NYC Non Partisan Municipal Elections Update

I just received an email from Sarah Lyons, Press Secretary of The Independence Party of New York City with an update on our effort to get the NYC Charter Revision Commission to put Non Partisan Municipal Elections (NPME) as a ballot question in the November 2010 Election.

Read the Press Release (pdf) and the Open Letter (pdf) to the Charter Revision Commission from a cross-section of 32 religious and community leaders, political independents, civil rights activists, educators, labor activists and elected officials was delivered to the Commission urging them to place an initiative for nonpartisan elections on the ballot this November.

Also in the news, the 111-year-old good government group, Citizen's Union, has come out in favor of nonpartisan elections reversing their position from 2003. Read the New York Times article by JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ.

While collecting partition signatures to get on the ballot for my fourth term as the Independence Party State Representative for the 73AD (Eastside of Manhattan), I have also been getting signatures for support of NPME that will be sent to the Commission when my partition period ends on July 15th.

Michael H. Drucker
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