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Vol. 80/No. 23 June 13, 2016
Socialist Workers Party files for ballot in New Jersey
Militant/Janet Post
TRENTON, New Jersey — Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party candidate
for vice president of the U.S., right, with attorney Lawrence Otter,
center, and campaign supporter Richard Ariza, file petitions May 26 to
put Hart and SWP presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy on the ballot in
New Jersey. At back, elections department staff count the 1,450
signatures, well above the state requirement of 800.
They were acquired as campaigners knocked on doors in cities up and down
the state introducing workers to the Socialist Workers Party, the
party’s paper the Militant — selling 140 subscriptions to it — and books
and pamphlets containing the program of the SWP. Some additional
signatures were collected at picket lines of workers on strike against
Verizon in Trenton, Jersey City, Newark, Hamilton and Nutley.
“My campaign supporters took advantage of this opportunity over the past
month to discuss with workers across New Jersey the economic and
political crisis that we are living through. It grinds on, with no end
in sight,” Hart told the Militant after the filing.
Jacob Perasso, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in New York, and campaign
supporters Janet Post and Cecilie Brown, who work together at a
Philadelphia Walmart, also accompanied Hart in Trenton. “I feel that
Alyson and Osborne are for the workers and for everything we need — and
so we should support the campaign,” said Brown.
— NORTON SANDLER
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