First Official PWD Endorsement Of Election Season

Green Party Runs Evangelist [Phillyblog]

And We Still Have Five More Months Of This

The election isn’t over, Philadelphia! That’s the message of ineligible mayoral candidate Sanjaya Larry West, who announced today he had joined the Green Party and would seek their mayoral nomination at tomorrow’s meeting. It’s becoming more and more apparent Larry West is an art-school prank or perhaps the new host of Punk’d.

Apparently Kerry Foster, the presumed Green Party candidate, didn’t get the 2/3 vote required to win the mayoral nomination, so Larry West wants to get on the agenda for the Green Party’s meeting and then get some party backing for his ineligible mayoral run. “I’ve been talking to Brian Rudnick, the Green Party Candidate for the 8th Council District, and he really supports this!” Larry’s release says he said.

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Green Party Candidate Wants You To Waste Energy

Brett Mandel and Philadelphia Forward released the “R.E.F.O.R.M. Ballot” today, and the results are pretty confusing, if you look at it a certain way. Dwight Evans hates SEPTA! Jesus White wants to hire his relatives! Fattah likes PGW just the way it is!

But most telling is this question, which I’ve excerpted below.

Yes, you read that correctly. The only candidate for mayor who does not want to encourage homeowners to use energy efficiently is Kerry Foster of the Green Party.

Vote Summary [R.E.F.O.R.M. Ballot]
Mayor’s Race [R.E.F.O.R.M. Ballot]

Green Party Running For Council DIY-Style

What do I mean by the headline? Oh, like one Brian Rudnick, who shoots his introductory campaign video by holding the camera away from himself with his hand, drunk-photo-with-your-friends-in-a-bar style.

Apparently, Rudnick is also trying to capture the late-90s popularity of that “I Kiss You” guy by running a website called “I Thank You” where he thanks a kid who stole his cell phone.

I am a candidate for Philadelphia City Council [YouTube]
I Thank You, Project Boy X for robbing me [I Thank You]

Honk If You Like Cookies

A post Friday on Young Philly Politics noted a little bit of trickery by everyone’s favorite political party, the Greens:

Along Chestnut St, there are a number of people with petitions. They are asking people on the street to sign a petition to help them raise the minimum wage. Odd, I thought, considering the law was just passed and signed. ¶ Turns out, they are actually people from the Green Party, and the signatures are not a petition to raise the minimum wage, but instead to get their candidate on the ballot for Senate. When my politically aware friend inquired why they were asking people to sign a petition to raise the minimum wage, they said, “welllll, our guy would raise the minimum wage even higher.”

Raise the minimum wage? Eh, they can do better than that. (And, even better, the law’s already been passed.) Here’s a tip: Start saying it’s a petition saying puppies should be cute or a supporting a law banning, say, murder. Hell, I’ll sign that one.

Green Party Dopes [Young Philly Politics]
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