Check out the NY results for 2006 - HRC is the Independence candidate

[karynnj]

Yes, the party she made an issue of not taking the line for in 2000. (In NY, you can be on multiple parties' lines and your numbers are summed across all your lines.

http://www.elections.state.ny.us/NYSBOE/elections/2006/general/2006_ussen.pdf

(Caveat - I don't know more than that this is an officiall chart - I was looking for how big it was - but the fact that she had that line in 2006 is more interesting)

[karynnj]

1. kick

[Renew Deal]

2. I don't think the leadership changed either.

The person at issue is Lenora Fulani.

[karynnj]

3. I had never heard of this party

I am surprised that HRC mentioned it as it had nothing to do with the question.

[Renew Deal]

4. Actually, the leadership DID change.

"Fulani and other Newman followers were ousted from the party's state executive committee in September 2005 as a result of media controversy over Fulani's refusal on cable news channel NY1 to disavow her now-infamous 1989 statement that Jews are "mass murderers of people of color.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Party_of_New_York#History

The "Independence Party" is conveniently named that to trick people. People that want to be "independents/blanks/unaffiliated" think they are registering that way, but instead they join this BS party.