Growing the Green Party



In These Times

by David Cobb, Green Party Candidate for President




Here’s a
story that you won’t see in the corporate media: The Green Party is
growing—getting bigger, stronger and better-organized in every election
cycle. Even after the infamous 2000 presidential election, when the
media and Democrats blamed us for Bush’s selection and ignored the
blatantly illegal and biased behavior of Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris and
a Republican Supreme Court majority, our numbers have grown.



In 1996,
the Green Party was organized in 10 states, guaranteed a ballot line in
just five and had elected 40 officeholders. Today, we have parties
organized in 44 states, 23 with guaranteed ballot access, and hundreds
of Greens elected to public office, including the mayors of Santa
Monica, California, and New Paltz, New York, and the president of the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And, for the first time in our
party’s history, we have two registered Greens as our presidential and
vice presidential candidates, myself and Patricia LaMarche,
respectively.



The
goals of the Cobb-LaMarche campaign are to present a genuine,
progressive alternative, grow the Green Party and have this year’s
election culminate with the removal of the White House’s illegitimate
occupant.



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