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According to the State Elections website, we can start circulating candidate petitions on February 6, 2012. It would behoove us to begin working on strategy to support the candidates we have and find candidates for positions that are opening up. NOTE: I'm only talking about state positions on this topic. Local elections is another topic. http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/docs/2012ElectionCalendar.pdfLet's start with a list of who we know will be running for state offices, and build this topic from there.
most county boards in our 64 counties have one or two commissioners up for re-election in november. that's over 100 potential seats. many municipalities have elections in the spring or fall. that's hundreds more. not sure why we need a state list. we haven't elected any green above county and town seats in our history. i think we'd do best to focus on local elections where we might have some chance of winning.
At the Pikes Peak Region Greens – Seems that County offices are not State offices but local. However, we have Karyna Lemus and Brad Harris running for two of the three open seats on the El Paso County Board of Commissioners. We also have Misha Luzov (a graduate student from Belarus) running against the most conservative Representative in the US House, Douglas Lamborn. A good recent article on these candidates can be found at http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/greening-the-ballot/Content?...
Looks like the Independent changed the link, so here it is again: http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/greening-the-ballot/Content?oid=2557594Thank you for sharing, Jack!
most county boards in our 64 counties have one or two commissioners up for re-election in november. that's over 100 potential seats. many municipalities have elections in the spring or fall. that's hundreds more. not sure why we need a state list. we haven't elected any green above county and town seats in our history. i think we'd do best to focus on local elections where we might have some chance of winning.
Three Green Party candidates in other states have previously been elected to the office of state representative. Art Goodtimes himself was first elected to the office of county commissioner as a Democrat. He ran for re-election as an incumbent after switching to the Green Party. This was in a small, rural, and heavily Democratic county. Running under the Green Party banner is, in reality, a liability rather than an asset if your goal is to get elected. Choosing the Green Party is a statement of principle, rejecting the corruption of the two corporate parties. It's good to run Green Party candidates at all levels: local, county, state and federal. Most of the Green Party candidates who have been elected to public office in the United States have been elected to small, local, non-partisan offices. That means that the label "Green Party" did not appear next to their name on the ballot. Running campaigns isn't just about running in elections that we can win. It is about getting the message out. If you only want to run campaigns that you can win, there is no point to having a Green Party in the United States, and no point in running as a Green. The election system in the United States is rigged against minor party and independent candidates from start to finish. The necessary first step to creating a viable Green Party in the United States would be to change the voting system so that legislators are elected by proportional representation. This could be done at the level of state legislatures through the ballot initiative process.Cheers,Gary Swing
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