Bob Hennelly
WNYC's Bob Hennelly is an award-winning investigative journalist. While at WNYC he has reported on a wide gamut of major public policy questions ranging from immigration and homeland security to power outages and utility mergers.
Barron Drums Up Support For New Freedom Party
Monday, September 27, 2010
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On Monday, the same day Attorney General Cuomo made an outreach effort up in Harlem, City Council member Charles Barron launched a voter registration drive to help with his bid for Governor on the newly created Freedom Party ballot line.
Barron also layed out a proposal to provide free mass transit by imposing a form of congestion pricing and higher taxes on the state's wealthiest households.
Barron supporters filed 43,000 signatures to meet the 15,000 signatures required to win a ballot line in this November's election. If Barron's line receives at least 50,000 votes on election day, the new Freedom Party will retain its own ballot line -- like the state's Working Families and the Conservative parties -- in subsequent elections.
Barron said that on policies like reducing the size of government and taxation policy Cuomo and Paladino are actually sounding similar themes.
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I smell a media blackout.
More news about Barron's campaign & the Howie Hawkins run for governor on the Green party ticket would certainly serve the public interest.
would be good if you report more on him and the green party, not just cuomodino
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