Sources have informed me that Malachy McCourt, brother of author Frank, is running for the Green Party's nomination for governor of New York. At least according to this piece which ran in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and many other non-New York papers.
According to the results a Google News search, over 50 newspapers ran the wire service story on McCourt's candidacy, which was made public in late March. In addition to Seattle, newspapers from places like Miami, Los Angeles, Nevada, North Dakota and Mississippi ran the story. But apparently only two dailies from New York state have done so, both in Long Island. In fact, more papers from Canada and Britain (one each) ran the story than did publications from upstate New York (zilch).
Since McCourt's progressive candidacy is likely to get almost no press coverage in the corporate media, New Yorkers who want to learn about more than just Democrat and Republican candidates may wish to check out his campaign website.
As a public service, this blog will continue to offer information about and links to campaigns run by non-Democrat and -Republican candidates ignored by the mainstream media.
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