Election Update: the Green Party Wins in 2005

[Deirdre Helfferich]

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Election Update: the Green Party Wins in 2005
Green candidates won 24 races last Tuesday,
bringing the total number of Green electoral
victories to 37 for 2005. Highlights of Election
Day included Cam Gordon’s victory in his bid for
Minneapolis City Council, Annie Young’s
reelection to Minneapolis Recreation and Parks
Board. Susan Hopkins won election to the
Portland, Me., school board, where she will
serve alongside three other Greens; Greens in
Maine also helped defeat a ballot initiative
that would have repealed the state’s new law
protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender people form discrimination. Four out
of five candidates in California won their bids
for office. Greens in Takoma Park, Md., helped
pass an Instant Runoff Voting initiative, which
will ensure that elections won’t be
winner-take-all.
All of these successes would not have been
possible without the Coordinated Campaign
Committee (CCC), a national committee that
provides training and resources to Green
campaigns. The CCC consists of Green Party
activists who are skilled campaign volunteers
from all over the country who help locals and
states build strong Green Party campaigns. And
they expect to undertake and accomplish more
victories in 2006.
Unlike the two major corporate parties, the
Green Party depends entirely on donations from
individuals. We do not take money from big
business. Green office holders are accountable
to their constituents, not corporations. The
work of the CCC and other national Green Party
projects would not be possible without the
financial support of thousands of people across
the country.
The Green Party of the United States plans to
run more candidates in 2006 and we anticipate
more victories in 2006. The Coordinated
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