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We will NOT take corporate money!
We are growing rapidly!
  Peggy Murphy Charles Woodrow |
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR US
OUR POSITION ON PROPERTY TAXES
The influence of corporate money on the 2 major political parties is an aberration of democracy, which results in lawmakers representing corporate interests rather than the people who elected them. The self-evident purpose of corporate contributions is to obtain the passage of legislation favorable to corporate entities. The corporate payoff of both major parties has become entrenched in our political system over the past 20 years. It has resulted in the retreat of the Democrats from programs and ideologies that once made them the “people’s party”. Instead there are now 2 corporate parties… Democrats and Republicans. The financing of political campaigns by corporations and PACs is the most important issue that this country and this state face today because democracy itself is being circumvented. An increasing number of voters recognize the futility of voting for either major party and have stopped voting.
We, the candidates of the Green Party, offer voters a real choice, and true representation in government, because we do not accept money from corporations or PACs and because we will fight to put an end to corporate political financing. The Green Party is growing rapidly and is running more candidates for offices at all levels of government. Our goal is to return the country to a true democracy, where the people are truly represented.
Our other major concerns are for the most part issues directly affected by the corporate influence on the legislature… Air and water pollution, the proliferation of consumer products which are neither recyclable nor biodegradable, toxic waste, ocean dumping, over-logging, over-fishing, over-developing, sprawl, the shrinkage of wild habitat and of our natural resources, and the reliance on limited fossil fuels and on nuclear power. Spiraling health care costs, which are greatly inflated by the huge profits of giant corporations such as those in the pharmaceutical industry, which spend large amounts of cash to secure legislation favorable to themselves and to kill all proposals for universal health insurance. And the increasing gap between the super rich and the rest of us. In particular, recently passed or pending legislation in the US Congress which offers a montage of tax breaks which disproportionately benefit the rich and which will ultimately result in both program cuts and increased local taxes. The elimination of the death tax is just one example. There is already an exemption for the first million dollars inherited. Only the small percentage receiving more than that will benefit from this cut. Congress could have chosen to simply increase the exclusion to, for example, 5 million. Instead, they choose to allow an individual who inherits billions of dollars to pay zero taxes. Who is being represented?
In New Jersey, "pay-for-play" has been an ongoing, dragged-out political issue. But, "pay-for-play" is unconscionable and should be quashed immediately. It is only an "issue" for those who are afraid of losing the campaign contributions of the businesses getting the contracts.
The “Key Values” of the Green Party address these issues. They can be found in an appendix to Ralph Nader’s book “Crashing the Party”. Some of our key values are Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, and Economic Justice. The first of our key values is Grassroots Democracy, which emphasizes making our public representatives fully accountable to the people who elect them.Clean Elections, our top Priority !!To contact, please send email to:greenparty_dist3@hotmail.com
Contributions may be made to:
Murphy & Woodrow for Assembly
PO Box 566
Sewell, NJ 08080
