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Username: _tleilax_
Real Name: d. bene tleilax
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA
- Affiliation: Green
Statement:
I am here to add my view that the Green Party candidate Laura Wells is the only trustworthy environmental advocate in this California election cycle.Recent Comments
_tleilax_
Posted Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 05:36
I completely agree--it should be about hearing the issues, and various solutions to them coming from different angles. Unfortunately when organizations decide that certain candidates aren't worthy of inclusion the entire environmental movement is damaged. The Green Party has many issues to overcome, and their policy of not accepting corporate donations certainly places them at a large disadvantage in general. However, that same policy is what makes them much more trustworthy environmental advocates--the millions of dollars raised by other candidates is unfortunately the most clear indication that those candidates have other pressing concerns as well, ones not serving California's greater good (as has been repeatedly demonstrated year after year).
_tleilax_
Jenesse, I wasn't going to press further since you said you didn't have time, but since you are still responding... PLEASE find the time to respond to the challenges on the Calitics article. I really want to hear your position, and I think it is very important to establish that you and the CLCV are not in fact intrinsically biased and look at Democrats with a much more lenient attitude than they deserve, while refusing to look at Greens at all. At the very least, please reply to the challenge that the CLCV has in fact never authentically endorsed a Green *while* they were a Green--that will take even less time than you've spent here. And if it turns out the CLCV actually hasn't ever endorsed a Green, please admit it. Your honesty will be appreciated. Because as I said, if you leave these factually-based challenges unanswered it appears as though you are indeed biased in general, and even purposefully dishonest when you go around saying that you have endorsed Greens in the past, as you did again here on my post. I'd really like to have it cleared up because I'd like to give you and the CLCV the benefit of the doubt that you're smarter and more trustworthy than that. But currently, that is unfortunately impossible to ascertain.
If you just straight up don't like the Greens, despite their obviously advanced environmental platform (which you, as an environmentalist, should already be well aware of and have easy access to), that's fine. Just do yourself and everyone else a favor and be real about it, and don't try to pretend otherwise. That's the issue here, and it's with you and the CLCV, not the average person concerned about the environment. If that's not the case, I would be completely satisfied if the CLCV could be honest and publicly state their position as being that the Green Party has great positions on environmental policy, but you can't currently support them due to lack of party organization and extensive popular support. Do that instead of pretending they don't exist or they aren't as good as Democrats. Because if you're concerned about the environment, you really can't legitimately deny that the Green Party is THE environmental party in California, and America in general.