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Greens, Libertarians, Working Families and Conservatives maintain status Women’s Equality and Reform parties lose automatic ballot status heading into 2022 gubernatorial elections Third party candidates Howie Hawkins, Larry Sharpe and Stephanie Miner each protected their respective party lines into the 2022 elections by garnering more than 50,000 votes. First-time gubernatorial […]
Legislative Gazette video produced by Emily Ohlhoff and Austin Fearnley Green gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins wants to tax the rich to pay for his Green New Deal program for revitalizing public infrastructure and services. Hawkins said during an October 10 press conference in Albany that New York needs to invest […]
Majority of voters say Cuomo would be better than Molinaro on three issues: improving public education, fixing New York’s infrastructure and creating jobs Plurality of upstate voters say Molinaro would be better on the challenges facing that region Incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo leads Republican challenger Marc Molinaro 50-to-28 percent in […]
Hours after Gov. Andrew Cuomo defeated his primary challenger, Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins congratulated Cuomo on his primary victory and is now calling for four regional debates. Hawkins is hoping to discuss clean energy, rent control, education reforms, and climate change with all candidates in each region. […]
The Green Party’s gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins made an appeal to progressive voters who pulled the lever for Cynthia Nixon, Jumaane Williams and Zephyr Teachout on Primary Day – support the Green ticket on November 6. “The Green general election ticket is Plan B after the primaries for progressive voters,” […]
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that he would propose a multi-year $100 billion capital spending plan to fix the MTA in his first year of office. Hawkins said that the $100 billion for these capital improvements should be funded by a variety of revenue sources, […]
Two gubernatorial hopefuls marched with more than 1,000 climate change protesters to call on the Cuomo administration to implement more environmentally friendly policies, starting with a new microgrid project that powers, heats and cools the Empire State Plaza. Called the “Walk the Talk on Climate,” the event was the latest […]