Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Meet the candidates: Greg Pason

28 October 2009

By Michael Symons
Asbury Park Press (New Jersey)



"Socialist Party USA gubernatorial candidate Greg Pason says he has the left wing of the political spectrum all to himself in this election....Even so, Pason — the national secretary of the Socialist Party and a board member for a workers’ rights group — has no illusions about his chances of winning. He’s running — and running and running, year after year — to push his party’s platform to anyone who’ll listen...."

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Friday, September 18, 2009

Socialist Party Gubernatorial Candidate video interview

18 September 2009

Greg Pason, Socialist Party candidate for Governor of New Jersey, was interviewed by Comcast Newsmakers on 16 September 2009.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Socialist gubernatorial candidate Pason chafes at Obama labeling

03 August 2009

By Max Pizarro
PolitickerNJ


"Greg Pason of Maywood finds it amusing when right-wing shock jocks pejoratively call President Barack Obama a socialist.

'It just indicates how far to the right this country has moved for Obama to be classified that way," says Pason. "He doesn't even support single-payer health care...'"


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Saturday, July 4, 2009

New Jersey Democrat Challenges Socialist Party Petition

04 July 2009

By Richard Winger
Ballot Access News


"The Socialist Party's only candidate for the legislature in New Jersey this year has been removed from the November 2009 ballot, even though he submitted 150 signatures to meet a requirement of 100 signatures. Tino Rozzo had been running in Assembly District One, in the southern tip of New Jersey. Signatures are presumed to be valid unless a challenge is filed. Rozzo's petition was challenged by a Democratic Party activist..."

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Socialists second-largest party in Oklahoma?

This Oklahoma Gazette article on ballot access quotes a Common Cause official saying that, "the Socialists were the second-biggest party in Oklahoma for a while".

Richard Winger of Ballot Access News says this is an exaggeration, but he adds: "The Socialist Party got 20.8% of the gubernatorial vote in 1914", and "after the 1914 election, the Socialist Party had 6 state legislators in Oklahoma", compared to 22 Republicans.

Even if we weren't the second-largest party in the past, you can help make us the largest in the future!

Monday, June 8, 2009

Brian Moore Files Court Brief Against Mississippi

08 June 2009

Ballot Access News

"On June 8, Brian Moore, the 2008 Socialist Party presidential nominee, filed his brief in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, in the 5th circuit. The issue is whether the Secretary of State should have accepted the paperwork to put Moore on the ballot last year..."

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Radio Free Kansas Interviews Brian Moore

Brian Moore
2008 Socialist Party Presidential Candidate
19 March 2009


Mike Caddell of Radio Free Kansas interviewed 2008 Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate Brian Moore on Friday, 20 March 2009. A recording can be found on Mike's website, part of Radio Free Kansas...

"Radio Host Caddell spoke of 'aid to the elderly" in America, in the early part of the 20th century, as "only coming from charity organizations and individuals.' Brian stated that "It was not until 1935" [that] our country institute[d] a social security system," thanks to the socialist ideas and advocacy." Brian said there is "no reason to fear a radical transformation of our society," calling for the need for "More Americans to have radical tendencies, without fear or trepidation." Mr. Caddell concurred, and said he defined the word "radical" as "a study of the root of the problem..."


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