Maine Greens Plan for Future at State Meeting
May 2, 2011 in State Party News
From the Portland Press Herald, an article covering this weekend’s state meeting of the Maine Green Independent Party:
BRUNSWICK – At their annual convention Sunday, members of Maine’s Green Independent Party discussed issues of ecology, social justice and grass-roots democracy. They spoke of diversity, personal and global responsibility, community-based economics, non-violence and decentralization of wealth and power. Of gender equity, future focus and sustainability.
They looked back — at a gubernatorial race without a Green candidate on the ballot — and they looked ahead — at a precedent-setting mayoral race in Maine’s largest city.
“It’s a very important race, for sure,” Fred Horch, who ran a close second in Brunswick to an incumbent Democrat in a three-way race for a seat in the State House, said of November’s ballot in Portland, where the public will elect a mayor for the first time in 87 years, and under a ranked-choice system to boot.
“I think having the mayor be a Green would give a legitimacy to the party. It would raise the profile of the party. And the policies the mayor pursues will certainly get in front of the voters,” he said.
Read the rest of the article at the Press-Herald.
Gregg Jocoy said on May 2, 2011
Maine is not exactly a haven for “leftists” or “liberals”, but of course I don’t think we Greens fit that description exactly. By proving themselves over and over again as serious minded, politically active folks, the members of the Maine Green Independent Party are helping show the rest of us who live in more conventional places how to make a difference. Go Maine Green Independent Party!