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Vol. 72/No. 28      July 14, 2008

 
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Socialists on Delaware ballot
 
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Alyson Kennedy is joined by campaign supporter John Studer (far left); Osborne Hart, candidate for U.S. Congress in Pennsylvania’s 2nd District (second from left); and Roy Inglee, Delaware campaign chair (far right), as they file for ballot status in Dover June 30.

BY JOHN STUDER  
DOVER, Delaware—For the first time in more than 30 years, the Socialist Workers Party presidential ticket will appear on the ballot here. On June 30 supporters filed papers to place the slate of Róger Calero for president and Alyson Kennedy for vice president on the ballot. Paul Baldwin from the Delaware State Commissioner of Elections Office said the candidates would be posted on the office’s Web site the next day.

Hundreds of Delaware voters registered SWP over the last four years to meet state requirements. Baldwin told the press that the party had certified more than the required number of registered voters to be placed on the ballot.

Alyson Kennedy was joined by Roy Inglee, the party campaign’s chairman in Delaware, and Osborne Hart, the SWP candidate in Philadelphia’s 2nd Congressional District, to file the papers and meet the press.

Kennedy was interviewed by the Delaware News Journal, the state’s major daily, and WHYY-TV Channel 12, the public television station covering Wilmington, Philadelphia, and the Delaware Valley region. The TV station gave extensive coverage to the party’s success in winning ballot status, which will be posted on its Web site for a week.
 
 
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