[GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Green Party campaign news, more endorsements for Green candidates in 2011 races across the US

[Green Party of California Updates]

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.gp.org/

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, October 27, 2011



Campaign news and more endorsements for Green Party candidates running in the
Nov. 8, 2011 general election

• List of endorsements for Green Party candidates:
http://www.gp.org/candidates/endorsements-2011.php

• Green Party elections and candidates http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml /
http://www.gp.org/elections/GOTV.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party candidates have continued to receive
endorsements in local races across the US.

59 Greens will be on ballots in the November 8, 2011 general election. Ten
Greens have been elected to public office in elections held earlier this year,
out of 34 candidates who competed.

Green candidates in St. Paul, Minnesota, received several endorsements. For
the first time, St. Paul will use Ranked Choice Voting (also called Instant
Runofff Voting) in City Council elections, which will increase the chances of
a Green election victory.

• TakeAction Minnesota, a progressive grassroots coalition, has endorsed Jim
Ivey for Ward 2 (http://iveyforsaintpaul.org) and Bee Kevin Xiong
(http://xiongforsaintpaul.org) for Ward 6 in City Council races.
http://www.takeactionminnesota.org/_assets/document/St._Paul_City_Council_Endorsements.pdf
http://iveyforsaintpaul.org/news/jim-ivey-endorsed-takeaction-mn

• United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1189 has also endorsed Mr. Ivey and
Mr. Xiong.
http://www.ufcw789.org/newsletter/vol2issue5.pdf
http://iveyforsaintpaul.org/news/united-food-and-commercial-workers-endorse-jim

• The St. Paul Area Association of Realtors has endorsed Mr. Xiong and Johnny
Howard, candidate for Ward 1 member of City Council (http://www.johnnyhoward.org).

Josephine Okot has been endorsed by the Maine League of Young Voters in her
campaign for At-Large member of the Portland School Board in Maine
(http://josephineokot.blogspot.com).  "I am the candidate for all voters
concerned with improving our public schools and making the real changes needed
for our children. My time in Portland schools prepared me for life and I want
to make sure all of our students can attend schools without fear of bullying,
have caring mentors who can prepare them for life after graduation and can get
to and from school safely and quickly using as much public transportation as
possible," said Ms. Okot. More on the endorsement:
http://josephineokot.blogspot.com/2011/10/josephine-receives-endorsement-from.html

Update: Terry O'Neill, national president of NOW, visited Philadelphia for a
press conference announcing NOW's endorsement of Cheri Honkala for Sheriff of
Philadelphia (video: http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1121). Ms. Honkala is
running on an anti-eviction platform and, as sheriff, will not cooperate with
banks attempted to foreclose on homeowners (http://www.cherihonkala.com).
Video of Ms. Honkala at Occupy DC: http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1146
Video of Ms. Honkala at Occupy Wall Street: http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1134

More Green election news:

• The Illinois Green Party and congressional candidate Laurel Lambert Schmidt
(http://www.laurel4congress.org) filed a law suit on Monday, October 24,
against the State Board of Elections over the latter's interpretation of the
"established party" statute. The board determined that the Green Party does
not retain established party status in areas of the state where Green
candidates exceeded the required 5% of the vote in 2010, claiming that since
the old districts no longer exist due to decennial redistricting, the 5% rule
does not apply in the new districts. Illinois Greens say that the board erred
in its decision and called the redistricting that led to the decision an
example of "sugarplum gerrymandering." More:
http://www.ilgp.org/news/press-releases/ilgp-schmidt-file-suit-against-state-board-of-elections

• New video clips:
Terry Baum, Green candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, at Occupy San
Francisco http://www.gp.org/video/display.php?ID=67 (campaign site:
http://terryjoanbaum.com)
Audrey Clement, Green candidate for Arlington, Virginia, County Board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYIBqsv7zdE (campaign site:
http://www.audreyclement.org)

• "Howie Hawkins: Perennial power to the people" (on Mr. Hawkins' campaign for
4th District Councilor in Syracuse, New York)
By Ken Jackson, Urban CNY, Eagle News, October 5, 2011
http://www.eaglenewsonline.com/news/2011/oct/07/howie-hawkins-perennial-power-people/
Campaign site: http://howiehawkins.com/2011

• "Green Party candidates pick up key endorsements in 2011 state and local
races across the US"
Green Party press release, October 20, 2011
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=456

• Green Party Watch http://www.greenpartywatch.org


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
• Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
• News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
• Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
• Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
• Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
• Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php
• Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
• 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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