Consider Green Party candidates

I’d like to invite readers to vote for local and statewide candidates who are each Green Party members of vision and integrity. Those lucky enough to live in Philipsburg can cast their ballots for both Bradley Granlun for borough council and Jules Mermelstein as judge on Pennsylvania’s Superior Court — candidates endorsed by the Centre County Green Party.

Granlun was born and raised in Philipsburg and has long worked in landscape installation and maintenance, including eight years as a golf course superintendent with a several hundred thousand dollar annual budget. He gave up that lucrative career in Florida to return home to care for his sick parents. Brad upholds progressive values and is committed to ethical governance. He is a strong supporter of environmental sustainability, economic and social justice, and government accountability. Granlun will achieve his local initiatives by energizing and organizing residents around his priorities. He will make a great borough councilperson.

Mermelstein has been a criminal lawyer, social studies teacher and 25-year township supervisor but still found time to teach Sunday school for over a quarter century. Jules’ untarnished record promises integrity in a state court system that has been recently rife with unethical behavior that has led to impeachments, firings and arrests of judges. He will use his skills to resist the forces attempting to deprive people of their constitutional and legal rights, based on their religion, country of origin, race, sexual orientation or any other demographic. Consider Mermelstein for a Pennsylvania Superior Court judgeship.

The writer is chair of the Centre County Green Party.

This story was originally published October 25, 2017 at 8:24 PM with the headline "Consider Green Party candidates."