The Green Party has a guaranteed ballot line. And one of the party's most prominent names is thinking about a potential run for mayor. Howie Hawkins, who ran as the Green Party candidate for governor in 2010, says a decision will come soon.

Video at: http://centralny.ynn.com/content/search/665033/uncertainty-in-the-race-for-syracuse-mayor/

"From my perspective, the city's just sleepwalking into insolvency," [Hawkins] said.

Isn't New York more progressive than Arizona? Isn't there one progressive Democrat left in Albany who will stand up, re-introduce a Clean Money bill, and lead a fight for full public campaign financing?

Longtime Green Party activist Howie Hawkins told the council not to be "pennywise and pound foolish" about the fire department. He then launched into remarks about the need to raise more revenue from the rich to pay for city services.

Topic discuss include election law and campaign finance reform, independent vs. fusion politics, and future Green electoral plans.

http://capitalregion.ynn.com/content/search/657900/howie-hawkins-and-mark-dunlea---04-19-2013/

Capitol Pressroom with Susan Arbetter, April 9, 2013:

http://www.wcny.org/thecapitolpressroomorg/wp-content/uploads/APR092013.MP3

Howie's segment starts at 13:40 and goes for about ten minutes. The main topic is campaign finance reform.

Green Party activist Howie Hawkins came to the Fair Elections forum Thursday to talk about fair funding for elections, but the organizers said members of the public could not talk. “I came here because I was invited to speak from the floor,” Hawkins shouted in front of about 150 people. “It’s bullshit.”

The Green Party said $9 an hour is still a “sub-poverty” wage. "This lousy minimum wage deal shows the power of the 1 percent,” said Howie Hawkins, of Syracuse, who ran for governor on the Green Party line. “When it comes to workers and economic justice, Cuomo does the bidding of his corporate donors just as well as any Republican.”

For Cuomo, state fiscal problems are caused by basic public services used by children, seniors, students and workers, not the corporate welfare subsides and tax cuts on high incomes that both major parties have been lavishing on the 1% for more three decades now," stated Hawkins. http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=600

The Co-Op would like to hire a general manager with a background in managing a grocery store and then fill the remaining positions with Southside residents and train them to be future managers, said Howie Hawkins, who serves as secretary of the Co-Op board.