Another TN Senate Alternative to Corker and Clayton: Vote for Green Party’s Martin Pleasant

August 13th, 2012 | Posted by Jim Cook in Alternative Parties | Democrats | Election 2012 | Politics | Republicans | State and Local - (2 Comments)

When the Republican Party runs a big oil, big brother candidate and the Democratic Party runs an outright bigot in the Senate race in Tennessee, what’s a liberal to do? One solution that we’ve discussed here at Irregular Times is to write in independent Jim Maynard in November. There’s another good alternative, and that’s to vote for Martin Pleasant, the Green Party candidate for Senate. As Richard Winger points out, if Martin Pleasant can get 5% of the vote, the Green Party would be automatically ballot-qualified in 2014 and 2016, leading to more liberal choices on the ballot. As the Democrats show with their nomination of a conservative disaster in this race, the voters of Tennessee could use some more choices.

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