I just heard what happens to Green Party petitioners in Chicago on WCPT.

[LoZoccolo]

They have this legal show on Sundays where people answer questions, and somebody called in and said that other Green Party petitioners got visits from the building inspectors after they submitted their ballot petitions.

Dooga dooga dooga dooga.

[mdmc]

1. 2 corporate parties

uberalles

[LoZoccolo]

3. Right, they are exactly the same.

That would explain why one party is sending teabaggers after the other.

[Taverner]

6. Oh but dontchya know - Obama=Bush!!!!!

They are the same - the saaaaaame because Saint Nader told me so!!!!

And if you are going to use facts or logic, I have to plug my ears and go LALALALALALALA

[bertman]

49. Ever heard of the "Daley Machine". Fairy tale, right?

[Forkboy]

2. You would think that's cool.

You're a sad, sad man.

[Taverner]

5. I think the GP are making this up, like usual

[Forkboy]

11. Evidence?

Without it, you cheering on a tactic like this lame, though I must say not unexpected. Nothing screams liberal like rooting for tactics like this. You do Dems proud.

[LoZoccolo]

13. Green Party members often have an instant credibility problem.

Saying that the two parties are the same.

[Forkboy]

16. I think you have instant credibility as well, yet don't make accusations without evidence.

So, you can either give me evidence of Taverner's claim, which you seem to be agreeing with, or go play with yourself some more and let the adults talk.

[LoZoccolo]

19. Or I can let the building inspectors continue to do their job.

lol

[Forkboy]

20. You're a paragon of Democratic virtue.

If it happened to Dems you'd shit yourself. Which is why you have no credibility with anyone other than other hypocrites.

Cya in church! :hi:

[truedelphi]

53. Hi there Forkboy.

It's hard to fathom how people think that there is always such a difference?

I guess a kid killed in Afghanistan under Obama's Presidency is somehow less dead than a kid killed under George W?!?

I mean, I am grateful for the differences when they show up (Like the stem cell research approval being offered now) but when there aren't any differences, can't we say so?

[Taverner]

23. Relax - Naderboy is just mad because he spilled his patchouli all over his hemp shorts

[Forkboy]

27. You sure you're 39 again?

:rofl:

[Milk]

41. 39?

That can't be true.

[Critters2]

37. The Green Party did surprisingly well in the last gubernatorial election in Illinois,

thanks, in large part, to the Dem candidate--one Rod Blagojevich. Neither major party offered reasonable candidates, and lots of Dems, including me, voted Green.

Dems should keep the Greens in mind. Lefties do have somewhere else to go.

[truedelphi]

50. If a person's party leaves them behind,

A person should have somewhere to go!

But the Corporate Dems are too busy selling us out to realize there might be repurcussions.

[Taverner]

15. The GP has done more to Elect Republicans than the GOP itself

Since Nader, the GP has been dead to me

[Forkboy]

17. That's not evidence.

When the Pepubs pull something like this on the Dems I'm sure you'll be happy...or a flaming hypocrite if it bothers you.

Thanks for playing.

[Taverner]

22. I'm not happy, but I'm just not horrified as some are

And some of us think the GP had it coming anyway....

They've elected enough Republicans...

But I'm guessing you don't support Obama or any Democrats for that reason - No pony and they failed the purity test

Thank YOU for playing. Now please leave - this board is for Democrats, not petulant Green Party traitors

[Forkboy]

25. I've voted for every Democrat since I was old enough to vote.

Starting in '86 with local Dems, then Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry and Obama.

But I'm guessing you don't support Obama or any Democrats for that reason - No pony and they failed the purity test

I'm guessing you need to make any assumption available to justify your support of something wrong being done to someone simply because you don't like them. And funny how you ask me to leave and then complain that others demand purity. At least your hypocrisy is consistent.

Now please leave...this board is for Democrats and progressives who actually stand for Democratic and progressive ideals REGARDLESS of who it happens to, not simple minded, petulant, hypocritical posers.

[LoZoccolo]

31. Actually no.

They say that this board is for Democrats of all stripes - that would include those who advocate "machine politics" like we have in Chicago.

[Forkboy]

33. Nice code for dirty politcs.

Repubs makes excuses when they do things they hate being done to them as well. You're in swell company. At least it's a party where your intelligence almost matches the others.

