Green Party State Legislative Races
The Green Party has XX candidates running for state legislative office across the US. The last Green to hold a state legislative seat was John Eder in Maine.
The Green Party (US) today released a short list of state legislative races to watch, on top of a much more thorough profiled list of candidates for offices up and down the ballot here. The press release today notes that of the state legislative races there are a few strong possibilities of victory on election day, and profiles four candidates:
• Richard Carroll is running unopposed, except for two write-in candidates, for an open seat in Arkansas State Representative District 39. He has strong union support, with endorsements from the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB), United Transportation Union, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Arkansas State Electrical Workers Association, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, and the Central Labor Council of Arkansas, as well as the North Little Rock Fire
Fighters, Ride Free, and Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Mr. Carroll has been active in union organizing for 30 years, holding the offices of Vice President, and Recording Secretary of IBB Local 69, and Vice President, Recording Secretary, and Local Chairman of IBB Local 66Campaign web site: http://www.newmenu.org/richardcarroll
• Farheen Hakeem, a popular political personality in Minneapolis, is running for Minnesota State House District 61B. Three candidates are seeking an open seat, and in recent polls Ms. Hakeem is running in a statistical dead heat for the lead. Ms. Hakeem, who has worked as a teacher and volunteers as a Girl Scout Leader, ran for Mayor of Minneapolis in 2005 as a Green and received 14% of the vote. In 2006, she ran for Hennepin County Commissioner (District 4) against a Democratic incumbent, drawing 33%.
Minneapolis Mirror article with video:
Campaign web site: http://www.farheenhakeem.org• Ante Marijan, candidate for State Representative in the Chicago (District 2), received endorsements from the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune.
Campaign web site: http://www.11thwardgreens.org/
• Kent Solberg, candidate for State Representative District 27, received the endorsement of the Arizona Daily Star, the largest circulation newspaper in Tucson. He also qualified for Arizona Clean Elections funds, enabling him to run a well-financed campaign. The campaign has canvassed the entire district twice with 50,000 brochures each time, and just finished a series of three special rallies with live bands. Mr. Solberg, running an
issues-oriented campaign, has a very real chance to defeat one of the two incumbents.Campaign web site: http://www.kent4house.org
A full list of Green Party State Legislative Candidates will be posted here soon. For a complete list of Green Party candidates in America see the Green Party Elections Database.
