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Freedom Party files for NY ballot status
By
Bill Cecil
Published Aug 18, 2010 2:50 PM
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The New York State Freedom Party announced Aug. 16 at a press conference
at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall that it had collected more than 43,500
signatures on petitions nominating New York City Council member Charles Barron,
Eva Doyle and Ramón Jimenez to run for governor, lieutenant governor and
attorney general, respectively. About 50 people flanked Barron (at center in
first row), State Assembly member Inez Barron and campaign managers Viola
Plummer and Jitu Weusi as they announced the successful conclusion of the
petition drive. Only 15,000 valid signatures are required for ballot status.
This grassroots movement was reflected in the volunteers who had packed the
campaign headquarters in Brooklyn. As Plummer put it at the press conference,
“They have capital, money, but we have labor, people.”
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