Green Party taps Iowa City to host meeting
March 21, 2013 in Ballot Access, Grassroots Democracy, Local Elections, Local Party News, National Greens, State Party News
Third-party political activists say they hope to recruit more candidates to run for down-ballot races in the next few years.
The Green Party recently decided on Iowa City as the site for its annual national meeting this summer. The four-day event in July will include policy discussions and meetings between party officials from around the United States but also seminars for activists who might consider running for office.
“What we’ve been talking about is getting people to run for local office,” said Holly Hart, an Iowa City resident and Green Party organizer. “We want to open the door for promoting some of these values and policies on councils and boards.”
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holly said on March 21, 2013
Thanks for posting this!
We haven’t even publicized this or put out a press release, but the PC heard about it and is on it.
We plan to have a few things that will attract the general public, along the lines of getting “green policy” enacted into legislation and/or how green officeholders have fared in office. So far, something involving education is in the works (a topic currently getting a lot of people up in arms), there is interest in some outreach to local labor groups, so far we know David Cobb will be holding an anti-oppression workshop. And more……