NEW YORK, NY - Citizens for Universal Healthcare (CUH) announced today that it endorses Jonathan Tasini's U.S. Senatorial candidacy in the September 12th New York State Democratic primary. For over a decade Citizens for Universal Healthcare has worked for legislative reform to bring about a single payer health care system.

“I am honored to receive the endorsement from CUH,” said Tasini. “Hillary Clinton has never stood for single payer health care. Now that she is pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the drug and insurance industry, we can be sure that the incumbent will protect the very industries that are ripping off average Americans."

Jonathan presents his New Deal for New Yorkers economic plan at Kittay House Senior Center

Click here to download a PDF of the economic plan (11 pages).

NEW YORK, NY – Democratic Senate Candidate Jonathan Tasini will release his economic plan at the Kittay House Senior Center in the Bronx at 2:30 pm on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006.

The plan has three core principles: building an economy for people, not corporations; creating a new code of corporate conduct; and reducing the cost of living through improved programs for housing, transportation, utilities, and health insurance.

Jonathan will be interviewed on the Katherine Dunn show on Wisconsin Public Radio tomorrow starting at 10am. Listen online here.

There have been quite a few mentions of Jonathan in the press and online blogs as well. Check out our recent press link for links to key articles.

Tasini speaks to residents of a senior center in Manhattan.
more photos here

Hillary Clinton's apparent determination to duck a debate with the Democratic challenger to her re-election, Jonathan Tasini, is so unbecoming of a woman who would be President that it has prompted both the New York Post and New York Times - which rarely agree editorially - to demand that one be held. Add us to that list.

Ms. Clinton is in absolutely no danger of losing the primary. Her aversion to debating Mr. Tasini has to do with the prime focus of his campaign: her vote four years ago to authorize President Bush to go to war with Iraq.

Our junior Senator would just as soon not remind voters, in a state where diverting our focus from smashing Al Qaeda and hunting down Osama bin Laden to invade another nation was questioned long before the national mood shifted against the war, that she was one of the President's enablers. For much of the primary campaign she has succeeded in dodging the issue, in no small measure due to Mr. Tasini's campaign being so woefully underfunded that he hasn't run TV commercials.

Excerpt from the Clyde Haberman column in NYTimes today:

TAKE Jonathan Tasini.

What? You never heard of him? Can’t blame you. Some may even believe that his first name is Little-known, given that he is sometimes referred to as Little-known Jonathan Tasini.

He is a labor organizer and writer who is running in the Democratic primary as an antiwar challenger to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. His chances of victory would seem to hover somewhere between nil and zilch. Even so, whatever the strengths or weaknesses of his ideas, he is a legitimate candidate who qualified for the Sept. 12 primary ballot.