Hailed by “smart growth” advocates around the country, the Atlanta BeltLine, is a massive & racist gentrification scheme funded by diverting billions out of Atlanta's Public School budget to banksters and crooked developers. But those billions aren't enough. To bail out the BeltLine, the governor and Atlanta's black mayor want to levy a one-cent sales tax on Atlanta for streetcars and light rail most of black Atlanta will never ride, for Jim Crow streetcars, when black Atlanta neighborhoods don't even get 24 hour bus or train service. Can the black misleadership class really pull this off?
Although Kent Mesplay of California led the way with his early announcement for the 2012 Green Party Presidential Nomination, hails from the state bringing the largest delegation to the Baltimore Convention and will appear on all the primary ballots except for DC, other campaigns are coming to the fore and challenging any advantage possible from his early announcement. Dr. Stein of Massachusettes, Harley Mickelson of Michigan and now Roseanne Barr of Hawaii have all entered the race.
Dr. Jill Stein, has seemed the front runner for several months as the Massachusettes physician has hired a staff and stumped in several states, including the early primary states of California, Washington DC and of course her home Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
While her quip on the Leno show about starting her own 'Green Tea Party' left many in the Green Party leadership wondering if she were serious and many both in and out of the Party dismissing her announcement as a publicity stunt, today, comedian Roseanne Barr filed her questionnaire with the national Green Party's Presidential Campaign Support Committee. Campaign supporters report that they are close to securing the statements of support from Green Party members necessary for national Party 'recognition'. This process is a basis for access to many state party Presidential Preference ballots and caucuses which will name the delegates who will make the choice at this year's Baltimore Convention, July 12 through 15th. While her late start handicaps her in the race for Delegates to the Baltimore Convention, her media access and ability to self-finance will likely pose a significant challenge to her opponents in the Green Party Presidential contest. She also speaks in her response to the PCSC questionnaire of mobilizing her fan base to join the Green Party to make a difference. Ms. Barr has been a Green Party supporter since at least the 2008 campaign cycle when she helped raise funds for the McKinney-Clemente campaign.
White racists have always been known to “cut off their own noses to spite a Black man's face.” In a variation on that theme, rural white farmers in Alabama and Georgia elected the racist lawmakers who passed the anti-immigrant legislation that scared away the Hispanic agricultural workers the farmers depended on to harvest their crops. They might as well have burned their own fields. But southern-fried racism is making Alabama's foreign automakers nervous. “They like Alabama’s anti-union environment, but they don’t want to be associated too closely with white supremacists.”
A vote is a terrible thing to waste, they say. But exactly when are votes wasted? Are they thrown away when cast for the least of multiple evils. Are they squandered when cast for what people really need and want, even if that means a Democrat might not win? Are they lost when people with few or no good choices stay home? Or have voters already been robbed when the menu is limited to corporate-funded Republicans vs. corporate-funded Democrats?
