The Green Party of Texas has announced that 21 Greens have filed to run for office in 2010, from Governor to four candidates for County Clerk. This looks like a great field, and a great year to do it.
If the GP of Texas can get the signatures to qualify for the ballot, a 5% showing in a state wide race would secure ballot access for the Green Party in Texas through 2012.
As reported at Ballot Access News, Texas Democrats are not running a candidate for State Comptroller. This may make it very likely that the Libertarians, Greens, and Constitution Party candidates for that office can surpass that 5% mark to secure ballot access in Texas through 2012. The Green Party candidate for State Comptroller is Edward Lindsay.
The full press release from the Green Party of Texas is below.
January 14, 2010
The Green Party of Texas announces that 21 candidates have filed to run for nomination by the Green Party in 2010 for a variety of state, district and county offices.
Thomas Muhammad, Co-chair of GPTX, spoke on the quality of the candidates as a whole. “The Green Party of Texas is extremely excited about the wonderful slate of candidates who’ve put themselves up for our 2010 election cycle. We look forward to an agressive campaign through the June convention. We will then work with our final slate to run hard as our party moves to break the dominating two-party system in our state. This is the type of work our party was created for, so we say to all Greens and to Texans one and all who love true democracy let the campaign season begin!”
The full slate of candidates and offices sought:
Bart Boyce Governor
Deb Shafto Governor
Herb Gonzales, Jr Lieutenant Governor
Edward Lindsay Comptroller of Public Accounts
Art Browning RR Commissioner
George Reiter US Congressional Representative, District 9
Jim Howe US Congressional Representative, District 11
Ed Scharf US Congressional Representative, District 23
Phil Snyder, PhD State Board of Education, District 4
Paul Cardwell State Board of Education, District 9
J D Porter State Board of Education, District 10
Ryan Seward State Representative, District 94
Joel West State Representative, District 144
Don Cook County Clerk, Harris County
Roger Baker County Clerk, Travis County
Earl Lyons County Clerk, Bexar County
kat swift County Commissioner, Pct 2, Bexar County
Chuck Robinson Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 1, Bexar County
Joy Vidheecharoen-Glatz Justice of the Peace, Pct 3, Dallas County
Jeffrey Dale Glatz County Surveyor, Dallas County
Esther Choi County Clerk, Dallas CountyGreen Party precinct conventions will kick off election events at 7 PM on March 9, 2010, across the state.
In order to obtain a ballot line in the November election, the number of participants at precinct conventions can be supplemented by petition signers requesting Green Party ballot status. Petitions will be circulated for a 75 day period starting on March 10, the day after the precinct conventions. The number signing or attending precinct conventions must total at least one percent of the total number of votes received by all candidates for governor in the most recent gubernatorial general election, around 44,000 voters.
“This is a TALL order, but we’re Texans and we’re up to the challenge!” is the enthusiastic endorsement of Co-chair Christine Morshedi.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Dave Schwab // Jan 19, 2010 at 12:21 pm
The Green Party of Texas got a nice write-up in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for this:
http://www.star-telegram.com/texas/story/1902738.html
2 Stephen Spring // Jan 19, 2010 at 12:48 pm
[In order to obtain a ballot line in the November election, the number of participants at precinct conventions can be supplemented by petition signers requesting Green Party ballot status.]
I know Texas has a “screen out” provision. However, after reading this piece, I have a question.
If I choose to vote in the march 2 primary and attend a precinct convention, will I be counted as one of the 44,000 supporters needed to secure ballot status?
3 Michael Cavlan RN // Jan 21, 2010 at 10:17 am
Since i have no other way to find out, can anyone hee explain to me why the National GP suddenly stopped voting on it’s budget and is not even discussing it?
I had noticed that about 60 odd delegates were for it while 40 odd were agin it in votes.
Then the whole thing disappeared. Just curious.
4 Dave Schwab // Jan 22, 2010 at 5:56 am
There’s a lively discussion of this story going on at GreenChange, check it out:
http://network.greenchange.org/news/12559-green-party-of-texas-hopes-for-revival-this-year
5 Third Party Revolution // Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Hopefully the GPTX has more running. The more the better.
6 kat swift // Jan 26, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Steven: If you vote in the D or R primary, you are inelligible to officially participate in the GP Precinct conventions by state law. voting in another party’s primary bars you from another party’s convention process. Therefore your attendance will be as an observer only and not count towards the number needed.
you are also ineligible to sign the petition - the screenout part.
kat
7 Stephen Spring // Jan 31, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Thanks Kat,
I’m going to not vote in the March 2nd primary this year so that I can sign the petition and/or attend a GP precinct convention. It bothers me to not vote, but as long as Texas has this bogus primary screenout policy and the Green Party is working to re-earn ballot status, I am left with no choice.
This line of text in the article above left me confused “The number signing or attending precinct conventions..” I wonder if GP leaders need to use whatever means possible to inform folks of Texas’ primary screenout policy so that they can make a decision as to whether to vote in the primary.
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