Submitted by David Meieran on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 9:40pm
This morning I chatted with Mel Packer, the former Green Party candidate for Senate. First impression, based on a 20-minute conversation: He's a hell of a nice guy, completely sincere and not one of those third-party candidates who runs vanity campaigns. Read more
Submitted by David Meieran on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 7:25pm
August 11, 2010 -- VotePA announced today that it is urging both major political parties and their candidates to withdraw legal challenges filed this week against the nomination papers of third party and independent candidates, unless the challengers are claiming willful election fraud. Read more
Submitted by Mel Packer on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 2:12pm
On August 9, shortly before State offices in Harrisburg closed, Joe Sestak, Democratic Party candidate for US Senate in PA, filed a formal challenge to my election petitions for that same office. This was not unexpected and given the absurd requirements that third-party candidates must meet to attain ballot status, his challenge will likely be successful and I will lose my already state-certified ballot status for that position. Read more
Submitted by David Meieran on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 9:05am
BREAKING NEWS - Yesterday lawyers representing Joe Sestak filed a suit to kick Mel Packer off the ballot. During the Democratic primaries Sestak played the same trick and knocked Robinson businessman Joe Vodvarka off the ballot. Mel learned about the challenge late last night when he returned home from work at 2am. In an email message sent to his campaign volunteers, Mel wrote: Read more
Harrisburg, PA – On Monday, August 2, 2010, Green Party candidates successfully filed all nominating papers (petitions) with the Bureau of Commissions and Elections allowing all candidates to compete in the general election in November. Congratulations to all candidates, petitioners, and supporters. Read more
Submitted by Mel Packer on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 10:59am
Thanks to all of you and many others around the state, we met the minimum requirements for the US Senate race and my name is now listed as an official Green Party candidate for US Senate.
My deepest appreciation to all for a job well done, it was tough, but you did it.
I'm also happy to report that we got Ed Bortz certified as a candidate for US Rep in the 14th District and five other Green Party candidates for State Rep around the state.
For the last few weeks, I have been astounded to hear from many of my fellow citizens who can no longer drink the water from their once clean wells, sleep at night due to the noise and light from drilling operations, let their children play on their own farms because of the danger of nearby frack ponds, and in some cases, not even able to live on their land now that drilling operations have started on neighbors land. Read more
Submitted by Ed Cloonan on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 11:13am
If you have an agenda to stop endless war; if you want environmental regulation not written by and for drillers and frackers; if you want financial regulation legislation not written by and for Wall Street bankers; if you want health care legislation not written by and for insurance and pharmaceutical companies; and finally, if you want election laws to challenge the two-party duopoly, then consider voting for the Green Party. Read more
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BREAKING NEWS - Yesterday lawyers representing Joe Sestak filed a suit to 
