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Where to Vote on Tasini Tuesday >

Submitted by Stephanie Cannon on September 10, 2006 - 10:38am.

The Board of Elections has info on polling places here:
http://vote.nyc.ny.us/pollingplaces.html

Polling Places are open from 6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.



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Now Is The Time!

Submitted by Stephanie Cannon on September 9, 2006 - 4:47pm.

Election day is upon us! We have just THREE DAYS left to get our message out! THREE DAYS to inform New York voters that there’s an alternative to the pro-war incumbent, that there’s a PROGRESSIVE, ANTI-WAR CANDIDATE on the ballot. THREE DAYS to convince them to cast their vote for JONATHAN TASINI, a REAL DEMOCRAT for U.S. Senate.

Ours is a true grassroots campaign. Our volunteers and volunteer coordinators all around the state have accomplished wonders. Just think, we won 44% of the MoveOn poll, an astounding number when you consider that we are up against Clinton's $45 million warchest, funded by the likes of Rupert Murdoch and fatcat lobbyists. OUR CAMPAIGN is fueled by PEOPLE like YOU, committed, progressive activists who are determined to take our party back!

NOW IS THE TIME to give of your time, your energy and your resources. With only three days left before the primary, WE NEED YOU to VOLUNTEER for PHONE-BANKING, VOLUNTEER for ELECTION DAY leafletting, and DONATE to help us reach out to MORE VOTERS. The amazing Susan Sarandon just recorded a message for us that went out to thousands of voters this week, asking them to vote for Jonathan. We need to reach more people. So please, DONATE if you can, VOLUNTEER if you are able, and be sure to go to the polls on Tuesday and VOTE FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN!

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Press Release: Tasini Takes 5-Borough 'Cost of War' Tour

Submitted by Anna Mumford on September 8, 2006 - 10:11am.

Click here to watch a movie of the event in Manhattan. (Quicktime)

NEW YORK, NY – Today Jonathan Tasini will take a five-borough tour focused on the human and economic costs of the war in Iraq. Each stop on the tour will highlight a different sector of our society that has been impacted by the Iraq war and occupation. Tasini will visit: the VA Hospital in Manhattan, a postal service facility slated for closure in the Bronx, the Queensbridge public housing complex, Brooklyn College, and recently closed Bayley Seton Hospital in Staten Island.



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Gay City News endorses Tasini!

Submitted by Anna Mumford on September 7, 2006 - 12:50pm.

The Gay City News endorsed Jonathan Tasini in this week's edition of the paper, available here, and also ran a front-page profile piece on him.

Excerpt:

JONATHAN TASINI is a maverick from the word go, a freelance journalist who worked hard to build a labor movement among his fragmented peers. That effort included a successful fight at his parent union, the United Auto Workers, for a sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy that put our issues on the table in labor negotiations.

On a shoestring campaign, Tasini has raised critical questions— most prominently about this nation’s disastrous policy in Iraq. Not incidentally, he is also a supporter of same-sex marriage.

Clinton has ducked fair dialogue on where she stands on the most pressing foreign policy question facing the nation. Just because she can get away with it does not make it the right thing to do. Clinton has also bobbed and weaved this year on gay rights. Activists have pressed her on her opposition to gay marriage— and come away disappointed that did not even speak out on the dignity of gay families on the Senate floor when Congress debated the ugly Marriage Protection Amendment.

For more than a year, Greater Voices, the coalition representing LGBT Democratic clubs in New York, has negotiated in good faith with Clinton’s office to set up a meeting. As early as February, the senator’s office said they welcomed—and expected—to sit down with gay Democrats in an election year.

The primary is five days away and that meeting has not happened.

Hillary Rodham Clinton needs a wake-up call. Help Jonathan Tasini place that call.



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Press Release: Tasini Criticizes Clinton Vote on Cluster Bomb

Submitted by Anna Mumford on September 6, 2006 - 4:14pm.

NEW YORK, NY: Jonathan Tasini, Democratic Senate candidate in New York, released the following statement on the Senate vote on an amendment by Senators Patrick Leahy and Diane Feinstein limiting the use of cluster bombs. Hillary Clinton voted against the amendment.

"After the loss of more than 1,000 Israeli and Lebanese lives, Lebanese children and their families are returning to their devastated homes only to face the threat of additional maiming or death because of the widespread use of cluster bombs. I applaud the attempt by Sens. Leahy and Feinstein who acted as caring legislators in their attempt to stop future brutalization of innocent civilians. Apparently, the specter of children suffering did not move Hillary Clinton, who refused to vote to restrict the use of cluster bombs by barring their use in civilian areas. To New York voters, it is not clear what level of violence my opponent would oppose: she voted for an illegal and immoral war in Iraq that killed tens of thousands of people and now she is standing in the way of an attempt to protect innocent civilians."