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Sat Oct 30, 2010 at 23:25:06 PM EDT
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Just received my google-alerts and found this great Boston Globe piece on the Governor's race. As usual, Jill Stein is the only one who makes any sense and has a clear picture of not only what is wrong in Massachusetts, but how to make it right:
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Wed Jul 07, 2010 at 16:06:01 PM EDT
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http://holyokesunonline.com/06...
Holyoke Resident Running for Lt. Governor, by Dennis P. Hohenberger (Holyoke Sun, 25 June 2010)
Richard P. "Rick" Purcell, a longtime Holyoke resident and community activist, is making a run for the state's second highest office as the Green-Rainbow Party's candidate for Lt. Governor.
During a lunchtime stroll in West Holyoke on Tuesday, Purcell spoke of his candidacy, the issues that matter most to him and the way the city has shaped him and his political views, which eventually led him to be Jill Stein's running mate.
While Purcell and members of his party gather the necessary 10,000 signatures needed to be placed on the fall ballot, his campaign, though grassroots and relying on small, individual donations, continues to speak out on affordable healthcare, schools, the environment, gambling, and issues that matter to working class families.
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Tue Mar 23, 2010 at 14:53:48 PM EDT
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VOWS TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT AS CRISIS ACCELERATES.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 23 March, 2010
Contact: Daryl Sprague, 617-459-0784
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts - Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow Party candidate for governor, described the health care bill passed by Congress Sunday as lobbyists' legislation which offers few benefits at staggering cost. She warned Massachusetts residents to brace for skyrocketing prices and an accelerating health care meltdown, and vowed to renew her push for "real solutions."
Here are her remarks, made in a speech to supporters during a teleconference Tuesday morning:
"The health reform passed on Sunday is not the solution the American people have been looking for, but rather a triumph of business-as-usual. It will bankrupt individuals and local governments by forcing them to buy the expensive policies in a health-care system designed to exploit instead of to serve. Starting today, we begin the real battle to move beyond this costly non-solution and replace it with the health care system America needs.
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Thu Jan 07, 2010 at 18:58:35 PM EST
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Stein to jump into gov race with Green-Rainbow bid
By Jim O'Sullivan / State House News Service Thursday, January 7, 2010
Dr. Jill Stein plans to join the race for 2010 race for governor, running as a Green-Rainbow candidate and pushing the issue of universal health care, posing a challenge to Gov. Deval Patrick's left flank.
Stein told the News Service late today that she plans to formally announce her campaign later this month. Her candidacy will further complicate a field that already has two major Republican candidates, a state treasurer running as an independent, and Patrick, the Democrat seeking reelection.
"I am very excited to offer voters a real choice for change," Stein told the News Service in an interview. "We're looking at three candidates for governor who have very similar opinions on a variety of key issues. It's very important that voters have a second choice."
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Then and Now
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Then...
"Last year Evergreen, a Massachusetts company, agreed to establish their first-ever United States based manufacturing facility here in Massachusetts. They did so, or are doing so, at Devens. They have now agreed and chosen to triple their size at Devens. Their next phase of expansion, right here in Massachusetts, a signature company in a signature sector, and we congratulate all of the folks at Evergreen and look forward to continuing to work with you...
We made a personal commitment to Evergreen for the sake of Evergreen, but also because we wanted to show that there are ways in which state government, in working together with private industry and with the utility companies, could begin to create a different kind of environment, a different kind of business climate here, to grow that sector, and it is happening. It's happening. Evergreen is one of the most prominent examples, but there are a whole host of examples."
--Governor Deval Patrick, April 7, 2008, boasting about state investment in Evergreen.
and Now...
"Evergreen Solar Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday, completing a stunning reversal of fortune for a high-flying alternative-energy company that once seemed to herald a new era for the Massachusetts economy... At its peak, Evergreen employed roughly 900 people locally and attracted more than $50 million in state support, as its stock price soared above $100 a share.
Yesterday, Evergreen's stock closed at 18 cents. The company shuttered its manufacturing plant in Devens earlier this year and now has only 85 employees left. Massachusetts is one of its top creditors, owed $1.5 million in rent."
--Erin Ailworth, Boston Globe, August 16, 2011
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