The Eugene Puryear for D.C. Council At-large campaign is proud and honored to have won the D.C. Statehood Green Party primary.
The Puryear campaign garnered 67 percent of the vote, winning every single Ward, including 77 percent in Ward 1 and 73 percent in Ward 8.
Through the course of the primary, the campaign gained important endorsements from the tenants-rights group TENAC and the American Federation of Municipal and State Employees (AFSCME) Local 2401.
This is a broad progressive campaign. We believe D.C. voters will welcome a new voice on the Council.
The campaign for the general election is attracting a new generation of activists and volunteers who are bringing into the mainstream political arena a progressive political message that calls for sweeping economic and social reforms to overcome income inequality, staggering unemployment and under-employment, an intolerable level of student debt burden, affordable housing, protection and expanded rights for returning citizens, and the construction of an economic model based on the requisite need for a sustainable environment.
Will Sommer of the Washington City Paper remarked the day before the primary that the Puryear campaign had the best chance “in several elections” to return the Statehood Greens to the Council.
“This was a victory that was only possible because of the work of our volunteers, who allowed us to knock on hundreds of doors and get out thousands and thousands of pieces of literature,” Puryear told activists gathered at a morning volunteers’ meeting following the primary results.
“This will be a positive campaign that emphasizes the need for social and economic change. Working families from all political parties are suffering from the effects of income inequality, low wages and skyrocketing housing costs. Likewise, the degradation of the planet’s environment by the biggest multinational corporations doesn’t affect people based on their political affiliation — it affects everyone — and our message that it’s time for a new voice in D.C. politics will resonate among people across the political spectrum,” Puryear said in explaining the core message of his campaign in the general election.
In the general election period, the Puryear campaign plans to continue its aggressive outreach strategy in all eight Wards.
From the beginning, the message of the campaign is that it is time for a new voice. This campaign is about ideas and real solutions, not personalities. We are not running against other individuals who seek to be members of the Council. People need to work together, rather than against each other, because we face daunting social and economic challenges that require a broad, inclusive and diverse grassroots movement and leadership. It has been and will be about running for real solutions to the major problems facing the District of Columbia.
Chuck Baldwin/CP didn’t pay you?
That’s the most sensible, well-thought-out post I’ve ever seen from you, GPV.
Paulie you are incorrect.
The Independent Green Party has collected hundreds of thousands of petition signatures for hundreds of candidates for three decades in Virginia – and in 99 per cent of those cases has collected those petitions for free. You, Paulie, are a professional petition gatherer. And that is fine and praise worthy.
Independent Green Party petitions again in 99 per cent of cases collect signatures for free.
When you write “take credit for those candidates”, if you mean the Indy Green Party has happily collected signatures for and endorsed Green Party candidates, Independent candidates, Libertarian candidates, and Constitution candidates -that is a fact. The Indy Green Party is dedicated to “More Candidates, Less Apathy” outside the two larger parties.
The Indy Green Party constantly recruits new people to run for office. Most Indy Green Party candidates have run as Independents. And – as you and every other professional petition gather know from personal experience – without the expert petition gatherers of the Indy Green Party, those inexperienced candidates would never make the ballot.
Indy Greens do this out of a sense of dedication to the community, our state, and our nation.
The Indy Green Party has never sold it’s ballot line. Indy Greens have long worked with constitutionalists, and libertarians to put candidates on the ballot.
Out of hundreds of candidates, I know of a handful of candidates – you can count them on one hand – where Indy Green Party petitioners accepted to be paid as individual petitioners.
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The Indy Greens are really good at getting on the ballot in VA….for whatever that’s worth.
The Independent Greens do get on the ballot in VA and run a few of their own candidates, but they then sell their ballot lines and endorse candidates from other parties and then take credit for those candidates.
“Green Party Voter” is out of touch with reality. IPGV is not quite that pretend legislative thing, but just this side of that. Green Party always says the same thing when ever something is posted by the Green Party Voter. Bolshevik, conservative or whoever. Part of the pretence that IGPV is a part of something more than a fantasy sport thing.
Puryear was also the vice presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in the 2008 United States presidential election. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Puryear
Green Party and Eugene Puryear offer positive Green Party solutions. Solar Jobs. Wind Jobs. Conservation jobs. Geothermal jobs. Weatherization jobs. Rail jobs. The Green Party and Eugene Puryear’s Green New Deal are winners!