Politics: Matt Hale deciple running for Congress … as a Green?
It’s happening up in Chicago’s 3rd District. Richard B. Mayers, a member of the Creativity Movement (formerly the World Church of the Creator) is seeking the Green Party nomination. The Chicagoist reports:
Running on the Green ticket gives Mayers a forum for his ideas, however divorced they are from Green values, and he doesn’t have to contend with the hassle of a sophisticated major-party structure that would easily shut him down. (Remember Pat Buchanan’s candidacy on the Reform Party ticket in 2000?) Since Illinois state law requires a primary, it’s unlikely that Mayers will win the nomination given the organizing the Greens have done since Rich Whitney’s gubernatorial campaign. Regardless, Greens will have to work extra hard to get the message out in the 3rd that Jerry Pohlen has the official endorsement of the Green Party, which means diverting already scarce resources from more important races.
It’s even worse than the Chicagoist surmises.
Nothing stopping the Democrats from trying to screw with the results. All it would take would be a few brochures claiming that it’s really Mayers who is the real Green and that no one should believe the lies that this guy Pohlen is spreading. And while it’s not too common, nothing is stopping Dems in a safe district from Picking up Green ballots.
And as the Libertarians know, it’s easy for a party to be tainted by a wacko who gets on your ballot. I still encounter folks who are absolutely convinced the LP is an organization founded to by Lyndon LaRouche, when nothing could be further from the truth. The LP has enough homegrown wackos.
And lest anyone misunderstand: LaRouche was NOT a Libertarian. Mayer is NOT a Green. Both are racist idiots who expose views contrary to beliefs that BOTH Greens and Libertarians hold dear.
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