Green Party Watch

From Jill Stein for President: Double your donation, double your green. It’s simple. Donate right now and help Jill Stein double your greenbacks for the Green Party. Every donation you make to Jill Stein for President, up to $250, can be matched dollar-for-dollar by public financing once we have qualified for federal matching funds. Donate now. To qualify for matching [...]

From Green Party US: US taxpayers to subsidize the high cost and high liability for the new units, while Southern Co. reaps the profits WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party candidates and leaders strongly criticized a Feb. 9 decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to issue the final license for two new reactors located at [...]

The Illinois Green Party held their Presidential Primary via an online ballot, which closed last night. These results were just published: STEIN WINS IL GREEN PARTY PRIMARY; BARR HAS STRONG WRITE-IN SHOWING Results are in from the Illinois Green Party’s first ever online primary. With a total of 153 ballots cast, Harvard-educated physician Jill Stein of [...]

(Madison, WI) – The Wisconsin Green Party is conducting a Presidential Primary by mail, with ballots sent to all dues paying members of the Party this week. Mailed ballots must be returned by March 2nd, the day before the WIGP State Nominating Convention and Spring Membership Meeting. The Primary ballot includes four candidates. Roseanne Barr (CA) [...]

The Jill Stein Campaign reported this afternoon that it has collected over 3,000 signatures to put the Green Party on the ballot in Utah. For the past week, volunteers and staff for Jill Stein for President have been working day and night in Salt Lake City and neighboring communities. With Utah, the Green Party of [...]

Roseanne Barr’s presidential bid has penetrated the veil of media silence so deeply that North Carolina based national polling firm Public Policy Polling has included her in a head to head to head comparison with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Obama wins with 47%, while Romney draws 42% and Barr stands at 6%, with [...]

“The Caucus” blog at the New York Times posted a five question interview with Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein this morning: Q. Is your campaign trying to tap into the Occupy movement? A. Occupy is very much a part of a broader move for democracy and economic and social justice. That is alive and well [...]

From the Illinois Green Party: In conjunction with our online Presidential Primary, Greens will be hosting presidential caucuses around the state in February. These caucuses will be opportunities for people to learn more about the presidential candidates and to confer with other Greens. This list of caucuses will continue to be updated as [...]

MLive reports: The Green Party of Michigan has scheduled its state membership meeting this weekend in Bay City, and several public panel discussions are on the agenda. The party is one of only five in the state with guaranteed ballot access. Anyone who might be interested in running for office as a Green is [...]

From Jill Stein for President: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein praised former Senator Russ Feingold today for speaking plainly when he says that, “The President is wrong to have embraced the corrupt corporate politics of Citizens United and that’s what you’re doing when you start using and consorting with Super PACs.” [...]

From the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party: The State Committee of the Green Rainbow Party approved a proposal for the formation of a Strategic Planning Working Group at the October 22nd quarterly meeting held in Amherst, Mass. We are pleased to present to you the initial findings in this document. We believe strongly that the content of [...]

From Howie Hawkins’ website: A Green New Deal A teach-in on Progressive Taxes, Single Payer Healthcare and Running for Office Sunday, February 12 from 2 to 5 pm ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Ave. Free and open to the public! Join the discussion as we demystify how state taxes affect our community learn the how we can fight for Universal healthcare for all after [...]

The Green Party of Minnesota held Caucuses yesterday (Tuesday Feb. 7), and as of this afternoon there has been no official Caucus results released. However, based on very unofficial (and anecdotal) comments on various Facebook pages, including the GP of MN page, it appears that Jill Stein won a number of the individual caucuses. Green comments on [...]

The Minnesota Green Party is holding caucuses on Tuesday, February 7th. The caucuses will make decisions about candidates for 2012 elections, including presidential candidates. Here is the list of caucuses from the GPMN website: The following locations have been confirmed for Green Party caucuses. You can also call the Green Party office at 651-288-2820, [...]

From Jill Stein for President: Jill Stein scored a very big win at the state convention of the Ohio Green Party on Saturday, winning 90% of the vote in a four-way race in presidential balloting. The convention met in Columbus to select delegates to be sent to the Green Party presidential nominating convention in [...]

Hat tip to Ballot Access News for this story: On February 6, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania jury convicted State Representative H. William DeWeese of using state resources to work on partisan political activity during the period 2000-2006. DeWeese was in the Democratic leadership in the House during those years. He directed [...]

According to Ballot Access News, the Green Party and Constitution Party in Tennessee have won access to the Ballot in Tennessee via lawsuit: On February 3, U.S. District Court Judge William J. Haynes invalidated Tennessee’s new ballot access law for minor parties. The case is Green Party of Tennessee and Constitution Party of Tennessee v [...]

Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein of Massachusetts is campaigning this weekend in Ohio and Indiana. From the campaign website: Jill Stein’s support for worker power has carried her to the vital labor states of Ohio and Indiana this weekend. She begins a three day tour today with a visit to the Evergreen Cooperatives in [...]

The Illinois Green Party, which lost statewide party status in 2010, is embracing online organizing by holding their Party Primary online. Although only Illinois Green Party members can vote in the Primary, the Illinois Greens have coupled their ballot with an online membership form, allowing voters to both join the party and cast a ballot [...]

Our Feb. 1-2 Presidential Poll closed earlier tonight, and of the 1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%. There were 35 votes for Kent Mesplay, and 8 votes for Harley Mikkelson. Word of [...]