2006 Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania,
founding member of Luzerne County Green Coalition

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Healthcare
Foreign policy (emphasis on Latin America
Colombia in particular)
Cannabis and drug war reform
Ballot access
Judicial reform and government structure
Green Party history
Veteran issues
Sex and gender issues

Bio
Carl Romanelli is the Green Party's first U.S. Senate candidate from Pennsylvania. In 2006 he made history by filing more voter signatures than any candidate in the history of Pennsylvania. After his nearly 100,000 signatures were challenged by the Democratic Party, he was subject to one of the most shameful, oppressive exercises in the history of American electoral politics. Along with Ralph Nader, Romanelli was wrongly removed from the general election ballot by partisan judicial decisions. The courts have ordered Romanelli to pay $80,000 in legal fees to the lawyers for the Democrats. He has been fighting to have the decision reversed and dismissed.

In July of 2008, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania announced the indictment of 10 legislative employees of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives along with 2 state representatives. All are Democrats who were charged with theft, conspiracy, and conflict of interest for using taxpayer funds for political work. The effort against the Romanelli and Nader candidacies were the most involved enterprises of these employees. Two grand juries continue to investigate this scandal and more arrests are expected. Despite these crimes, the courts continue to encumber Romanelli and his attorney with the fees, but they continue push back in the quest for justice.

The above scenario is just one detail that makes Romanelli a most unique and entertaining speaker. He has a long history of applying his passions, integrity, and energy to many causes and projects. In 1984 he and others formed a group in Luzerne County PA called the Green Coalition. The organization was inspired by the values of the Green Party in Germany and tried to bring those values to American politics.

For more than 20 years Romanelli worked as an officer of the family court in his home county. While in college he did a great deal of work on feminist issues with a focus on support systems at women's health centers and in the area of domestic violence. One of the areas of sociology he spent much time and study on in those years is sex and gender.

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