Paid for by the
Green Party of Ohio PAC (OH1066)
Gina Ficociello, Treasurer
1427 Northstar
Rd., Columbus OH 43212
Contributions to the Green Party of Ohio are not
deductible for federal tax purposes. This newsletter
is not authorized by
any candidate or candidate
authorized committee.
***************************************************
Green Party of Ohio
PO Box 851, Kent OH 44240
Email: secretary@ohiogreens.org
Web: http://www.ohiogreens.org