Tompkins County Green Party

The Tompkins County Green Party has recently reorganized itself, with a rededication to providing a genuine progressive alternative in local, state and national politics. On July 21, 2009, the Tompkins County Green Party met along the shores of Cayuga Lake in Stewart Park in Ithaca, electing new officers, selecting nominees for the State Committee, and endorsing two candidates for local office.

At the national level, the Democratic Party is quickly turning the hope of 2008 into the betrayal of 2009, with the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress supporting clean coal, refusing to respect the Endangered Species Act to deal with global warming, giving away pollution permits, defending the suspension of habeas corpus, setting up kangaroo courts, keeping American soldiers fighting overseas, hiding evidence of torture, protecting Bush and Cheney from accountability, maintaining an office of government religion, and claiming extraordinary powers for the President.

It's not the kind of change we were promised, and it sure isn't much cause for hope.

Ithaca's Maurice Hinchey is fairly liberal, though he's gone over the edge with his crusade on a new presidential helicopter that the President doesn't want. Michael Arcuri, on the other hand, who represents most of the rest of Tompkins County, is a right wing Blue Dog Democrat, continuing to support Republican policies as if George W. Bush is still President.

Is it time for the Tompkins County Green Party to re-emerge, and mount a challenge to Arcuri from the Left? Share your opinion in the GUESTBOOK at the bottom of this page.

(Note: This lens is NOT an official Tompkins County Green Party web site. It is not affiliated with that organization in any way. It is about the Tompkins County Green Party.)