In case you missed it, LeAlan Jones sat down with Fox 32 News’ Mike Flannery.
A Special Candidate for A Special Election
Today, you have the opportunity to decide: Is the status quo good enough? Can you continue to live with the threat of daily violence, the lack of jobs, the shuttering schools, the lack of quality health care, the proliferation of pollution? As different as these problems might sound, they are all related to a culture of do-nothing politics, and We The People deserve better.
For years, the Second Congressional District, like much of Chicago and Cook County, has been represented by corrupt, self-serving politicians — and our community has suffered. And while they have failed miserably in the past, the Democratic Party’s agenda in this election is clear: More of the same.
I decided to run for Congress because I realized that, in order to put an end to a cycle that has dragged us down, each of us needs to stand up and demand something better. That’s why I joined the Green Party, because it represents all the ideas that will make us whole again.
As your congressman, I will fight for a better life across the Second District, by demanding green jobs, upgraded infrastructure, and better health care. I will also fight to the property rights of our district’s farmers by stopping the proposed Peotone Airport and the urban sprawl that goes along with it. And I will fight against budget cuts that threaten our schools and the future of our children.
Please go out and vote on Tuesday, April 9 — and vote for new leader who is ready to get to work.
Peace Out
Mr. LeAlan M. Jones
GREEN PARTY
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
2nd District of Illinois
I am the contractor you met at the gas station
Mr. Jones,I have just heard about you on the Jill Stein website. So far I am happy to hear from someone who is interested in our families and communities. In order to support you I need to know if you are Pro-Life. and if you believe that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. One of the purposes of marriage is the procreation of children. It is also Natural Moral Law. look forward to hearing from you on these issues. Thank you Carlene Jenner
If you only do one thing then this would be it. We need to end exclusionary zoning so the housing market is free. Just as you can buy any car you wish and drive it on any road you wish, so too should you be able to buy any home you wish and place that home on any residential lot that you can afford to buy. I went from paying $3,720/yr in lot rent to a mobile home park to paying $662/yr (now $718/yr) in property taxes once I was allowed to move my singlewide mobile home out of the mobile home park and onto a residential lot. Freedom to live where you want in a home of your own choosing will do more to end poverty in America than anything else. America should be about inclusion and not about exclusion. We all have a right to life. In order to have life you need the necessities of life. Shelter is a necessity of life. Housing is a human right.
Thank you Mr Jones for your outstanding action by taking back into the people’s hands a fundamental pathway to peaceful, fundamental change…transitioning from dysfunctional profit to the reality of meeting human needs THRU DEMOCRATIC GRASSROOTS PARTICIPATION WHERE WE LIVE…and WHERE WE WORK. Democracy is only real when decisions in both spheres of our lives are part of our everyday life.By using our political process and VOTING OUR VALUES/VOTING OUR VISION/VOTING GREEN PARTY, you and hopefully hundreds more across this country will give the 99% who are now disenfranchised thru a corrupt political/economic regime WILL VOTE IN A NEW WAY TO LIVE TOGETHER, peacefully and cooperatively and rationally! Thank you! PeopleForANewSociety
Reducing a Green Party candidate to their position on that is very silly. The very foundation of the Green agenda is to lift up the people, to fight on a range of issues. It’s not a single-issue party. The reduction of candidates and campaigns to the “hot topic” issues was an ingenious Dem/Rep ploy to keep people from paying attention to the real issues. It’s the Greens who are speaking up for the real issues, so don’t let yourself be so easily distracted!
Mr. Jones,
I am a new Green and fervently hope that you will win the seat you are after. However I want to flag you on a hole in your donation strategy regarding credit card use. I do not use any credit card because they are the path to debt for working people. And in offering to take funds via cards, you are supporting the rapacious, usurious, wage-slave-creating credit card industry.
Where is the address where people can send a check to support your candidacy?
There are legions of folks out here who no longer have credit cards and want to see a better option than the Republican-Democrat ticket.
Good luck to you, Kathy Hamilton -Denver
By the way -have you seen the recent Mother Jones article connecting lead with violence -it is astounding.
You can research the Green Party’s (and other parties) stance on issues here: http://www.ontheissues.org
I’m a senior, so please remember this segment of the population when you get to the senate! Go Green and get it done.
love your commitment.
Please also remember the seniors as you get into the Senate. Go Green Party!
Love your commitment.
Carlene,
While I can’t speak for Mr. Jones I honestly doubt you’ll find a Green Party candidate who holds such positions. To be frank, I can’t imagine why you would be interested in Jill Stein or the Green Party in general if those two issues are that important to you, as both are solidly pro-choice and pro-gay marriage.
Mr. Amaya, please send me an email.
@Ms. Jenner,
I appreciate your questions and unfortunately I am for a women’s right to choose and I believe that adults have the freedom to do what they want as long as it doesn’t infringe on individuals liberty. I don’t personally believe in gay-marriage, but we live in a free society and my personal beliefs shouldn’t have the ability to impede others.
If families are more relevant than society in the initial phase of adolescent development, they are more equipped to handle these issues we have allowed to become social policy. As it relates to a woman’s right to choose, if the family does it job then people like us can’t make a personal judgement.
I am pro-family. and by believing in the family it allows me to put the burden of my perspectives on the constituency that matters more than my political or personal perspective. If you can’t respect my opinions, I can understand that I won’t have your support.
