Green Party Political Director Brent McMillan is the guest on today’s Green Party Watch Radio. He will be discussing the election results of November 4th, the coming election in New Orleans, and other things as they come up.
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They’ve been active since before Katrina, if that is what you mean. Most were based in New Orleans pre-Katrina but their most active people have since been re-located to Baton Rouge, Houston, and Shreveport. This gave them a statewide network, I suppose. Also, I understand they found a few decent donors about 2 years ago.
What made that Green group super active?
Neither really. It had much more to do with the fact that McKinney and the Greens have a super-active group here–and Nader doesnt,except on a few campuses.
It probably had more to do with her efforts in investigating the federal mismanagement of Katrina hurricane disaster response.
“Louisiana is the only state where McKinney did better than Nader.”
I wonder if Paul had anything to do with that.
Window of opportunity now to put forward a message because there will be disappointment with Obama.
Importance of policy papers as a bridge between campaigns and legislation.
Importance of infrastructure to back up successful candidates.
DC Greens are now the second party, not the third party there.
DC Greens have been effective through coalitions, protests, public testimony, strategic planning, and an annual legislative agenda.
Ross Mikirami got re-elected to SF board of Supervisors, but a second Green did not get elected as had been hoped.
Richard Carroll elected to legislature in Arkansas.
Also a Green got 30% in a MN legislative seat, new record for that state.
Green in Chicago got endorsement from both major newspaper, even though there was both a Democrat and Republican in the race.
CT Greens got a college to remove support for a debate because the Greens were not invited.
League of Women Voters is now excluding local Greens from debates, even though in the past they protested against presidential debates being made too exclusive.
Green candidate was not allowed to debate one major party candidate when the other one did not show up.
Greens lost a seat in (HI?) that they have held for 16 years because developers spent heavily to defeat them.
Hoping that Greens from around the country get involved in Rahim’s race since the others are done.
Malik Rahim in LA-2
Louisiana is the only state where McKinney did better than Nader.
Gordon Clark in MD-8 outraised $ all smaller party congressional candidates in (2nd?) quarter, and outraised the Republican in the race.
However, only got 8%
This seems to be a recurrence where money and other conventional factors don’t always translate into votes.
Media bias – esp, Washington Post.
Some discussion of strong state organizations in Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska, working across party lines.
Overall US House total for the Greens more than doubled the previous record.
So far: also learned that one of the Arkansas US Houses races was the best ever showing for a Green, as well.
Listening now.
Yeah, I kinda messed it up, but the link is working now, so anyone who cares to do so can listen to the whole hour.
I thought Brent had some interesting observations and covered a number of races across the nation.
We also discussed Malik Rahim’s campaign.
I was out for a walk and tried calling, at one point it said the show would start in 15 min., then 15 min later it said that there were no shows scheduled in the next 24 hr.
My bad…the first recording went through, I just didn’t realize it until now. You can hear the interview here.
So sorry paulie. Had problems with the recording so we’re re-recording it at 4:30 PM. If you would like to do so you can call in at (646) 478-3778
What time?