I have a booth at the Village Fair

Located down by the Bingo at the South end of the Green. Please come by and say hello.
Remember the Village Fair runs this Friday and Saturday and does not run on Sunday.
As well as Green Party and campaign literature, Rebecca's friends will be selling green bracelets "RIP Becca" to benefit the National Athletic Trainers Assocation Region 1 (New England) scholarship fund, to benefit an Athletic Training Junior or Senior Student. Also paintings by Karen Cohen the mother of one of Rebecca's best friends, commemorating Rebecca to benefit the same fund will be on sale
The Rebecca Paintings

I have a website

green67.org
This links to the Green Party, as well as showing you how to donate to my campaign.

Why am I running anyway

As some may know the initial impetus was the murder of our daughter Rebecca an 04 graduate of NMHS who went to Northeastern Univiersity and was shot dead in her apartment in Mission Hill, Boston, May 20th 2008. As the police investigation progressed, it became apparent that whe was not the intended target and was mistaken for someone else and she was not involved in any way in any illegal activity. People being sent to kill people they do not know is a feature of the illegal drugs business and if her killing was not directly related to that business, the illegal guns used almost certainly were. I have always been sceptical as to whether simply prohibiting drugs, while being perhaps a laudable aim is actually effective policy. But it had always appeared it was the sort of thing that governments do and there was not a lot that could be done about it. Now I have researched extensively on the subject and asked people what they thought about the War on Drugs and discovered two things. One is that academics and others who study it conclude that it is a waste of time and money and almost everyone I talk to agrees too.
New Milford is largely spared the violence connected with the War on Drugs, but we certainly pay for it. We pay for it three times. We pay for investigating crimes and locking up offenders. We pay for the social dysfunctiona and poverty caused by all the violence and we in effect make a down payment to make sure that we continue to pay for all these things well into the future, by creating the next generation of drug dealers. Now in 2010 we are in the middle of a recession and money is tight. This is the time we must stop wasting money on things that don't work and start doing things that do. There are a lot of things that need doing in Connectiuct in order to move forward with a vibrant economy and there is much more in the Green Party platform than ending the War on Drugs, but ending the War will give us the money to pay for all the good things we need. This is why I am running.

News Times article and Green mopeds

http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Father-of-homicide-victim-challenges-Republican-577177.php.
It has been suggested that electric mopeds are not green. Up to a point that is true, because the electricity is likely made from coal, but it can be three times as efficient to burn fuel in a power station than in an internal combustion engine, There are of course losses in transmission and in the battery, so the efficiency and so the carbon footprint is only somewhat better than the internal combustion engine. However in the future electricity will come from mostly renewable and nucleat energy. But that day is far ahead and in the meantime battery technology needs to significantly improve. The electric moped is a very useful platform to help that happen. The Chinese appear to understand this better than we do. They have 22,000,000 electric mopeds, so on 22,000,000 batteries they have honed their technology and manufacturing skills. Watch out for their electric cars ! As your Green Party candidate I will push for these green technologies to be developed in Connecticut not China.

Connecticut 2050 Froum on Saturday 26th June

Chris Murphy your Representative in Congress ran a forum to think about ideas for how the state will look like in 2050. Ironically most of the attendees, myself included are unlikely to be around in 2050, but doing their civic duty to discuss what kind of state our children will inherit. Three subjects were under discussion Preservation of Open Space, Water and Transportation. All are important to a livable state. Connecticut is losing young professionals faster than any other state because our cities dont match up to New York and Boston. Too much violence has a much greater negative effect in a smaller city than a larger one. I've talked about that elsewhere. We need these people to head up the job-creating businesses of the future. Also people like a place they can walk around, don't always have to use the car. Connecticut is ahead of the game in this respect since most of our towns and cities came into being before the car was invented.
One further thing I would like to mention was the Tea Party protesters standing outside, clearly furious at Chris Murphy and everything he represents. You may feel as if the country is going to the dogs and no one cares. A lot of people have lost their jobs and it seems as if no one cares. The Green Party cares. The Green Party will not sell you a bill of goods, but real solutions to the problems facing us today

Martha Dean wants gun training in every school

Martha Dean is a lawyer from Avon running as a Republican for Attorney General. So it seems she would like another unfunded mandate, apparently so that everyone can enjoy their Second Amendment rights to the fullest. However, as it happens, gun training is quite simple
Start Gun Training:
"Never point a gun at anyone unless you intend to kill them"
End Gun Training.
So thats all you need to know about guns. If you want to know more, there are numerous sources of information.

The math just doesnt work

Why the Drug War cannot work.
There are about 110,000 people in Connecticut, who have used an illegal drug besides marijuana in the last month, mostly cocaine, Some are addicts and some casual users. Let us say that are serviced by about 2- 5000 drug dealers. The government with great hoo hah does a big drug bust and rounds up 20 of them for 2 years in prison each. This works out to be $50,000 per year for 40 yeas total =$2 million +$1 million odd in investigation and court costs. Total $3,000,000 Now there are around 200,000 unemployed in Connecticut, so tell me how long it takes to find 20 drug dealer wannabes among 200,000, 3 days?, a week?. The bottom line is no matter how much we would like to eliminate drugs by banning them, the math just doesn't work. It is like going to a car dealer, wanting to buy a new car, but telling the salesman that you can only afford $10 a month in payments. No matter how much you would like a new car and no matter how much the salesman would like to sell you one, the math just doesn't work.