Posted: 10/24/2006 7:14:41 AM EDT
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What do you guys think of this guy? He definitely sounds good for 2A but not sure I agree with the rest of his views. www.whitneyforgov.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=15 
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WOW - just WOW.... I'm suprised the Green Party guy is pro-gun. - Happily suprised I might add... I really don't think JBT is going to do much for gun rights. Blago will be worse though... What we need is a pro-gun, downstate Dem (like Poshard was). And a complete overhauling of the IL. election laws. Mike |
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the point being right now is we need to go with judy... its to late to start thinking about someone else this late in the game.. will she do alot for our gun rights...no i dont think she will... BUT i dont think she will make them worse either... next time around we need to get going much earlier.............. |
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I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell I'd ever consider voting for a Green party canidate from Carbondale. I grew up 20 miles from that 60's left-over hippie crowd, attended college there and that is the last group we need as a governor in my opinion. As far as i'm concerned when you put Green Party and Carbondale together it's the same as Sierra Club and California. |
I know what you mean about carbondale. I'm going to SIU-C right now, and just today one of my teachers said it "fascinates her to wonder how it would be to live in North Korea". If that's not a huge WTF I don't know what is. Not to mention, we pretty much skipped the US/Canada part of the class, but took a hell of a lot of notes about places like subsaharan africa. 
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Guys I must be losing my mind. I swear I just read about him and he was listed as NO friend of the NRA or the 2nd amendment. Anyone else read this somewhere, or am I just dreaming this one up? It had to do with his arguement on open-carry. Ehhhh, maybe I am just getting old, but I do believe that a vote for Whitney is exactly the thing which we lead Blago back into office. Remember, Clinton only got elected because Ross Perot got 21% of the vote and it was shown that the majority of his votes came at the expense of the Republican Party. TIA |
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Candidate confirms past Socialist ties Green Party candidate Whitney was editor of group's paper By Eric Krol Daily Herald Political Writer Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 Green Party governor candidate Rich Whitney of Carbondale was a national figure in the Socialist Party before resigning his post in 1993 after getting involved in a feud and quitting for law school. "Naturally, I don't trumpet the fact that I was a Socialist. I was a Socialist because in my political evolution, I've always cared about working people," Whitney told the Daily Herald late Saturday night. "I'm not a Socialist now. A lot of people did things in the 60s and 70s they don't do now." Although unknown to most voters, the 51-year-old attorney is pulling as much as 16 percent of the vote in polls from those unsatisfied with Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Republican candidate Judy Baar Topinka. Whitney admitted that he hadn't told any Illinois reporters about his Socialist past until the Daily Herald called him late Saturday for confirmation. "I'm not embarrassed by it. If I'm campaigning in southern Illinois, I don't start off by telling them I'm pro-choice, either. That's like leading with your chin," Whitney said. "I used to be a Catholic too, but I don't bring that up either." Whitney was a Socialist from 1975 to 1993 and served as editor of "The People," the national party's newspaper. In 1989, he penned a resolution at the Socialist convention saying that the notion capitalism triumped over socialism was "false." "Socialism is a system that has yet to come into existence. it is a system that will come into existence when the working class of an advanced industrialized capitalist society like the United States recognizes that private ownership of the means of production no longer serves the social interest and is incapable of meeting the workers' needs," Whitney wrote. Whitney said he wasn't a Communist, but believed in "a unique brand of Socialism" that "got back to the original philosophy" of Karl Marx. But Whitney, whom his Socialist brethren called "Comrade Whitney," resigned as editor after getting in trouble for saying publicly that he thought the Socialist Party was going downhill. Whitney was outed as a Socialist in a letter to the editor in this week's Illinois Times, an alternative weekly in Springfield by the current national secretary of the Socialist Labor Party of America. |
Green Party's platform: http://www.ilgp.org/about/platform-text
Well, there you have it. Unbelievable. When the @#%! will people understand that government should KEEP ITS DAMN HANDS OFF! Every time the government meddles in our affairs it creates more and more problems in addition to loss of liberty. Screw this party. ICarry.org endorsed Judy the day she won the primary, and we've stuck with that endorsement ever since. Yes, there are a couple better candidates (and Rich Whitney is NOT one of them), but gun owners are not organized enough to vote for one of them. So we're stuck with Judy, until we can get organized (join www.icarry.org to get with it). If for some reason you can't bring yourself to vote for Judy, I would urge you to vote for write-in candidate Mark McCoy (independent, but he's a libertarian and a good guy!!) or Randy Stufflebeam (Constitution Party). But really -- just vote for Topinka no matter how bad it smells. Cast your clothespin vote :P Let's get Blowhard out please. |