In Tucson, Democrats push, Greens pull
Jim Nintzel is reporting at Tucson Weekly that Dave Croteau has dropped his bid to remain on the ballot as a Green Party candidate in the face of a Democratic Party challenge to his bid. Instead, Nintzel reports that Dave Ewoldt, Croteau’s campaign manager will mount a write-in campaign. If Ewoldt secures seven votes in the September primary he will be on the ballot come November. In addition two other Tucson Greens are apparently considering a similar move, meaning that instead of facing one Green on November’s ballot, the Democratic Party’s effort at eliminating Green opposition may result in three times the opposition. According to Nintzel’s piece, Greens would also run in Wards 3 and 5. Ewoldt, if successful, will run in Ward 6.
Changes to the original piece are in italics and result from a comment by Ross Levin. Misspelling of Tucson corrected thanks to Richard Winger.
That’s kind of dumb to have three Greens running for the same office, in my opinion. They should just run for different local offices.
I did not write that clearly enough. The other two, as mentioned in the linked article, intend to run in the same race in other districts. Three candidates running for three seats as opposed to one candidate running for one seat.
Let me see if I understand this correctly – if the Green challengers each get a certain number of write-in votes in the primary, then they will appear on the ballot in the general? Or will they still be write-in candidates in the general?
They will be on the ballot in the General Election.