Peace Out
LMJ
The Green Party is so very much for life. It is opposed to the seemingly unending warfare that we find ourselves in. Greens want to keep the whjole planet alive and not squander our resources and living beings in the relentless quest of greed’s unquenchable thirst. Life is giving people justice, a living wage, decent health care, food and water that is pure. Life is so much MORE than the wealthy and well off further pushing the less fortunate into poverty and prisons. Please read the platform for the Greens at http://www.gp.org
Good luck, Mr. Jones. I’d like to hear that you are pro-choice and that you believe that reproductive decisions are between a woman and her doctor.
Carlene, it seems strange to me that you would be browsing Stein’s website and come across Lealan. For you would know the national party’s stance is to support the right of individuals to marry their partner, regardless of gender. Otherwise, we would be just as wishy washy as the Democrats can be.
LeAlan, I am a south sider as you are. I went to day camp near 79th and Stony Island. I am glad to support you, though I do not live in the 2nd district, but I forwarded Jill Stein’s email to my church friends who are in your district. Hope you get onto the ballot.
One concern, in the WTTW and Fox exerpts you stated that you have the answers, but then none of the answers were stated. So what are your answers for ending drone warfare, eliminating farm subsidies on corn; making sure that GMO produce is so labelled? Ending unending warfare? THAT is the killer no one is talking about budget wise.
My name is Evan Moore. I am a journalism student at Roosevelt University. I would like to sit down with you soon and discuss your campaign. Let me know if that works for you. I can be reached at 773-682-4866.
Thanks,
Evan Moore
It’s great to see the Green Party starting to get traction in the USA after so many years. We have been a force in European politics for decades, but in America, the Democans and Republicrats have kept all other parties out of the discussion. Since the G.O.P. is working to destroy itself, there will soon be a need for a loyal opposition to the Dems.
Kathy Hamilton, you (and anyone else!) can mail a contribution to:
LeAlan M. Jones For Congress
2516 E 77th St Apt 1
Chicago IL 60649
We hope you can use the withdrawal of Sen Hutchinson from the race to shine a light on the need for wise regulations regarding firearms. Doesn’t the right to life trump a privilege to own a gun? Individuals are NOT a “well-regulated militia”!
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/18/17003570-dem-forced-from-congressional-race-over-nra-support?lite
Let’s work hard to get you elected. I really want you to win. I’m not even from Chicago.
One of the best answers by a conservative on same sex marriage I heard came from a local candidates in my area a few years back.
He said”
“As a Republican I respect the private contract between two individuals even I personally disagree with it. Marriage is a private contract.”
Same sex marriage is a private contract that should be respected.
Wow, Mr. LeAlan Jones ! I just learned of your Green-Party candidacy by reading the PeoplesTribune, (PT), April 2013 edition. The article glistened with your clarity of purpose. The authors Lew Rosenbaum and Alan Harris, cited your commitment to: extend “Medicare for all;” revitalize the 2nd District through the Green Party’s “green new deal,” and to break the suffocating stranglehold that the corporate-backed Democratic Party has on Chicago’s families, resources and politics. Even though I live in Texas, I have distributed the article to Latinos and others in San Antonio and in Houston because we are inspired by your life’s story and because you are giving folks a clear voice and a real choice. Also, lots of us have extended families still living in Illinois’ 2nd District…. So I hope by email, facebook, and “twitter” the name of that article will set-off a social-media frenzy: “ILLINOIS: VOTE GREEN IN THE 2nd DISTRICT.” And once you get to Congress, please Mr. Jones, remember to open a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented men, women and children who became trapped by the Democratic Party’s “dead-end immigration bill” which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in October, 1996. Remember, those 11 million undocumented have millions of relatives who are U.S. citizens—including many who did NOT vote in the November 2012 election because of the two-party dictatorship and because of Obama’s deportation practices. Oh, and while you create “green,” safe jobs based on clean, renewable energy, please, Mr. Jones, remember to STOP THE XL TARSANDS TRANSCANADA PIPELINE. (See the People’s Tribune, January 2013 edition, which published an article I wrote: “Texas Greens in Ballot Battle to Stop TransCanada XL Pipeline”, http://peoplestribune.org/wordpress1/category/democracy-and-elections/ Gracias, Mr. Jones for being an inspiration to tens of thousands in the 2nd District and across this nation : ) …from: MariaElena Castellanos
Mr. Jones – You know “it takes a village” and the “same old – same old” won’t work. You bring visibility and real issues to the forefront.
Good luck, my brother!
Former Village Foundation employee, repping Maryland Green Party.
Dear LeAlan M. Jones: best wishes in the upcoming election Tuesday. I see here above there was very little numbers of people posting here and some people hostile to ten key values pretending to be Green. Marriage Equality issues are not likely to be settled by Tuesday and only 9 states have fully resolved the fundamental right of people to marry who they see fit. As for mandatory pregnancy laws, the rights of women to choose if and when they may be pregnant is absolute, not the business of theocrats or religious nuts who would interfere with medical matters of private citizens. I hope the CHICAGO READER, THE SUN TIMES AND THE TRIB were giving you equal time along with all the local radio, tv & networks….. I would have worked 19 hours a day sending press releases via phone, fax, email, snail mail & courier ANNOUNCING OUR EVENTS or your arrival at other events…directing new event logistics freeing you to focus on candidate activities…..I hope in the future you will be open to volunteers who are ready to make a difference in a future campaign. Your accomplishments are great and Greens deserve a winning campaign no matter who the opponents are. 843-926-1750 @LarryAccomplish Larry_Carter_Center@yahoo.com 20 Wespanee DR, Charleston, SC 29407-6066 hope you might stop and visit South Carolina Greens on your trips our part of the country.
I have been a member of the Green Party in Maryland for 15 years. I’ve been closely following your candidacy and wish you the best of luck.