Dear friends,

THANK YOU for standing up, facing the heat, and shining your light in these worrisome times. Without our voices in this race, the governors campaign would have been no more than a choice between two versions of corporate-sponsored business as usual. One is accompanied by crocodile tears and the other by unapologetic crowing. But they lead us to the same place in the end. Amidst this murky false-choice, our campaign was the beacon of integrity, justice and democracy that’s needed to scatter the gathering political thunderclouds.

While the media blackout combined with an intensive spoiler fear campaign to peel innumerable voters away – resulting in 1.4% support overall – we ran as strong as 12% in communities in Western Massachusetts. No small feat in light of the drumbeat to scare progressives into silence.

Still we emerge from this race stronger than ever. Our ranks have swelled with inspired activists prompted by this latest election-charade to leave corporate-sponsored politics for good. Many former Democratic stalwarts have now joined us in building a clean-money politics of integrity in the Green-Rainbow Party.