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Vol. 72/No. 37      September 22, 2008

 
With Vermont, SWP ticket
is on the ballot in 10 states
(front page)
 
BY TED LEONARD  
MONTPELIER, Vermont—Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have succeeded in putting the presidential ticket of Róger Calero and his running mate Alyson Kennedy on the ballot in 10 states (see chart on page 4).

Kennedy filed more than 2,300 signatures on September 9 to qualify for ballot status in Vermont.

The New York State Board of Elections informed the socialist campaign that same day that the SWP ticket is on the ballot in New York. The following day the Vermont election board confirmed the party will be on the ballot in that state as well, bringing the total states where the SWP is on the ballot to 10.

At the University of Vermont in Burlington, Kennedy was interviewed for the Cynic, the school paper. The reporter asked, “Because youth are interested in this election, what would you tell them?”

“They should vote for me and my running mate Róger Calero because we are the only candidates who are for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Europe, and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,” replied Kennedy. “The SWP ticket offers the only working-class alternative in the elections.”

“Hundreds of people were killed in Haiti in the recent hurricanes,” Kennedy noted. “In Cuba only a few deaths have been reported so far. This is because in Cuba, where the interests of workers and farmers come first, working people mobilized to ensure the safety of all. I recently visited New Orleans where three years after Hurricane Katrina, working-class neighborhoods are still devastated.”
 
 
Related articles:
Calero backs antidiscrimination fight
SWP presidential campaign tour schedule
Ballot status chart  
 
 
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