[dysfunctional press]

54. i'd like to see some evidence that the green's claims are true...

having lived in chicago, as a property owner- i don't believe them.

[Taverner]

4. Cry me a river, GP

Republican Enablers

[Forkboy]

12. How old are you, 10?

You truly think this kind of tactic is ok just because it's done to a group you hate? What's the matter with you?

[Taverner]

14. No - but its like when a child murderer is being executed

I am anti DP - but I don't exactly cry tears for the condemmed

[Forkboy]

18. I think you just answered in the affirmative, whether you realize it or not.

[Taverner]

21. Um, yeah I'm 10 years old

It took me 39 years to reach age 10, but 10 I am :eyes:

[Forkboy]

26. I can't tell from your posts.

[Taverner]

30. Then don't read them

No one forced you to read my posts

[Forkboy]

34. No one forces you to make shit up minus evidence either.

[Taverner]

35. Look - must I remind you of the Green Party's past behavior?

Given that past behavior is a good indication on how future behavoir will be?

[Forkboy]

36. It can be, sure. Is it always? No. That's why we use evidence when making accusations.

Fox News does what you're doing, accusing people of things that may not even be true just because you don't like them. It's shallow, and Dems and liberals are better than that. Or should be, no? :shrug:

[G_j]

42. do tell!

come on, remind us.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Chicago has actual building inspectors?

[bigmonkey]

10. Very fierce ones.

They do a good job, and sometimes they are politicized into doing harassment. At least my impression. But they definitely are fierce.

[Greyhound]

46. Yes, and for $200 - $400 you can own one for a couple hours, too.

"Forget it Jake, it's (Chicago)"
:rofl:

[sam sarrha]

8. probably look'n for bomb making materials an terrorist tools that all communist radicals poses

[Jim Sagle]

9. Naah, just looking for envelopes stuffed with cash.

[Taverner]

24. Why do some here automatically think the GP isn't overreacting?

They have been known to blow shit out of proportion on occasion

You know, like running Nader and actually thinking its good for the Country. Or protesting outside Pelosi's house for not shooting Bush in the head right after she became Speaker.

[Forkboy]

28. Why do some make accusations without evidence?

You may be right. Show us the evidence so we can agree.

[DailyGrind51]

29. The fact that WCPT employs Jake Hartfordadds weight to your claim.

[LoZoccolo]

32. How so?

The person who called in told this story.

[DailyGrind51]

39. Hartford is no fan of Greens either, nor most other "liberal" causes.

[Critters2]

38. How so? nt

[WeDidIt]

40. This story would have bugged me in 1999...

but now, the only thing that comes to mind is "fuck 'em."

[G_j]

43. after eight years of dems giving Bush & the GOP everything they wanted

and then gaining power and still kissing GOP ass, how can some people be so arrogant and vicious when it comes the GP?
I'm sorry, but that is so freakin' immature. You're not liberals at all, I call fraud!

[LoZoccolo]

44. Do you mean to tell me that every vote in the House of Representatives and the Senate was unanimous?

[G_j]

45. I don't think I said that.

But, given the DP track record as a whole, I don't think the venom and derision is warranted. Glass houses and all..
How many are exceptionally proud of the Democratic party as a whole?

on edit: I mean in most recent history.

[LoZoccolo]

47. Yeah but you kinda did.

You said they gave Bush* everything he wanted. Wouldn't, then, the Democrats have voted the same as the Republicans?

[G_j]

48. well yes, by "dems" I did not mean every individual.

Thus I tried to clarify that I was speaking of Democrats as a group. That seems to be the sense in which the Greens are being discussed: as a party.

[truedelphi]

51. Looking up the vote count regarding the

Unpatriot Act, you know the act wherein the rights afforded us by the Bill of Rights and seventeen or so other Amendments were washed away, with only 1 Senator voting against it, and only 4 from the House voting against it, I would say that if you vote third party, maybe you are throwing away your vote. But on the other hand, exactly what is being gained by voting for supporting either of the other two parties?

[LoZoccolo]

52. "exactly what is being gained by voting for supporting either of the other two parties"

Go away.

[Hannah Bell]

55. it's chinatown, jake. chicago is run by about 10 people, apparently.